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Movie Collector (Windows)

v20.4: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core

Jun 24, 2020

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger!

Here’s another big update for your Movie Collector software, with two further performance improvements:

Faster image downloads

We were able to make several improvements to the way images are downloaded (covers, posters and backdrops), making it much faster than before.

This change affects all places where images are downloaded from our servers, that is, when Adding Movies from Core, when Updating from Core and when down-syncing from CLZ Cloud.

Faster Update from Core

On large collections the old Update from Core feature was quite slow, as it updated your movies one by one, that is, doing separate requests to our server for each and every movie.

So for this update, we also complete rewrote the Update from Core feature to do the updates in batches of 100 movies at a time, making it much much faster! (roughly 4 times as fast).

Remember: Update From Core can be used to update your local movie entries with possible extra data from our Core online movie database. To use this feature, select some movies, right click, then choose Update from Core.

Fixed:

  • Add Movies from Core: when adding by barcode and the barcode is not found, it now automatically pops up the Unrecognized Barcode screen, so that you can 1. add the movie anyway and 2. report the missing barcode to our Core.
  • When using My Rating as the folder field, the “0” folder was missing.
  • When using multiple levels of folders in the folder panel, sometimes the displayed counters were wrong.
  • Images View: it is now possible to change thumb size using Ctrl + mouse wheel.

Recent changes

v23.3: Cloud-sync your customized cast and crew lists Jul 25, 2023 v23.2: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app Mar 30, 2023 v23.1: Movie trailers now appear as clickable thumbnails Nov 25, 2022 v23.0: Report screen after Update IMDb Ratings + Easier way to update ’em all Nov 08, 2022 v22: Configurable Pre-fill, more configurable Update from Core fields + WebP support Mar 08, 2022 v21.6 Improved Submit to Core system Oct 08, 2021 v21.5: Sync web-links and box set covers Sep 28, 2021 v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background Sep 14, 2021 v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool Aug 03, 2021 v21.2: New Link Movies with Core screen Apr 28, 2021 v21.1.2 Various improvements and fixes Mar 04, 2021 v21.1 Automatic Audience Ratings from IMDb Feb 15, 2021 v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding movies Jan 11, 2021 v20.2: Now fully Big Sur compatible Dec 01, 2020 v20.6 Easier access to the Manage Pick Lists screen Aug 25, 2020 v20.5: Changing your folder field is now much easier Jul 30, 2020 v20.4: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core Jun 24, 2020 v20.3: Faster Shelves View + 2 new Shelf Styles Jun 08, 2020 v20.1 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! Apr 14, 2020 v20.2 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! Mar 25, 2020 v20.0.4 Now syncs through our brand-new CLZ Cloud Sync-server Feb 04, 2020 v20.1 Improved Add Movie Files / Better Tag editing / Faster syncing Feb 04, 2020 v20: Folder panel improvements + new Statistics screen Jan 13, 2020 v20: Dark Mode support / New HDR field and many more sync fields Dec 10, 2019 v19.3: Now fully macOS Catalina compatible! Oct 09, 2019

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