What's new in Music Collector? 2016

Fixed:

• Main Screen: after resizing the first column too much, the text was no longer readable
• Edit Album: Closing the edit screen could cause a crash on El Capitan

Fixed:

• Main screen: switching from details to statistics would crash the program

Fixed:

• Program would crash on startup or load incorrectly for OS older than Sierra

New:

• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Fixed:

• Edit Album: remove track didn’t work any more after the Edit Track screen had been opened in macOS Sierra.

New:

• Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Fixed:

• Export to CLZ Music: track lengths were not exported

Fixed:

• Some memo text fields like Notes could not be scrolled up or down

CLZ Cloud: Now stores and syncs *your* track lists

• The CLZ Cloud system now supports the storing and syncing of track lists.
  (previously, track lists were always shared from Core)

• For each track, the CLZ Cloud now stores Title, Artist and Length.
• Now store and sync your own customized track titles and artists.
• Now store and sync track lists for unlinked albums (e.g. manually entered or imported).
• NOTE: after updating your Music Collector software, ALL your albums will be flagged as CHANGED,
  so that they will be re-uploaded to the CLZ Cloud!

BTW: To sync track lists to the CLZ Music app, you need
version 4.2.4 for iOS or version 4.3.6 for Android! (both released today)

CLZ Cloud: Improved syncing of Artist Sort Names

• Improved storing of Album Artists in the CLZ Cloud.
• Now correctly sync Artist Sort Names to/from the mobile apps.
• Fixed: difference in sorting between folder panel and album panel in the CLZ Cloud viewer.

CLZ Cloud: Now stores and syncs *your* track lists

• The CLZ Cloud system now supports the storing and syncing of track lists.
  (previously, track lists were always shared from Core)
• For each track, the CLZ Cloud now stores Title, Artist and Length.
• Now store and sync your own customized track titles and artists.
• Now store and sync track lists for unlinked albums (e.g. manually entered or imported).
• NOTE: after updating your Music Collector software, ALL your albums will be flagged as CHANGED,
  so that they will be re-uploaded to the CLZ Cloud!

BTW: To sync track lists to the CLZ Music app, you need
version 4.2.4 for iOS or version 4.3.6 for Android! (both released today)

CLZ Cloud: Improved syncing of Artist Sort Names

• Improved storing of Album Artists in the CLZ Cloud.
• Now correctly sync Artist Sort Names to/from the mobile apps.
• Fixed: difference in sorting between folder panel and album panel in the CLZ Cloud viewer.

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Changes:

• Add/Link Music Files: now uses a different dialog for choosing the folders to scan, that should be loading the folder structure faster

Fixed:

• Check for Updates was broken for macOS Sierra.
• Templates were broken when User Defined Field headers contained special characters.
• Templates: Inherited album composers were displayed at tracks level.
• Edit Screen: autocomplete feature is now available for composer field too.
• Fixed a crash when main list (expanded up to the tracks level) was sorted by Format.

Fixed:

• Export to XML is now capable of exporting large databases without “Out of Memory” errors, as it now writes the XML directly to hard disk. This is a bit slower though.
• Sync with Cloud: Live and Rare fields were cleared when syncing down from the cloud
• Add/Modify Filter: “Contains” filters were always case insensitive even when “case sensitive” was checked
• Edit Multiple: F8 didn’t clear price values

Fixed:

• Program could throw a “Handle is invalid” error after multiple edits

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
  • The folder tree was wrapping the values in the list
  • A double hint was showing for the thumbnail slider to resize thumbnails in Images View
• When working offline, closing the program could cause Access Violations
• User Defined Fields: values of check box lists were not loaded correctly in some cases

Improvements:

• Cloud Syncing: Now does up to 5 retries when a sync action fails because of a temporary connection problem.
• Edit Album: Improved “search as you type” behaviour of search boxes for adding artists, composers, etc…
• Dark Skin: active window now has a light grey border, making it stand out more when windows overlap.

Fixed:

• Screen started to “flicker” after leaving the program inactive for a few minutes.
• Add Automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue.
• Main Screen / Two Panel Mode: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text when no albums were showing in the list.
• Edit Multiple: F8 to clear didn’t work for memo fields like Plot and Notes.

Fixed:

• Edit Album:
  • Changing collection status sometimes would uncheck a radiobutton but not check the selected one
  • Previous/Next/Ok could mess up data when the edit screen was still loading
• Add/Link Albums: in rare occasions the program could crash

Fixed:

• Export to HTML: access violation could occur in some cases when using a custom index template
• Edit Screen: Checkbox List hints would sometimes not disappear
• Main Screen: changing font size could make some screen elements disappear

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.

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

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

Fixed:

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

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