What's new in Movie Collector? 2022

Another update for your Movie Collector software, that could make using the software quite a bit faster and more responsive!

In this update, we are changing the way Youtube trailer videos are shown in the details panel. Instead of an embedded YouTube player (which can be very slow to load), the trailers are displayed as a list of video thumbnails and title. Just click to open the video on the Youtube site.

This new setup has the following advantages:

• Browsing through your movies is a lot faster now.
  
  No more annoying “hangs” while the Youtube video loads.
• It resolves the problem of many videos not being “allowed” to be embedded nowadays.
• Clicking a trailer will now always open it in your default browser!
  
  (previously it always opened in Internet Explorer)

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After months of working on comic related updates only (for our CovrPrice partnership), the CLZ team is finally freed up to work on our other products again, phew!

So today, we can release a nice update for your Movie Collector software, in which we improve on the IMDb integration. Not a huge “major” update, but since 2023 is getting closer, we are calling it “version 23.0” anyway 🙂

Anyway, about IMDb: Most of you are probably diligently updating your IMDb Ratings and Votes on a regular basis. After all, if you are in any way interested in IMDb ratings, it is important to always keep those up-to-date.

However, after running the “Update IMDb Ratings/Votes” and getting the “254 movies updated” message, have you ever wondered

“WHICH movies have been updated and WHAT the change was?”.

Well, not anymore, because with today’s v23 update we are introducing a nice report that answers just that. Also, this updates makes it easier to update IMDb Ratings for your entire collection in one go.

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Yesterday’s build introduced a couple of small problems which some of you reported to us, so today we’re fixing those!

Fixed:

• Link Screen: Trying to link a movie manually would present an “add” button
• Edit in List: Fields could (still) be cleared when modifying the set of column fields during editing in list

In today’s update, no big new features. Instead, we decided to spend some time fixing a lot of outstanding issues. While we were at it, we also implemented some small tweaks requested by users. Here’s what’s tweaked and fixed:

Tweaks:

• Year folders now sort from most recent year to older
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer crew to the Notes field
• Transfer Field Data: It is now possible to transfer data to the Extra Features field

Fixed:

• Link Screen: Fixed various “Access Violation” errors
• Edit Screen: File paths for missing cover images weren’t showing
• Main Screen: filtering on Collection Status “Sold” didn’t show correct filter text in the bottom of the screen
• Edit in List: Fields could be cleared when modifying the column fields during editing in list
• Edit in List: Fixed some problems with editing price/value fields

Fixed:

• Various “Access Violation” errors fixed in the Link Movies screen
• User Defined Fields: default values weren’t used when adding movies
• Pre-fill: User Defined Fields weren’t remembered between sessions
• Light Skin: Rating stars weren’t visible

Fixed:

• Add/Update Movies: Country and Language weren’t downloaded
• Add/Update settings: Download links from MovieMeter checkbox was missing
• Pre-fill screen: It wasn’t possible to clear out certain fields (such as Tags)
• Edit screen: Pick list popups for certain fields didn’t remember their sort order
• Pre-fill wasn’t working after the “move to other collection status” popup
• Add Movies: When adding books to “Sold” the button wasn’t showing text

It’s been a few months since the last Movie Collector update, but behind the scenes we have of course been preparing for a big v22 update! And today, it is finally ready for release, with 3 cool new features:

• User-configurable Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields
• User-configurable Add / Update from Core
• Support for WebP images
• New collection status “Sold” and new collection status icons and colors

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