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Förändringar v11.0.6 -> v11.0.7

• Fixed:
• Import from MP3 collector would cause index out of bounds.
• Notes weren't always correctly read from MP3 tags.
• Options: it wasn't possible to change the User Files Folder using the browse button.
• Edit album/track: adding a new musician would sometimes clear the instrument of the previous musician in the list.
• Track View: length of selected tracks was showing total album lengths instead of individual tracks
• Main Screen:
• It was only possible to drag and drop multiple albums when dragging the top one of the selection.
• Edit Multiple Tracks didn't refresh the tree in 2 panel mode.
• Selection status in the status bar at the bottom would sometimes show wrong or no information.
• Export to text: exported file was UTF8-encoded instead of Unicode.

Förändringar v11.0.4 -> v11.0.6

• Fixed:
• Add Automatically: "Add To Queue" button didn't work
• CLZ Cloud account info (username/password) was not remembered correctly.
• Virtual Shelves View: tweaked the size of thumbnails to make their heights consistent. (requires the re-generation of thumbnails, done automatically on start-up)
• Templates:
• Track list and Artist wasn't always showing nicely when composer was also filled in.
• Conductor, Orchestra and Chorus were not showing
• Import from other Collection: Compositions could be merged when names were identical.
• Edit track/album:
• Musicians with empty names or instruments could be repeated from the previous musician.
• Edit Track:
• Entering a new musician's name, then editing it right away wouldn't save the new value.

Förändringar v11.0.3 -> v11.0.4

• Fixed:
• Edit Album/Track:
• Editing an Artist or Composer by typing in the combo box wouldn't save the value.
• Dropdown boxes in Artist, Composer, Musicians and Credits grids could become very wide.
• Track View: an Access Violation could occur after editing a track using "Edit Album".
• Autocomplete didn't work for some field (Conductor, Composer in Composition screen)
• Track: Invalid Class Typecast error would when using "next" or "previous"
• Track: Remove credit wasn't immediately enabled after adding a credit.
• Edit Multiple:
• F8 didn't change the color for the Artist, Composer, Musicians and Credits boxes
• Add/remove author buttons were not disabled after F8 in the Artist box. Same goes for Composer, Musicians and Credits
• Tracks: No changes were made to the Genre field after checking/unchecking genres
• Templates: Credits "show more" didn't show more of the same credit role.
• Main Screen: "Submit Album To Core" button was disabled in Image View and Cover Flow
• Export to CLZMusic: Catalog Number wasn't exported.
• Update file tags from database: iTunes couldn't load the cover image from tags.

Förändringar v10.3.2 -> v11.0.3

• Fixed:
• Add Music Files: Import from iTunes XML didn't work
• Export: It wasn't possible to print or export selected tracks in Track View.
• Edit Album:
• Adding a disc would cause an access violation.
• Newly added musician or instrument would not show up when added with the ... button
• Main Screen: the main list wouldn't refresh after "edit track".
• Templates:
• a Format without image would appear twice in the Metro template.
• Purchase Store and Purchase Price were displayed twice.
• Printing: printing a list wouldn't take the font size in account.
• Fixed:
• When converting a v10 database, the last name of some artists could disappear.
• The styles of the Vee Ten template appeared under the Vee Eleven template too
• Full Unicode support
• Music Collector 11 now correctly handles special characters for non-English
• languages, like Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc..
• Enter, copy/past or download special characters in any text field.
• Special characters display correctly everywhere (tree, list, details ...).
• Correctly export texts in any character set to Connect and the CLZ Music app.
• Correctly read and write special characters to and from music file tags.
• Mix characters sets (e.g. Hebrew + Russian) in 1 database without problems.
• Use special characters for field names, saved fields, etc...
• 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.
• Choose from 5 different looks:
• Classic (No shelves)
• Wood Light
• Wood Dark
• Metal
• Glass
• Improved toolbars and new "Collectorz Blue" icons everywhere
• Improved placement of many main screen toolbar elements:
• Big Search Box on the top right of the main toolbar,
• with built-in "x" button to clear the box and return to "all albums".
• Columns and Sort Order buttons are now located above the album list panel.
• List / Images / Cover Flow tab-bar has been moved to the right.
• Screen Layout selector is now at the bottom of the screen.
• Folder Field selector is now a "real" button right above the folder panel.
• New "A-Z / Z-A" button to toggle the order of folders in the folder panel. New "Collectorz Blue" look that is more consistent and easier on the eye:
• New "Collectorz Blue" toolbar and tab-bar icons everywhere! Main screen toolbar, menus, Edit Album, Edit Lists, etc...
• New "Collectorz Blue" folder icons in Folder Panel.
• Cleaner default toolbar with just the main database features. (of course you can still customize your toolbar to have any icons you want)
• Two new templates: Vee Eleven and Metro
• For version 11, 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.
• Fixed length Musicians and Credits lists for a cleaner layout.
• Click "Show More" / "Show Less" links to expand/collapse full lists.
• Redesigned track lists with more track details expanding after a click.
• More intuitive behaviour of the main screen's tree and list panels
• The "tree panel" has become the Folder Panel. This Folder Panel now always shows folders, and folders *only*.
• The "list panel" on the right is now the Album List Panel. This Album List Panel always shows a list of *albums*, never folders. Advantages:
• No more situations where the left and right panels show the same list.
• The Images and Cover Flow view always show *album cover images* Which is what they are for. No more big ugly folder icons.
• Selecting album(s) is *always* done in the Album List Panel. No more confusion about actions behaving differently depending on wether an album has been selected in the tree or the list.
• Use the Folder Panel to *filter* the album list in the Album List Panel. E.g. select the Coldplay folder to make the Album List show your Coldplay albums.
• Click the root/top folder to show *all* album. Select the top item in the folder tree to make the Album Panel show all albums in your collection. No need to switch to No Folders mode.
• No Folders Mode? Then no Folder Panel. Don't want to use folders? No problem, switch to No Folders mode and the Folder Panel will disappear, resulting in a nice "Classic Mode" view.
• New Two Panel Layouts, with merged Folder and Album Panels.
• Two new optional layouts, with just 2 panels instead of 3:
• Only two panels: Album List and Album Details, no Folder Panel.
• Folders are "integrated" into the Album List as extra folder rows.
• The Two Panel Layout is available in Horizontal and Vertical versions.
• New Breadcrumb Bar at the top of the main screen:
• Track where you are in your database and what the current selection is.
• Quickly navigate up to higher folder levels or the "all albums" list.
• New: Edit directly in the main screen album list
• Easily make quick chances to your album entries, right in the main screen list. No need to open the Edit Album screen.
• Use the Edit in List button (top right) to switch to "Edit Mode".
• While in Edit Mode, just click a value in the album list to edit it.
• Blue columns are editable, greyed out columns are not (for read-only fields like ID, Nr of Tracks, etc..)
• Directly edit text fields (like Title), choose from a dropdown for picklist fields (like Format), use a checklist for multi-value fields (like Artist and Genre) or pick a date from a calendar for date fields.
• Exit Edit Mode by clicking the same button again and the screen will refresh to reflect your changes (for instance, albums may move to a different folder when changing Artists, Genre, Formats, etc...)
• New: 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. More information: http://www.clz.com/barry/
• Improved batch-editing of "checkbox list" fields (like Genre, Studio, Extras, etc..)
• Now use Edit Multiple to *add* a Genre/Studio value to all selected albums. Just check the value's checkbox, leaving other checkboxes as "Leave as is".
• Also, remove Genre/Studio values from multiple albums, without touching other values. This is done by unchecking a value, leaving all others in "Leave as is" state.
• New: Settings to control the main screen's "After Edit" behaviour
• Choose from:
• After Editing, follow the edited album. This will keep the edited album selected, even if the edit caused the album to move to a different folder (default behaviour).
• After Editing, stay in the same folder. If this is selected, the selection will always stay in the same folder that you were in before the Edit action.
• New for Music Files: Update Database from File Tags If you like to manage your music file meta tags using 3rd party software, this new command lets you periodically update your Music Collector database from these file tags. ( the command to do the reverse was already available )
• New: Import from XML
• This feature imports the XML format that is created by the Export to XML feature.
• Export your data to an XML file.
• Perform large or advanced modifications using 3rd party tools.
• Import your data back into Music Collector with the new Import from XML feature.
• WARNING: only use this feature if you know what you're doing. When in doubt, create a NEW empty Music Collector database first and import into that one.
• Artist, Composer and Conductor fields now also use the shared "Person List" The shared person list was previously only used for all credits and musicians. Now the Artist, Composer and Conductor fields also share the same picklist.

Förändringar v10.2.1 -> v10.3.2

• FIXED: Submit to Core menus and buttons were always disabled.
• 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.
• pload 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
• (CLZ Music for iOS will be updated soon with the same changes, so that you can sync all of the above fields, plus custom images, to your iPhone and iPad)
• Fixed:
• Track level comments were not read properly and promoted to album level when the track comments were exactly the same for all tracks.
• Just linking an album wouldn't link the disc

Förändringar v10.1.3 -> v10.2.1

• New:
• Compatibility with the upcoming CLZ Music 2.0 for iOS.
• Fixed:
• Add Album Automatically / Core: when barcode not found, the "Report to Core" button didn't take you to Core.
• Updating a multi-disc album would sometimes cause duplicate discs.
• Adding/Editing Composition: blank popup when warning about adding a duplicate.

Förändringar v10.1.2 -> v10.1.3

• Fixed:
• Add/Link Albums: "Index out of bounds" errors when adding or updating albums.
• Sync up to Connect: Sort Title was never uploaded.
• Submit to Core: When one of the discs in an album could not be submitted, the program refused to submit the entire album.

Förändringar v10.0.3 -> v10.1.1

• New: Help improve our central online CD database with Collectorz.com Core
• 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. this replace the old "Edit / Submit to Collectorz.com" feature).
• Improved handling of Comments/Notes data in MP3 files
• Now supports ID3v2 comments in Unicode format (both UTF-8 and UTF-16)
• Track level comments are now automatically promoted to album level when the track comments are exactly the same for all tracks.
• Fixed:
• Add Albums Automatically: Add All only added selected search.

Förändringar v10.0.2 -> v10.0.3

• Problem generating playlists for tracks that are "inside" headers.
• Add Automatically:
• After filling in artist and title, then switching to barcode it wasn't possible to add or search barcodes any more.
• After filling in the "Barcode not found popup" a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error appeared.
• Various automatic "active entry box" issues.
• Last used tab wasn't correctly saved and restored.
• Add/Link Music Files
• Import from iTunes: some files with more than one escaped characters (like '&') in the filepath failed to import.
• Update File Links: Local File type was missing from File Type dropdown.
• Options / Images: Folder option for list item images was missing.

Förändringar v10 Build 1 -> v10.0.2

• Added:
• 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.
• Fixed:
• Add/Link Music Files:
• Import from iTunes Library: Range check error with large xml files
• Linking music files to an existing album could overwrite track data
• Details View:
• Backdrops with a single quote (') in the filepath wouldn't show
• Uses full front cover image now instead of thumbnail image, resulting in a sharper cover image.
• Cover Flow:
• Right click context menu was missing
• Double clicking a track would cause a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error
• Format icons: icons for digital files formats like flac, mp3, etc. weren't resolved properly on startup
• Add Automatically: focus for "by CD ID" tab wasn't restored when reopening.

Förändringar v9.3.3 -> v10 Build 1

• Improved Add/Link Music Files screen
• New tab "Import iTunes XML": an alternative for scanning folders. Export your iTunes Library to XML, including all meta data and import it directly. Afterwards, you can use the same Adding/Linking capabilities to add/link the found music files to your Music Collector database.
• Improved Scan Folder tab: scanning your music folders for *newfiles (files not linked to your database yet), is now *muchfaster.
• When linking music files to existing albums, it now uses all available meta-tag information, plus it fills all applicable album level fields.
• Improved Update File Links screen
• Update/repair your file links (e.g. after moving files) with the redesigned Update File Links screen (in Tools / Maintenance)
• Simplified user interface, just use either the Automatic or the Manual button to indicate the new file locations, then click Update to "make it so".
• The "Automatic" system is now more intelligent in dealing with non-unique filenames. It now also uses the containing folder names for matching.
• New "Manual" method for just replacing the old base folder with a new one.
• New "File Type" filter
• New: Cover Flow view
• The Cover Flow is a 3rd viewing option in the main screen, next to List and Images.
• Browse through your books by cover image, in a cool looking 3D image browser.
• New: Backdrop support
• Set Backdrop images (manually) in the Edit Album screen. Use the Find Backdrop Online screen to easily find suitable background images.
• Backdrop images are used as the background in the new V10 template.
• New: Format and Country icons, plus customizable images for other list items.
• Set your own image for any list item, e.g. for Genres, Artists...
• Set a 16x16 image that will appear in the tree and list on main screen.
• Set a larger template image for use in Details View templates.
• Music Collector now comes with many included pick list images that are automatically used in the tree, list and Details Panel templates, for:
• Formats
• Countries
• 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 books 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, Flic 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.
• 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.
• When using Add Anyway, the CD Scan result is used for the created album.
• When using Edit Search Criteria, the CD Scan results are now preserved.
• Improved Edit Album screen
• Better layout:
• The main personal fields (status, index, quantity, rating) are now in a "sticky" panel at the bottom, which is available on all tabs.
• Wider entry boxes for Composition, Conductor, Orchestra and Chorus.
• New calendar tool for easier entry of date fields, plus an easy button to set a date field to today's date.
• New V10 templates for Details View and Add Auto Preview
• Formats and Countries are now shown with images (see above)
• 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 Kacey or Logo background
• Main screen: After editing an item, the list's scroll position is now restored exactly to where it was before the edit action.
• New startup "splash" screen featuring Kacey

Förändringar v9.3.2 -> v9.3.3

• Templates: Tracks below headers couldn't be played from the details view
• Fast mouse clicks in the main screen could hang the program
• Details view template: track position was at wrong location
• Synchronize with Music Collector Connect: albums with multiple artists could falsely cause mismatches
• Invalid characters in XML could cause export to CLZ Music to fail

Förändringar v9.3.1 -> v9.3.2

• Added:
• New installer system
• CD Trustee Import: Artist First Name, Artist Last Name and Artist The fields are now imported. When all are empty the Artist Sort Name will be imported.
• Fixed:
• It wasn't possible to play a header audio file
• Some audio file links weren't properly exported

Förändringar v9.2.5 -> v9.2.6

• Main Screen Stats:
• 3D View of stats view wasn't showing properly
• Switching between track view and album view wasn't regenerating the stats
• Synchronize with Music Collector Connect: some user databases resulted in "Format '%d' incompatible with argument" errors.
• Templates:
• Images header was too small

Förändringar v9.2.3 -> v9.2.5

• Fixed:
• A debug version was released instead of a release version causing errors like "cannot create d:\test2.html"
• Pie Charts: Several changes to avoid overlapping labels
• Cosmetic: one line labels, longer label "legs", smaller margins, etc..
• Grouping: Pie parts smaller than 3% are now added to the "Other" pie part
• Export to CLZ Music mobile apps:
• Better error handling for exporting over Wi-Fi
• Included direct FAQ links for each specific problem that may occur
• Sync with Connect:
• New: "Update Details" button that pops up a report of the reasons why entries are listed as Updates. This should help to resolve problems with entries that keep popping up as Updates.
• Fixed:
• Details View: Link to lyrics file wasn't working

Förändringar v9.2.2 -> v9.2.3

• Improved: Stats in main screen
• "Pie Chart" and "Bar Chart" tabs are now integrated into one "Statistics" tab.
• New: Lock button to lock tab to "Details" (for users who don't like the stats).
• Statistics screen is now fully integrated in main screen, including all view settings (field selection, pie/bar, sorting, color style, 3D, print).
• New: Lock button to lock field and pie/bar to your favorite settings.
• "old" Tools / Statistics screen is replaced by Tools / Database Totals.
• Fixed:
• Edit Album / Track List did not adhere to font size changes.
• Field lists: Two rating fields were showing
• Edit Multiple: editing multiple albums would always clear the rating
• Templates:
• Right click menu in details view was missing "Find Cover" option
• Playing a disc in a multi-disc album would always play the first disc
• Some layout issues with the compact classic template
• Add Automatically:
• Scanning in multi-disc albums could result in "Already in queue" message
• Find Cover: Selected cover image wouldn't show in Preview panel
• The space bar can now be used to check or uncheck a result
• Synchronize with Music Collector Connect:
• Line breaks in Plots did not sync correctly (also resulting in the same albums appearing as updates with every sync)
• Artist sort names weren't synchronized for updates.
• Add Music Files:
• Improved sorting of files in "Add Music Files As New Album" and "Link Music Files To Existing Albums" screens
• Some .wav files weren't scanned properly
• When adding music files to existing albums track times were overwritten

Förändringar v9.2.1 -> v9.2.2

• Fixed:
• FreedbID was cleared when linking
• Opening a database created with a version prior to v7 resulted in an error
• Options Screen: "Show Collection Status indicator in list" check box had disappeared
• Add Automatically: added albums weren't always linked
• Synchronize with Music Collector Connect: synchronization could change the order of discs in multi-disc albums

Förändringar v9.1.7 -> v9.2.1

• 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
• New: Find Cover Image screen
• Find missing cover images online and add them to your database with just a few clicks. The screen shows results from Google Images, based on artist, title and barcode.
• Easily tweak the Google search keywords yourself using Artist, Title and barcode checkboxes. (sometimes removing the barcode from the search gives better results).
• 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
• New: Collection Statistics integrated in main screen
• When no album is selected, the Details View panel now shows collection statistics based on the current Folder field (e.g. by Artist, or by Genre).
• Switch between Bar Chart or Pie Chart (or Album Details) with tabs on the right
• Navigate to a folder (e.g. Artist = "Rolling Stone") by clicking on a bar or pie part
• Open Statistics screen by clicking the new "More Stats" button
• Improved Statistics screen
• Improved look of all charts
• View Stats as Bar Chart or Pie Chart
• Choose from 8 different color sets
• Toggle 3D View On/Off
• View settings (Color, 3D) are automatically applied to main screen charts
• New toolbar icons
• Improved Wish List functionality
• Quickly check your Wish List using tabs at the bottom of the main screen: All / Collection / Wish List
• 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
• Improved My Rating functionality
• Redesigned rating stars
• Click My Rating stars in Details View to modify rating in a small pop up
• Group albums into My Rating folders on main screen
• Edit Album: My Rating slider is now on Main tab
• Improved Images View in main screen
• Removal of titles under images results in cleaner layout (titles are still shown on mouse-over)
• Reduced spacing between image thumbs
• New placeholder image for albums without cover images
• New placeholder image for albums with a missing thumbnail image
• 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 setting:
• Tools / Options / Auto-Select first album in list
• Fixed:
• Add Automatically: CD-TEXT/CDPlayer.ini results were always used *and* given priority, even when not selected. Not anymore...
• Font size problems in Details View when using IE9 beta

Förändringar v9.0.2 -> v9.0.3

• Add Albums automatically:
• CDTEXT and CDPlayer.ini results are now visible in the Queue, the Search Result list and the Preview Panel.
• It is now possible to add the scan result without searching online, or when the online search returned no results.
• Added Alt+A keyboard shortcut for Auto Scan checkbox.
• Edit Search Criteria could give a "List index out of bounds error"
• Search settings: Player.ini and CDTEXT checkboxes didn't work.
• Rare server error when searching for CDs
• Edit Album:
• Tracks tab: Play icon not showing for subtracks
• Tracks tab: Audio files could not be dropped on subtracks
• Links tab: errors when dropping files or folders other than playlist files
• Vee Nine Compact template did not show track artists

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