What's new in CLZ Music? (page 7)
Wait what? Track searching in Music Connect? Yes, it is finally here!
For many years, the most requested missing feature for Music Connect and CLZ Cloud has been the ability to search for track titles and track artists. The main reason for the lack of a track search has always been performance. Searching a cloud database with over 500 million (!!) songs is not an easy task đ
However, a few months ago we finally decided to start on this huge and challenging project.
And I am happy to announce that we found a solution that works! We have created a humongous new search index for the music cloud data, that now includes track titles and track artists. A new flexible search engine is now available behind your familiar search box that lets you search album details, track details or both.
As of today, the new search engine is live in your account, and it is FAST!
Choose between 3 Search Types
Use the new “search type” selector on the left of the search box to choose to search:
- Albums
- Tracks
- or both: Albums & Tracks
Track highlighting
After searching for tracks, click one of the resulting albums and the track that match will be highlighted in your album details panel.
Two updates for your Connect software today. An improved Statistics screen, with cool new charts and lists, plus a re-designed toolbar that clearly shows your currently selected folders and filters.
Fixed:
- Custom images were uploaded too often
Fixed:
- Custom images were uploaded too often
- Add by Barcode: Barcode wasnât showing in the result
A very cool and useful addition to your Music Connect software today: the folder panel on the left now allows multiple levels of folders!
This is a powerful way to browse your music collection, e.g by Artist, then Release year.
A big step forward for the Music Connect software today, in which we add many new editable fields and Back Cover images.
Many new fields
Today we have added many fields to the software, all now editable in the Edit Album screen.
- Conductor
- Orchestra
- Studio
- Composer (you can now add multiple instead of just 1)
- Extras
- Recording Date
- Live: Yes/No
- Sound: Mono/Stereo/Hi-Res Stereo/Multi-channel
Of course, the pick list fields are immediately available as folder fields too, so that you can browse your collection in folders by Studio, Orchestra, Live, etc…
New: Add your own back covers
With this big update for Music Connect we have another surprise for you: Back Covers! That’s right, a brand new back cover field you can modify yourself.
Use the “Find Back cover” button to find one, or upload one yourself:
Changed:
- Add by barcode: Swipe to remove a single barcode wasn’t working. To remove a single barcode now, just press and hold on it!
Fixed:
- When changing a cover, the list and images view wasn’t updated correctly
- Date pickers weren’t showing correctly
- Some colours were wrong (tabs/switches)
Instead of working on new features, we decided to take a few weeks to look at existing screens and functionality and see where things could be improved, of course all based on your feedback.
Today’s update brings you the first batch of user interface improvements that we implemented (more coming up!), plus it bring the app fully up-to-date with the new iOS 13 “sheet-style” popup screens!
Fixed:
- Crash in Field Defaults screen
- Edit screen: Edit pencil buttons were broken
- Custom covers could upload too often
- Some further modifications to the Manage Pick List screen and pick list pop-ups in the edit screens
Instead of working on new features, we decided to take a few weeks to look at existing screens and functionality and see where things could be improved, of course all based on your feedback.
Today’s update brings you the first user interface improvements we implemented (more coming up!):
Easier to find Edit and Remove buttons on album details screen (phone only)
Easier editing of pick list fields, especially multi-value fields
- Selected/checked values are now always at the top
- For multi-value fields (like Genre), check/uncheck multiple values in one go!
- Easier to find big button at the top for adding NEW values..
Complete Re-design of Manage Pick List screen
- Easier to find big button at the top for adding NEW values.
- Remove Unused and Merge action have now been moved to action (…) button top right.
- Easier to use Merge mode.
Add by barcode: New Clear Queue button and new “Scanning tips” popup
Fixed:
- Re-introduced a “sync changes pending” icon to the “Sync with CLZ Cloud” menu item
Fixed:
- Fix for a crash that some iPhone users experienced after adding/editing entries
Several small tweaks for your CLZ Music app today:
- iPhone: details page now has clearer Edit and Remove buttons at the bottom
- “Sync with CLZ Cloud” menu now indicates whether there are sync changes pending.
If you are always adding your albums by Artist and Title, you will certainly enjoy today’s little tweak to the Add Albums screen. A new All / CD / Vinyl selector lets filter the artist/title results by Format.
For example:
All Nirvana / Nevermind results on CD:
All Nirvana / Nevermind results on Vinyl:
Fixed:
- Issue where users could not sign up for a new CLZ account.
- Improved error handling in the Add-screen.
Fixed:
- Fixed a crash when removing an album from within the edit screen
- âAdd manually’ button was missing in the add screen
- âMove to other collection’-option was missing its icon
- When adding an album by barcode that was âalready in collectionâ, the barcode wasnât cleared from the barcode queue
This post is about CLZ Books Android v5.0.7 and CLZ Music Android v5.0.8
Fixed:
- Permission dialog will now pop up in the barcode scanning screen when the app does not have camera permissions.
- Small text fixes
This post is about CLZ Books iOS v5.0.5, CLZ Music iOS v5.0.5 and CLZ Movies iOS v5.0.2.
Improved:
- When trying to send a support e-mail, instead of showing an error message, redirect to a web based contact form if there is no e-mail address set in the E-mail app.
Fixed:
- Re-added the ability to save a cover to the photo’s app in the edit screen. (Long-press the cover)
- Small text fixes
Today, a subtle addition to your Music Connect software, but one that can save you a lot of time if you’re always adding your CDs by barcode:
A new “Add [..] to Collection” button under the add queue, that lets you add all scanned albums in one go. No more need to click the little “+” buttons for each entry.
Some other improvements:
At the same time, some other tweaks went live in your software:
- In the “fixed” area at the bottom of the Edit Album screen, we replaced the Owner field with the Location field.
Through user feedback we found that the Location field is used by many more users, compared to Owner. Also many new users were not finding the field. So we figured the Location field deserved a more prominent spot in the Edit Album screen.
BTW: the Owner field can now be found on the Personal tab. - The User Rating field has received a make-over and can now be set using a nice sliding star thingie.
Log in with existing CLZ Account
Improved “start trial” interface for users who are logging in with an existing CLZ Account was added to the following apps/versions:
- CLZ Music v5.0.4 for iOS
- CLZ Books v5.0.4 for iOS
- CLZ Music v5.0.7 for Android
- CLZ Books v5.0.6 for Android
Fixed:
- Quick Search wasn’t working correctly if the app was set to folder mode.
- Improved subscription purchase and CLZ user registration.
Sign up for CLZ Account:
- Now requires an active subscription before signing up for a CLZ Account.
We are seeing more and more users switching to our software, leaving a competitor product or their own Excel solution behind. So our import tools are getting more and more important.
Therefore, we have spent some time making our Import from CSV/TXT screen a bit more easier to use.
The most important part of importing a CSV file is of course the mapping of your fields to our fields. Sadly we cannot make this part fully automatic, but we DID make it a lot easier!
After uploading your file, the contents is shown in the Preview. Now to map your fields to ours, just click the column headers in the Preview and from the popup select which of our fields you want to import that column to. Super easy, super quick.
Enjoy!
Fixed in today’s maintenance build:
- Possible crash after adding an album / switching folders.
- Old Import from Music Collector:
- The main list did not refresh after importing from Music Collector.
- Importing from a file failed due to missing storage permission. CLZ Music will now ask for the storage permission.
We made the CLZ Account and Subscription status at the top a bit more clear and fixed a crash in the edit screen:
Fixed:
- Crash when the collection status was edited.
Small fix build for your app today:
- Some contact links could crash the app
- The “Add Collection” menu item was named incorrectly