What's new?

Fixed:

• Some memo text fields like Notes could not be scrolled up or down

Big update for Music Connect today: It is now finally possible to edit your album’s track lists and to manually enter track lists for manually added albums!

Use the new Tracks tab in the Edit Album screen to:

• 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.

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New:

• Sync your own track lists from the CLZ Cloud, e.g. your own customized track titles or track lists for unlinked albums

Fixed:

• App closing on CLZ Account registration

CLZ Cloud: Now stores and syncs *your* track lists

• The CLZ Cloud system now supports the storing and syncing of track lists.
  (previously, track lists were always shared from Core)

• For each track, the CLZ Cloud now stores Title, Artist and Length.
• Now store and sync your own customized track titles and artists.
• Now store and sync track lists for unlinked albums (e.g. manually entered or imported).
• NOTE: after updating your Music Collector software, ALL your albums will be flagged as CHANGED,
  so that they will be re-uploaded to the CLZ Cloud!

BTW: To sync track lists to the CLZ Music app, you need
version 4.2.4 for iOS or version 4.3.6 for Android! (both released today)

CLZ Cloud: Improved syncing of Artist Sort Names

• Improved storing of Album Artists in the CLZ Cloud.
• Now correctly sync Artist Sort Names to/from the mobile apps.
• Fixed: difference in sorting between folder panel and album panel in the CLZ Cloud viewer.

New:

• Sync your own track lists from the CLZ Cloud, e.g. your own customized track titles or track lists for unlinked albums
• New folder option: Collection Status

Fixed:

• Fixed database limit message appearing in the old desktop sync when the limit was between 100 and unlimited

CLZ Cloud: Now stores and syncs *your* track lists

• The CLZ Cloud system now supports the storing and syncing of track lists.
  (previously, track lists were always shared from Core)
• For each track, the CLZ Cloud now stores Title, Artist and Length.
• Now store and sync your own customized track titles and artists.
• Now store and sync track lists for unlinked albums (e.g. manually entered or imported).
• NOTE: after updating your Music Collector software, ALL your albums will be flagged as CHANGED,
  so that they will be re-uploaded to the CLZ Cloud!

BTW: To sync track lists to the CLZ Music app, you need
version 4.2.4 for iOS or version 4.3.6 for Android! (both released today)

CLZ Cloud: Improved syncing of Artist Sort Names

• Improved storing of Album Artists in the CLZ Cloud.
• Now correctly sync Artist Sort Names to/from the mobile apps.
• Fixed: difference in sorting between folder panel and album panel in the CLZ Cloud viewer.

Read more

• Fixed missing covers and track list when syncing from CLZ Cloud

New:

• CLZ Cloud database detection for empty databases
• Out of sync notification on the sync button
• Improved restoring of in app purchase
• Added collection status folder
• Added folder support for:
  • condition
  • country
  • store

Fixed:

• Fixed screen rotation not working on phones
• Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field

Changes:

• Add/Link Music Files: now uses a different dialog for choosing the folders to scan, that should be loading the folder structure faster

Fixed:

• Field Defaults were not immediately stored after closing the screen
• Syncing screen: Sometimes the sync button was wrongly disabled

New data entry interface for date fields:

• Allows manual entry of year/month/day
• Allow “partial dates”, e.g. just year and month
• Open the calendar tool with the calendar button.

• When using folders, a new [None] entry contains the items that have no value (yet) for the selected folder field.
• Tablets: New always available search box in top bar.
• Add screen: some performance improvements.

Fixed:

• Check for Updates was broken for macOS Sierra.
• Templates were broken when User Defined Field headers contained special characters.
• Templates: Inherited album composers were displayed at tracks level.
• Edit Screen: autocomplete feature is now available for composer field too.
• Fixed a crash when main list (expanded up to the tracks level) was sorted by Format.

A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Music app is now available.
And prepare to be shocked 🙂 (in a good way, don’t worry):

The app looks completely different now, with a cleaner brighter look and an improved user interface. Here’s what’s new:

What’s new in CLZ Music 4.3 for Android?

• New “Material”-based interface, with two skins/themes: Light & Dark.
  (The app now starts in the Light skin. If you prefer the Dark look, just use the View menu top right)
• Big floating blue “+” button for adding albums.
• Access all other features and tools from “hamburger” menu top left.
• Clear and easy switch between All / In Collection / Wish List at the top.
• Access all other view options from menu on top right.
• Add screen: tabs at the top to switch between By Artist/Title and By Barcode modes.
• Add Manually is now a separate menu item in the menu on the left.
• Redesigned album list entries.
• Old Import from Music Collector has been moved to Settings screen!

Fixed:

• Export to XML is now capable of exporting large databases without “Out of Memory” errors, as it now writes the XML directly to hard disk. This is a bit slower though.
• Sync with Cloud: Live and Rare fields were cleared when syncing down from the cloud
• Add/Modify Filter: “Contains” filters were always case insensitive even when “case sensitive” was checked
• Edit Multiple: F8 didn’t clear price values

“Export to Text”, a feature previously only available to Connect subscribers, has now also been added to the CLZ Cloud viewer.

We figured that exporting to a text file, e.g. a CSV for Excel, should be available to any user, whether they own Connect, the desktop software or a CLZ mobile app.

You can find the Export to Text feature by visiting your own collection in the CLZ Cloud viewer, clicking the little “wrench” icon top right, then selecting Export.

Enjoy!

Fixed:

• CLZ Cloud Sync: Notes were not down-synced.
• Edit Screen: Year picker: it was not possible to pick a year before “1888″.
• Manage Pick Lists screen: labels width was too short.

Fixed:

• Program could throw a “Handle is invalid” error after multiple edits

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
  • The folder tree was wrapping the values in the list
  • A double hint was showing for the thumbnail slider to resize thumbnails in Images View
• When working offline, closing the program could cause Access Violations
• User Defined Fields: values of check box lists were not loaded correctly in some cases

Improvements:

• Cloud Syncing: Now does up to 5 retries when a sync action fails because of a temporary connection problem.
• Edit Album: Improved “search as you type” behaviour of search boxes for adding artists, composers, etc…
• Dark Skin: active window now has a light grey border, making it stand out more when windows overlap.

Fixed:

• Screen started to “flicker” after leaving the program inactive for a few minutes.
• Add Automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue.
• Main Screen / Two Panel Mode: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text when no albums were showing in the list.
• Edit Multiple: F8 to clear didn’t work for memo fields like Plot and Notes.

• Fixed losing changes when suspending the app while editing
• Fixed track artists not showing up after direct import from Music Collector

What’s new in CLZ Music 4.2?

• New “Manage Pick Lists” screen (under new Tools menu).
  This new screen lets you take control of your pick lists, that is Artists, Formats, Genres, etc… Use it to:
  • Fix typos in names.
  • Remove unused entries.
  • Merge duplicate entries.
  • Edit the SortNames for Artists.
• Edit screen improvements:
  • New “value picker” screen for pick list fields, like Artists, Genres, etc, etc… Just tap the field, pick a value from the pick list that appears and done. No more need to type the first few letters of a value (we all hate typing on mobile devices, don’t we?)
  • Tap the pencil icons to directly edit names of pick list entries.
  • Tap the pencil icon for Artists to directly edit Names *and* SortNames.

New:

• New “Manage Pick Lists” tool for editing and merging Artists, Composers, Genres, etc…
• Edit screen: edit the Sort Names for Artists for complete control over correct artist sorting.
• Edit screen: Now edit the names of Author, Composer, Format, Label entries.
• Edit screen: New “value picker” screen for quickly filling fields like Artist and Genre.
• New Tools menu, with Manage Pick Lists, Field Defaults and Empty Database tools.

Fixed:

• Edit Album:
  • Changing collection status sometimes would uncheck a radiobutton but not check the selected one
  • Previous/Next/Ok could mess up data when the edit screen was still loading
• Add/Link Albums: in rare occasions the program could crash

Fixed:

• Export to HTML: access violation could occur in some cases when using a custom index template
• Edit Screen: Checkbox List hints would sometimes not disappear
• Main Screen: changing font size could make some screen elements disappear