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v21.1 Automatic Audience Ratings from IMDb

February 15th, 2021

A great addition to your Movie Collector software today: Automatic Audience Ratings from IMDb, like the MPAA ratings for US, or the BBFC ratings for UK.

I know, we announced this feature a couple of months ago already, expecting it to be live soon. However, the project turned out to be quite a bit more complex and time-consuming as initially planned. Not only technically, but also in terms of cleaning up duplicate ratings, creating all the rating icons, etc…

But the feature is finally here now. And, after running the Update from Core on my own collection (3100 movies), I must say, it was well worth the wait!

How to get the new Audience Ratings for your movies

First, go to Tools > Options > Data and Images and there select your region from the “Audience Rating Region” dropdown. Currently, the following regions are supported:

  • United States
  • Great Britain
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Germany
  • Norway
  • Switzerland
  • Finland
  • France
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Sweden
  • Spain
  • Italy
  • Belgium

Then, use Update from Core to update all movies with the new Audience Ratings. Here’s how:

  1. Click menu “Edit > Select All Movies” to select all movies.
  2. Click menu “Edit > Update from CLZ Core”
  3. For “Audience Rating”, select “Replace current data” in the pop-up*
  4. Click “OK” to start the update process

*If you do not get a popup in step 3, go to Tools > Options > Data and Images. Then click the button “Download settings for data and images” and for “Audience Rating”, select “Replace current data”.

For all future movies that you add, you will get the Audience Rating from IMDb automatically.

NOTE: The Audience Ratings from IMDb feature is a new online service that we offer, and therefore always requires an active subscription.


Recent changes

v23.3.5: Fixed a problem with adding new Cast/Crew members September 7th, 2023 v23.3.4: Fixed a couple of crashes and Cast/Crew search issues July 28th, 2023 v23.3.3: Fixed an issue with Cast/Crew features July 27th, 2023 v23.3.2: Repaired missing buttons in Edit Movie screen July 26th, 2023 v23.3: Cloud-sync your customized cast and crew lists July 25th, 2023 v23.2.4: Several Improvements June 1st, 2023 v23.2.3: Sorting fixes and improved Add Screen stability April 18th, 2023 v23.2.2: Various Fixes April 6th, 2023 v23.2: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app March 30th, 2023 v23.1: Movie trailers now appear as clickable thumbnails November 25th, 2022 v23.0: Report screen after Update IMDb Ratings + Easier way to update ’em all November 8th, 2022 v22.0.5: Two bug fixes May 31st, 2022 v22.0.4: Various bug fixes May 30th, 2022 v22.0.3: Various bug fixes March 21st, 2022 v22.0.2: Various bug fixes March 14th, 2022 v22: Configurable Pre-fill, more configurable Update from Core fields + WebP support March 8th, 2022 v21.6 Improved Submit to Core system October 8th, 2021 v21.5: Sync web-links and box set covers September 28th, 2021 v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background September 14th, 2021 v21.3.3: Transfer Field Data: fix for Date fields August 12th, 2021 v21.3.2: Tweaks for the Transfer Field Data tool August 6th, 2021 v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool August 3rd, 2021 v21.2: New Link Movies with Core screen April 28th, 2021 v21.1.2 Various improvements and fixes March 4th, 2021 v21.1 Automatic Audience Ratings from IMDb February 15th, 2021