Software and app updates released in 2022

It’s Dec 30, so this is CLZ Alwin with the final CLZ Newsletter for 2022. But first: A happy 2023 from the entire CLZ Team: Martin, Rowdy, Sven, Stijn, AJ, Pim, Joe, Bernard, Justin, Taco, Sytske and me, Alwin!

December has been a quiet month, with no releases at all! Most of the CLZ team has been taking vacation days this month (just 5 of us working today 🙂 ). On top of that, our focus has been on several BIG projects that should result in releases early 2023.

So this is the perfect opportunity to make this newsletter into a “What’s coming in 2023” overview:

• New “CLZ Scanner” app, to replace CLZ Barry
• Translations for the Connect web-based software
• Big updates for all book products with new fields
• Multi-level folders for the CLZ mobile apps
• Two-factor authentication on CLZ Accounts
• More slab fields for comic products

And much more of course, the above is just what’s at the top of our list now.

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We’re closing in on the end of the year, so it is time for the

CLZ Comics Wrap-up 2022!

CLZ Justin has been gathering some stats and has created some nice top 10 lists for you.
These are the most popular 2022 comics and series based on your usage of the CLZ software:

Enjoy!

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This is Alwin, with the CLZ News for November 2022.
After months of working on comic related updates only (for our CovrPrice partnership), the CLZ team has finally been freed up to work on our other products again, phew!!
Which instantly resulted in two big 23.0 updates for the Windows editions of Movie and Game Collector (and in the meantime, both have already been updated to v23.1 too!).

Of course, the work on our comic tools has not stopped, with important updates for Comic Collector, Comic Connect and CLZ Comics.

All releases this month:

• Movie Collector 23.0: Report screen after Update IMDb Ratings
• Game Collector 23.0: New: Updated Values report and more value data from PriceCharting
• Movie / Game Collector 23.1.1: trailer videos now appear as clickable thumbnails
• Game / Comic Connect: Improved “Update Values” Report
• Comic Collector 23.2: Re-Link Core Variant
• CLZ Comics 8.1.3: Improved Update Values report screen
• What’s cooking: new “CLZ Scanner” app / translations for Connect

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Another update for your Game Collector software, that could make using the software quite a bit faster and more responsive!

In this update, we are changing the way Youtube trailer videos are shown in the details panel. Instead of an embedded YouTube player (which can be very slow to load), the trailers are displayed as a list of video thumbnails and title. Just click to open the video on the Youtube site.

This new setup has the following advantages:

• Browsing through your games is a lot faster now.
  
  No more annoying “hangs” while the Youtube video loads.
• It resolves the problem of many videos not being “allowed” to be embedded nowadays.
• Clicking a trailer will now always open it in your default browser!
  
  (previously it always opened in Internet Explorer)

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Another update for your Movie Collector software, that could make using the software quite a bit faster and more responsive!

In this update, we are changing the way Youtube trailer videos are shown in the details panel. Instead of an embedded YouTube player (which can be very slow to load), the trailers are displayed as a list of video thumbnails and title. Just click to open the video on the Youtube site.

This new setup has the following advantages:

• Browsing through your movies is a lot faster now.
  
  No more annoying “hangs” while the Youtube video loads.
• It resolves the problem of many videos not being “allowed” to be embedded nowadays.
• Clicking a trailer will now always open it in your default browser!
  
  (previously it always opened in Internet Explorer)

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New:

• Menu now shows last “PriceCharting Values update” date
• Menu now shows last “Sync with CLZ Cloud” date
• Improved messaging for subscription status

Fixed:

• After searching in your own collection by scanning a barcode, the result will now show instantly
• Add Game: when scanning a barcode and then add manually, the barcode is now filled in

New:

• Menu now shows last “IMDb ratings/votes update” date
• Menu now shows last “Sync with CLZ Cloud” date
• Improved messaging for subscription status

Fixed:

• After searching in your own collection by scanning a barcode, the result will now show instantly
• Add Movie: when scanning a barcode and then add manually, the barcode is now filled in

New:

• Menu now shows last “Sync with CLZ Cloud” date
• Improved messaging for subscription status

Fixed:

• After searching in your own collection by scanning a barcode, the result will now show instantly
• Add Album: when scanning a barcode or adding by Cat. No., and then add manually, the barcode or Cat. No. is now filled in
• Details page of album wasn’t always updating correctly when editing “in template”

New:

• Menu now shows last “Sync with CLZ Cloud” date
• Menu now shows last “CovrPrice values update” date
• Improved messaging for subscription status

New:

• Folders: You can now group on Original Publication Year
• Menu now shows last “Sync with CLZ Cloud” date
• Improved messaging for subscription status

Fixed:

• Sorting on issue number wasn’t always working
• Details page of book wasn’t always updating correctly when editing “in template”
• After searching in your own collection by scanning an ISBN, the result will now show instantly

Changed:

• Improved messaging for subscription status

Changed:

• Improved messaging for subscription status

Changed:

• Improved messaging for subscription status
• Update from Core could remove local web-links

Changed:

• Improved messaging for subscription status

Changed:

• Improved messaging for subscription status

After months of working on comic related updates only (for our CovrPrice partnership), the CLZ team is finally freed up to work on our other products again, phew!

So today, we can release a nice update for your Game Collector software, in which we improve on the Pricecharting integration for getting game values.

• New “Updated Values Report” after updating values from PriceCharting
• Support for the separate Box Only and Manual Only values
• Support for the Graded values (“Graded” is now an extra Completeness option)

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New in Update Values report screen:

• Now shows the “report date” at the top
• Tap an entry to visit the CovrPrice page for that comic!
• “no value” is now shown as a dash “-“, instead of $0

Improved:

• Improved navigation animations in the main screen

Fixed:

• List/Cards: The “person” icon wasn’t showing for comics with a “My Value” filled in

New in Update Values report screen:

• Now shows the “report date” at the top
• Tap an entry to visit the CovrPrice page for that comic!
• “no value” is now shown as a dash “-“, instead of $0

After months of working on comic related updates only (for our CovrPrice partnership), the CLZ team is finally freed up to work on our other products again, phew!

So today, we can release a nice update for your Movie Collector software, in which we improve on the IMDb integration. Not a huge “major” update, but since 2023 is getting closer, we are calling it “version 23.0” anyway 🙂

Anyway, about IMDb: Most of you are probably diligently updating your IMDb Ratings and Votes on a regular basis. After all, if you are in any way interested in IMDb ratings, it is important to always keep those up-to-date.

However, after running the “Update IMDb Ratings/Votes” and getting the “254 movies updated” message, have you ever wondered

“WHICH movies have been updated and WHAT the change was?”.

Well, not anymore, because with today’s v23 update we are introducing a nice report that answers just that. Also, this updates makes it easier to update IMDb Ratings for your entire collection in one go.

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Fixed:

• Edit tracks: the “Add” button to add an artist to a track wasn’t visible

Today, two improvements to the PriceCharting features in your Games Connect software:

• New “View Last Update Report” in the menu, to re-open the last “Updated Values” report
• Updated Values screen now includes cover images!

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Today, two further improvements to the CovrPrice integration in your Comic Connect software:

• New “View Last Update Report” in the menu, to re-open the last “Updated Values” report
• Updated Values screen now includes cover images!

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Another update for your Comic Collector software, version 23.2, in which we introduce the “Re-Link Core Variant” feature, a new and easier way to link your local entries to a different variant in Core.

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CLZ Alwin, with a summary of CLZ’s busiest month ever, Oct 2022!
The month started with the CLZ team going to Paris to celebrate our 22nd anniversary. Then when back in Amsterdam, instantly rolling into our biggest launch ever: the integration of comic values from CovrPrice into our comic apps and software.
And then finally, dealing with all the questions about it, fixing some issues (pun intended) and releasing the first improvements based on your suggestions!

But I am happy to report that the launch was a huge success, with thousands of users signing up for CovrPrice and linking their CP and CLZ accounts! Users love seeing the values for their comics and getting an idea of the total value of their collection.

We will of course keep improving the CovrPrice features, but we can now finally free up part of the team for other, non-comic projects. We’ve got some cool stuff coming up!

The topics today:

• The CLZ team in Paris, check out the pics!
• Now live: Get comic values from CovrPrice in your CLZ app or software
• Two improvements for the CovrPrice integration
• Fixed: barcode scanning on iPhone 14 Pro
• Coming up: CLZ Scanner app to replace CLZ Barry

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