What's new in Music Collector? (page 6)

Fixed:

• Export XML: XML was not exported correctly.
• Edit Screen: Cover Popups were not always prompted on macOS Sierra.

Fixed:

• Edit Screen:
  • Composition Table: columns could not be resized beyond certain size.
  • Tracks Screen: column widths were not remembered.
  • Edit Track Screen: Credits: Roles were sometimes reverted to “Engineer”.
• Add Music Files: artists with accents were not imported.
• Play music: tracks were not played in the right order on iTunes when playing an album.
• Discs, Headers & Tracks total time didn’t include subtracks time.
• Templates:
  • Cobalt and Carbon templates: Choruses were not always displayed.
  • Templates: Fixed naming of discs in single- vs. multi-disc albums.

Fixed:

• Crashes during Check for Update process
• Edit Album: Some combobox functionality for “Vinyl Color” field didn’t work

Fixed:

• Cards View: Quick Search didn’t filter the cards in the list.
• First Letter folder option was not using the Sort Names.
• Loan Manager Screen: Search was not working.
• Sierra: Full Screen Mode: “Add Cover” popup appears under the Edit Screen.
• Internal Images: Templates images were not updated after editing an item.
• When no internet connection was available, app was launched in Trial Mode.

Fixed:

• Tag reading music files: in rare cases some text tags like Artist and Title were not read properly because of different encoding
• person grids: adding a person with a display name that existed multiple times, would sometimes save the wrong one
• Templates: subtitle in details template is now on a separate line
• Edit Album:
  • On User Defined Fields tab, “_[Add pick list item]_” didn’t work for comboboxes
  • Changing the role for a credit would mark all albums dirty where that person appeared instead of just the edited album
• Manage Pick Lists: removing pick list items didn’t mark their corresponding albums as modified
• Main Screen:
  • accelerator keys in main menu (like “ALT+F” for files menu) didn’t work
  • selection text at bottom of screen wasn’t always properly updated

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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