News & updates
All CLZ news for July 2025, summarized in one email.
Two big releases this month, with a 3rd one coming up within a few days, maybe even tomorrow.
First up is the addition of several new data fields to our CLZ Music tools, both mobile and web. Users are loving the new fields, especially the Listening History.
The 2nd update, for all five CLZ Web flavors, received some mixed feedback. Most users absolute love the addition of the automatic eBay search links, but a small group of users hated it with a passion.
Which is why we made it optional from the start. But… based on the feedback, we have tweaked the look and placement of the links. Now things have quieted down in our support channels… phew, crisis averted!
We had planned to do a third big release this month, but it got delayed a bit. I am talking about the improvements to the popular Add By Cover Scan feature in the CLZ Comics mobile app. The final tweaks have just been implemented though, so we hope to submit to the apples and googles for approval today!
More about the above 3 updates and 2 other ongoing products:
- CLZ Music (web and mobile): New data fields
- CLZ Web (all flavors): Automatic eBay search links
- Coming up: CLZ Comics 10.3 (mobile): Easier and faster Adding by Cover!
- Coming up: CLZ Movies updates (web and mobile) with many new fields
CLZ Music (web and mobile): New data fields
Now live, an update for the Web software and a big version 10.0 for the mobile app, bringing several new data fields requested by our users over the years:
- Listening History: Track if and when you have listened to albums, allowing multiple listen dates, so that you can keep a nice listening history for each album. Folder albums by listen year/month/day or sort by last listen date.
- Matrix numbers for vinyl: on the Tracks tab, you can now fill in Matrix Numbers for each disc, for both Side A and Side B.
- Signed By: Track who signed your CDs and vinyl records. On the Personal tab of the Edit screen, add the names of the persons who signed your albums.
- Last Cleaned Date for vinyl: Another special Vinyl field, to keep track of when you last cleaned your discs. You can now even sort by “Last Cleaned Date”.
Check out some screenshots here: CLZ Music mobile app / CLZ Music Web computer software.
CLZ Web (all flavors): Automatic eBay search links
New in CLZ Web web-based software, for music, movies, books, comics and games: In the item details panel, to the right of the cover image, it now includes an automatically generated eBay search link, that lets you find eBay listings for that particular item.
These eBay links can be useful for two reasons:
- To easily get a feel for an item’s value, by finding its Completed/Sold listings on eBay.
- To easily find available copies on eBay, useful for your wish list items.
This is a new feature we know many users will find useful, others may go “meh” and a small group of users may absolutely hate it 🙂 That is why this feature is optional. You can switch completely DISABLE it using the Settings screen.
We have also included extra settings to tweaks the location of the link, whether to show it for all or just wishlist items, what eBay filter it uses, which Ebay site it goes to, etc…
As I explained above, about a week after launch we did some further tweaks to the look and placement of the links, based on feedback from our users.
Here’s a screenshot of the latest version (showing CLZ Comics Web).
Coming up: CLZ Comics 10.3 (mobile): Easier and faster Adding by Cover!
In December 2024, we introduced a cool new way to add comics to your app: just scan the cover! No more need to scan the barcode, no more need to find series by title and/or issue number…
Just take a picture of the cover and the app shows you possible matches. Pick the right one and add it to your collection. Easy, fast… and.. everyone can do it, even if your knowledge of the comic world is limited.
Now it’s time for the next step. Let’s make this feature even faster and easier!
Here’s a sneak preview of three improvements that are coming up in version 10.3:
- Easier and quicker match selection
- New queue mode for adding in batch
- New two-panel layout for tablets in landscape mode.
More info and some sneak preview screenshots here.
Coming up: CLZ Movies updates with new fields
Still working on this, because this is a big one. Making good progress on the cloud database and the CLZ Movies Web software, but have not even started on the CLZ Movies mobile app yet. So the ETA is unknown, and at least a month away.
Here’s what will be new for both mobile and web:
- Editable episode lists for TV Series! Add or edit episodes, set titles, episode numbers, runtimes, first airdates.
- Add Discs to your movies, set their Title and separate episodes by Disc.
- Extra fields for Box Sets: Purchase Price, Date and Store.
- HDR field will allow multiple values, e.g. HDR10 *and* Dolby Vision.
- Watch history: track multiple viewing dates
- Add your own youtube trailer links
Enjoy!