What's new?

Changes

• Date Fields: Year field’s position now also depends on system’s short date setting

Fixed:

• Edit Screens:
  • Date fields didn’t clear their Month and Day values using next/previous when they weren’t filled in for the next/previous item
  • Delete key didn’t work in Month and Day fields to clear their values. Backspace did work normally.

Changes

• Date fields now have dropdowns for Month and Day. Order of Month and Day dropdown depends on system’s shortdate setting now

Fixed:

• Edit Multiple: F8 in date fields didn’t clear them
• Main Screen:
  • horizontal scrollbar was sometimes showing in folder tree when it shouldn’t
  • Cards View: scrolling using the mouse wheel wasn’t working properly
  • layout wasn’t always restored properly when quick filter panel was showing
• Quick Filter Panel:
  • collection status filter wasn’t showing in filter description at bottom of the screen
  • Release Year filter couldn’t be set when Year list contained non-numerical values
    • Edit Album: Tracks table wasn’t following font size changes
    • Edit Track: Genre list was showing grey box when using “System” skin setting

Fixed:

• Edit Album: Index number was cleared after editing
• Printing from the menu threw a “class TPageControl not found” error
• Add Albums Automatically: the search queue was showing Catalog Number instead of Artist and Barcode was showing twice

NEW: Choose between Light, Dark or System skins

Yes, We’re getting rid of the gray!

Music Collector now comes with a skin system, which affects the look of all screens in the program,
main screen, edit screens, add auto-screen, sync screen etc.. even the settings screens.

We have designed two different skins for you to choose from: Light and Dark.
The third option “System” is basically the old pre-v16.3 look.

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Fixed:

• Sync with CLZ Cloud:
  • Sometimes Multi-Disc Albums were not synced correctly.
  • Down-syncing a new album was often crashing the app.
• 2 Panels Mode: Folders were always sorted by article.
• Import from XML: Sometimes compositions were duplicated.
• Preferences: “Ignore Sort Names of Person items” was not working in the folder panel.
• Export to Text/CSV: A flat list of tracks is now exported when Tracks View is active.

• Improved detection of .zip file in direct import

• Fixed crashes in in-app purchase screen on certain Xiaomi phones
• Fixed crash in in-app purchase screen when only one in app purchase was offered

• Fixed crash while syncing broken images
• Fixed barcode search not working with hardware keyboards

Fixed:

• Edit In List: some checkboxes didn’t trigger a sync change
• Cards View: Find Cover: select new cover. New Cover was not displayed.
• Add Auto: Queue mode > Add Selected: sometimes all (not selected) queue items were added
• Main Screen: 2 Horizontal Panels: Layout Sizes were not restored
• Add Automatically: By Barcode: Sometimes a new album was added without barcode
• Manage Pick Lists: Didn’t always show any warning for duplicate items

New:

• Settings / Field Defaults: choose field values that will be set for each new entry automatically.
• Edit screen improvements:
  • Improved layout to make it easier on the eye
  • New “Select Value” screen for easier entry of pick list fields (e.g. Artist, Format, Genre, etc…)
  • Cancel and Done buttons have been moved to the top bar.
  • New Delete button at the bottom.

Fixed:

• New Maintenance tool: Tools > Maintenance > Open database location
• Add Auto screen: “automatically close after queue is emptied” was not working
• Table Sorting: Empty values were not sorted correctly
• Template: Barcode icon was missing

Fixed:

• Edit Album/Track: changing the instrument for a musician would mark all albums this musician appeared as “dirty”
• Main Screen:
  • When composition composers weren’t filled in, the composer field would still show semicolons
  • Cards View: selection wasn’t always restored properly
  • Scrolling the Details View with the mouse wheel would scroll the list when the scroll bar reached the top
• Quick search:
  • pasting text into quick search box didn’t show the clear button
  • Escape button will now clear quick search
• Sync with Cloud: cancelling sync didn’t always work

Previously, the Connect free 30-day trial limited trial users to 100 items in their database.

To allow full evaluation of our Connect software during the trial, we have removed this database limit. The free 30-day trial now lets you add, import or sync as many items as you want.

Enjoy!

Fixed:

• Add auto screen: “Collection Status” setting was not working properly
• Images View: Newly added items with “Add Automatically” were not selected

CLZ Music is now free to download, with a database limit of 100 albums. Unlock higher database limits using In App Purchases.

IMPORTANT:
If you purchased CLZ Music *before* the 4.0 release, then the 4.0 version will be automatically unlocked to an *unlimited* database size. You do NOT need to pay again 🙂
If, for whatever reason, this didn’t work for you, then just CONTACT US and and we’ll unlock it manually, free of charge!

• Easily switch between Add methods (Title/Barcode/Manual).
• Re-designed search results with included cover images.
• Add by Barcode now automatically opens Camera Scan screen.

Fixed:

• Edit in List: Edit Rating was not working
• Templates: Online Links: “https” URLs didn’t open
• Cover Flow panel now has a black background
• Performance: Statistics are no longer updated if not necessary
• Sort Sets selection was sometimes lost after restarting the app
• Main Screen: “Collection status” filter selection was not remembered after restarting the app

Fixed:

• Menu: “View > Cards” item was missing
• Cards View was not working on Mavericks
• Tracks View: List: it was not possible to sort by Album Index

Fixed:

• List View could crash after opening the program, making it seem like no database was open.

New view for the main screen: Card View

Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each album, showing the main album details and a small cover thumbnail.

Delete Orphaned Images

Clean up your hard-disk by deleting all unused cover images and thumbnails.

• This tool scans your configured Images Folder or database container to find all images
  that are not linked to your current database file.
• Browse the list of found orphaned images in List or Images View.
  Check thoroughly to make sure these can all be deleted.
• Finally, use the red “Delete Selected Images” button,
  and all “checked” images will be removed from your computer.

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New view for the main screen: Card View

Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each album, showing the main album details and a small cover thumbnail.

Fixed:

• Add Automatically: right click menu didn’t popup when there were no results showing
• Main Screen: After adding album through add/link digital files the bread crumb wasn’t updated.
• Carbon + Quicksilver templates: musician images didn’t scale down to correct size
• Linking Albums: disc number will be shown in the queue when linking multi disc albums

It’s been a long time in the making, but it’s finally here:
CLZ Music 4.0 for iOS!

Apart from several improvements to the Add Album screen (see below), the 4.0 version contains an important change:

CLZ Music for iOS is now free to download

Starting with version 4.0, CLZ Music is free to download and starts with a limit of 100 albums.

New: Improved Add Albums screen

• Easily switch between Add methods (Artist & Title / Barcode / Manual).
• Re-designed search results with included cover images.
• New black style for Preview Screen.
• Add by Barcode now automatically opens Camera Scan screen.
• Larger Camera Scan screen on iPad

Fixed:

• Loading of backup.xml is now more robust

Fixed:

• Improved Webcam functionality for Webcam Barcode scanning:
  • Sometimes starting the webcam feature would hang the program
  • Some webcams didn’t show any video
  • A JPEG error could be thrown for some webcams
• Add Automatically: when you didn’t want to move an album from your wish list into your collection, it wasn’t possible.

Find Image Online tool now uses Bing Image Search

The Find Image Online tool previously used Google Images to find images.

However, it turns out that on December 1, Google terminated the free Google Image Search API
that we were using, causing our Find Image Online functionality to stop working.

Google provides a new paid version of the Search API, but it is limited to max 10K searches per day.
With the amount of customers we have, we need at least 20K daily searches (600K per month!) 🙁

The solution: Switch to BING!

Microsoft also offers a paid Bing Image Search API and this one has no limits.
Or, to be more precise, they let us pay more for higher limits.

We immediately went to work and updated all our Windows and Mac programs
to use Bing Images for the Find Image Online tool instead.
Obviously, this generates considerable extra monthly costs (well over US $1,000),
but we have decided that we will NOT pass on these extra costs to our customers.

So here it is: the new Find Image Online, powered by Bing. Enjoy!

Fixed:

• Freezes at start up for some users, caused by the webcam detection.

Fixed:

• Access Violation when starting the program after a fresh installation.
• Access Violation when closing the program.