What's new?

New:

• Images popup now also supports “Size Picture to Window without stretching” option
• Quick search: suggestions now also are shown when searching on “Title” field

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
• Quick Search: applying a filter could cause unexpected behaviour
• Images Popup:
  • the status bar wasn’t always showing the right image path when opening
  • .bmp images were not showing
• CueCat scanner wasn’t working properly any more

Quick Search: Search-As-You-Type suggestions

Instantly find and select a particular album in your local database:

• In the Quick Search box, just start typing the first few letters of the artist or title you are looking for.
• While typing, a drop-down list will appear, showing the first five matching albums.
  (for most albums, it only takes 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.)
• Once you see the one you were looking for, use the up/down keys to select it, then hit Enter.
• The album will now be selected in your list, with the details showing in the Details Panel.

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Fixed:

• Export XML: XML was not exported correctly.
• Edit Screen: Cover Popups were not always prompted on macOS Sierra.

Fixed:

• Local album deletes sometimes not synchronized to the CLZ Cloud

Fixed:

• Facebook sign up button not working
• Reverting of custom uploaded cover when syncing an update
• Crash in the edit screen after pressing the next/previous album button

Fixed:

• Edit Screen:
  • Composition Table: columns could not be resized beyond certain size.
  • Tracks Screen: column widths were not remembered.
  • Edit Track Screen: Credits: Roles were sometimes reverted to “Engineer”.
• Add Music Files: artists with accents were not imported.
• Play music: tracks were not played in the right order on iTunes when playing an album.
• Discs, Headers & Tracks total time didn’t include subtracks time.
• Templates:
  • Cobalt and Carbon templates: Choruses were not always displayed.
  • Templates: Fixed naming of discs in single- vs. multi-disc albums.

New:

• Added folder options: condition, country, store
• Main list
  • Scroll position now remembered after editing/removing an album
  • Now updates live after editing an album
• Added a ‘show all’ folder item in empty folders on tablet devices

Fixed:

• List view section headers stopping at X
• Crash in the in-app-purchase screen
• Barcode can be added with voice dictation
• App was occasionally crashing when searching for a title
• Background image issue in the backdrop templates on phone devices
• Using the add track button when there was no disc present crashed the app
• Disc titles in the details templates

Fixed:

• Crashes during Check for Update process
• Edit Album: Some combobox functionality for “Vinyl Color” field didn’t work

Do you already have a list of your movies, books, cds, comics or games? E.g. entered in a spread-sheet program, or created using a different cataloging tool, then exported to CSV?

Cool, you can now easily get that list into your Collectorz.com program (desktop, mobile or Connect). Just use our new flexible import tool to import your existing list into the CLZ Cloud. This will make your list instantly available in Connect. Or sync to the mobile app or desktop software using the CLZ Cloud syncing.

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Fixed:

• Cards View: Quick Search didn’t filter the cards in the list.
• First Letter folder option was not using the Sort Names.
• Loan Manager Screen: Search was not working.
• Sierra: Full Screen Mode: “Add Cover” popup appears under the Edit Screen.
• Internal Images: Templates images were not updated after editing an item.
• When no internet connection was available, app was launched in Trial Mode.

Fixed:

• Tag reading music files: in rare cases some text tags like Artist and Title were not read properly because of different encoding
• person grids: adding a person with a display name that existed multiple times, would sometimes save the wrong one
• Templates: subtitle in details template is now on a separate line
• Edit Album:
  • On User Defined Fields tab, “_[Add pick list item]_” didn’t work for comboboxes
  • Changing the role for a credit would mark all albums dirty where that person appeared instead of just the edited album
• Manage Pick Lists: removing pick list items didn’t mark their corresponding albums as modified
• Main Screen:
  • accelerator keys in main menu (like “ALT+F” for files menu) didn’t work
  • selection text at bottom of screen wasn’t always properly updated

Version 4.4 of your CLZ Music app is now live in the App Store. In this version, it is now finally possible to add and edit track lists!

• Now edit track lists to modify Title, Artist or Length.
• Manually enter track lists for manually added albums.
• Drag and drop tracks to change their order.
• Sync your customized track lists to the CLZ Cloud!

Fixed:

• Main Screen: after resizing the first column too much, the text was no longer readable
• Edit Album: Closing the edit screen could cause a crash on El Capitan

Fixed:

• Fixed iTunes Store credentials pop up on startup of app

As most of you know, at Collectorz.com we take Customer Support very seriously. We’re always here to answer your questions or to help with any problems you may have encountered with our cataloging tools.

To further streamline CLZ Support, Sven, one of our web-developers, has created a new Collectorz.com Help Center, at Help.CLZ.com

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A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Music mobile app is now available.

In this update, we complete re-designed the Add Albums screen, to make it clearer, easier-to-user and to help you add albums more efficiently.

What’s new in the Add Albums screen?

• Switch between By Artist/Title and By Barcode using tabs at the top
  (Add Manually is now a separate screen, under Tools menu)
• All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
• Add button is now at bottom right (blue circle with “+” icon)
• Adding By Barcode:
  • Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
  • Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter a barcode manually
  • Delete barcode from queue by swiping from right to left
  • Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
• New: Add by Catalog Number
  • Find and add albums by their catalog number
  • Great for adding vinyl as it searches Discogs by Cat No

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Fixed:

• Main screen: switching from details to statistics would crash the program

Fixed:

• Track title/artist/composer search
• Fixed the merge dialog in the manage pick list screen on Android 6.0+ devices
  

Fixed:

• Program would crash on startup or load incorrectly for OS older than Sierra

New:

• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Fixed:

• Edit Album: remove track didn’t work any more after the Edit Track screen had been opened in macOS Sierra.

Fixed:

• Artist/title sorting when when albums have a composer
• Album sort title not syncing with the CLZ Cloud

• Crash when adding a disc if the album had no discs yet.

New:

• Now edit track lists to modify Title, Artist or Length.
• Manually enter track lists for manually added albums.
• Drag and drop tracks to change their order.
• Sync your customized track lists to the CLZ Cloud!

Fixed:

• App now respects the system screen orientation lock
• Wrong background color for the searchbar on certain Lollipop tablet devices
• Long loading in manage pick list/add manually screen on tablet devices

New:

• Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Fixed:

• Export to CLZ Music: track lengths were not exported

Big launch this week, our new Collectorz.com Shop is live at Shop.CLZ.com !

Bernard, Sven, AJ and I (Alwin) have been working on this for quite a while, doing many iterations, to make the new shop super-clear and easy to navigate, even on mobile devices.

This new shop replaces both the shop/buy pages of the collectorz.com website and the shop of the My.CLZ.com website. Both websites now link to the new Shop.CLZ.com.

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