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19.3: Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud (inc. Back Cover)!

October 18th, 2019

With all the big comic and game related releases going on, it has been a few months since the last Music Collector update. But we didn’t forget you! In the background, we have been “secretly” working on a big update, which is available now as version 19.3!

Here’s what’s new:

  • Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud / Music Connect:
    • Classical music fields, like Conductor, Orchestra, Composers
    • Recording specific fields, like Studio, Date, Live, Sound
    • Extras
    • AND the Back Cover image!
  • The Location field has been moved to the bottom of the Edit Screen
  • Collection Status field is now a dropdown menu

Many fields added to the sync

We’ve added many fields to the sync with CLZ Cloud:

  • Conductor
  • Orchestra
  • Composer (multiple composers supported now, including their sortnames)
  • Studio
  • Recording Date
  • Live: Yes/No
  • Sound: Mono/Stereo/Hi-Res Stereo/Multi-channel
  • Extras
  • Back Cover image!

IMPORTANT: after the update a FULL sync to cloud is required!

Please note that after updating your software to version 19.3, Music Collector needs to Sync to CLZ Cloud all albums that contains information in one or more of the above new sync fields. This is necessary to upload your data for the above new cloud sync fields.

We are aware this can take a long time, especially for large collections, but there really is no way around this, sorry.

What about the CLZ Music mobile app?

We’ll be adding the new fields (except back cover for now) to the CLZ Music mobile app as soon as possible.

Back Covers

With this big update for Music Collector we’re adding custom back covers to the sync!

We introduced a new checkbox “Custom Image” in the Edit screen for back covers of album entries.
This checkbox will be automatically checked when you replace the Core image, e.g. by using Find Cover Online, by dragging and dropping or by using the Browse button to add a local image.

Once this Custom Image box is checked, that cover will automatically sync to and from the CLZ Cloud.

Once a cover is marked as custom, it will always stay marked as custom, so that even if you clear your cloud and sync everything again, they will re-upload automatically.

Modifications to the edit screen

  • The Location field has been moved to the bottom of the Edit Screen
  • Collection Status field is now a dropdown menu

Recent changes

v23: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app March 30th, 2023 v22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support February 23rd, 2022 v21.5 Improved Submit to Core system October 8th, 2021 v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background September 14th, 2021 v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool August 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 v21.0.2 Various improvements and fixes March 4th, 2021 v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding albums January 18th, 2021 v20.6 Easier access to the Manage Pick Lists screen August 24th, 2020 v20.5: Changing your folder field is now much easier July 28th, 2020 v20.4: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core June 25th, 2020 v20.3: Faster Shelves View + 2 new Shelf Styles June 4th, 2020 v20.2 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! March 25th, 2020 v20.1 Improved music file cataloging February 26th, 2020 v20.0.2 Better Tag editing / Faster syncing February 5th, 2020 v20: Folder panel improvements + new Statistics screen January 13th, 2020 19.3: Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud (inc. Back Cover)! October 18th, 2019 v19.2.1: New: Duplicate Finder tool April 12th, 2019 v19.1.2: More tweaks to the Add button March 25th, 2019 v19.1: Three cool tweaks requested by our users March 6th, 2019 v19.0: multiple collections, auto-sync images, 64-bit and a new Flex template! December 17th, 2018 v18.4.1: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud and CLZ Music August 13th, 2018 v18.3.1: Secure HTTPS connections July 30th, 2018 v18.2.1: Selection checkboxes / New Action Bars May 29th, 2018