What's new in Movie Collector? 2023

Thanks to your reports we’ve been able to fix a problem with sortnames when adding new cast/crew members to your movies!

Fixed:

• Cast/Crew: adding a cast or crew member by searching Core, the system would not add the sortname correctly.
• Fixed some stability issues in the down sync from CLZ Cloud.

Thanks to all who reported the bugs!

Thanks to various user reports we’ve now been able to find and fix the following bugs in the latest version:

Fixed:

• Cast/Crew: When searching cast/crew, persons could show up more than once.
• Episodes: When adding cast/crew to TV-episodes, database corruption error could occur.
• Crew: When editing a “User Credit” role for a movie, the program could give an Access Violation error.

Thanks to all who reported the bugs!

Fixed:

• In some cases the original image of an actor/crew member could be overwritten when adding the actor/crew to your movie.
• The “Edit Actor/Crew member” screen was not high enough to show all the fields (URL/image was missing).

In the last version, a couple of buttons went missing in the Edit Screen. Through reports we found and fixed all of them with this build!

Fixed

• Several buttons in the edit screen were missing

The CLZ development team has just finished a huge project, something we have been working on for several months: the ability to modify a movie’s cast and crew lists, for both the Movie Connect web-based software and the CLZ Movies mobile app.

Of course, your Movie Collector desktop software has allowed you to modify your cast and crew lists for many many years. But still, the project we just completed has resulted in a big v23.3 update for Movie Collector too, which introduces THREE new features:

• Cloud-sync your customized cast and crew lists to the CLZ Cloud and the CLZ Movies mobile app
• A quicker and easier way to add new cast and crew members, by searching our Core lists
• Simplified Sort Name editing for all pick list entries

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Improved:

• Adding by Barcode: the last barcode you scanned is now automatically selected in the queue
• Further improvements for sorting text with numbers in it (especially with – symbols)
• Faster sorting, resulting in overall performance improvements especially for large databases
  
  (most noticeably after clicking the Add button in the Add Movies screen)

Fixed:

• Sorting problems for certain fields
• Several small Add Screen stability issues

Fixed:

• Add Movies screen: When adding “by IMDb”, the result list always kept the last searched IMDb result.
• Dark Skin: In the Folder panel, we’ve made the barchart color a bit brighter.
• In the Pre-fill popup you could not select an “empty” item for pick lists.
• Sorting your list by date wasn’t always working properly.
• The program will now ask you if you’re sure you want to overwrite an existing file when using “Export to XML” or “Save Database As” (this was already working for other export/save options).

As announced last weekend, here it is, Movie Collector version 23.2 for Windows, with full support for our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app!
And as indicated earlier, support for the old CLZ Barry scanner app has now been removed.

Also new in this version: Improved support for barcodes that were used over multiple series.

What is CLZ Scanner?

The aptly-named “CLZ Scanner” is a barcode scanner app, nothing more, nothing less. It is an app that you use on your phone to scan barcodes and then instantly send those scanned barcodes to the Add Movies screen of the Movie Collector software running on your computer. From there, you can then easily and comfortably add the scanned movies to your computer software.

CLZ Scanner replaces the old CLZ Barry app.

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