Our web-team has been working on this for a long time, but it is now LIVE: a new search engine for Artist/Title searches in our Core online music database and Discogs. An engine that is both better and much, much faster!

And the good news is: these are all “server-side” changes, which means you don’t need to update your Music Collector software, CLZ Music app or Music Connect web-app. Everyone can now instantly enjoy the benefits, no matter which version of the software you have :-).

Faster

We developed a new search engine for handling artist/title searches, for both our own Core online CD database and our mirror of the Discogs database. This new engine is running on its’ own dedicated server, so it’s superfast.
Also, it uses a combined search index for both Core and Discogs, so it needs to do only one search action to produce the combined results list.

The result of this is instantly noticeable when searching by Artist/Title in your Add Albums screen: results will be returned much, much faster than before, almost instantly.

The new engine not only makes your searches faster, but at the same time it only solves all server performance problems the Core server has had in the past few months, especially on Saturday and Sundays.

Better

Next to the speed improvements, the new search engine also gives you better search results, that are more focussed, less fuzzy.
It will only show albums containing ALL your entered artist and title “words” (as opposed to the old search that gave you albums that matched ANY or your search term words).

In practice, you will now get less search results that exactly match what you were looking for. However, the new engine is more sensitive to typos, so one incorrectly entered word may cause no results to be returned at all.


Recent changes

v23: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app Mar 30, 2023 v22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support Feb 23, 2022 v21.5 Improved Submit to Core system Oct 08, 2021 v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background Sep 14, 2021 v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool Aug 06, 2021 v20.3 More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Music Connect Jun 24, 2021 v21.2: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Music Connect Jun 16, 2021 v21.1: New Link Discs with Core screen May 06, 2021 v21.0.2 Various improvements and fixes Mar 04, 2021 v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding albums Jan 18, 2021 v20.2: Now fully Big Sur compatible Dec 01, 2020 v20.6 Easier access to the Manage Pick Lists screen Aug 24, 2020 v20.5: Changing your folder field is now much easier Jul 28, 2020 v20.4: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core Jun 25, 2020 v20.3: Faster Shelves View + 2 new Shelf Styles Jun 04, 2020 v20.1 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! Apr 14, 2020 v20.2 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! Mar 25, 2020 v20.1 Improved music file cataloging Feb 26, 2020 v20.0.2 Better Tag editing / Faster syncing Feb 05, 2020 v20.0.5 Now syncs through our brand-new CLZ Cloud Sync-server Feb 04, 2020 v20: Folder panel improvements + new Statistics screen Jan 13, 2020 v20: Dark Mode support / Many new sync fields (inc back covers!) Dec 12, 2019 19.3: Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud (inc. Back Cover)! Oct 18, 2019 v19.1: Now fully macOS Catalina compatible! Oct 09, 2019 v19.2.1: New: Duplicate Finder tool Apr 12, 2019

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