Version history for Collectorz.com Movie Collector for Mac OS X

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Changes for v9.1.1 - v9.1.2

• Improvements:
• All templates: YouTube trailers are now embedded using HTML5 iframe instead of Flash, which makes the videos start faster and gets rid of many Flash-related problems.
• Tweaked all out-of-the-box default settings (only relevant for fresh installs).
• Fixed:
• Images View: selected thumbnail size wasn't remembered between sessions.
• Templates: Play button for linked movie files wasn't working.
• Import from XML: Movie Link was imported into URL field, URL field not imported at all.
• Various problems related to CLZ Cloud syncing.

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Changes for v9.0.3 - v9.1.1

• New: Improved cloud syncing features:
• The Connect cloud storage (and Sync & Share) is now called "CLZ Cloud".(the Connect online cataloging software will still be called "Connect")
• Usage of the CLZ Cloud (previously called Sync & Share) is now FREE for everyone.(Sync & Share was only free for users with a Movie Collector PRO license).
• Custom cover images are now synced down from the CLZ Cloud.
• Use the "Upload Image" option in the CLZ Cloud menu or right-click menu to upload your own cover image to the CLZ Cloud.
• More fields are now synced up to and down from CLZ Cloud:
• Original Title
• Title Extension
• Quantity
• Number of Discs
• Storage Device
• Storage Slot
• CLZ Movies 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:
• Main Screen:
• Image popup when clicking an image in the details wasn't always showing the image in a proper size
• Wrong format icons were showing for movies in list and tree

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Changes for v9.0.2 - v9.0.3

• Fixed:
• Add Automatically: Several problems adding multiple barcodes to the Queue.
• Update Automatically: new extra actors would be inserted in existing list instead of added to the bottom of the list.
• Sync with Connect: Mismatches between online and local data in Sort Titles.
• Main Screen:
• With list sorted on Collection Status, changing the status of the selected movies using "Move To Wish List/Collection" would lose the selection.
• When grouping on a crew member (director, producer, etc.), editing one directly from the tree would show an empty lookup list screen.
• Templates:
• Local Actor or Director template images wouldn't show in image popup.
• Vee Eight templates weren't showing the automatic Director images.

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Changes for v8.3.2 - v9.0.2

• Fixed:
• Main Screen: movie details wouldn't show for some movies with episodes.
• Add/Update Automatically / Down Sync from Connect: Some searches/updates/syncs would crash or freeze the program.
• Edit Movie: Some "Edit Item" buttons would go to a random item.
• New: Automatic images and IMDb links for Actors and Directors:
• Automatic Actor Images (aka "Actor Heads")
• Automatic Actor Links (to the actor's page on IMDb)
• Automatic Director Images
• Automatic Director Links (to the director's page on IMDb)
• These Images and Links are delivered directly and automatically from the Collectorz.com central online movie database, no special action required. And yes, you will be able to use Update Movies Automatically to get the new images and links for the existing movie entries in your database.
• New Virtual Shelves look for Images View
• We have improved the look of the Images View in the main screen, you know, the one that shows the cover image thumbnails. It now shows "Virtual Shelves" in multiple shelve styles. Choose from 5 different looks:
• Classic (No shelves)
• Wood Light
• Wood Dark
• Metal
• Glass
• Two new templates: Vee Nine and Blockz For version 9, 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.
• Full support for Actor/Director images and IMDb URLs.
• Fixed length Cast & Crew lists for a cleaner layout. Click "Show More" / "Show Less" links to expand/collapse full lists.
• Click Seen It "eye" icon to toggle Seen It between Yes and No.
• Full width embedded YouTube trailer videos.
• New "Collectorz Blue" icons everywhere
• The "Collectorz Blue" look of the toolbar has now been implemented everywhere, resulting in a look that is more consistent and easier on the eye.
• New "Core for Movies" integration: report missing entries and data errors. Report missing entries and data errors in our central online movie database. And the beauty is: you don't even need to provide us with the movie data. Just use Core to *report* the missing entries or data errors, and then our content admins will do the work for you, within one workday, guaranteed.
• Report missing movies: Can't find your movie using the "Add Auto" screen? Just click "Report Missing Movie", which will take you to the Core site. There just enter the movie's IMDb number or IMDb link and you're done.
• Report missing barcode: Ran into an unrecognized barcode? Your Add Auto screen will automatically ask you to report it to Core. On the Core site, just select which movie the barcode belongs to. That's it.
• Report data errors: Encountered a movie with erroneous information? Hit "Report Data Error", indicate the problem area (choose from Cast, Crew, Plot, Trailer and Other), and we'll fix the data error for you. The "Report to Core" commands are available in the Add Automatically screen, in Edit Movie and from the right mouse-click menus in the main screen.
• Fully configurable Update Movies Automatically feature:
• The Update Movies Automatically feature, already available since version 1, lets you update your existing movie entries with new data and images from our central online movie database. But version 9 gives you much more control over how the update process should handle your current data and images:
• Choose which fields will be updated:
• Front Cover
• Back Cover
• Backdrop
• Movie Poster
• Cast
• Crew
• Cast/Crew images/URLs
• Episode List
• Trailer Links
• For each field, choose from:
• "Leave as is"
• "Update empty fields only"
• "Replace current data"
• New: Customizable images for all pick list items:
• Set your own image for any list item, e.g. for Formats, Audience Ratings...
• 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.
• Movie Collector now comes with 92 included pick list images that are automatically used in the tree, list and Details Panel templates, for:
• Formats
• Regions
• Audience Ratings
• Improved layout of Add Movies Automatically screen
• The layout of the Add Movies Automatically screen has been updated, to make it cleaner, cleaner and easier-to-use:
• The "By Title" and "By Barcode" options are now on completely separate tabs.
• "By Barcode" tab now includes integrated support for the CLZ Barry app.
• Settings, Check Connection & Help buttons have been moved to the top right.
• The "Add" buttons are now on the bottom left, under the Search Results.
• New links to directly report missing entries and data errors to Core.
• Integrated support for our CLZ Barry wireless barcode scanner app.
• When using CLZ Barry with Movie Collector, you don't need the "Buddy for Barry" software anymore. In other words, Buddy is now integrated into Movie Collector.
• Connect with CLZ Barry right from Movie Collector's main toolbar and from the Add Movies Automatically screen ("By Barcode" tab).
• CLZ Barry is available for iPhone, iPad and Android. More information: http://www.clz.com/barry/

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Changes for v8.3.2 - v8.3.3

• Main screen performance problems (introduced in 8.3 build 2)
• Edition level linking: MediaID wasn't correctly linked/unlinked

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Changes for v8.3.1 - v8.3.2

• Export to CLZ Movies app:
• Movie Poster is now exported if Front Cover is not available.
• Fixed:
• Edit Screen:
• 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.
• It wasn't possible to move multiple episodes at once to another disc .
• Templates:
• Font size wasn't remembered between sessions.
• Sometimes the font size wasn't correctly increased/decreased.
• Add Automatically:
• Popular movies: a movie wasn't highlighted in blue if a specific edition had been already added.
• In direct mode, after adding a movie, the editions of the next movies to add were no longer listed.
• The title field wasn't immediately selected for editing when opening the window.
• Barcode scanning: app was crashing when scanning in direct mode with Cuecat scanner.
• Now remembers Queue / Direct search mode between sessions.
• Update Automatically:
• The popup window stayed on top of all other apps.
• Fixed several issues with updating disc episodes.
• Main Screen:
• Main Table: after removing an item, the next item in the list is now selected.
• Printing:
• Last item in the collection wasn't printed.

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Changes for v8.1.4 - v8.3.1

• New:
• Compatibility with the upcoming CLZ Movies 2.0 for iOS.
• Fixed:
• Main Screen: Edition Release Year was showing in the tree instead of Movie Release Year
• Add Automatically: backspace and delete key didn't work in the queue
• Edit Movie: scanning a barcode didn't work

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Changes for v8.1.3 - v8.1.4

• New:
• Database Totals screen (Tools menu) - view all kinds of statistics about your collection like #movies, 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:
• Edit Movie:
• Switching discs on Episodes & Features tab would not show features
• Play episode movie file opened Preview but didn't play anything
• Main screen:
• After closing Add Movies Automatically the arrow keys did not work.
• Filters (e.g. collection status, searches) were not applied in Folder mode
• Play episode movie file button wasn't working
• Import from XML: box set images weren't imported

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Changes for v8.1.2 - v8.1.3

• Fixed:
• Add Automatically:
• exact results from barcode search would sometimes show as expandable two results
• when several "movie only" results were checked only the first one was added using "Add Checked"
• Edit Movie:
• Backdrop and Movie Poster were not saved according to image location preferences
• Adding Episode: when adding several episodes, "next" didn't save the episode data
• Main Screen:
• Date columns weren't displaying when partially filled in.
• Find Cover Image: sometimes the checkboxes at the bottom weren't adding/removing their value to the search terms.

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Changes for v8.1.1 - v8.1.2

• Edit Movie:
• Some fields couldn't be cleared.
• Some lookup fields didn't autocomplete.
• Number fields wouldn't be updated in some occasions.
• Removing a member from the Crew List would still show it in the Crew List (although it was already removed)
• Sync to Connect:
• Covers with extension in capitals (e.g. JPG instead of jpg) wouldn't upload
• Main Screen
• Date columns weren't sorting correctly.
• Active folder group wasn't showing check mark in folder groups menu.
• Main list wasn't focused at startup (especially annoying when in Classic Layout with tree hidden)
• After closing Add Movies Automatically the main list wasn't focused which made it appear the arrow keys did not work.
• In folder mode sometimes the Details Panel would show the wrong movie.
• Sort field sets menu was still showing check mark when quick sorting by clicking on a column.
• Auto Increment Index preference was ignored and index was always incremented.

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Changes for v8.0.9 - v8.1.1

• New:
• Edit Movie screen
• Working in the Edit Movie screen is now faster, especially in Edit Multiple mode.
• Opening the Edit Multiple screen is much faster, especially when editing many movies in one go.
• New Edit Item buttons next to all drop-down selectors (e.g. Series, Format), to edit the spelling of an item (as opposed to creating a new entry).
• Preferences:
• Sort Title / Capitalization: you can now change the order (= priority) of Recognized Words and Exceptions.
• AutoCap When Adding setting now actually works.
• New setting: "Show counter in tree folders", to show counters next to main screen folders, indicating the number of items contained.
• New setting: "Show names as last name, first name".
• Main screen performance improvements
• Statistics are now only generated when Stats are visible. (Tip: to speed up your main screen, lock the details panel to Details View)
• Fixed:
• Add Movie Automatically:
• Size and position of the screen wasn't remembered between sessions.
• When "checking" both a movie and a media results, only the movie level data was used when adding.
• Main Screen:
• Statistics: My Rating field wasn't showing any statistics.
• 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 a movie from a tree folder, the details view wasn't refreshed.
• "target = '_blank'" links in Details View didn't work.
• Storage Device was missing in folder fields list.
• Storage Device and Slot couldn't be added as a column.
• Sync to Connect:
• Duplicated movies wouldn't sync up to Connect.
• "Invalid XML" errors when syncing.
• When Title Sort was same as Title it would always show as different.
• Edit Movie Screen:
• Checkbox lists (such as "Genre") did not always working correctly.
• Import from XML (when importing from Windows):
• Prices for some currencies weren't imported correctly.
• Importing Movie Collector V3 databases is now more robust.
• Find Cover Image: sometimes the checkboxes at the bottom weren't adding/removing their value to the search terms.

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Changes for v8.0.8 - v8.0.9

• Update automatically would cause the database not able to save

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Changes for v8.0.7 - v8.0.8

• Improved Quick Search:
• Now searches most text fields. Yes, including the Cast and Crew :-).
• After a search, the search words are highlited in the Details Panel.
• Improved performance: searches are much faster now.
• Search happens automatically "as you type", no need to press enter.
• Added:
• Main Screen:
• Total/Selected number of movies now showing in status bar at the bottom
• Select Random Movie can now also be activated using the Cmd-R shortcut
• Fixed:
• Main Screen:
• When selecting a folder in the tree the current selected movie couldn't be edited
• Packaging label wasn't showing in Details Panel
• Details Panel: when clicking some local links they would not open.
• Edit Movie Screen:
• Online Links and Local Links labels were switched around
• Adding crew members could cause duplicate entries in lists
• Field Defaults screen now also use user field names
• Edit Lists:
• Used count for Loaned To wasn't calculated properly
• It wasn't possible to remove a Loaned To item
• Add Movies Automatically:
• Extra Features weren't added

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Changes for v8.0.6 - v8.0.7

• 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 *and* loan movies.
• Use the switch at the top to switch between separate Loan and Return modes.
• Over-due movies are clearly indicated at the top and in red.
• Improved barcode scanner support:
• Scanners can now be used to return and loan movies.
• Batch scanning support (e.g. with the OPN-2001 or CLZ Barry).
• Automatic overdue notifications when starting Movie Collector.
• Field Names screen: set your own field names for the User Defined fields and rename all other fields to your own liking (Tools / Field Names).
• Main Screen:
• New direct editing of folder items from the right click menu of the tree.
• Easier switching between Layouts using Layout Menu.
• Improved "remembering" of selection after adding/editing movies
• New Keyboard shortcuts:
• shift + cmd + N: add new item
• cmd + F: quick search
• cmd + U: update selected items
• Fixed:
• Main Screen:
• Enter didn't bring up the Edit Movie screen
• Changes to the font size were not remembered for the Details Panel.
• The folders in the tree panel were not sorted correctly (case-sensitive).
• Edit Lists screen:
• Generating sort names wasn't working correctly
• "Storage Device" was missing
• BoxSet covers were not supporting drag & drop
• Crash when merging Features items
• Cast & Crew added to episodes weren't added to the used count
• Editing a lookup list item, and then adding a new one, results in a bug
• Box Set Front/Back covers were not updated after clicking "Next" & "Previous" buttons
• Box Set Front/Back covers were cropped
• Import from XML (Windows): BoxSet wasn't imported correctly with all fields
• Add Movies Automatically: tabs at the top weren't working on OSX 10.5.8.
• Edit Episode screen: didn't remember last focused field.

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Changes for v8.0.4 - v8.0.6

• Update Automatically wasn't working
• "Edit Movie After Add" setting has been temporarily disabled because it could cause weird data errors (wrong movie was being edited)

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Changes for v8.0.3 - v8.0.4

• Changes / additions:
• New Cmd+E keyboard shortcut for Edit Movie
• "Number of Discs" is now available as a column for the main screen list
• Fixed:
• When starting the program on Mac OS X Lion, the main Movie Collector window always appeared behind other windows.
• Main Screen:
• Removing movies could cause weird display errors in the list panel.
• Sorting on the "Seen It" field didn't work
• After adding a new movie, the main screen list (either in List, Images or CoverFlow mode), didn't automatically select and scroll to the added movie.
• While in Image and Cover Flow mode, selecting a folder in the tree didn't automatically select the first movie in the list.
• Episodes in the tree panel were missing the Episode Index.
• Edit Movie: using Next/Previous for editing Plot, Notes or Extra Features fields for multiple movies would crash the program.
• Update Automatically:
• When linking movies, some searches still gave "Wrong Movie" results.
• Updating multiple movies in one go sometimes crashed the program.
• After an Update, new Genre/ScreenRatio/etc values were not immediately available in the corresponding checkbox lists of the Edit Movie screen.
• Updating TV Series with episodes could still cause duplicate episodes.
• Import from XML:
• Some imported movies couldn't be edited (related to empty Disc titles).
• Price fields weren't imported correctly, especially non-dollar values.
• Episodes weren't imported correctly.
• Add Movies Automatically: Series field wasn't downloaded.
• Details View templates:
• The episode level IMDB links weren't working.
• Extra Features field did not support HTML formatting.
• Plot and Notes fields: line breaks got lost.
• Font size of Notes field was too large.
• Export to CLZ Movies: Directors and Producers were reversed.
• Export to XML was generating invalid XML.

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Changes for v8.0.2 - v8.0.3

• New:
• Edit Movie and Remove Movie buttons in the toolbar are now also enabled when selecting a movie in the tree panel.
• New Edit/Remove Movie commands in the right-click menu of the tree panel.
• Right-clicking on a folder in the tree now give you a Manage List command.
• Fixed:
• Main screen:
• Various crashes while navigating folders and movies.
• Incremental search in list panel wasn't working.
• Front cover wasn't refreshed after dropping a cover on Details Panel.
• Update Automatically:
• Updating TV Series with episodes would cause duplicate episodes
• Web Links were never updated when there were already links present. (this also caused Movie Trailer links not to be downloaded)
• Add Automatically:
• Some barcode searches could result in "Wrong Movie" result
• Some Title searches could pop up the "missing barcode" message.
• Import from V3 Database:
• Could not be saved" error after importing due to invalid Year values.
• Black and White value for Color field not imported correctly
• Import from XML: Running Time wasn't always imported correctly
• Export to CLZ Movies: Directors and Producers were reversed.

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Changes for v3.4.6 - v8.0.2

• Fixed:
• Import from V3 Database:
• "Could not be saved" error after importing. (this problem only occurred for V3 databases that had Barcode values longer than 13 digits)
• Musicians were imported with "unknown" as the Credit "role".
• Not all web links were imported from the V3 database. (if you ran into one of these, we recommend re-importing your V3 database)
• Using one of the Year fields as the Folder field or Statistics field caused various problems and crashes.
• Update Movies Automatically did not work correctly for un-linked movies.(it asked to Link those movies, but afterward did not actually do the Update)
• More and better automatic data for movies:
• Automatically download IMDb ratings.
• Movie Trailers
• Automatically download YouTube links for movie trailers.
• Play embedded YouTube movie trailers inside the Details Panel.
• Or use the Trailers templates with just large embedded YouTube trailers.
• Movie Backdrops (movie-specific background images for the details panel)
• New field Backdrop on Edit Movie / Images.
• Automatically download Backdrop images from our online movie database.
• Use the Find Backdrop screen to find more backdrops with Google Images.
• Movie Posters
• New field Movie Poster on Edit Movie / Images.
• Automatically download the movie poster when adding movies.
• Use the Find Movie Poster screen to find more movie posters online.
• New: plot summaries in other languages: French, German, Dutch and Spanish.
• New "Data Language" setting that controls the language of the Plot summary and other fields (e.g. Genre, Format, etc...): Choose from:
• English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch.
• Automatic TMDb (themoviedb.org) website links .
• More and better automatic data for TV SERIES and their episodes:
• New episode-level fields in Movie Collector:
• Episode Crew
• Episode Guest Cast
• Episode Website link (URL)
• Episode Image URL
• Episode IMDb Number
• Seen It, Seen When, Seen Where
• For most TV Series our online database now delivers:
• Episode Titles
• Episode First Air Dates
• Episode Plot summaries
• Episode Runtime
• Episode Writer
• Episode Director
• Episode Guest Cast
• Episode Image (as URL to image on Collectorz.com server)
• New in Add Movies Automatically screen:
• Special "TV Series Only" mode for Title searches
• In this mode, the Search Results will only list the main season entries that have all the new episode data, resulting a cleaner results list.
• Edit Movie: Episodes/Features tab:
• Disc tabs can now be renamed.
• Order of Disc tabs can now be changed by dragging and dropping the tabs.
• 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 Movies Automatically screen, when no cover is found in the Collectorz.com online movie database.
• from the right-click menu on any movie entry in the main screen
• from the Images tab in the Edit Movie screen
• New: Cover Flow view, browse your movies in a cool looking 3D image browser.
• The Cover Flow is a 3rd viewing option, next to List and Images.
• Browse through your movies 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 movie details and collection statistics.
• View collection statistics based on the current Folder field (e.g. by Genre, or by Format).
• 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 movies to your Wish List right from the Add Movies Automatically screen.
• Right click a movie to "Move to Wish List" / "Move to Collection".
• Edit Movie: 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.
• Box Set support, indicate which movies are in a box, set box level properties.
• Use the new Box Set field to "link"; movies that are in 1 box.
• Set box-set level properties, like Title, Barcode, Release Date, Purchase Info, Cover Image.
• Box Set details are shown in a special Box Set panel in the movie details.
• 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 Movie Titles.
• Have Titles AutoCapped when adding movies automatically.
• Have Titles AutoCapped as you type.
• Or, just click the AutoCap button in the Edit Movie 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 movies.
• Or just click the Generate Sort Title button in the Edit Movie screen.
• Define your own list of recognized articles for Sort Title generation.
• Improved layout of Edit Movie screen.
• Clearer separation of movie data, edition-specific data and personal data.
• "Main" tab is now the "Movie" tab, with movie information only.
• All edition-specific data (Format, Barcode, etc...) is now on the Edition tab.
• 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 V8 templates for Details Panel and Add Auto Preview.
• More prominent display of IMDb link and IMDb rating
• Embedded YouTube movie trailers
• Detailed listing of TV Series episodes with: Title, Runtime, First Airdate, IMDb link, Play button, Director, Writer, Guest Cast, Episode Image and Plot summary.
• V8 template is available in many styles: Backdrop, Blue, Black, White and Green, with Micky or Logo background.

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Changes for v3.4.5 - v3.4.6

• Fixed for OS X 10.7 / Lion:
• Detail view showing white page instead of movie details

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Changes for v3.4.4 - v3.4.5

• 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
• Handling of scanned barcodes that contain extra scanned digits

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Changes for v3.4.3 - v3.4.4

• Fixed: "Server Error" issues while syncing to Connect.

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Changes for v3.4.2 - v3.4.3

• Fixed: Export to XML/Text/HTML were missing in the Pro Edition

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Changes for v3.4.1 - v3.4.2

• Fixed: Text "Export to iPhone or iPod Touch" changed to "Export to CLZ Movies Mobile Application".

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Changes for v3.3.1 - v3.4.1

• Export to CLZ Movies:
• Now supports CLZ Movies HD app for iPad
• Now supports CLZ Movies app for Android
• 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 Movies iPhone app will support it too).
• Fixed: it was rarely possible to use the Update feature (it was disabled)
• 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 Movie, new keyboard shortcuts:
• Press CMD + [ to edit the previous movie in list
• Press CMD + ] to edit the next movie in list
• Fixed: Help buttons are now linking to the correct topics in the online manual

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Changes for v3.2.2 - v3.3.1

• Installation:
• Movie Collector is now installed in /Applications instead of ~/Desktop
• Need administrator credentials to install in /Applications folder
• Syncing Up TO Connect:
• The following fields will now be uploaded from your local data when up-syncing AND are now editable as "user fields" in Connect :
• Format
• Genres
• Fixed: Several situations could cause unnecessary update actions
• Upload your own cover images to Connect:
• After syncing UP, you can now also upload the Cover Images for movies that don't have a cover image in Connect yet.
• You can now also upload your own cover image on the Edit Movie page in Movie Collector Connect, using the Browse (or Choose File) and Upload buttons.
• Syncing Down FROM Connect, improvements to prevent unwanted changes to local data:
• Extra "Are you sure?" question before syncing down.
• New layout of Sync screen, with a BIG Upload button and a small Download button.
• Syncing down will never clear fields / make fields empty
• Syncing down will never update or add to existing local data values, EXCEPT when the local field is still empty. For example: no Genres will be added to existing lists, Titles, Studios, Release Dates, Running Time, etc.. will not be overwritten.
• For Personal fields (purchase data, notes, rating, etc...) full syncing will be maintained.
• Syncing down will never un-link movies
• Linking:
• The question box "You have unlinked movies. Do you want to link them now?" now has a "Never ask for these movies again" checkbox.
• Link Screen: When using "Search All" all exact barcode matches are now linked automatically (and removed from the queue)
• If you upload unlinked movies, Connect will try to auto-link them by barcode.
• After linking, the program does not auto-update the linked movies anymore, preventing unexpected (and possibly unwanted) data additions to your local entries.
• Fixed:
• Edit Lists: Merging credits didn't work
• OPR-3201 support: Scanning with OPR-3201 jumped to main screen
• Close button: now closes the database and exits Movie Collector

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Changes for v3.2.1 - v3.2.2

• Fixed:
• Export to iPhone/iPod Touch: Frozen report window with OSX 10.4
• Edit Movie: Episodes en Discs gave title of the movie instead of the disc number/episode name

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Changes for v3.1.1 - v3.2.1

• Export to Clz Movies for iPhone / iPod Touch:
• Support for Clz Movies 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:
• - Index
• - Location
• - Storage Device and Slot
• - Edition
• - Notes
• - Episode list
• Link Movies: Improved user interface for linking multiple movies
• Fixed:
• Edit Multiple: removing multiple cover images didn't work
• Loan Item: now works correctly when having a disc selected

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Changes for v3.0.3 - v3.1.1

• Snow Leopard compatible

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Changes for v3.0.2 - v3.0.3

• Fix: Preview didn't always work/Empty entry when trying to add it
• Improved: Faster search results for unique matches

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Changes for v3.0.1 - v3.0.2

• New: Ability to switch layout
• Classic Two-Pane layout
• Full Height Tree Three-Pane layout
• New: Synchronize with Movie Connect
• Ability to uncheck/check a group of actions in the report window
• Fix: Update/Add Automatically
• Adhere to the settings of maximum numbers of actors/directors/writers/producers

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Changes for v2.2.1 - v3.0.1

• New: Synchronize with Movie Collector Connect:
• What is Movie Collector Connect? See http://connect.collectorz.com/movies
• Use the new Connect / Synchronize menu to upload your collection to Movie 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 movies) using just a web-browser, from any Windows, Mac or Linux computer.
• Download changes you made online back to your local Movie Collector database.
• Sign up for a trial account here: http://connect.collectorz.com/register
• Export to iPhone / iPod Touch
• Browse your movie collection on your iPhone or iPod Touch with the new Clz Movies app
• Available in Apple AppStore for $9.99 (search the AppStore for "clz movies")
• Use File | Export to iPhone / iPod Touch to transfer your data to the Clz Movies app (Requires Wi-Fi connection on your iPhone or iPod Touch, connecting to the same local network (LAN) that your computer is in.)
• New super-easy Add Movies Automatically screen:
• Now uses ONLY the Collectorz.com online movie database for movie information, DVD details and cover images (For clarity: it will NOT use IMDb anymore, or Amazon, DVD Empire, Adult or Gay DVD Empire, SendIt, DVD-Shop, Atlantic DVD or DVD FR.)
• The new "single source" screen replaces both the Wizard and Advanced Mode screens and makes it much easier and quicker to add movies, just search, select your result (once) and click Add Selected.
• Or: select multiple results and add multiple movies from one search (e.g.: search for "die hard", select 4 movies and click Add Checked to add em all)
• Hide / Show Search Queue button to switch between "Search Now" and "Add to Queue" mode
• Edit searches in Queue with new Edit Search Criteria screen (right-click menu).
• New multi-column Search Results panel, with separate Title, Year, Barcode, Region, Cover Yes/No columns
• New "New Releases" tab page, showing the latest DVD and Blu-Ray releases, just select one (or more!) and click Add.
• New "Most Popular" tab page, showing last week's most popular movies, including theatrical releases. Select and Add, no searching needed.
• Database Changes:
• Improved support for TV-Series and Multi-Disc boxes: List the episodes for TV Series .Episode lists are automatically downloaded from Collectorz.com movie database. List contents per discs for mult-disc releases
• New field: Original Title
• New field: Condition
• New field: IMDB rating
• New field: Tags, for adding free-form key phrases to Movies
• New field: Quantity
• New In Collection Status value 'On Order'
• Main screen:
• More polished and space efficient layout
• Title sorting takes numbers into account ('movie 9' sorts ascending before before 'movie 10').
• Better key bindings: Apple-F focusses the toolbar search field, if possible. Apple-Option-N opens the new 'Add Automatically' screen. Apple-Shift-C opens the 'Synchronize with Connect' screen.
• Edit Screens:
• Improved layout of the Edit Movie screen.
• Edit Movie screen: High quality artwork is now shown at its optimal size.
• Templates:
• New search result preview template (in Add Automatically screen)
• Support for new quantity field, proper display of 'Nr. of Pages' label
• Barcode Scanners:
• Find Scanner function for detecting CueCat, Flic and Opticon scanners (replaces 'Initialize Flic Scanner')
• Fixed crash when scanning some types of barcodes with Flic or CueCat scanners

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Changes for v2.1.2 - v2.2.1

• Version 2.2 build 1 (January 13, 2009)
• Improved Barcode Scanner support:
• Added support for the new Opticon OPN 2001 pocket barcode scanner.
• Improved support for the CueCat scanner.
• Requirements:
• Requires at least Mac OS X 10.4.11 to run.
• Note: Movie Collector will no longer run on Mac OS X 10.3

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Changes for v2.1.1 - v2.1.2

• Added:
• Amazon UK can now be searched on by using barcodes
• Fixed:
• new lookup list entries did not retain their values in the edit screens.
• incremental search in list view was not working properly / consistently
• 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

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Changes for v2.0.9 - v2.1.1

• Added:
• New Movie Collector templates, in 4 different styles (Blue, Black, Grey and iTunes)
• Completely revised Movie Collector manual
• Help buttons on all screens to access the relevant manual section
• Getting started option on first start
• Changed:
• 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
• forward slash in cover name caused cover not to show
• canceling currency conversion screen made Movie Collector unresponsive
• loan manager did not show dates after selecting from calendar under Leopard

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Changes for v2.0.8 - v2.0.9

• licence validation could not be performed using the license screen
• Adult DVD Empire info source updated

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Changes for v2.0.7 - v2.0.8

• using Flic barcode scanner under Leopard (OSX 10.5) caused program to crash
• barcode scanner fills barcode in wizard barcode field
• filter could not be used on 'collection status' field
• filter could not be used on 'quantity' field
• lookup list items could not be merged
• loan settings screen could be closed incorrectly by hitting the escape key
• export to Ipod takes sort names into account
• export to Ipod now groups on first letter of title instead of year
• incorrect handling of covers when submitting to Collectorz.com Movie database
• main screen status bar displays more relevant collection statistics

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Changes for v2.0.6 - v2.0.7

• Manage List screen: Toolbar buttons would not keep their position when resizing screen
• "Automatically create backup" preference was off by default
• Invalid license validation for license names containing certain characters
• Export to iPod: Incorrect handling of special characters
• Duplicate Movie: the Index and ID fields were not set correctly
• Add Automatically (advanced) screen: "Search Selected" from context
• menu searched entire queue
• Edit Movie screen: Cosmetic changes to the cover tab pages

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Changes for v2.0.5 - v2.0.6

• Delicious Library import: collections with empty lookup values were not imported
• Update file links: Crash when searching for files across the entire system
• Searching on Atlantic DVD info source failed
• Searching on DVD Empire returned incorrect results

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Changes for v2.0.4 - v2.0.5

• Edit Movie: Using Next and Previous did not save changes

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Changes for v2.0.3 - v2.0.4

• Export to iPod: Sorting was on year instead of title
• Lookup lists could have duplicate entries in certain conditions
• Delicious Library import: Values of the genre field were garbled
• Delicious Library import: Cover images were not imported

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Changes for v2.0.2 - v2.0.3

• Collectorz.com barcode scanner was not detected by the software

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Changes for v2.0.1 - v2.0.2

• Conversion of collection file from version 1.x sometimes aborted
• Export to Text failed in certain conditions
• Format icons for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were not shown in Details View

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Changes for v1.0.3 - v2.0.1

• New Info Source: our own "Collectorz.com Movie Database"
• Export to iPod Notes (PRO only): export your list to the Notes section of your iPod
• Format icons for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD
• Universal Binary support
• Flic barcode scanner support:
• Add DVDs to the collection by scanning their UPC codes
• Locate a movie in the collection by scanning its barcode
• Cordless scanning for up to 500 barcodes
• Laser scanner for high scanning speed and accuracy
• Fully integrated support, no drivers necessary
• Delicious Library import
• DVD Empire search by barcode
• Add Movies screen: Added 'Lock selected' and 'Update in queue' functions
• Toolbar: the following icons can now be added: Add Movie manually, Edit Multiple Movies, Remove Movie, Duplicate Movie
• Filter: settings for NOT, and/or and case sensitive were not remembered
• DVD Empire search returned incorrect results
• IMDB search results improved
• Default value for the 'Number of Disks' field is now 1 instead of 0
• The 'Convert Currency' function in the Tools|Maintenance menu was not implemented
• Year dropdown lists are now sorted with the most recent year at the top
• Lookup items (like authors or genre) could incorrectly be marked as unused
• The 'Select Random' function was not very random
• Quick Search used the current filter settings for case sensitivity and NOT
• Details View: The Collection Status field was not shown
• Edit Movie screen: Currency fields now use the system setting for decimal separator
• Printing: Saving a customized template in the template list failed
• Tools\Maintenance\Factory Settings erased the name of the current database
• Edit Movie screen: Adding a credit sometimes did not remember the name

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