What's new in CLZ Music Mobile?
Big changes this week, as we have changed our company name!
We were previously called “Collectorz.com”, but as everyone called us “CLZ”, we figured, let’s go with the flow and officially rename the company to just “CLZ”!
But that’s not all. This week also brings:
- a new company logo and styling
- a completely new website at clz.com (previously www.collectorz.com)
- new names for our web-based software, previously called Connect, now simply CLZ Comics Web, CLZ Movies Web, CLZ Games Web, etc…
- new app icons for all CLZ apps!
A nice update for CLZ Music again, in which we did improvements to several areas of the app.
- Re-design of the Sort Order screen
- New Date and Month folder options for all date fields
- Statistics: new look for Most Recent lists
Fixed:
- Edit screen: After cropping a cover, the app would sometimes still show the non-cropped version in the edit screen
New:
- Better indication and handling of “subscription expired” status
New:
- Better indication and handling of “subscription expired” status
Fixed:
- For items with very big images, the Edit screen could crash
The app now has a “free 7-day trial” again.
No more 100 item “free mode” or “free trial”. We did our best to make it work, but it just didn’t. So we’re back to the old tried and tested “7-day trial” system 🙂
(Don’t worry, if you already started your free mode, it will keep working.)
Updated:
- Add Album by artist/title: after adding an album, the cursor will be put back in the search box straight away so you can immediately start your next search
Fixed:
- Statistics: In some cases the order under “most recent” could be wrong
Updated:
- Add Albums by Artist and Title: after adding an album, the cursor will be put back in the search box straight away so you can immediately start your next search
Updated:
- Free Mode is now called Free Trial (still works the same way)
Updated:
- Free Mode is now called Free Trial (still works the same way)
Fixed:
- Fixed some problems related to updating/remembering the app’s subscription status
New:
- Now supports “Sign up with Google” for new users
- Some more tweaks for new users to help them get started
New:
- Now supports “Sign up with Apple” for new users
New:
- Now supports “Sign up with Google” for new users
Fixed:
- “Don’t show again” checkbox didn’t save if the box was just “dismissed”
Fixed:
- Some back buttons (and swiping to go back) would stop working after adding from Core
- Incorrect error message would appear after adding manually
New:
Further guidance and popups to help new users get started adding their collection to the app.
Don’t worry, all popups can be dismissed with “don’t show again” 🙂
Fixed for iOS
- In some cases the “Add to Collection” button wouldn’t work
New:
- We changed the “buy now” text link into a big blue button so it’s more clear!
Fixed:
- In some cases logging in to an existing account after starting Free Mode would cause problems with adding.
CLZ Music is now free to use up to 100 albums, for as long as you like.
This “Free Mode” includes access to all functionality, including CLZ Cloud syncing (for online backups and transferring data between devices).
Got more than 100 albums? Then subscribe (US $15 per year) and add as many albums as you need. Of course, feel free to try the app with 100 albums first!
Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about another area of improvement in last week’s CLZ Music v9 release.
(tip: if you missed yesterday’s feature hilite #1 about the collection tab-bar, you can read it here).
Today, we are going to discuss the various improvements we implemented for the Add Albums screen:
- Quick “Confirm” pop-ups, instead of full screen Preview pages
- Search results now also show the number of discs, making it easier to spot multi-disc album entries
- Improved process of combining discs into a multi-disc album
- Adding by Barcode: Faster camera scanner for scanning barcodes
Last week’s CLZ Music 9.0 update was a big one, with 3 areas of improvement. To make sure you did not miss any of the new stuff, I am going to do three “v9 feature hilite” emails this week, each one highlighting one of the big improvements.
Today’s “v9 feature hilite” is about all the new collections tab-bar.
v9.0: Collection tabs, better Add Albums screen, easy people filtering
A big update v9.0 update for your CLZ Music app today, with many new features and improvements!
Here’s the full list of What’s New:
- New collections tab-bar: easily switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
- Improved Add Albums screen:
- Quick “Confirm” pop-ups, instead of full screen Preview pages
- Search results now also show the number of discs, making it easier to spot multi-disc album entries
- Improved process of combining discs into a multi-disc album
- Adding by Barcode: Faster camera scanner for scanning barcodes
- New: tap a person name in details to show all your albums with that person
What’s New:
- New “Delete CLZ Account” option in Settings
What’s new:
- Added a new “Remove all unused pick list entries” option in the maintenance menu, to remove all unused pick list entries in one go
Changed:
- For new users: no more Demo Mode
Fixed on iOS:
- Edit screen: Picking something from a pick list: The search could mess up your choice
- The sync button could show on details view
Fixed on Android:
- Merging/deleting instruments was not working correctly
- Removing Storage Devices did not work
A build full of fixes for bugs reported by you. Thanks to everyone who reported these bugs!
Fixed:
- Unreliable search results after editing or merging pick list items
- Now remembers scroll position better when hitting “back” from an item
- Adding a new pick list item with an apostrophe, would wrongly trigger an “Already exists” warning
- Edit screen: Picking a pick list item after tapping next/previous could crash the app
- Edit screen: For some fields the selected pick list item would be added twice
- Adding a box set via the Edit Screen could crash the app
- Default instrument was missing when adding musicians