What's new in Music Collector for Windows?
Great news for vinyl collectors: our web-developers Joe and Robbert have revised and improved our Discogs search mechanisms, to give you more up-to-date Discogs data and more images.
What’s new in Music Collector’s Discogs support?
- Earlier monthly updates of our Discogs mirror
As you may know, we run our own mirror of the Discogs database (for performance reasons), which is updated monthly with their monthly full database dump.
We have now optimized the import tool that we use for this, meaning that we can now have our mirror updated the day after Discogs releases their dump (around the 5th of the month). - Now search Discogs LIVE by Catalog Nr
Did you purchase a new album that is on Discogs, but not in our mirror yet? Then in the Add Auto screen, just search by Catalog Nr. This will make our search engine check our mirror first, then if it’s not found, it will search the live Discogs database through their API. Of course, the retrieved entries are then added to our mirror. - All Discogs entries are now updated weekly
For all entries that *are* in our mirror, our search engine now checks for updates once a week. Making sure you always get the freshest Discogs data and images. - Discogs cover images are now downloaded again!
The downloading of Discogs images had been disabled for quite a while, because their servers couldn’t copy with the load, causing time-out errors. But it seems they have upgraded their servers, so we have enabled the cover image downloading again.
And: to keep the load on Discogs servers as low as possible we are caching the images on our own server, giving you faster image downloads for popular albums.
IMPORTANT:
These changes are all server-side, no update of your Music Collector software needed. You don’t even need the latest version to benefit from these improvements, any old version will do 🙂
Recent changes
v23.1: Simplified Sort Name editing for all pick list entries
August 31st, 2023
v23.0.4: Several improvements
June 1st, 2023
v23.0.3: Improved Add Screen stability and Sorting / Details Panel fixes
April 18th, 2023
v23.0.2: Various fixes
April 6th, 2023
v23: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app
March 30th, 2023
v22.0.6: Various bug fixes
May 30th, 2022
v22.0.5: Various bug fixes
March 21st, 2022
v22.0.4: Various bug fixes
March 14th, 2022
v22.0.3: Couple of bug fixes
March 3rd, 2022
v22.0.2: Fixed a crash in Manage Pick Lists and a bug
February 24th, 2022
v22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support
February 23rd, 2022
v21.5 Improved Submit to Core system
October 8th, 2021
v21.4.3: Template updates to the box set area
September 30th, 2021
v21.4.2: Improved box set area in templates and some fixes
September 28th, 2021
v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background
September 14th, 2021
v21.3.2: Transfer Field Data: fix for Date fields
August 12th, 2021
v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool
August 6th, 2021
v21.2.2: A couple of fixes
July 6th, 2021
v21.2: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Music Connect
June 16th, 2021
v21.1: New Link Discs with Core screen
May 6th, 2021
v21.0.3 Extra Collection Status dropdown button in Add Screen
March 17th, 2021
v21.0.2 Various improvements and fixes
March 4th, 2021
v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding albums
January 18th, 2021
v20.6.2: Folder panel now closes fully again
August 25th, 2020
v20.6 Easier access to the Manage Pick Lists screen
August 24th, 2020