What's new in Music Collector? (page 7)
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- Performance: Statistics are no longer updated if not necessary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.
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
Fixed:
- Loading of backup.xml is now more robust
Fixed:
- Improved Webcam functionality for Webcam Barcode scanning:
- Sometimes starting the webcam feature would hang the program
- Some webcams didn’t show any video
- A JPEG error could be thrown for some webcams
- Add Automatically: when you didn’t want to move an album from your wish list into your collection, it wasn’t possible.
Find Image Online tool now uses Bing Image Search
The Find Image Online tool previously used Google Images to find images.
However, it turns out that on December 1, Google terminated the free Google Image Search API
that we were using, causing our Find Image Online functionality to stop working.
Google provides a new paid version of the Search API, but it is limited to max 10K searches per day.
With the amount of customers we have, we need at least 20K daily searches (600K per month!) 🙁
The solution: Switch to BING!
Microsoft also offers a paid Bing Image Search API and this one has no limits.
Or, to be more precise, they let us pay more for higher limits.
We immediately went to work and updated all our Windows and Mac programs
to use Bing Images for the Find Image Online tool instead.
Obviously, this generates considerable extra monthly costs (well over US $1,000),
but we have decided that we will NOT pass on these extra costs to our customers.
So here it is: the new Find Image Online, powered by Bing. Enjoy!
Fixed:
- Freezes at start up for some users, caused by the webcam detection.
Fixed:
- Access Violation when starting the program after a fresh installation.
- Access Violation when closing the program.
v16.0.2: Delete Orphan Images now also works on Links/Local Files
Fixed:
- Delete Orphan Images tools didn’t account for images linked in the Links / Local Files tab.
Webcam barcode scanning
Use your webcam as a barcode scanner, to add or find CDs by barcode.
- Scan barcodes with your webcam
Just use the live camera view to point your webcam at a barcode
and let our software detect the barcode that is in view. - Use the webcam scanner to add CDs by barcode
Pop-up the scan window and scan CD barcodes,
either using Direct Search or scanning into the Queue. - Or use it in the main screen to find albums by barcode
Scan a CD barcode while in the main screen,
to quickly search your local database by barcode. - Works best with auto-focus or manual-focus webcams
Fixed focus cameras will not work well (or at all).
