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Music Collector Changelog

What's new in Music Collector 20.2.1

Dec 2, 2020
  • We had tested our software on Big Sur betas before the actual Big Sur release and did not find any problems. However, as soon as Big Sur went live, users started reporting crashes in various areas of the program, mainly when syncing and after adding or editing entries.
  • With the help of these users, and after trying several test builds with them, we have finally resolved all known crashes, which has resulted in today’s v20.2 Big Sur compatible release.
  • If you are using Big Sur, we strongly recommend updating to this v20.2 version.
  • Finally, if you still see problems on Big Sur with this new version, please us know, so that we can fix any remaining bugs.

New in Music Collector 20.1 (Apr 17, 2020)

  • Faster CLZ Cloud syncing:
  • We have made several structural changes to the CLZ Cloud syncing, making it much much faster than before, especially when syncing large amounts of entries up to the CLZ Cloud or down from the CLZ Cloud.
  • To enjoy the faster syncing, you need to use the actual Sync with CLZ Cloud screen. (The Auto-Syncing in the background is also slightly faster now, but if you need to sync many entries up or down, please use the Sync with CLZ Cloud screen.)
  • Fixed:
  • Link to Core: changing the search criteria could crash the program
  • Add screen: changed the “already in collection” font color in dark skin to be more readable
  • Main screen: The “Rating” column could not be moved to a different place
  • Improved cover scaling for syncing
  • Field Defaults: Location field was missing
  • Manage pick lists: Compositions: next/previous buttons wouldn’t save certain fields
  • Editing an album could multiple the length (time) of an album
  • Subtrack length wasn’t shown in the template

New in Music Collector 20.0.5 (Feb 5, 2020)

  • Now uses our brand-new CLZ Cloud Sync-server:
  • Previously one big server was handling the Connect website, the CLZ Cloud website AND the CLZ Cloud syncing from the desktop programs and the mobile apps. But this week we have set up a brand-new dedicated Sync-server to handle just the CLZ Cloud syncing.
  • In today’s update, Music Collector has been updated to sync through this new server, which should result in faster syncing and a more stable syncing experience during high load times (weekends).
  • Fixed:
  • For some users, the database conversion of version 20.0.3 caused the loss of data in their User Defined Fields. This problem has been resolved now.
  • If you lost UDF data, please contact us so that we can help you get the data back.
  • Add screen results: you couldn’t filter on a format (such as vinyl/cd etc.)

New in Music Collector 20.0.1 (Dec 13, 2019)

  • Dark Mode support:
  • Yes, your Music Collector software now finally supports the macOS Light vs Dark mode setting (available in Mojave and Catalina). That is, if you have your macOS set to Dark mode, Music Collector now nicely shows up with a dark background in all screens!
  • To change your macOS settings for light, dark or auto mode:
  • Click the Apple icon top left and select “System Preferences”.
  • Click “General”
  • For Appearance, select Light, Dark or Auto (auto changes from light to dark based on day/night).
  • Close the screen.
  • Many fields added to the sync:
  • We have recently updated our CLZ Cloud storage and the CLZ Music mobile app to support many more fields. In today’s v20 release, Music Collector for macOS becomes fully compatible with the new sync system and mobile app.
  • The following extra fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud / Music Connect / CLZ Music:
  • We’ve added many fields to the sync with CLZ Cloud:
  • Conductor
  • Orchestra
  • Composer (multiple composers supported now, including their sortnames)
  • Studio
  • Recording Date
  • Live: Yes/No
  • Sound: Mono/Stereo/Hi-Res Stereo/Multi-channel
  • Extras
  • Back Cover image!
  • IMPORTANT: after the update MANY albums will need to Sync to CLZ Cloud:
  • Please note that after updating your software to version 20, Music Collector needs to upload any album that contains information in any of the above fields. For some users this could mean almost your entire collection needs to be synced to the CLZ Cloud again. This is necessary to upload your data for the above new cloud sync fields.
  • We are aware this can take a long time, especially for large collections, but there really is no way around this, sorry.
  • Back Covers:
  • With this big update for Music Collector we’re adding custom back covers to the sync!
  • We introduced a new checkbox “Custom Image” in the Edit screen for back covers of album entries. This checkbox will be automatically checked when you replace the Core image, e.g. by using Find Cover Online, by dragging and dropping or by using the Browse button to add a local image.
  • Once this Custom Image box is checked, that cover will automatically sync to and from the CLZ Cloud.
  • Custom back covers will always stay marked as custom, so that even if you clear your cloud and sync everything again, they will re-upload automatically.
  • Modifications to the edit screen:
  • The Location field has been moved to the bottom of the Edit Screen
  • Collection Status field is now a dropdown menu
  • Edit screen is a bit less wide now

New in Music Collector 19.1 (Nov 1, 2019)

  • As you probably know, macOS Catalina (version 10.15) was released earlier this week. In Catalina, Apple has made two major changes, that will affect all software that you run on your Mac: All programs you use need to be 64-bit. No more support for 32-bit applications! All programs you download outside the App Store need to be notarized (=approved) by Apple.
  • Of course, our Music Collector software has been a 64-bit application since version 18.1 (April 2018). And this week, we got it approved and notarized by Apple too!
  • So today, we released Music Collector 19.1, 64-bit and notarized, so fully Catalina compatible!

New in Music Collector 19.0.1 (Mar 6, 2019)

  • Manage multiple “collections” within one database file
  • Automatic Cloud-syncing of your own “custom” images
  • A new super-adaptive “Flex” template for the Details Panel

New in Music Collector 18.4.1 (Sep 20, 2018)

  • Single Search Box: Just one box for searching (e.g. like Google or Amazon). No more separate Artist and Title boxes. Just enter (part of) the artist’s name and (part of) the title and you will get the best matching results. (see the screen shot below with “metallica justice” results”)
  • Big blue buttons for the main actions, Searching and Adding, can’t miss ’em
  • Automatic Preview, just select a result (no more need for double clicking)
  • Use the popup in the “Add” button to change it to add to “Collection” or “Wish List”
  • Easier way of adding multi-disc albums: Add multi-disc albums by selecting multiple results from your search. Just check the boxes next to the results to compile a multi-disc album and add it to your collection straight away:

New in Music Collector 18.3.2 (Sep 1, 2018)

  • Fixed Manage Pick List screen for older macOS versions:
  • On older macOS versions (10.7, 10.8 and 10.9) the Manage Pick Lists screen weren’t working. We fixed that in this maintenance build (but if you can, we do recommend updating to the latest macOS).

New in Music Collector 18.3.1 (Aug 15, 2018)

  • A couple of weeks ago, our CLZ Cloud (and Music Connect) has been updated with 8 more fields and loan information. Today’s version 18.3 now supports the syncing of all these new fields and your loan information to the CLZ Cloud and your CLZ Music mobile app!
  • Heads up: after updating to version 18.3, the software will automatically mark most of your albums as “changed”, to force the upload of your data for the new fields to the CLZ Cloud.
  • New versions of CLZ Music for iOS and Android will be available in the coming days to allow the new fields to be synced there too!
  • Added for syncing:
  • Sortname for composers
  • Original Release Date
  • Packaging
  • Media Condition
  • Vinyl Color
  • Vinyl Weight
  • Vinyl RPM
  • Disc Titles

New in Music Collector 18.3.1 (Aug 15, 2018)

  • A couple of weeks ago, our CLZ Cloud (and Music Connect) has been updated with 8 more fields and loan information. Today’s version 18.3 now supports the syncing of all these new fields and your loan information to the CLZ Cloud and your CLZ Music mobile app!
  • Heads up: after updating to version 18.3, the software will automatically mark most of your albums as “changed”, to force the upload of your data for the new fields to the CLZ Cloud.
  • New versions of CLZ Music for iOS and Android will be available in the coming days to allow the new fields to be synced there too!
  • Added for syncing:
  • Sortname for composers
  • Original Release Date
  • Packaging
  • Media Condition
  • Vinyl Color
  • Vinyl Weight
  • Vinyl RPM
  • Disc Titles

New in Music Collector 18.2.1 (Jun 1, 2018)

  • As indicated in last week’s GDPR email, we are updating our software and services, to be more secure and to better protect your privacy.
  • To make this possible, we have created new secure “entry points” on our servers, that are only allowing secure HTTPS connections. The new Music Collector software only communicates with those secure entry points.
  • Starting with version 18.2, Music Collector now uses secure HTTPS connections for all communications with our servers:
  • for logging in with your username and password
  • for syncing your data with CLZ Cloud
  • for sending your searches to Core.

New in Music Collector 18.1.1 (Apr 18, 2018)

  • Never a dull moment at the CLZ HQ… Here we were, working on nice improvements for our software, when suddenly… the guys at Apple had a brainwave: In their ultimate wisdom, they decided to start phasing out 32-bit applications.
  • Since April 12, users of macOS High Sierra are getting a “not optimized for your Mac” warning when they start a 32-bit application. Which includes the Music Collector software for macOS 🙁.
  • On top of that, Apple have already stopped allowing 32-bit applications in their App Store and rumours are that they may even stop supporting 32-bit applications in a future version of macOS, requiring every application to be 64-bit!
  • Of course, we were already aware that Apple would be going this route some day; the rumours have been around for quite a while. So we had already been working on a 64-bit version of our software, as a “back-burner project”.
  • But the introduction of last week’s “not optimized” warnings suddenly made this a high-priority project. So… we dropped everything we were doing and finalized our 64-bit project. And I am happy to report: A fully 64-bit v18.1 version of Music Collector is available now!

New in Music Collector 18.0.4 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • FIXED:
  • Sync with CLZ Cloud:
  • In the past disc information may not have been uploaded correctly, causing some discs to download incorrect information when down syncing. This version will correct this and all albums that are affected will be flagged dirty so they can up sync the correct information again. You may get a few automatic sync changes because of this.
  • Sometimes the “Local changes to be uploaded” counter didn’t show the correct number.
  • When a cover could not be downloaded during down syncing it would stop and not continue. Now it will continue and show a report of any errors that have occurred.
  • Sometimes covers weren’t uploaded when they should have.
  • The error: “This database is different from the one in CLZ Cloud” would show up in rare cases when it shouldn’t.
  • Main Screen:
  • There were still some cases where “follow edited item” option was not working.
  • Folder grouping on a credit role would show folders for all credit roles instead of just the one selected.

New in Music Collector 18.0.3 (Apr 4, 2018)

  • FIXED:
  • Auto sync could crash the program in some cases.
  • Main screen:
  • “None” folder for user defined fields didn’t display.
  • Main screen could freeze in some cases when folder grouping on a user defined field.

New in Music Collector 18.0.2 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • Editing Saved Folder Presets could break the folder grouping.

New in Music Collector 17.0.3 (Mar 22, 2017)

  • We’ve expanded the quick search box to now also allow “search-as-you-type” with suggestions for pick list fields.
  • How does it work:
  • In the quick search box top right of your screen you should see a “dropdown” button. Use this to select which field you wish to perform a search on. If “search-as-you-type” is available for that field, it will instantly work once you start typing in the box.
  • Example:
  • You can now select the field “Artist” in the quick search box, start typing an artist name, and instantly see suggestions (based on what you typed) of artists you have in your database. Click on an artist to see all his/her albums!

New in Music Collector 17.0.2 (Mar 8, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Program would crash at startup on macOS 10.9 or older
  • Search-As-You-Type tweaked to search first letters of each word only, making the results more precise
  • Add Albums Automatically: image popup for cover was showing the images of the selected item in main screen

New in Music Collector 16.1.9 (Feb 2, 2017)

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

New in Music Collector 16.1.8 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • 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.

New in Music Collector 16.1.7 (Jan 5, 2017)

  • 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.

New in Music Collector 16.1.6 (Dec 27, 2016)

  • 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

New in Music Collector 16.1.5 (Dec 1, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Main screen: switching from details to statistics would crash the program

New in Music Collector 16.1.4 (Nov 24, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Program would crash on startup or load incorrectly for OS older than Sierra

New in Music Collector 16.1.3 (Nov 23, 2016)

  • 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 in Music Collector 16.1.2 (Nov 2, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Some memo text fields like Notes could not be scrolled up or down.

New in Music Collector 16.1.1 (Oct 24, 2016)

  • 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.
  • Fixed:
  • macOS Sierra: While running in full-screen mode,, some pop-up screens didn't work.
  • Crash caused by the main list SubTracks "inherited Format" column.
  • Add Files Screen: Crash when clicking on "Batch Add Checked Albums"

New in Music Collector 16.0.9.2921 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • 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.

New in Music Collector 16.0.8.2907 (Jun 21, 2016)

  • FIXED:
  • 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.
  • Sync with CLZ Cloud:
  • Sometimes Multi-Disc Albums were not synced correctly.
  • Down-syncing a new album was often crashing the app.

New in Music Collector 16.0.7.2899 (May 24, 2016)

  • 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

New in Music Collector 16.0.6.2891 (May 4, 2016)

  • 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

New in Music Collector 16.0.5.2879 (Apr 5, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Add auto screen: "Collection Status" setting was not working properly
  • Images View: Newly added items with "Add Automatically" were not selected

New in Music Collector 16.0.4.2872 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • 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

New in Music Collector 15.3.4.2740 (Aug 14, 2015)

  • New settings in Tools / Options to control the sorting:
  • Some users just like to sort Artists by their Firstnames.
  • Others like to sort titles *including* "The" and "A".
  • With today's new "Ignore" settings in Tools / Options / Sorting, they finally can:
  • Ignore the Sort Names of Person items (e.g. Artists) YES/NO
  • Ignore the Sort Title field
  • Also new in Tools / Options / Sorting:
  • Show Sort Titles instead of Titles
  • Fixed:
  • Memory issue in User Defined Fields code

New in Music Collector 15.3.3.2733 (Aug 6, 2015)

  • Further improvements to the Alphabet Bar:
  • You can now also use the Alphabet Bar to filter on the first letter of Titles and Composers.
  • Use the Settings button on the far right of the bar to switch between Artist, Title and Composer.
  • Hide the Alphabet Bar using the Settings button on the far right of the bar.
  • (show it again using the command in the View menu)
  • Fixed: the folder list also showed the "other" artists of matching multi-artist albums.
  • Fixed:
  • Import From Text was not working on older OSX versions.

New in Music Collector 15.3.2.2726 (Jul 23, 2015)

  • Updated: Alphabet Bar
  • Alphabet Bar now uses full width of Main Screen
  • Alphabet Bar menu item now toggles between "Show Alphabet Bar" and "Hide Alphabet Bar"

New in Music Collector 15.3.1.2714 (Jul 22, 2015)

  • New: Alphabet Bar in main screen
  • An A to Z alphabet bar is now available at the top of your main screen.
  • Click a letter to quickly filter your album list by the first letter of the Artist.
  • The letter buttons are automatically greyed out if there are no artists starting with that letter.
  • The bar automatically stretches to fit the width of your screen. Wider screen -> bigger buttons.
  • Hide/Show the Alphabet Bar using the new option in the View menu.

New in Music Collector 15.1.5.2707 (Jul 14, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash when starting on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
  • Note: this is the final Snow Leopard compatible build.
  • Support for Snow Leopard will be dropped from future versions!

New in Music Collector 15.1.3.2678 (Jun 17, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Cloud Sync: random crashes because of the upload/download log view scrolling down.
  • User Defined Fields: sometimes the app was crashing while editing a user defined field.
  • Edit Screen: Instruments Pick List was opening instead of the Musician Pick List.
  • Preferences: crash on Leopard and Lion OSX.
  • The app was crashing on startup when a Folder Set with an empty name was selected.

New in Music Collector 15.0.3.2638 (May 5, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • CLZ Cloud Syncing 2.0: several rare problems with the syncing of cover images.
  • Manage User Defined Fields screen: Removing a User Defined field resulted in a program crash.

New in Music Collector 15.0.2.2630 (May 1, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • New sync protocol crashed on Snow Leopard.
  • Add Album Manually: the “Cancel” button was not closing the screen.
  • CLZ Barry Scanner: if an album was edited before scanning, the scanned barcode was wrongly added to the previously edited album.
  • Manage Pick Lists: fixed a crash on Mavericks.
  • Check for Update: wasn't working correctly with an expired license.
  • Main List: dates with unspecified day and “January" as month were displaying an incorrect year.
  • Saved "Sort Field Sets" are now sorted alphabetically.
  • Edit Track: Fixed an issue with the cursor blinking in a person field and clicking the "Next" button.
  • Crash: when editing a single track from the main list, and editing an album afterwards.

New in Music Collector 15.0.1.2623 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • NEW CLZ CLOUD SYNCING V2.0:
  • We have completely rewritten the CLZ Cloud syncing mechanism, to make it easier to use, faster, more reliable and capable of syncing very large databases:
  • Easier: One "Synchronize" button that syncs up and/or down as needed. No more need to choose the sync direction (Up or Down). Just click the single Synchronize button and the system will automatically upload your local changes and download your cloud-side changes.
  • Faster: Sync your additions, changes and removals within a few seconds. The software now keeps track of your adds, edits and removes, so when synchronizing with the CLZ Cloud, it already knows which items need to be up- or downloaded, making the actual sync very fast. ( the initial full sync may be slightly slower though, but you only need to do that once )
  • More scalable: Transfer very large databases without problems. The syncing process is now a series of tiny data uploads and downloads, as opposed to a single huge upload/download. This ensures that databases of any size can be synced.
  • More reliable: Solves many problems of the old syncing system. No more "invalid XML" when uploading large collections, no more changes that keep recurring every sync. No more starting from scratch in case of connection problems, just continue where you left off.
  • NEW "CARBON" TEMPLATE FOR THE DETAILS PANELS:
  • 4 different styles: Carbon Dark, Carbon Light, Plain Dark and Plain Light.
  • Fully adaptive to the width of the details panel, to always make best use of the available space.
  • NEW CARBON SHELVES STYLE FOR THE IMAGES VIEW:
  • A new carbon look shelves style to match the Carbon template.

New in Music Collector 12.9.6.2603 (Mar 30, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Find Cover screen: cropping didn't work.
  • Sometimes “Manage Pick List” screen was crashing and it was not possible to open it anymore.
  • Detail View was blank when using special characters in the Field Names.
  • Main list: “Media Condition” column was not available.
  • Folders: “Media Condition”: sometimes albums were not correctly organised.
  • Edit Screen: Date Dropdown lists: values displayed on the right were hidden by the scrollbar.

New in Music Collector 12.9.5.2588 (Mar 17, 2015)

  • New:
  • Add Auto & Link Screen: results now have Cat. Number column.
  • Edit Screen: Musicians Table: Instruments column does have type filter enabled.
  • Fixed:
  • Edit Screen:
  • Persons Tables: Cells were not correctly aligned with the columns.
  • Orchestra & Chorus tables were not autocompleting typing if other tables were filled first.
  • Manage Pick Lists:
  • Compositions: doubles with different Composers are now allowed.
  • After adding a duplicate, an empty row was added to the list.
  • Sort order is now case insensitive.
  • Database Totals didn't always show the real "totals".
  • Main Menu:
  • File > Export to Text was sometimes greyed out.
  • File > Save Database As.. was very slow.
  • Column Feld Selection Screen: Duplicate Columns Set: some columns were wrongly checked.

New in Music Collector 12.9.4.2571 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Edit Screen: Orchestra and Chorus were not saved.
  • Edit Screen: Autocomplete wasn't working for Vinyl Color field.
  • Templates: Notes for Tracks and Boxsets were not escaped correctly.
  • Upload Cover to CLZ Cloud: Replaced "Invalid Action" error with something more understandable.
  • Loan Manager: Default Loan Period wasn't saved correctly.
  • Edit Album:
  • Orchestra & Chorus were not saved
  • Vinyl Color field was not autocompleting the typed text
  • Templates: Notes for Tracks and Boxsets were not escaped correctly.
  • Upload Cover to CLZ Cloud: “Invalid action” is now replaced with a proper error message
  • Loan Manager: loan period default value is not saved

New in Music Collector 12.9.3.2561 (Feb 20, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Quick Search: Conductors and Composers weren't searched.
  • Important: To fix this, click menu "Tools > Maintenance > Update Search Strings" after updating.
  • Manage Pick Lists screen: crashed when deleting a composer.
  • Edit Screen: Musicians were not added with their default Instrument.
  • Field Defaults: "Live" was wrongly tagged as "Length".
  • Preferences: Increment Index was always set to "ON".
  • OPN-2001 scanner: After scanning multiple barcodes with OPN Scanner, Add Automatically screen didn't open in "Queue Mode".
  • Add/Link Music Files: Hidden "already linked files" were added any way when "Batch Add Checked" was clicked.

New in Music Collector 12.9.2.2549 (Feb 10, 2015)

  • New:
  • Disc / Header / Track / Subtrack title now appears on edit screen of said item.
  • Fixed:
  • User Defined Fields: Checkbox Field Buttons were not showing the correct field name.
  • Edit Multiple:
  • Instruments were not stored for all newly added musicians.
  • Key & Composers weren't stored for all newly added compositions.
  • Back covers weren't downloaded.
  • Folders: 0-9 folder was duplicated upon adding more artists that start with a number.
  • Edit Screen:Credit Roles could not be selected if the credit role field names had been changed by the user.
  • Default Settings: "Confirm on Removing Items" is now checked for new installs of the software.
  • XML Import: Covers were not imported.

New in Music Collector 12.9.1.2543 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • Edit Album/Track: Easier adding and managing of Artists and other "person" fields:
  • A new user interface for adding new Artist entries and managing their First and Last Names straight from the Edit Album and Edit Track screens, without opening the Tools / Manage Pick Lists screen.
  • Adaptive layout of Edit Album and Edit Track screens:
  • The layouts of all tabs in the Edit Album and Edit Tracks screens are now adapting to fit the size of the screen.
  • Edit boxes and drop down list get wider when you make your Edit screen wider.
  • Checkbox list and multi-value grids get higher (and wider) when increasing the size of your Edit screen.
  • New List Selector panel in Tools / Manage Pick Lists screen:
  • Tools / Edit Lists is now called Manage Picks Lists.
  • New list selection panel on the left replaces drop down menu.
  • New "Favorites" area for your most commonly used lists (defaults to Persons, Labels and Genres)
  • Drag and drop to and from Favorites area to create your own Favorites list.
  • It is now possible to delete pick list items that are still in use (#Used > 0), without having to hunt down all places where the value is used.
  • Choose Remove on an item, answer Yes to the "Delete anyway?" question, and the program will automatically clear this value in all fields where it was in use.
  • Find Image screen now available for Box Sets:
  • You can now use the "Find Cover" screen on the images tab of the Edit Box Set screen.
  • New Folder option for "Artist First Letter":
  • Use the blue folder button and choose "Artist First Letter" to group your artist on their first letter.
  • More consistent Core / Cloud terminology:
  • "Update Albums Automatically" is now called "Update from Core".
  • "Link Albums" is now called "Link with Core".
  • "Unlink Albums" is now called "Unlink from Core".
  • "Upload Cover for Selected Album" is now called "Upload Cover to CLZ Cloud".
  • Fixed:
  • Synchronize with CLZ Cloud: “Upload new fields first” message was displaying even with a new empty database.
  • Edit Album screen: now allows incremental search for Genres, Studios and Sounds.
  • Manage Pick Lists: Compositions: Title was not editable in table.
  • Print Panel: wasn't always displaying the paper orientation.
  • When opening the Instruments Panel from the Edit Album screen: after selecting a template image, the panel was disappearing behind the main window.
  • User Defined Fields: Blank field names not allowed anymore.
  • User Defined Fields: Autocomplete was not working for some fields.
  • Merge/Delete in Manage Pick Lists screen sometimes crashed the program.

New in Music Collector 12.8.4.2519 (Jan 15, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • After scanning a barcode, add automatically screen was not displaying the barcodes tab view.
  • Statistics: Some bars from the bar statistics were hidden.
  • Edit Lists: Next / Previous buttons were not working correctly.
  • Add/Link Files Screen: Import From iTunes XML: File locations are now also used to determine if certain tracks belong to the same album.

New in Music Collector 12.8.3.2512 (Nov 14, 2014)

  • Improved Find Image screen:
  • More logical layout, with search box top left.
  • Better looking thumbnail and preview area.
  • New setting "Auto search when screen opens (Yes/No)" in Preferences, that lets you disable the automatic searching each time you open the screen.
  • New: Stop searches and preview actions that take too long.
  • Fixed:
  • In trial mode, the Login screen popped up after every search in the Add Auto screen.

New in Music Collector 12.8.1.2496 (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Quick Search feature now searches more fields:
  • Index
  • Location
  • Format
  • Genre
  • Owner
  • URLs of all links
  • New setting for Add Auto screen: Edit After Add:
  • Makes the Edit Album screen open automatically after adding a new album using the Add Albums Automatically screen. (only when adding one album in Direct Search mode, this setting has no effect on Queue Mode)
  • Fixed:
  • When the list panel shows folders, the column header said "DisplayName". Now show the field name of the current folder field.
  • Templates: User Defined date fields were not displaying in your configured System Date Format.
  • Fixes for Add/Link Music Files feature:
  • Importing iTunes XML data is now much faster.
  • Importing iTunes XML: Not all covers were correctly imported.
  • Improved automatic grouping of tracks into albums.
  • Occasionally crashing when adding artists with a 1 letter-length name.

New in Music Collector 12.7.6.2488 (Oct 24, 2014)

  • Yosemite compatibility:
  • Multiple changes to make Music Collector fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.10 / Yosemite, including:
  • Various crashes while using the Track tab in the Edit Album screen.
  • Clicking a cover image in the Details Panel didn't work anymore.
  • Fixed:
  • Add Music Files: in some cases, strange characters were added to the Artist fields.
  • Add Music Files: added tracks always started with Index #2 instead of #1.
  • Problems using User Defined Fields as the folder field.
  • Further fixes to prevent "Document could not be saved" problems.
  • If you have been running into this, you MUST run Tools > Maintenance > Regenerate Search Strings to get rid of possible remaining problems in your database.

New in Music Collector 12.7.5.2475 (Oct 14, 2014)

  • New: Connect / Core / CLZ Cloud 2.0 support:
  • Some changes to prepare for the upcoming 2.0 versions of Connect, the public CLZ Cloud pages and the Core site.
  • Downloaded links to our online database now point to the new core.collectorz.com site.
  • "My public collection" link in CLZ Cloud Syncing screen now points to the new cloud.collectorz.com site.
  • Fixed:
  • “Document could not be saved” errors.
  • 'Upload Cover to CLZ Cloud' was crashing for some users.
  • Main List / Track View: no tracks displayed when using one of the Classical fields as a folder.
  • Main List / Track View: When selecting some folders, tracks added to a header were not always displayed.
  • Edit screen: Tracks Tab: "Link Music Files” screen was occasionally crashing.
  • User Defined Fields: Fields without field name would crash the app when opening the “Manage User Defined Fields” screen or the edit screen.
  • CLZ Cloud syncing: crashes when uploading cover images.
  • Crashes when converting from v4 databases.

New in Music Collector 12.7.4.2471 (Oct 9, 2014)

  • Fixed for "Add / Link Music Files feature":
  • Accented characters were ignored while parsing iTunes XML file.
  • Notes and Release Years were not always parsed from iTunes XML file
  • Screen was crashing while opening on Snow Leopard.
  • Newly added albums were not found by the Search Field.
  • Improved exception handling while parsing music file metadata.
  • Fixed for templates:
  • Blockz was not showing artists at track level.
  • Metro: (sub)track/disc/header artist was not showing.

New in Music Collector 12.7.3.2464 (Sep 29, 2014)

  • Fixed for "Add / Link Files screen":
  • App crashed on certain files.
  • Improved memory management while scanning folders or iTunes XML file.
  • Cover art didn't always import.
  • Warning for "Existing Album" was showing up too often.
  • Albums with various artists for the tracks were not saving artists at the track level.

New in Music Collector 12.7.2.2463 (Sep 26, 2014)

  • Fixed for "Add / Link Files screen":
  • App crashed on M4A files that didn't have a cover image.
  • Improved memory management.
  • Progress popup was hidden after losing focus.
  • Other fixes:
  • Manage User Defined Fields: adding a user defined field on OSX older than 10.7 would cause a crash

New in Music Collector 12.7.1.2458 (Sep 25, 2014)

  • New: Automatically catalog your music files (MP3, M4A, etc...):
  • Use the new Add/Link Music Files screen (Edit menu) to:
  • Catalog your music files automatically by scanning your folders
  • Let the program scan your computer for digital music files,
  • automatically reading meta information from your file tags and/or filenames.
  • Import an existing iTunes collection
  • Export your iTunes collection to XML, then import the XML into Music Collector.
  • Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, M4A, Flac, OGG Vorbis, MPC, APE, Flac, WMA, WAV, AIF(F), M4R and AC3.
  • Supported tag formats: ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis, WMA and APE.
  • Automatically add the found music files as NEW albums in your database using meta-tag/filename data (including ID3v2 cover images).
  • or: Link the found music files to EXISTING albums in your Music Collector database.
  • Scan all files, or only scan for New Files that haven't been linked to your database yet.
  • Link, Read and Tag files from the Edit Album screen:
  • Link Music Files to track entries by selecting a folder from the Edit Album screen .
  • Update your album or track entries from file tags from the Edit Album/Track screens.
  • Write album or track data to your file tags from the Edit Album/Track screens.
  • New: Batch Update Database from File Tags OR File Tags from Database:
  • Read music file meta-data tags to update your album entries in Music Collector.
  • Update music file meta-data tags using the data from your album entries.
  • Improved Edit Lists screen (Tools menu -> Edit Lists):
  • New: Quick Search:
  • Quickly find the list items you want using the new Quick Search box on the top right.
  • The list instantly filters as you type, no need to hit the Enter key.
  • New: Edit directly in the list screen.
  • Edit item names and other properties directly in the item list screen, no need to open the Edit screen.
  • Use the Edit in List button to switch to "Edit Mode".
  • While in Edit Mode, just click a value in the item list to edit it.
  • Blue columns are editable, greyed out columns are not
  • (for read-only fields like ID and automatically generated values like Sort Name).
  • Exit Edit Mode by clicking the same button again and the screen will refresh to reflect your changes.
  • Fixed for the new User Defined Fields system:
  • Several performance problems caused by the new UDF system.
  • Crashes when closing the Manage UDF screen.
  • Edit Multiple would clear Text and Pick List values.
  • Edit Multiple would not always save correct values for Checkbox List fields.
  • Using reserved XML characters like ‘

New in Music Collector 12.6.1.2426 (Sep 10, 2014)

  • New: Unlimited User Defined Fields (PRO edition only!):
  • Use the new Manage User Defined Field screen (Tools menu) to create your own data fields, of any type, in any order and as many as you want.
  • Add fields as Album Only fields, Track Only field or at both Album and Track level with full value inheritance.
  • All fields you define will appear on their own tab in the Edit Album and Edit Track screens.
  • Define your own "Header" name, which is used as the tab name in the Edit Album screen and as the header in the template.
  • Any existing User Defined fields from the old version will automatically be converted into the new version (only fields that actually contain data).
  • Choose from the following field types:
  • Text
  • Pick List
  • Number (whole)
  • Number (decimals)
  • Checkbox (yes/no)
  • Date
  • Checkbox List
  • User Defined fields work like any other field. You can:
  • Set Default Values.
  • Add them as Columns to your main screen lists.
  • Use them as Sort field.
  • Select Pick List and Multi-Value fields as the Folder field.
  • Search them using the Quick Search feature.
  • View their data under their own header in the Details Panel template.

New in Music Collector 12.5.2.2408 (Jul 29, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Details: Template were occasionally broken by hidden characters inserted in the text fields.
  • Edit Screen: Edit Multiple: "Vinyl Weight" and “Quantity" fields were not correctly updated.
  • Person entries with ID zero could occur in the database, causing problems when Exporting to CLZ Music.

New in Music Collector 12.5.1.2395 (Jul 17, 2014)

  • New: Full screen mode (on Lion and Mavericks):
  • Now supports the Mac OS X standard Full Screen Mode (introduced in OS X Lion).
  • To expand to full screen, click the arrows in the top-right corner of the app window.
  • To return to standard view, move the pointer to the top-right corner of the screen
  • until the menu bar appears, and then click the arrows.
  • Edit Album: easier adding of Artists, Musicians and Credits:
  • When entering the name of an artist, musician or credit (Songwriter, Producer, Engineer, etc..),
  • the pick list now filters the list using the letters you typed. (as opposed to jumping to the first matching item).
  • This makes the drop down list more useful, as it now only shows a short list of matching items,
  • instead of tens of thousands of person names in a tiny box.
  • On top of that, it avoids having to load the long list of names, making the Edit screen much faster.
  • Performance improvements:
  • New database structure which will slightly improve the performance of most database actions,
  • and, more importantly, will make future database conversions much faster and more stable.
  • However: this new database structure will cause one last slow conversion for this update,
  • which may take up to 15 minutes for large databases. Please do not close the software before it completes!
  • Edit Album screen now opens much faster, especially on large databases with many artists.
  • Fixes:
  • Main Menu: Buy > Unlock Software: If the database window was not open, popup did not show up.

New in Music Collector 12.4.4.2382 (Jun 24, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • App was freezing when switching to the statistics view on Retina Display MacBooks
  • For some users, the previous build was freezing right after starting the program

New in Music Collector 12.4.3.2374 (Jun 10, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Importing from Old V3 databases: crash while importing.
  • Main screen: Edit In list: Date popups were not displaying the correct date.
  • Edit Screen: Vinyl Weight stepper didn't work with values higher than 100.
  • Templates: Links to lyrics of track/subtrack were missing.

New in Music Collector 12.4.2.2368 (Jun 5, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Database conversion from pre-Cobalt.4 databases was hanging (Snow Leopard only).
  • Edit Album: Possible data corruption problems when clicking “Next” and “Previous” buttons extremely quickly.
  • Edit Album: Owner was removed after editing an album.
  • Edit Album: RPM: “33 1/3” fraction is now displayed better.
  • Template: Vinyl Weight appears with a "(null)” value.
  • Template: Custom User Templates were not working.

New in Music Collector 12.4.1.2365 (May 27, 2014)

  • Add Albums Automatically : search Discogs by Catalog Number:
  • Use new "Search by Cat No" tab to add albums by entering their Catalog Number.
  • The best way to add vinyl, because it searches our Discogs mirror by Cat No.
  • Also searches our own own central online CD database by Cat No.
  • Extra vinyl-specific fields:
  • RPM field (choose from: 33 1/3, 45, 78)
  • Vinyl color (pick list field)
  • Vinyl weight (number field)
  • Media condition (pick list field)
  • (existing Condition field is now called "Case/Sleeve Condition")
  • Improved support for classical music:
  • Edit Album: new separate tab "Classical" containing all classical specific fields.
  • Composition field now allows multiple values, at Album, Disc, Header and Track level.
  • Conductor field now allows multiple values, at Album, Disc, Header and Track level.
  • Orchestra field now allows multiple values, at Album, Disc, Header and Track level.
  • Chorus field now allows multiple values, at Album, Disc, Header and Track level.
  • Add Albums Automatically: new Cobalt Compact template for Preview panel:
  • The new Cobalt Compact template has been especially designed for the task at hand:
  • selecting the correct album and edition from the search results.
  • Clearly showing the identifying album information (Artist, Title, full track list).
  • An "edition block" at the top right, with Format, Barcode and Catalog Number.
  • Toggle between Front and Back with the "flip" icon that appears when hovering over the cover image.
  • Responsive design makes the template usable and good looking, whatever the width of your Preview panel is.
  • Available in both Light and Dark styles.
  • Fixed:
  • Update File Links: Crash with when clicking on "Manual"

New in Music Collector 12.3.2.2358 (May 5, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Main Screen: “Confirm remove Album” popup had a layout issue for long Album titles.
  • Main Screen: Fixed several issues with the layout settings.
  • Add Albums Automatically: auto-increment of the Index field wasn’t working correctly.
  • Sync with CLZ Cloud: “Download From CLZ Cloud” button was disabled each time a new database was created.
  • Sync with CLZ Cloud: “Upload Covers”: an new alert notifies when a cover is too big to upload to CLZ Cloud.

New in Music Collector 12.2.3.2290 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Link screen: Edit search Criteria. OK button was unresponsive to Enter keyboard button.
  • Loan Manager: Loaners weren't displayed in the list.
  • Loan Manager: "Loan" button wasn't always enabled.
  • Add Albums Automatically: Formats filter was not working correctly.
  • Edit Track screen: "Credits" were not sorted correctly.

New in Music Collector 12.2.2.2273 (Dec 17, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash when opening Menu Tools > Database Totals.
  • Folders tree: Custom Format icons were not correctly displayed.
  • Tools / Edit Lists: "Used" column for Instruments was not working.
  • Add Albums Automatically screen: sometimes the "Show format" button was disabled.

New in Music Collector 12.1.3.2242 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Track View: Crash when selecting TrackLookup1 as the folder field for the tree panel.
  • Edit screen: Tracks list: when adding a new track, original order value was incorrect.
  • Templates / Image Preview: command + w didn't close the image preview window
  • Templates : "Recording Date" label wasn't following changes in Field Names.

New in Music Collector 12.1.2.2217 (Nov 26, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Add Automatically: Did not warn about albums already in collection
  • (No warning popup was displayed and no blue highlights in search results)
  • After adding, added items were not always automatically selected in the main screen.
  • Disc/Header/Track/Subtrack didn't inherit Release Date & Recording Date from Album.
  • The order of musicians in the musician column didn't follow the order the user set in the Edit Screen.
  • Edit Lists: Compositions for Disc/Header/Track/Subtrack were not counted in the "Used" column.
  • Edit Screen: Submit button was still enabled when in "Edit multiple" mode.
  • Template: Album Index values were displayed incorrectly.

New in Music Collector Cobalt.1 build 1 (Nov 15, 2013)

  • Redesigned Add Albums Automatically Screen:
  • Clearer and nicer looking tabs at the top for switching between By CDID, By Artist/Title and By Barcode.
  • More logical and cleaner layout of buttons and other controls.
  • New: Easier Artist entry in Add Albums Automatically:
  • The Artist entry box in the Add Album Automatically now has a drop-down list
  • including all Artist entries in your existing database.
  • When typing in the box, it now "auto-completes" to any existing entries.
  • New: Format Filter in Add Albums Automatically:
  • Filter the Search Results by Format (e.g. show CDs only or show Vinyl editions only).
  • New: Help improve our central online CD database with Core for Music:
  • Report missing CDs: in Add Albums Automatically, when scanned CD is not found, you are now able to immediately add the CD to our central CD database.
  • After adding it to Core, just repeat your CD-ID search to retrieve the data you entered for your local Music Collector database.
  • (this replaces the old "CD not found, please provide Artist/Title" popup)
  • Report data errors: click the red "Report data error" in Add Automatically to report errors in our central data. Your error reports are queued and processed by our content managers as soon as possible.
  • Submit to Core: choose Submit to Core from the Connect menu or use the button in Edit Album to submit your local data to Core, to improve our central data.
  • Integrated support for our CLZ Barry wireless barcode scanner app:
  • When using CLZ Barry with Music Collector, you don't need the "Buddy for Barry" software anymore.
  • In other words, Buddy is now integrated into Music Collector.
  • Connect with CLZ Barry right from Music Collector's main toolbar
  • and from the Add Albums Automatically screen ("By Barcode" tab).
  • CLZ Barry is available for iPhone, iPad and Android.

New in Music Collector Cobait.0.2 (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Cobalt Templates: Spars values were displayed twice.
  • Cobalt Templates: Artists/Composers with URL links broke the template.
  • Edit in List: Artists order was not preserved.
  • Track View: Artist folders didn't work when track were under headers.
  • Tags statistics were not displayed in the statistics view.
  • Export to CLZ Music: Country field was missing from export.
  • Problems validating License Keys containing zeroes.

New in Music Collector Cobait.0.1 (Nov 6, 2013)

  • New Virtual Shelves look for Images View:
  • The Images View in the main screen, you know, the one that shows the
  • cover image thumbnails, now includes Virtual Shelves.
  • More "Collectorz Blue" look that is more consistent and easier on the eye:
  • New "Collectorz Blue" toolbar and tab-bar icons in various places like the Main screen and Edit Album screen.
  • New: Customizable images for all pick list items:
  • Set your own image for any list item, e.g. for Formats, Languages...
  • Set a 16x16 image that will appear in the tree and list on main screen.
  • Set a larger template image for use in Details Panel templates.
  • Two new templates: Cobalt and Blockz:
  • For the Cobalt version, we created two new templates that bring different layouts,
  • several color styles to choose from and some cool new features:
  • Large front cover image, that "flips" to show the back cover.
  • Click "Show More" / "Show Less" links to expand/collapse data.
  • Cobalt:
  • Cobalt is based on the Music Collector Connect look.
  • It uses a fixed width for the album details (minimum width 700 pixels), with the backdrop image taking up the rest of the space.
  • Blockz:
  • The Blockz template has several brightly colored blocks with your data. .
  • Blockz comes in three styles: Collectorz Colors, Backdrop and the easy-on-the-eye Dark style.
  • New system for License Checks and Check for Updates
  • New Software Unlock system:
  • Previously, unlocking the trial edition into the licensed Standard or Pro edition was done by entering a License Name and License Key into the software. Not anymore!
  • Starting with the Cobalt versions, the only thing you need to do is login to the software with your CLZ Account (if you haven't done so already for cloud syncing). The program will automatically "know" which edition (Standard or Pro) you own.
  • New Check for Updates system:
  • Similarly, the new Cobalt versions will use your CLZ Account to give you a smarter Check for Updates system, showing you exactly which updates you are allowed to install with your current Update Plan, also automatically unlocking them after upgrading/updating.

New in Music Collector 10.3 Build 3 (Sep 4, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Tweaked all out-of-the-box default settings (only relevant for fresh installs).
  • Fixed:
  • Images View: selected thumbnail size wasn't remembered between sessions.
  • Import from XML: Local and Online links weren't imported properly.
  • Edit Album: it wasn't possible to clear the Title field.
  • Several problems related to Musicians and Instruments.

New in Music Collector 10.3 Build 2 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • FIXED: Cover images were not downloaded when adding albums automatically.

New in Music Collector 10.3 Build 1 (Jul 24, 2013)

  • NEW: IMPROVED CLOUD SYNCING FEATURES:
  • Music Collector now comes with FREE CLZ Cloud storage for all users (previously only for PRO edition users, previously called "Connect Sync & Share"):
  • Log in to http://my.clz.com with your CLZ Account (previously called Connect account)to activate your free CLZ Cloud storage subscription for music data.
  • Upload your collection data to the CLZ Cloud to:
  • share it with friends and family
  • sync your data between devices (e.g. to iPhone and iPad) through the CLZ Cloud.
  • have a backup of your data
  • Music Collector now syncs custom images up to and down from the CLZ Cloud / Connect.
  • Downsync now downloads your custom cover images from the CLZ Cloud.
  • Use the "Upload Image" option in the CLZ Cloud menu or right-click menu to force the upload of your own custom cover images.
  • More fields are now synced up to and down from the CLZ Cloud:
  • Quantity
  • Country
  • Catalog Number
  • Label
  • FIXED:
  • Edit Album: cover panels were only partly visible
  • Length of headers wasn't always displayed correctly

New in Music Collector 10.2 Build 3 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Main screen performance problems

New in Music Collector 10.2 Build 2 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Main Screen:
  • Main Table: after removing an item, the next item in the list is now selected.
  • Sorting on "Album Original Release Date" didn't work.
  • Edit Screens:
  • Edit Multiple: it was not possible to set the Rating to 0
  • If any date value was set to 0, the database wasn't saved.
  • Person lists did not follow the Firstname/Lastname settings in Prefs.
  • Discs/Tracks composers were not always saved.
  • Discs/Tracks composers and credits sort order was not saved.
  • Edit Disc/Track: Tabbing through fields wasn't working.
  • Edit Disc/Track: the instrument of the first musician was not correctly displayed.
  • Add Album Manually:
  • When the window was canceled, the index was incremented anyway.
  • Fixed few errors about automatic naming of discs.
  • Connect:
  • Server errors when down-syncing unlinked albums.
  • "Never ask again for these books" setting did not work.
  • The "Update details" log now lists the items as "Artist, Album".
  • Add Albums Automatically:
  • Now remembers Queue / Direct search mode between sessions.
  • Update Albums Automatically
  • In manually created multi-discs albums, not all discs were updated.
  • Export to CLZ Music:
  • Tracks numbers were not exported.
  • Templates:
  • Font size wasn't saved after quitting.
  • Sometimes the font size wasn't correctly increased/decreased.
  • Find Cover: sometimes the images weren't immediately updated.
  • Printing:
  • Last item in the collection wasn't printed.
  • Import/Export:
  • XML Import/Export: Fixed several issues.
  • Links from Old V3 Databases were not imported correctly.
  • Maintenance Tools:
  • "Re-Assing Index fields" didn't work sometimes.

New in Music Collector 10.2 Build 1 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • New:
  • Compatibility with the upcoming CLZ Music 2.0 for iOS.
  • Fixed:
  • Main Screen: Lock statistics button didn't work in all cases.
  • Edit Album: Condition value wasn't always saved properly.
  • Edit Track:
  • Lyrics field wasn't updated properly
  • Adding Musician would add several entries with part of the name.
  • Musician instruments weren't always stored.
  • When adding a Musician with a default Instrument,
  • that Instrument wasn't automatically assigned to the Musician.
  • Edit Composition: Composers were not showing.
  • Connect Sync: Location values didn't sync properly.
  • Import from XML: Musician's First Name wasn't imported.
  • Version 10.1 build 3 (September 28, 2012)
  • Fixed:
  • Main Screen: the top album in the list would be selected,
  • even though the list would show a different one
  • Update Automatically: missing tracks would be added at the end of
  • the track list instead of at the right position
  • Version 10.1 build 2 (September 27, 2012)
  • New:
  • Database Totals screen (Tools menu) view all kinds of statistics about
  • your collection like #albums, total value, etc...
  • Export to Text: Export data to text format (CSV, TSV, etc...),
  • for importing into other programs (like Numbers, Excel, etc...).
  • Choose your own field set, sort order, delimiter and text qualifier.
  • Fixed:
  • Connect Sync:
  • Composers didn't sync properly.
  • Discs didn't sync properly. ( This fix may cause all your Albums to
  • appear as Updates the first time you sync UP to Connect. Just continue
  • the UP sync to correct all your online album and disc entries.)
  • Edit Album:
  • Collection Status could not be changed.
  • Problems when using Composer List screen and its Edit Composer sub-screen.
  • When adding a Musician with a default Instrument,
  • that Instrument wasn't automatically assigned to the Musician.
  • Edit Track:
  • Notes field wouldn't be cleared when using Prev/Next buttons.
  • Main screen:
  • Filters (collection status, search strings) were not applied to folders.
  • Crashes when adding some date fields as a column to track lists.
  • Moving discs from one album to another could crash the program.
  • When sorting on Title column the Sort Title wasn't used.
  • Sometimes Edit Album didn't work for a selected album in the tree.
  • Add Automatically:
  • When adding an album, the Sort Title wasn't auto-filled.

New in Music Collector 10.2 Build 3 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • Fixed: Main screen performance problems (introduced in 10.2 build 2)

New in Music Collector 10.2 Build 2 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Main Screen:
  • Main Table: after removing an item, the next item in the list is now selected.
  • Sorting on "Album Original Release Date" didn't work.
  • Edit Screens:
  • Edit Multiple: it was not possible to set the Rating to 0
  • If any date value was set to 0, the database wasn't saved.
  • Person lists did not follow the Firstname/Lastname settings in Prefs.
  • Discs/Tracks composers were not always saved.
  • Discs/Tracks composers and credits sort order was not saved.
  • Edit Disc/Track: Tabbing through fields wasn't working.
  • Edit Disc/Track: the instrument of the first musician was not correctly displayed.
  • Add Album Manually:
  • When the window was canceled, the index was incremented anyway.
  • Fixed few errors about automatic naming of discs.
  • Connect:
  • Server errors when down-syncing unlinked albums.
  • "Never ask again for these books" setting did not work.
  • The "Update details" log now lists the items as "Artist, Album".
  • Add Albums Automatically:
  • Now remembers Queue / Direct search mode between sessions.
  • Update Albums Automatically:
  • In manually created multi-discs albums, not all discs were updated.
  • Export to CLZ Music:
  • Tracks numbers were not exported.
  • Templates:
  • Font size wasn't saved after quitting.
  • Sometimes the font size wasn't correctly increased/decreased.
  • Find Cover: sometimes the images weren't immediately updated.
  • Printing:
  • Last item in the collection wasn't printed.
  • Import/Export:
  • XML Import/Export: Fixed several issues.
  • Links from Old V3 Databases were not imported correctly.
  • Maintenance Tools:
  • "Re-Assing Index fields" didn't work sometimes.

New in Music Collector 10.2 Build 1 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • New:
  • Compatibility with the upcoming CLZ Music 2.0 for iOS.
  • Fixed:
  • Main Screen: Lock statistics button didn't work in all cases.
  • Edit Album: Condition value wasn't always saved properly.
  • Edit Track:
  • Lyrics field wasn't updated properly
  • Adding Musician would add several entries with part of the name.
  • Musician instruments weren't always stored.
  • When adding a Musician with a default Instrument, that Instrument wasn't automatically assigned to the Musician.
  • Edit Composition: Composers were not showing.
  • Connect Sync: Location values didn't sync properly.
  • Import from XML: Musician's First Name wasn't imported.

New in Music Collector 10.1 Build 3 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Main Screen: the top album in the list would be selected, even though the list would show a different one
  • Update Automatically: missing tracks would be added at the end of the track list instead of at the right position

New in Music Collector 10.1 Build 2 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • New:
  • Database Totals screen (Tools menu) - view all kinds of statistics about your collection like #albums, total value, etc...
  • Export to Text: Export data to text format (CSV, TSV, etc...), for importing into other programs (like Numbers, Excel, etc...). Choose your own field set, sort order, delimiter and text qualifier.
  • Fixed:
  • Connect Sync:
  • Composers didn't sync properly.
  • Discs didn't sync properly. ( This fix may cause all your Albums to appear as Updates the first time you sync UP to Connect. Just continue the UP sync to correct all your online album and disc entries.)
  • Edit Album:
  • Collection Status could not be changed.
  • Problems when using Composer List screen and its Edit Composer sub-screen.
  • When adding a Musician with a default Instrument, that Instrument wasn't automatically assigned to the Musician.
  • Edit Track:
  • Notes field wouldn't be cleared when using Prev/Next buttons.
  • Main screen:
  • Filters (collection status, search strings) were not applied to folders.
  • Crashes when adding some date fields as a column to track lists.
  • Moving discs from one album to another could crash the program.
  • When sorting on Title column the Sort Title wasn't used.
  • Sometimes Edit Album didn't work for a selected album in the tree.
  • Add Automatically:
  • When adding an album, the Sort Title wasn't auto-filled.

New in Music Collector 10.1 Build 1 (Aug 27, 2012)

  • New:
  • Edit Album screen
  • Working in the Edit Album screen is now faster, especially in Edit Multiple mode.
  • Opening the Edit Multiple screen is much faster, especially when editing many albums in one go.
  • New Edit Item buttons next to all drop-down selectors (e.g. Label, Format), to edit the spelling of an item (as opposed to creating a new entry).
  • Fixed:
  • Edit Album:
  • Label field didn't autocomplete when typing.
  • Disc Index was given wrong value when adding discs manually.
  • Editing an album could create blank entries in lookup lists.
  • Tracks tab: Edit Multiple tracks didn't work.
  • Update Automatically:
  • Index field was reset to zero
  • Original Release Year was overwritten
  • Discs and Tracks didn't always update properly
  • Foldering on tags wouldn't show albums or tracks in the folders
  • Import from XML (when importing from Windows):
  • Importing into a new database would crash the program after the import finished
  • AlbumLookup1 and AlbumLookup2 imported every value double (valuevalue instead of value)
  • Order of discs in multi-disc albums wasn't retained properly
  • Prices for some currencies weren't imported correctly.
  • URLs of artists, credits, etc. weren't imported
  • Sync to Connect:
  • Duplicated albums wouldn't sync up to Connect.
  • "Invalid XML" errors when syncing.
  • Sort Title and unlinked discs would cause mismatches
  • Disc Index wasn't syncing to Connect
  • Templates:
  • Spars value was showing double in compact template
  • Artist links weren't inserted in template
  • Link Albums:
  • Results can now be sorted by clicking the columns
  • Main Screen:
  • Sometimes selecting a disc, track or subtrack in the tree would crash the program.
  • Date columns weren't displaying when partially filled in.
  • When creating a new database while in folder mode the program would crash.
  • Details View: when clicking some local links they would not open.
  • When editing an album from a tree folder, the details view wasn't refreshed.
  • "target = '_blank'" links in Details View didn't work.
  • Showing folders or statistics for Credits wasn't possible.
  • clicking local image link would open a "failed to open page" web page in browser.
  • Tree didn't always show headers and tracks in the right order.
  • Track view wasn't showing tracks that were belonging to a header.
  • searching in track view would show all tracks of an album instead of just the tracks where the search string was found.
  • sometimes Edit Track would open the edit screen for the wrong track.
  • Find Cover Image: sometimes the checkboxes at the bottom weren't
  • adding/removing their value to the search terms.

New in Music Collector 10.0 Build 2 (Jun 18, 2012)

  • Added:
  • It's now possible to drag and drop discs between albums in the tree
  • Fixed:
  • Import from V3 database: import errors when database had albums with faulty track structures probably due to old v1, v2 or v3 bug.
  • Album length wasn't displaying correct value
  • Dates didn't show and sort in a consistent way
  • Notes weren't showing HTML properly
  • Edit Album: column sizes of track table weren't restored
  • Main screen:
  • Composers were sorted by first name instead of last name.
  • Folder [None] wasn't always on top of the list

New in Music Collector 10.0 Build 1 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • NEW: FIND COVER IMAGE SCREEN, FIND MISSING COVERS ONLINE USING GOOGLE IMAGES
  • Find missing cover images online (using Google Images) and add them to your database with just a few clicks.
  • Built-in Crop tool to remove unwanted borders.
  • Get to the Find Cover Image screen :
  • by clicking the new "No Cover" placeholder image in Details View
  • right from Preview in the Add Albums Automatically screen, when no cover is found in the Collectorz.com online music database.
  • from the right-click menu on any album entry in the main screen
  • from the Images tab in the Edit Album screen
  • RE-DESIGNED LOAN MANAGER:
  • Complete re-design of the Loan Manager screen:
  • Two panel design with separate Outstanding Loans and Loan History panels.
  • The new Loan Manager is now the central place to return *andloan CDs. Use the switch at the top to switch between separate Loan and Return modes.
  • Over-due CDs are clearly indicated at the top and in red.
  • Improved barcode scanner support:
  • Scanners can now be used to return and loan CDs.
  • Batch scanning support (e.g. with the OPN-2001, or CLZ Barry).
  • Automatic overdue notifications when starting Music Collector.
  • NEW: SUPPORT FOR CD BOX SETS:
  • Use the Box Set field to combine multiple CDs in a Box Set group.
  • Add additional information at the Box Set level, e.g. set a box set image, barcode, notes, purchase date, condition, etc...
  • Box Set information will show up in the special box set panel at the top of the new Details View templates.
  • NEW: BACKDROP SUPPORT:
  • Set Backdrop images (manually) in the Edit Album screen. Use the Find Backdrop Online screen to easily find suitable background images.
  • New setting in Tools / Options / Images to automatically use the front cover as the backdrop in the Details Panel when no specific Backdrop is set.
  • Backdrop images are used as the background in the new V10 template.
  • NEW: COVER FLOW VIEW:
  • The Cover Flow is a 3rd viewing option, next to List and Images.
  • Browse through your albums by cover image, in a cool looking 3D image browser.
  • NEW: COLLECTION STATISTICS (PIE AND BAR CHARTS) INTEGRATED IN MAIN SCREEN:
  • Switch the lower right part of the screen between album details and collection statistics.
  • View collection statistics based on the current Folder field (e.g. by Artist, by Genre).
  • Switch between Bar Chart or Pie Chart.
  • Order bars/pie parts by names or by values.
  • IMPROVED WISH LIST FUNCTIONALITY:
  • Quickly check your Wish List using tabs at the bottom of the main screen.
  • Add albums to your Wish List right from the Add Albums Automatically screen.
  • Right click an album to "Move to Wish List" / "Move to Collection".
  • Edit Album: clearer separation of Collection Status values into "Collection" and "Wish List" groups.
  • Updated terminology for the Collection Status values.
  • Revamped icons for all Collection Status values.
  • SAVE YOUR OWN FIELD SETS FOR COLUMNS, SORT ORDER AND FOLDERS:
  • Columns: Create and save your own column sets for the list panel.
  • Sort Orders: Create and save your own multi-field sort orders for the list.
  • Folders: Create and save your own single or multi-level folder combination for the tree panel.
  • Easily switch between the save field sets using the drop down menus of the Columns, Sort and Folder buttons.
  • NEW: AUTOMATIC CAPITALIZATION OF ALBUM TITLES:
  • Have Titles AutoCapped when adding albums automatically.
  • Have Titles AutoCapped as you type.
  • Or, just click the AutoCap button in the Edit Album screen.
  • Select your AutoCap Method in the Preferences screen. Choose from: UPPER CASE, lower case, First letter only, First letter only with exceptions, First Letter Of Each Word, First Letter of Each Word with Exceptions
  • Define your own Exceptions List (words you don't want capitalized).
  • NEW: AUTOMATIC SORT TITLES:
  • Have the Title Sort field filled in automatically when adding albums.
  • Or just click the Generate Sort Title button in the Edit Album screen.
  • Define your own list of recognized articles for Sort Title generation.
  • IMPROVED ADD ALBUMS AUTOMATICALLY SCREEN:
  • The 3 different Add methods (by CD-ID, by Artist/Title and by Barcode) are now split over 3 tabs, resulting in a cleaner and simpler layout.
  • Improved Layout of Edit Album screen
  • Clearer separation of album data, edition-specific data and personal data
  • The main personal fields (status, index, quantity, rating) are now in a "sticky" panel at the bottom, which is available on all tabs.
  • MULTIPLE MAIN SCREEN LAYOUT OPTIONS:
  • Choose from 6 different layout options for the main screen: Horizontal Split, Vertical Split, Full Width Details, Full Height Tree, Full Height Details, Classic Layout.
  • NEW: RE-DESIGNED TOOLBAR ICONS AND BUTTONS:
  • Re-designed toolbar icons
  • New buttons in the Preferences screen
  • New V10 templates for Details View and Add Auto Preview
  • New Box Set panel at the top showing box level information (see above)
  • V10 template is available in 8 styles: Blue, Black, White and Orange, all with Micky or Logo background

New in Music Collector 3.5 Build 5 (Jul 1, 2011)

  • Crash when choosing edit album while selecting an expanded album in the tree

New in Music Collector 3.5 Build 4 (May 25, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • Synching to Connect: ability to check/uncheck multiple intended changes at once
  • Fixed:
  • Synching to Connect: reports "Changes processed successfully" while changes are not made in Connect
  • Synching to Connect: report window shows only deletions

New in Music Collector 3.5.1 (Oct 20, 2010)

  • New: Synchronize with Music Collector Connect:
  • What is Music Collector Connect?
  • See http://connect.collectorz.com/music
  • Use the new Connect / Synchronize menu to upload your collection to Music Collector Connect and host your collection on Collectorz.com servers
  • Then share your collection with friends, by just giving them a web-link
  • Browse your online collection from any online mobile device,
  • including iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, Nokia phones, PDAs, etc..
  • Manage your collection (add or edit albums) using just a web-browser, from any Windows, Mac or Linux computer.
  • Download changes you made online back to your local Music Collector database.
  • Sign up for a trial account here:
  • http://connect.collectorz.com/music/freetrial
  • Improved: Export to CLZ Music:
  • Now supports CLZ Music HD app for iPad (app coming soon)
  • Now supports CLZ Music app for Android (app coming soon)
  • New: Export to File option, for transferring data to the mobile app over USB.
  • (Currently only supported in the iPad and Android apps. Of course, the upcoming update for the CLZ Music iPhone app will support it too).

New in Music Collector 3.4.2 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • Add Albums Automatically:
  • New pop-up for failed barcode searches, requesting the full Artist and Title
  • information for our online database. Help us recognize more barcodes.
  • Search Settings: new "Include Links" setting to select which web-links
  • you want included in your album entries (select from five Amazon sites)
  • New "Format" column for search results
  • It is now possible to add multiple queue entries as a multi-disc album
  • Fixed: In some cases it was not possible to sort the search results
  • Fixed: Edit Track and Edit Multiple Tracks commands has disappeared.

New in Music Collector 3.4.1 (Mar 15, 2010)

  • Improved Add Albums Automatically screen:
  • The new screen makes it much easier and quicker to add albums, and thus
  • replaces both the Wizard and Advanced Mode screen: Just search,
  • select the best result from the list (usually at the top), then click Add.
  • Hide / Show Search Queue button to switch between "Search Now"
  • and "Add to Queue" mode.
  • Select and add multiple results from one search result.
  • (e.g.: search for "Metallica", select 5 CDs and click Add to "Add 'Em All").
  • Edit searches in Queue with new Edit Search Criteria screen (right-click
  • menu). This replaces the confusing Update in Queue system.
  • New "Add Anyway" button to add an album anyway when no results are found,
  • automatically using the Barcode or Artist, Title you already entered.
  • New multi-column Search Results panel, with separate Artist, Title,
  • #Tracks and Cover Yes/No columns.
  • Search by barcode or TOC: after searching, the top (and best) search result
  • is now automatically selected, checked and shown in the Preview Panel,
  • so you only have to hit Add Checked to add the album to your database.
  • Queue Mode: You can now double-click a queue entry to "Search Selected"
  • Search Queue can now be sorted by clicking the column headers
  • New option to download genre data Yes/No
  • Installation:
  • Simpler installation: just drag the app to the Applications folder.
  • This also fixes the folder permission problems that many users have run into.
  • Edit Album, new keyboard shortcuts:
  • Press CMD + [ to edit the previous item
  • Press CMD + ] to edit the next item
  • Templates:
  • New Compact template
  • Fixed:
  • Add Sub Track now says "Add Sub Track" instead of "Add Header"

New in Music Collector 3.3 Build 2 (Nov 21, 2009)

  • Installation:
  • Music Collector is now installed in /Applications instead of ~/Desktop.
  • Need administrator credentials to install in /Applications folder.
  • Fixed:
  • Export to iPhone/iPod Touch: Frozen report window with OSX 10.4.
  • No track length and artist when importing from XML.
  • Merging credits didn't work.
  • Scanning with OPR 3201 jumped to main screen.

New in Music Collector 3.3 Build 1 (Oct 7, 2009)

  • Export to Clz Music for iPhone / iPod Touch:
  • Support for Clz Music 1.1
  • New "Update" option, for exporting updates only (as opposed to exporting the entire database every time)
  • New "Intended Changes" screen for viewing and selecting updates.
  • Extra exported data:
  • Catalog number
  • Notes

New in Music Collector 3.2 Build 1 (Sep 3, 2009)

  • Snow Leopard compatible.

New in Music Collector 3.1.3 (Aug 19, 2009)

  • Fixed: Amazon searches.
  • Fixed: Upgrade V2 database to V3 database.

New in Music Collector 3.1.1 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Export to iPhone / iPod Touch
  • Browse your music collection on your iPhone or iPod Touch with the new Clz Music app
  • Available in Apple AppStore for $9.99 (search the AppStore for "clz music")
  • Use File | Export to iPhone / iPod Touch to transfer your data to the Clz Music app (Requires Wi-Fi connection on your iPhone or iPod Touch, connecting to the same local network (LAN) that your Windows computer is in.)

New in Music Collector 3.0.1 (Jan 6, 2009)

  • Database Changes:
  • Improved support for classical music.
  • Artist/Composer field separated into two fields Artist and Composer.
  • New field: Composition.
  • New field: Chorus.
  • New field: Subtitle.
  • New field: Original Release Date.
  • New field: Tags, for adding free-form key phrases to Albums.
  • New In Collection Status value 'On Order'.
  • Main screen:
  • More polished and space efficient layout.
  • Artists now appear in the order in which they are listed in the edit panels.
  • Title sorting takes numbers into account ('album 9' sorts ascending before before 'album 10').
  • Better key binding: Apple-F focusses the toolbar search field, if possible.
  • Edit Screens:
  • Improved layout of all edit screens, for Albums, Discs, Headers, and Tracks.
  • Album screen: High quality artwork is now shown at its optimal size.
  • Album screen: Better scrolling in the tracks table.
  • Track Screen: Lookup items can now be edited directly.
  • More streamlined editing of Lookup items, especially for musicians.
  • Add Albums Automatically:
  • Better results when searching on Amazon US, especially when using multiple keywords.
  • Improved default values for newly added items.
  • Templates:
  • Improved listing of Musicians, Credits and Details.
  • Per disc track numbering.
  • Improved Barcode Scanner support:
  • Added support for the new Opticon OPN 2001 pocket barcode scanner.
  • Improved support for the CueCat scanner.
  • Other changes:
  • Currency formatting now uses correct format (. or ,) for the local currency.
  • Automatic backup creation when upgrading the database to a new version.
  • Better support for case sensitive file systems. (HFS+ Case Sensitive).
  • Improved checks for submitting album information to Collectorz.com.

New in Music Collector 2.1.2 (Apr 16, 2008)

  • Added: Amazon UK can now be searched on by using barcodes
  • new lookup list entries did not retain their values in the edit screens.
  • incremental search in list view was not working properly / consistently
  • Lyrics- and Audio file-links from tracks were not handled correctly when clicked on in the details view.
  • track artists were showing in a (too)large fontsize in the new templates
  • new templates allowed collection status symbol to be "dragged and dropped" as an image.
  • 'Buy Pro version' button did not use standard license information to upgrade from

New in Music Collector 2.1.1 (Apr 9, 2008)

  • New Music Collector templates, in 4 different styles (Blue, Black, Grey and iTunes)
  • Completely revised Music Collector manual
  • Help buttons on all screens to access the relevant manual section
  • Getting started option on first start
  • Better handling of Cuecat barcode scanner
  • New improved toolbar look and layout. Note: existing users will have to adjust the toolbar, choosing the menu "view | customize toolbar" and drag the new default set to the toolbar.
  • Fixed: drag and drop of images to edit screen was not working
  • Fixed: forward slash in cover name caused cover not to show
  • Fixed: canceling currency conversion screen made Music Collector unresponsive
  • Fixed: loan manager did not show dates after selecting from calendar under Leopard