Software and app updates released in 2016 (page 3)

Nowadays, most CLZ projects are related to Core, Cloud and Connect, so it’s about time we extended our web-dev team. This month we welcomed two new junior web-developers, Eline and Joe, which brings the CLZ team to 12 people!

A perfect example of a huge web project, completed this month: CLZ Cloud syncing of your track lists, of course resulting in updates of all our music cataloging tools, for desktop, mobile and web.

If you’re using Music Collector and CLZ Music, these are must-have updates!

All topics for today:

• Eline and Joe have joined our web-development team
• Music Collector + CLZ Music: Cloud Sync your own track lists!
• Book Collector for Windows: Easily add books that come up as “Unrecognized ISBN”
• Movie Collector for Mac: more improvements to Add Automatically screen.
• Search-As-You-Type suggestions for movies/comics/games now live in more apps

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• Fixed app closing on CLZ Account registration

• Fixed app closing on CLZ Account registration

New:

• Fixed flickering in navigation/toolbar in the main list on phone

CLZ Cloud: Now stores and syncs *your* track lists

• The CLZ Cloud system now supports the storing and syncing of track lists.
  (previously, track lists were always shared from Core)

• For each track, the CLZ Cloud now stores Title, Artist and Length.
• Now store and sync your own customized track titles and artists.
• Now store and sync track lists for unlinked albums (e.g. manually entered or imported).
• NOTE: after updating your Music Collector software, ALL your albums will be flagged as CHANGED,
  so that they will be re-uploaded to the CLZ Cloud!

BTW: To sync track lists to the CLZ Music app, you need
version 4.2.4 for iOS or version 4.3.6 for Android! (both released today)

CLZ Cloud: Improved syncing of Artist Sort Names

• Improved storing of Album Artists in the CLZ Cloud.
• Now correctly sync Artist Sort Names to/from the mobile apps.
• Fixed: difference in sorting between folder panel and album panel in the CLZ Cloud viewer.

Fixed:

• Add Movies Automatically:
  • Movies were added without data and as “Untitled Movie” when adding several from the queue
  • After adding a result in queue mode the search wasn’t removed from the queue
  • Searching all entered barcodes in the queue could cause a crash

• New Search engine for adding comics By Title:
  • Better and cleaner search results.
  • Much faster, almost instant results.

• New layout for the comic lists

New:

• Sync your own track lists from the CLZ Cloud, e.g. your own customized track titles or track lists for unlinked albums
• New folder option: Collection Status

Fixed:

• Fixed database limit message appearing in the old desktop sync when the limit was between 100 and unlimited

CLZ Cloud: Now stores and syncs *your* track lists

• The CLZ Cloud system now supports the storing and syncing of track lists.
  (previously, track lists were always shared from Core)
• For each track, the CLZ Cloud now stores Title, Artist and Length.
• Now store and sync your own customized track titles and artists.
• Now store and sync track lists for unlinked albums (e.g. manually entered or imported).
• NOTE: after updating your Music Collector software, ALL your albums will be flagged as CHANGED,
  so that they will be re-uploaded to the CLZ Cloud!

BTW: To sync track lists to the CLZ Music app, you need
version 4.2.4 for iOS or version 4.3.6 for Android! (both released today)

CLZ Cloud: Improved syncing of Artist Sort Names

• Improved storing of Album Artists in the CLZ Cloud.
• Now correctly sync Artist Sort Names to/from the mobile apps.
• Fixed: difference in sorting between folder panel and album panel in the CLZ Cloud viewer.

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• Fixed missing covers and track list when syncing from CLZ Cloud

• Added Folder options for Country and store
• CLZ Cloud Sync button now indicates “out of sync” status using red exclamation mark
• App now automatically restores the Unlock Full App in-app purchase
• Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field
• Fixed screen rotation not working on phones

We added folder options in this build for a couple of fields we didn’t have them for yet. Should be a pretty complete list by now! Also added a nice “out of sync” mark to let you know when the collection is out of sync.

New:

• Added Folder options for:
  • format
  • store
  • age
  • color
  • country
  • crossover
  • edition
  • genre
  • language
  • story arc
• CLZ Cloud Sync button now indicates “out of sync” status using red exclamation mark
• App now automatically restores the Unlock Full App in-app purchase

Fixed:

• Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field
• Fixed quick search suggesting returning a blank screen on a single issue search result

New:

• CLZ Cloud database detection for empty databases
• Out of sync notification on the sync button
• Improved restoring of in app purchase
• Added collection status folder
• Added folder support for:
  • condition
  • country
  • store

Fixed:

• Fixed screen rotation not working on phones
• Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field

New:

• CLZ Cloud Sync button now indicates “out of sync” status using red exclamation mark
• App now automatically restores the “Unlock Full App” in-app purchase
• Added more folder options:
  • store
  • packaging
  • edition
  • condition
  • location
  • country
  • aspect ratio
  • cinematographer
  • distributor
  • musician
  • producer
  • region
  • subtitle
  • writer

Fixed:

• Hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field

New:

• CLZ Cloud database detection for empty databases
• Out of sync notification on the sync button
• Improved restoring of in app purchase
• Added folder support for: multiplayer mode, edition and hardware type

Fixed:

• Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field

Improvements to Add Movies Automatically screen

• Title searches: Search-As-You-Type suggestions drop-down now includes an extra entry
  “Show all results”, to take you directly to the “normal” title search results.

• Title searches are now much faster, as the program does not download all edition listings for all movies anymore.
  It now downloads these “on demand”, only for the movie entries that you expand to see the edition list.

Fixed:

• MacOS Sierra: When running the program in full screen mode popups were hidden below the program’s main screen.
• The Edit screen sometimes crashed when trying to add a new feature under “Episodes & Features”
• Add Movies Automatically:
  • Search As You Type: Auto select has been disabled as it was causing confusion.
  • Region filter didn’t work.

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:

• Linking Movies with Core: a barcode search that resulted in several results couldn’t be expanded
• Export to XML: exporting could cause an “Invalid Pointer Operation” error

New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding games by title

If you are adding most of your games “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.

Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:

1. In the Add Games Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the game you want to add.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, instantly showing the five most popular games that match,
   listing the title, platform and a small thumbnail image.
3. For popular games, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
   For older or less popular games, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your game appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact game will be listed.

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New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding games by title. While enter a title to search for, a drop-down list will appear, showing the five most popular games that match. If you see the game you were looking for, just tap to select it.

Fixed:

• Screen rotation throughout the app
• Database totals counting hardware as games

New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding comics by title. While enter a title to search for, a drop-down list will appear, showing the five most popular series that match. If you see the series you were looking for, just tap to select it.

Fixed:

• Screen rotation throughout the app
• Improved scrolling smoothness in the series list
• Have/wish lists are back in the series list

Fixed:

• CLZ Movies now handles multiple barcode search results properly

New:

• “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding movies by title. While enter a title to search for, a drop-down list will appear, showing the five most popular titles that match. If you see the movie you were looking for, just tap to select it.

Fixed:

• Screen rotation throughout the app

This is CLZ Alwin, writing to you from sunny Italy. Sytske and I are on a 7-day road trip in the the Dolomites, in the north-east of Italy.

Here’s a picture of us in our temporary “office” 🙂

So… I’ll keep it short today. Here’s the news for September 2016:

• The new “Material” look and feel is now live for all Android apps!
• Comic Collector: Search-As-You-Type suggestions for adding comics By Title.
• All Mac editions now macOS Sierra compatible.

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Changes:

• Add/Link Music Files: now uses a different dialog for choosing the folders to scan, that should be loading the folder structure faster

Fixed:

• Field Defaults were not immediately stored after closing the screen
• Syncing screen: Sometimes the sync button was wrongly disabled
• iPhone: Main Screen: crash when touching the row with total comics