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Version 5.6.1
- Release Date: Jun 26, 2008
- Movie Collector MCE improvements:
- Vista only:
- Choose between two themes: Black and Vista Blue (use Tools / Options / MCE in Movie Collector)
- Movie Details page: Select cover to make it flip around and show the Back Cover
- Improved mouse support
- XP:
- Now also includes movie links to play movies directly
- Standard vs Pro: these features are now PRO-only:
(all owners of a v5 Standard license will get a FREE Pro Upgrade)
- Filter screen
- Saving Column, Sort Order and Folder field sets
- Statistics screen
- Changing Field Names
- User Defined Fields
- User Defined Credit Roles
- Fixed:
- Main Screen: Clearing the quick search would apply current filter instead of not filtering at all
- Filter Screen: An Anywhere condition could cause an Access Violation in some cases
Version 5.5.3
- Release Date: May 24, 2008
- Movie Collector MCE:
- When multiple movie files are linked to a movie, the Play button in MCE now lets you select a file
- Several performance improvements, especially noticable on large collections
- Fixed: data loading issues on Vista 64
- Fixed:
- Main Screen:
- Sizes of classic sceen layout weren't always restored correctly after start up
- Tree behaviour could be mixed up in some layouts after start up
- The button on the splitter between Details and List made the splitter go up instead of down
- Edit Movie: Capitalization and Sort options causes Access Violation
- DVD Profiler import: actor names and other credit names weren't always imported correctly
- My Movies import: File locations weren't always imported correctly
Version 5.5.2
- Release Date: May 7, 2008
- New Movie Collector MCE viewer for Media Center (created by Brian Baskerville of mcezone.com) (Note: some features are only available under Vista)
- cool new look and feel in several different views (Large Covers, Thumbnails and Titles)
- search by Title, Genre or Rating right from the MCE viewer
- use the on screen keyboard to find movies starting with a specific letter order your movie list by Title, Year or a Custom order (defined in Movie Collector in Tools / Options / Media Center)
- Define a Filter for MCE data in Tools / Options / Media Center
- No exporting to MCE necessary, the MCE viewer always uses an up-to-date data set
- New Screen Layout setting, offering six different layout configurations of tree, list and details panel
- Horizontal Split
- Vertical Split
- Full Width Details
- Full Height Tree
- Full Height Details
- Classic Layout (the pre v5.5 layout)
- Improvements to the multi-disc and TV series / episodes support
- Movie items are now shown in the tree panel, so that they can be expanded to show their details
- Expand a movie item to see its Disc items.
- For TV series, expand a Disc items to see the episodes on that disc
- Select a Disc item in the tree panel to view its episodes in the List panel, including their Sequence Number, Title, First-Air Date, Plot, etc...
- New icons and Detail View logos for Betamax and CED formats
- Import data from My Movies
- Islandic language support, thanks to Gunnar Magnusson
- Fixed:
- Edit Multiple: price fields could not be cleared using F8
Version 5.4.4
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2008
- Changed: several Centurion support improvements
- Fixed: Filter settings weren't saved
Version 5.4.3
- Release Date: Feb 11, 2008
- Please refer to the What's New document for a list of changes
Version 5.4.2
- Release Date: Feb 8, 2008
- Please refer to the What's New document for a list of changes
Version 5.4.1
- Release Date: Feb 5, 2008
- Please refer to the What's New document for a list of changes
Version 5.3.2
- Release Date: Nov 21, 2007
- Added:
- AutoCap feature for Episode Titles (in Add/Edit Episode screen)
- Fixed:
- Export to HTML: index.html was not created when using "Use main screen setting" under Sort Order
- Export to HTML: "Range Check Error" when using "Use main screen setting" under Sort Order
- Import Other Database: Storage device values were not imported
- Automatic Sort Titles didn't work correctly for titles already in "Title, The" format
- License name that has non-ASCII characters was not removed from lock file correctly causing "Read-Only" situations
Version 5.3.1
- Release Date: Nov 16, 2007
- Searching your database:
- Completely redesigned Filter screen
- Build advanced filters using brackets, AND, OR, NOT, equal, not equal, greater than, less than, contains, wildcards
- Save your filters and activate them directly using the Filter menu on the toolbar
- Faster Quick Search
- Sorting:
- Save your sort order definitions and activate them directly using the Sort Order menu on the toolbar
- Simpler Sort Field selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want.
- Columns:
- Save your column definitions and activate them directly using the Columns menu on the toolbar
- Simpler Columns selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want.
- Folder selection:
- Save you custom folder field combination and activate them directly from the Folder menu above the tree
- Simpler Folder field selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want.
- Automatic Sort Titles:
- new "Generate Sort Title" button in Edit Movie screen
- Sort Titles are now automatically generated from the Title when using Add Automatically
- use Tools / Options / Sort Titles to configure recognized articles (the, a, le, la, die, der, das, etc..)
- Automatic Capitalization of Titles:
- new AutoCap button next to Title in Edit Movie screen
- Titles are now automatically capitalized when using Add Automatically
- use Tools / Options / Capitalization to configure auto-cap settings and exceptions
- Fixed:
- Edit Lists: Auto-Resort checkbox was shown at the wrong position when using a small screen
- Three part person names (e.g. Barbara Taylor Bradford) got split into First/Last Names incorrectly
- Edit Movie / Covers: Edit and Copy button did not get enabled after adding an image
- Adult DVD Empire search
Version 5.2.5
- Release Date: Aug 18, 2007
- Missing Full Details Classic Print Template added
- Size of covers in Classic View Template fixed
- Rating stars were white instead of yellow in Classis View Template
- Access Violation when using Edit at the end of the Add Wizard
Version 5.2.4
- Release Date: Aug 17, 2007
- New CSS Styles system now also available for Export and Print templates
- New Movie Collector 5 template can now also be used for printing
- All Full Details Classic styles can now be used for Exporting to HTML
- Add Automatically:
- DVD Empire: search results now include HD-DVD and BluRay releases
- Gay DVD Empire" results are now sorted by (search) rank
- All Amazon sources: the cover price is now retrieved and put into the purchase price field.
- Norwegian language support, thanks to Erlend Øfstaas
- Rare Access Violations after adding a new movie using the Add Wizard
- Adding an episode to a disc reversed the modifications to the current disc
- Manage List Screen: the auto resort checkbox sometimes appeared in the wrong location
- Lock File system: concurrent use check now includes Windows user name
- Updated French language file to verison 5.2.3, thanks to Cyrille Maurice
Version 5.2.3
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2007
- Change:
- Add Automatically: screens now remember last used search box
- Add Automatically Advanced Mode: Bar code is now automatically cleared after Add to Queue
- Read-Only mode: new Tools / Maintenance / Reset Lock File command for resolving lock-file issues
- Fixed:
- Dropping Box Set covers in the Edit Box Set screen did not work correctly.
- Loan Management features were available in Standard edition
- Incorrect "Read-Only" mode messages after problematic program shutdowns
Version 5.2.2
- Release Date: Jul 14, 2007
- Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window error in edit movie screen
Version 5.2.1
- Release Date: Jul 13, 2007
- Added:
- Improved network support
- New lock file system automatically prevents concurrent editing
- When one user is already using a database in Writable mode, subsequent users will automatically open the database in Read-Only mode
- in Read-Only all editing features are hidden and disabled, allowing viewing and searching only
- Create Read-Only workstations by running a forced Read-Only installation (start the installer with the /readonly command line parameter)
- Improved Loan Management
- Print loan lists
- Use Flic scanner in Loan Management screen to Loan or Return movies
- Use the Quick Search box to search your Loan History by Title, Bar code or Loaner name
- New Email and Address fields in the Loaner item
- New date selectors in Loan Info screen
- Edit Movie screen
- New Tags fields on Personal tab page
- New entry boxes for easier adding of values to check list fields (e.g. Genre, Extras)
- Full Help File in German (thanks Klaus!)
- Updated Croation language file to version 5, thanks to Cedomir
- Updated German language file to version 5, thanks to Klaus
- Updated Greek language file to version 5, thanks to NASKO
- Upgraded to Delphi 2007
- Fixed:
- Edit Movie: Several problems when using the Update and Submit buttons
- Edit Movie: List Index out of bounds error when choosing Cancel, then No on the Yes/No question panel
- Add Automatically: Movie credits did not show up in Preview panel
- Disc (Extra) features were not being retrieved properly from info sources
- Quick search was not searching in discs and episodes
- Add Automatically Wizard: Access Violation when using Previous button while searching
- Buttons on covers-tab were not enabled properly when adding a cover
- In some cases Format icon did not follow Format changes directly
Version 5.1.2
- Release Date: Jun 1, 2007
- Added:
- Edit Movie screen: horizontal splitter in Episodes / Features tab page
- Fixed:
- Database conversion: several problems converting existing Storage Slot data
- "Invalid pointer operation" when closing the Add Movie Manually screen using the "X"
- "Opening in Read-Only Mode" errors
- Episodes in Details View: Disc headers are now only shown when there are episodes on multiple discs
- Box Sets: when scanning images the front and back covers got saved under the same filename
- several localization issues
Version 5.1.1
- Release Date: May 31, 2007
- Added / Changed:
- Multi-Disc support:
- Use the new Episodes & Features tab page to create Disc items for each disc in a multi-disc DVD set
- Enter Episode lists per disc
- Enter Standard Features and Extra Features per disc
- Improved carousel support: now enter Storage Device and Slot per disc
- Automatic Episode numbering
- Improved View, Export and Print template to show episodes, features and storage data per disc
- Enhanced Box Set support
- Box Set item now has extra fields for Front cover, Back Cover, Release Date, Barcode, Purchase Date, Price, Store, Condition, Current Value and Notes
- All Box Set fields are now shown in a special Box Set bar at the top of the Details View (in both Movie Collector 5 and Classic templates)
- new Box Set List button on toolbar for direct access to the Box Set List screen
- new Movie fields on Edition tab page: Distributor and Extras
- Edit Movie screen now supports the Collectorz.com barcode scanner to fill the Barcode field
- Windows Media Center: it is now possible to link to .VOB files or .IFO files (DVD rips) in the movie links section and play them from Windows Media Center
- Improved look of In Collection Status images in tree and list
- Fixed:
- Edit Movie: Incorrect "Are you sure?" message when cancelling without having made any changes
- Edit Movie: [Add/Edit] command disappeared from drop down list after using F2
- Export to HTML: Crew did not appear in version 5 export templates
- Details View: Templates with multiple stylesheets were not detected in user templates directory
Version 5.0.2
- Release Date: May 8, 2007
- Access Violation after closing the Edit Movie screen (happened only on some system configurations)
- "Abstract Error" when scanning a barcode directly from the main screen
- When using Next/Previous to add Links to multiple movies, the links were all added to the first movie only.
- Export to HTML:
- descending sort order did not work
- Custom list template appeared in Saved Template List
- Include Thumbnail Column setting in saved templates did not work correctly
- Loans:
- Returning a loan did not work
- Main screen was not refreshed after using the Manage Loans screen
- When adding the "Episodes" field to a printed list, the column showed no values
- Storage / Eject command was missing from right click menu in Images View
- Windows Media Center export did not work when there was an ampersand (&) in the Windows username
- Movie Collector 5 template:
- Original Title was missing
- IMDb Rating was missing
- for movie entries without cast or crew, the Personal Details overlapped the "floating" box on the right
- several localization issues (thanks Klaus!)
Version 5.0.1
- Release Date: May 1, 2007
- Support for TV Series and Box Sets, download episode titles from Collectorz.com
- Add links to movie files (DivX, Xvid, WMV) and start them from the details panel
- Windows Media Center support: browse your movie and start linked movie files (PRO only)
- Improved Add Automatically and Edit Movie screens
- Improved look: new toolbar icons and new Details View templates
- Please refer to this page for a full list of changes
Version 4.11.4
- Release Date: Dec 21, 2006
- Added:
- Import from Text feature moved from Add Automatically screen to File / Import From / Text, so that items are imported directly into the database, instead of to the Search Queue.
- Edit Lists: new "Merge Selected To" command in right mouse button menu, to allow selection of the merge "destination item"
- new "Cover Image Dropping" setting in Tools/Options/Images to for disabling the "Copy or Link?" prompt
- Language support for Slovenian, Swedish, Greek, Russian and Danish
- Windows Vista compatibility/compliance:
- changed default location of user data (database, backup, images and thumbnails) to: \My Documents\Movie Collector\
- User Templates can now be (optionally) placed in a user configurable location (Tools / Options), which defaults to \My Documents\Movie Collector\Templates\
- "System" Templates (the ones included with the program) are still in /Movie Collector/Templates/
- changed location of Script and other "temp" files to: \Documents And Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Collectorz.com\Movie Collector\
- Fixed: program hangs when closing on some Vista systems
Fixed:
- Drag and drop of images from FireFox didn't work
- Details View did not update correctly after replacing a cover image (e.g. by dragging&dropping)
- DVD Profiler import did not read the genre field
- Performance problem when loading folder lists in Images View
- Minor corrections to Polish language
Version 4.10.6
- Release Date: Sep 15, 2006
- Editing Lists:
- new right-click menu with Add/Edit/Remove/Merge/Generate commands
- simplified Merge system: just multi-select items and choose Merge Selected
- "Generate" functions can now be performed in batch on selected items in list (use Generate commands in right-click menu)
- new "Auto Re-sort" checkbox on toolbar for enabling/disabling automatic resorting
- Last Name column is now actually called "Last Name" (previously it was called "Name")
- Next/Previous buttons in all Edit Item screens (e.g. Edit Actor, Edit Genre, etc..)
- Fixed:
- Access Violation when clicking on a cover image without a selected item in the list
- Export to iPod Notes (PRO only): changed status indicator for wanted from '?' to 'W'
- DVD Fr search: Searching did not work correctly (HTML data showed)
- Minor typos in the Italian and German language support
- Edit Movie screen: Find Available Slot function now only applies upper limit of 150 to Ziotek storage devices
- Submit screen: added columns that show whether a front and/or back cover is present
Version 4.10.5
- Release Date: Jun 14, 2006
- Automatic version update failed if another Collectorz.com application also updated automatically recently
- Error message "Not a valid integer" when sorting text fields with very large numbers (e.g. barcodes)
Version 4.10.4
- Release Date: Jun 13, 2006
- Statistics: Added a "Total number of disks" field
- Language support for Italian
- Sorting on text fields now takes numbers into account (e.g. 'title 10' sorts after 'title 2' instead of before)
- Program icon displayed in black/white instead of color on Windows 98
- Details View: Plot and Notes field showed garbled text under certain conditions
- Loan Manager: returning a loan did not work correctly under certain conditions
- Export to iPod: sort order for list export was not correct
- Export to HTML placeholder image was not always properly scaled
- Update for existing German, French and Croatian language support
Printing and Export to HTML: "Range check error" occurred on some systems
Export to iPod: error when exporting movies with a title starting with a period (.)
Version 4.10.3
- Release Date: May 19, 2006
- Help topic about using DVD Carousels
- License validation: entering an invalid license did not show an error message
- Searching on Amazon Japan with Japanese characters in the title did not work
- French language: Quick search gave an error message "Format '%. ' invalid or incompatible with argument"
- Automatic version update failed during installation if the automated 'check for update' detected a new version
- Progress bar during lengthy operations is no longer visible outside the program
- Program icon now looks much better
- DVD Carousel support did not check for errors
Version 4.10.2
- Release Date: May 6, 2006
- Fixed:
- Printing: When using Full Details template an error message 'mismatched end tag' occurred
- Printing and Export to HTML: "Range check error" occurred on some systems
- In French language, error message "format %d invalid or incompatible with argument" when searching online
- Windows XP theme support had stopped working
- The automatic update option did not close the program if the trial splash screen was showing
- IMDB search: exact matches did not retrieve all fields (notably cast)
Version 4.10.1
- Release Date: May 2, 2006
- Added:
- Export to iPod Notes (PRO only): export your list to the Notes section of your iPod
- Automatic update option in Check For Update screen, which downloads and installs the latest version automatically
- German, French, Turkish, Polish and Croatian language support
- New Folder field: 'First Letter of Title', browse your movies using A - Z folders in the tree panel
- New format icons for HD DVD and Blu-Ray Disc
- Searching by barcode (UPC) on DVD Empire infosource is now possible
- Find Empty Slot function for Storage devices now takes 'Number of Disks' value into account
- Support for THX icon in Details View
- Changed:
- Improved searching on IMDB to show popular titles first and ignore TV show episodes
- Display LED on DACAL / Ziotech CD Carousel will be switched off at program end
- Add Movies Automatically (advanced): Updating an entry in the search queue now clears its search results
- Export to HTML uses placeholder image as a thumbnail if cover images are not available
- Fixed:
- some usability issues in the Add Automatically Advanced Mode screen
- Printing and Export to HTML: Text fields now show HTML tags correctly in list reports (e.g. the <b> tag is shown as bold text)
- Find Available Slot in Edit Movie screen: 'not a valid integer value' error appeared when using text in the Slot field
- Export to HTML: Range check error under certain specific conditions
- Export to Text: Access Violation when attempting to export zero selected items
- Quick Search did not work after having done a Filter earlier using the "EXCEPT" option
Version 4.9.5
- Release Date: Mar 29, 2006
- Fixed: Add Automatically: preview did not show headers
- Fixed: Access Violation in standard edition in non-english versions
- Fixed: Range check error in submit screen with empty e-mail address
Version 4.9.4
- Release Date: Mar 21, 2006
- Range check error when updating movies from Collectorz.com infosource
- Printing: Extra first column containing the linenumber in custom list reports
Version 4.9.3
- Release Date: Mar 17, 2006
- Access Violation when program closes on Windows 98
- Color field of movie was not retrieved from Collectorz.com infosources.
- Tapespeed appeared in details view when not set for non-english versions.
- Printer Setup did not remember options.
- Print and Export templates: Rowshading, Report Date and Thumbnails options were not applied correctly in non-english versions.
- Customization screen for menus and toolbars was not translated
Version 3.2
- Release Date: Apr 22, 2003
- Quick Search feature, re-designed toolbar, extra templates
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