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Software and app updates released in 2016 (page 2)

Movie Collector (macOS)

v16.1.6: Improved the Trial Edition flow

November 22nd, 2016


New:

  • Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
  • Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
  • The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Music Collector (macOS)

v16.1.3: Improved the Trial Edition flow

November 22nd, 2016


New:

  • Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
  • Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
  • The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Fixed:

  • Edit Album: remove track didn’t work any more after the Edit Track screen had been opened in macOS Sierra.

CLZ Books (Android)

v4.3.8: New “split” edit screen

November 17th, 2016

New:

  • Split edit screen, easily switch between main and personal fields

    Fixed:

  • App respects the system screen orientation lock
  • Background color for the searchbar on certain Lollipop tablet devices
  • Long loading in manage pick list screen

  • CLZ Music (Android)

    v4.4.3: Improved sorting for composers and fixed a sync issue

    November 17th, 2016

    Fixed:

    • Artist/title sorting when when albums have a composer
    • Album sort title not syncing with the CLZ Cloud

    CLZ Comics (Android)

    v4.3.8: New “split” edit screen

    November 17th, 2016

    New:

    • Split edit screen, easily switch between main and personal fields

    Fixed:

    • App respects the system screen orientation lock
    • Background color for the searchbar on certain Lollipop tablet devices
    • Long loading in manage pick list screen

    CLZ Movies (Android)

    v4.3.9: New “split” edit screen

    November 17th, 2016

    New:

    • Split edit screen, easily switch between main and personal fields

    Fixed:

    • App respects the system screen orientation lock
    • Background color for the searchbar on certain Lollipop tablet devices
    • Long loading in manage pick list screen

    CLZ Games (Android)

    v4.3.7: New “split” edit screen

    November 17th, 2016

    New:

    • Split edit screen, easily switch between main and personal fields

    Fixed:

    • App respects the system screen orientation lock
    • Background color for the searchbar on certain Lollipop tablet devices
    • Long loading in Manage Pick Lists screen


    A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Books mobile app for iOS is now available.

    In this update, we completely re-designed the Add Book screen, to make it clearer, easier-to-use and to help you add books more efficiently.

    New: Re-designed Add Books screen

    • Switch between By Author/Title and By ISBN modes using tabs at the top
      (Add Manually is now a separate screen, under Tools menu)
    • All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
    • Add button is now at bottom right (blue circle with “+” icon)
    • Adding By ISBN:
      • Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
      • Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter an ISBN manually
      • Delete ISBN from queue by swiping from right to left
      • ISBN queue is now remembered between sessions

    New: Easily add books that come up as “Unrecognized ISBN”:

    • When an ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
    • In this screen, just type the Author and the Title, then click Add Book.
    • This will:
      1. Instantly add the ISBN/Author/Title entry to our Core online book database.
      2. Add the book to your own database with ISBN, Author and Title filled in AND linked to the new Core entry.

    In other words, this new screen not only helps you in adding unrecognized books, but it also helps your fellow CLZ Books users by adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core.

    Read more


    CLZ Music (Android)

    v4.4.2: Fixed a problem in manually adding a disc to an album

    November 11th, 2016

    • Crash when adding a disc if the album had no discs yet.

    CLZ Music (Android)

    v4.4.1: New: Editing AND syncing of track lists!

    November 10th, 2016

    New:

    • Now edit track lists to modify Title, Artist or Length.
    • Manually enter track lists for manually added albums.
    • Drag and drop tracks to change their order.
    • Sync your customized track lists to the CLZ Cloud!

    Fixed:

    • App now respects the system screen orientation lock
    • Wrong background color for the searchbar on certain Lollipop tablet devices
    • Long loading in manage pick list/add manually screen on tablet devices

    Movie Collector (Windows)

    v16.5.1: Easily add movies that come up as “Unrecognized Barcode”

    November 10th, 2016

    • In Add Movies Automatically, when a barcode is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized Barcode” screen will appear.
    • In this screen:
      1. Just find your movie by title (Search-As-You-Type is also active here!)
      2. Select the format (DVD, Blu-Ray, etc..)
      3. Use the integrated Find Cover tool to select the cover image.
      4. Then click Add Movie.
    • This will:
      1. Instantly add the barcode to OUR Core online movie database, connected to the movie you selected.
      2. Add the movie to YOUR database with full movie details, your barcode, format and image AND linked to the new Core entry.

    Read more


    Game Collector (Windows)

    v16.4.2: Quick search with regular expressions and other tweaks

    November 10th, 2016


    New:

    • Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
    • Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
    • Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
    • The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

    Music Collector (Windows)

    v16.4.2: Improvements to trial version and quick search

    November 10th, 2016


    New:

    • Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
    • Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
    • Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
    • The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

    Fixed:

    • Export to CLZ Music: track lengths were not exported

    Comic Collector (Windows)

    v16.4.2: Quick search with regular expressions and other tweaks

    November 10th, 2016


    New:

    • Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
    • Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
    • Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
    • The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

    Book Connect

    New Collectorz.com shop at Shop.CLZ.com

    November 8th, 2016

    Big launch this week, our new Collectorz.com Shop is live at Shop.CLZ.com !

    Bernard, Sven, AJ and I (Alwin) have been working on this for quite a while, doing many iterations, to make the new shop super-clear and easy to navigate, even on mobile devices.

    This new shop replaces both the shop/buy pages of the collectorz.com website and the shop of the My.CLZ.com website. Both websites now link to the new Shop.CLZ.com.

    Read more


    CLZ Movies (iOS)

    v4.3.1: Redesigned Add Automatically screen!

    November 8th, 2016

    A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Movies mobile app is now available.

    In this update, we complete re-designed the Add Movies screen, to make it clearer, easier-to-user and to help you add movies more efficiently.

    What’s new in the Add Movies screen?

    • Switch between By Title and By Barcode using tabs at the top
      (Add Manually is now a separate screen, under Tools menu)
    • All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
    • Add button is now at bottom right (blue circle with “+” icon)
    • Adding By Title:
      • Suggestions appear in a drop-down while you type a title
      • Expand movie edition list using “V” icons on the right
    • Adding By Barcode:
      • Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
      • Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter a barcode manually
      • Delete barcode from queue by swiping from right to left
      • Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
      • Now correctly handles multiple results for a barcode search

    Read more


    Book Collector (Windows)

    v16.4.2: Added Unrecognized ISBN feature to Link/Update Book screen

    November 4th, 2016


    New

    • Link/Update Books now also supports the “Unrecognized ISBN” screen
    • Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.

    Book Collector (Windows)

    v16.4.1: Easily add books that come up as “Unrecognized ISBN”

    November 4th, 2016

    • In Add Books Automatically, when an ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
    • In this screen, just type the Author and the Title, then click Add Book.
    • This will:
      1. Instantly add the ISBN/Author/Title entry to our Core online book database.
      2. Add the book to your own database with ISBN, Author and Title filled in AND linked to the new Core entry.

    In other words, this new screen not only helps you in adding unrecognized books,
    but it also helps your fellow Book Collector users by adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core.

    ( BTW: this screen replaces the “Report Missing ISBN to Core” web-form. Of course, you can still provide more info for the added ISBN using the Submit to Core button in the Edit Book screen. )




    Easily add books that come up as “Unrecognized ISBN”

    • In Add Books Automatically and Link Books, when an ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
    • In this screen, just type the Author and the Title, then click Add Book.
    • This will:
      1. Instantly add the ISBN/Author/Title entry to our Core online book database.
      2. Add the book to your own database with ISBN, Author and Title filled in AND linked to the new Core entry.

    In other words, this new screen not only helps you in adding unrecognized books,
    but it also helps your fellow Book Collector users by adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core.

    ( BTW: this screen replaces the “Report Missing ISBN to Core” web-form. Of course, you can still provide more info for the added ISBN using the Submit to Core button in the Edit Book screen. )


    Movie Collector (macOS)

    v16.1.5: Fixed a scroll issue in text fields

    November 2nd, 2016


    Fixed:

    • Edit Screens: Memo text fields like Plot and Notes could not be scrolled up and down

    Music Collector (macOS)

    v16.1.2: Fixed scrolling issues in some fields

    November 2nd, 2016


    Fixed:

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

    Music Connect

    New: edit track lists (and sync ’em)

    October 31st, 2016

    Big update for Music Connect today: It is now finally possible to edit your album’s track lists and to manually enter track lists for manually added albums!

    Use the new Tracks tab in the Edit Album screen to:

    • Edit track lists to modify Title, Artist or Length.
    • Manually enter track lists for manually added albums.
    • Drag and drop tracks to change their order.

    Read more


    CLZ Books (Android)

    v4.3.7: Fixed a problem with CLZ Account registration

    October 27th, 2016

    • Fixed app closing on CLZ Account registration

    CLZ Comics (Android)

    v4.3.7: Fixed a problem with CLZ Account registration

    October 27th, 2016

    • Fixed app closing on CLZ Account registration


    New:

    • Sync your own track lists from the CLZ Cloud, e.g. your own customized track titles or track lists for unlinked albums

    Fixed:

    • App closing on CLZ Account registration