Version history Collectorz.com Movie Collector

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Changes from v6.3.2 -> v6.4.1

• Export to Clz Movies for iPhone / iPod Touch:
• Support for Clz Movies 1.1
• New "Update" option, for exporting updates only as opposed to exporting the entire database every time)
• New "Intended Changes" screen for viewing and selecting updates.
• Extra exported data:
• Index
• Location
• Storage Device and Slot
• Edition
• Notes
• Episode list
• Fixed:
• Connect Syncing: '[<>]' appearing in Sort Title field
• Add/Update automatically: Region details weren't downloaded correctly
• Languages:
• Updated Czech language support, thanks Marek Hron!
• Updated Hungarian language support, thanks Cedomir Doresic!
• Updated German language support, thanks Klaus Elsbernd!

Changes from v6.3.1 -> v6.3.2

• Connect:
• Protocol optimization and now also synchronizes sort title field
• Fixed:
• Edit Multiple could change the index fields to 0

Changes from v6.2.2 -> v6.3.1

• New: Synchronize with Movie Collector Connect:
• What is Movie Collector Connect? See http://connect.collectorz.com/movies
• Use the new Connect / Synchronize menu to upload your collection to Movie Collector Connect and host your collection on Collectorz.com servers
• Then share your collection with friends, by just giving them a web-link
• Browse your online collection from any online mobile device, including iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, Nokia phones, PDAs, etc..
• Manage your collection (add or edit movies) using just a web-browser, from any Windows, Mac or Linux computer.
• Download changes you made online back to your local Movie Collector database.
• Sign up for a trial account here: http://connect.collectorz.com/register
• Improved Movie Collector MCE Viewer:
• Now supports PowerDVD8, PowerDVD9 and TotalMedia Theatre 3 as external players
• Improved performance and load times
• Improved handling of large databases
• New Views: Wall and Vertical Text
• Video View for Detail Page
• Actor Search Page
• Use up arrow to go to full screen mode from the Video Views. (on Video Text View use the right arrow)
• Detail Page:
• actor selection to list all of their movies
• movie cover will now scale much larger.
• MCE Fixes:
• Crashes when using the mouse wheel on Movie Links
• Custom Background issue for Vista 64 users.
• Play button how immediately starts playing when there is only 1 movie link
• Play All will no longer show ff the links contain a file that is not supported by a playlist
• Fixed:
• Add Automatically / Most popular: problems with blue "in collection" marking
• iPhone Export: in some cases updates of cover images didn't get exported.

Changes from v6.2.1 -> v6.2.2

• Export to iPhone / iPod Touch
• Fixed: For some databases only a subset of movies tranferred to Clz Movies (problem was caused by illegal characters in Plots)
• Fixed: Connection problems, data transfer halting at 40%

Changes from v6.1.1 -> v6.2.1

• Export to iPhone / iPod Touch
• Browse your movie collection on your iPhone or iPod Touch with the new Clz Movies app
• Available in Apple AppStore for $9.99 (search the AppStore for "clz movies")
• Use File | Export to iPhone / iPod Touch to transfer your data to the Clz Movies app (Requires Wi-Fi connection on your iPhone or iPod Touch, connecting to the same local network (LAN) that your Windows computer is in.)
• Movie Collector MCE viewer:
• New Page Transitions: Rotate, Popup, Bounce, Back and Forth
• Now supports the MCE built-in Parental Controls settings (US only, as it requires the use of US audience ratings G, PG-13, R, NC-17 and NR)
• Add/Update Movies Automatically:
• Search Queue can now be sorted by clicking the column headers
• Improved handling of scanned barcodes that contain extra scanned digits
• Fixed: Screen didn't always close when "Auto-close" setting was checked (mainly in Update mode)
• Fixed: Region filter wasn't always applied to the search results immediately
• Fixed: Various problems when using the CueCat in "Search Now" mode
• Languages:
• Updated German language support, thanks Klaus Elsbernd!

Changes from v6.0.4 -> v6.1.1

• Screen Fonts:
• Movie Collector screens look much better, because they now use the Windows system font (Segui on Vista, Tahoma on XP)
• Don't like it? Then use Tools/ Options / Screen Font to choose your own font for all screens.
• Want larger fonts for your lists? Just use Ctrl-PLUS and Ctrl-MINUS to increase/decrease the main screen font size (or View / Font Size).
• Add Movies Automatically:
• Improved Region Filter, now handles Blu-Ray A/B/C regions correctly
• Fixed:
• Opticon scanner was not detected correctly on some systems
• Add/Update Automatically:
• Update Automatically: Series entries were falsely marked as updated in some cases
• Update Selected: updating selected movies from the main screen could result in an Access Violation
• Link Movies would cause an Access Violation in folder mode
• Add Anyway: adding a movie that already existed in the database could result in an Access Violation
• Update selected added the movie instead of updating it
• Edit Movie:
• Duplicate entries in lookup list weren't handled properly
• Languages:
• Updated German language support, thanks Klaus Elsbernd!
• Updated Polish language support, thanks Lukasz Jakubowski!

Changes from v6.0.3 -> v6.0.4

• Further refinements to the Add Movies Automatically screen:
• Use the Add Selected button to add the selected result, without checking its checkbox
• Use the Add Checked button to add the "checked" results (this button automatically replaces the Add Selected button as soon as you check a box)
• bigger Show/Hide Queue button, to make it stand out more
• he "Already in collection" message is now is a "Add it Anyway? Yes/No" popup
• Several other cosmetic improvements
• Improved Find Scanner function:
• CueCat is now detected too
• Detecting Flic scanner is now faster
• Fixed:
• Add Movies Automatically:
• Access Violations when adding lots of movies in one session
• Add Anyway wasn't always behaving correctly
• In some situations, the cover images were downloaded twice
• Export To HTML: Access Violation when selected Details Template was missing
• Print Screen: Some of the settings weren't remembered correctly
• Statistics Screen: Price totals were incorrect in some cases
• Import From Text: Importing movies didn't increment the index field correctly

Changes from v6.0.2 -> v6.0.3

• Further improvements to the Add Movies Automatically screen:
• Search by barcode: after searching, the (single) search result is now automatically selected, checked and shown in the Preview Panel, so you only have to hit Add to add the movie to your database.
• Queue Mode:
• While searching by barcode, the last completed queue entry now automatically gets selected and updated with the found movie title
• You can now double-click a queue entry to perform a "Search Selected"
• Fixed:
• Movie Collector MCE: various problems playing movies

Changes from v6.0.1 -> v6.0.2

• Add Automatically:
• New "Format" column in Search Results, useful for spotting Blu-Ray releases
• Add Anyway button can now also be used to add movies
• when "already in collection" message occurs
• when there are results but not the correct one.
• Fixed: Focus/Selection problems after Edit Search Criteria
• Fixed: Focus/Selection problems after Remove
• Fixed: When adding items with Add Anyway the Index value was not incremented
• Fixed: Add Anyway button did not work in Search Now mode.
• Fixed: Edit Movie, Links tab: Adding movie files did not work correctly
• Tools / Options / User Templates: Browse button showed the wrong folder setting
• MCE Viewer:
• Viewer wasn't running on Vista 64 machines
• Video View mode could freeze the viewer

Changes from v5.6.2 -> v6.0.1

• New Add Movies Automatically screen:
• Now uses ONLY the (improved) Collectorz.com online movie database for movie information, DVD details and cover images (For clarity: it will NOT use IMDb anymore, or Amazon, DVD Empire, Adult or Gay DVD Empire, SendIt, DVD-Shop, Atlantic DVD or DVD FR.)
• The new "single source" screen replaces both the Wizard and Advanced Mode screens and makes it much easier and quicker to add movies, just search, select your result (once) and click Add.
• Or: select multiple results and add multiple movies from one search (e.g.: search for "die hard", select 4 movies and click Add to add em all)
• Hide / Show Search Queue button to switch between "Search Now" and "Add to Queue" mode
• Edit searches in Queue with new Edit Search Criteria screen (right-click menu). (This replaces the confusing Update in Queue system)
• New "Add Anyway" button to add a movie anyway when no results are found, automatically using the Barcode or Title you already entered for the search.
• New multi-column Search Results panel, with separate Title, Year, Barcode, Region, Cover Yes/No columns
• New "New Releases" tab page, showing the latest DVD and Blu-Ray releases, just select one (or more!) and click Add.
• New "Most Popular" tab page, showing last week's most popular movies, including theatrical releases. Select and Add, no searching needed.
• Improved Collectorz.com source:
• Now delivers larger cover images (600px high instead of 400px)
• Highly improved barcode coverage because the Collectorz.com server now uses Amazon "on the back-end" to get data and images for barcodes that are not recognized using its own database.
• Now delivers more edition specific front covers, because in case the Collectorz.com database misses the front cover, it automatically gives you the cover available at Amazon.
• Further improvements to the Region 1 barcode coverage because the server automatically uses hometheatherinfo.com's excellent Region 1 DVD List for barcodes that are not recognized using the Collectorz.com database or Amazon.
• Delivered movie data now includes IMDb Number, IMDb link and Amazon link
• Improved performance: upgraded server hardware makes searches lightning fast.
• Improved Movie Collector MCE viewer:
• New views:
• Thumbnail Flow, Slide Show
• Video Views: browse your collection while a movie is playing
• Screensaver : automatic movie cover slide show
• Improved Play Movie feature
• Use PowerDVD for playing DVDs and Blu-Ray discs
• Play ISO's using either Daemon Tools Lite or Virtual Clone Drive
• Quick Jump: use the keyboard in any view to jump to a movie
• Smoother navigation:
• Change Views and keep the same movie focused
• Smooth page transitions, choose from: Slide, Fade, Zoom or Matrix
• Improved overall performance
• New Themes: Transparent and Custom (select your own background image)
• use Play button or Ctrl key to show the onscreen keyboard (instead of "K")
• Printing:
• New Print screen with improved layout, making it more logical and easier to use, especially when printing simple lists
• Improved support for barcode scanners
• Added support for the Opticon OPN-2001 laser scanner
• Improved support for the Microvision Flic laser scanner
• Improved support for the CueCat scanner
• Fixed:
• Export to HTML: Browser title bar wasn't showing the movie title
• Main Screen: Folder view on features would result in error 'Invalid Field "Features" when dragging and dropping
• MyMovies import was not properly handling special characters
• Edit movie:
• Episodes and features tab: dragging and dropping an episode could result in an 'index out of bounds' error
• links tab: VOB files were not converted into the corresponding IFO file when dragging and dropping
• DVD Profiler import: "storage device" and "slot" were not imported properly
• Filter screen: Boolean conditions weren't remembering the comparison operator properly
• Filter screen and presets were not available in read-only mode

Changes from v5.6.1 -> v5.6.2

• Vista 64: Using the Images tab caused 'List Index out of bounds' error and Access Violations
• Vista 64: Details View templates did not show CSS background images
• For some movie file types, the play links in the Details View didn't work
• Corrupted user settings XML files could cause Range Check Error and Access Violations
• SendIt.com script stopped working due to their website changes
• My Movies import problems related to the encoding of special characters
• Movie Collector: various problems when there were duplicate Index values in the database.

Changes from v5.5.3 -> v5.6.1

• Movie Collector MCE improvements:
• Vista only:
• Choose between two themes: Black and Vista Blue (use Tools / Options / MCE in Movie Collector)
• Movie Details page: Select cover to make it flip around and show the Back Cover
• Improved mouse support
• XP:
• Now also includes movie links to play movies directly
• Standard vs Pro: these features are now PRO-only: (all owners of a v5 Standard license will get a FREE Pro Upgrade)
• Filter screen
• Saving Column, Sort Order and Folder field sets
• Statistics screen
• Changing Field Names
• User Defined Fields
• User Defined Credit Roles
• Fixed:
• Main Screen: Clearing the quick search would apply current filter instead of not filtering at all
• Filter Screen: An Anywhere condition could cause an Access Violation in some cases

Changes from v5.5.2 -> v5.5.3

• Movie Collector MCE:
• When multiple movie files are linked to a movie, the Play button in MCE now lets you select a file
• Several performance improvements, especially noticable on large collections
• Fixed: data loading issues on Vista 64
• Fixed:
• Main Screen:
• Sizes of classic sceen layout weren't always restored correctly after start up
• Tree behaviour could be mixed up in some layouts after start up
• The button on the splitter between Details and List made the splitter go up instead of down
• Edit Movie: Capitalization and Sort options causes Access Violation
• DVD Profiler import: actor names and other credit names weren't always imported correctly
• My Movies import: File locations weren't always imported correctly

Changes from v5.4.4 -> v5.5.2

• New Movie Collector MCE viewer for Media Center (created by Brian Baskerville of mcezone.com) (Note: some features are only available under Vista)
• cool new look and feel in several different views (Large Covers, Thumbnails and Titles)
• search by Title, Genre or Rating right from the MCE viewer
• use the on screen keyboard to find movies starting with a specific letter order your movie list by Title, Year or a Custom order (defined in Movie Collector in Tools / Options / Media Center)
• Define a Filter for MCE data in Tools / Options / Media Center
• No exporting to MCE necessary, the MCE viewer always uses an up-to-date data set
• New Screen Layout setting, offering six different layout configurations of tree, list and details panel
• Horizontal Split
• Vertical Split
• Full Width Details
• Full Height Tree
• Full Height Details
• Classic Layout (the pre v5.5 layout)
• Improvements to the multi-disc and TV series / episodes support
• Movie items are now shown in the tree panel, so that they can be expanded to show their details
• Expand a movie item to see its Disc items.
• For TV series, expand a Disc items to see the episodes on that disc
• Select a Disc item in the tree panel to view its episodes in the List panel, including their Sequence Number, Title, First-Air Date, Plot, etc...
• New icons and Detail View logos for Betamax and CED formats
• Import data from My Movies
• Islandic language support, thanks to Gunnar Magnusson
• Fixed:
• Edit Multiple: price fields could not be cleared using F8

Changes from v5.4.3 -> v5.4.4

• Changes:
• several Centurion support improvements
• Fixed:
• Filter settings weren't saved

Changes from v5.4.2 -> v5.4.3

• Edit Movie:
• the several price entry boxes still looked different from other entry boxes
• Submitting Movies:
• Submissions didn't arrive at collectorz anymore
• Main Screen:
• prices were shown even when 0 or empty
• CueCat support:
• EAN-13 barcodes weren't scanned properly
• some barcodes were generated with a wrong check digit

Changes from v5.4.1 -> v5.4.2

• Fixed:
• Add advanced screen:
• right clicking an item in the search queue showed some options in the screen greyed out when they shouldn't be
• when selecting a searched movie from the queue it did not show the corresponding result
• Main screen:
• with some templates the details screen didn't always show the personal details box in the upper right corner
• Ziotek storage device: ejecting a disc would always eject the disc in slot 1
• Edit Movie:
• the several price entry boxes looked different from other entry boxes
• clicking the update button could bring up a 'Hotkey is already registered' message'

Changes from v5.3.2 -> v5.4.1

• Changes:
• Support for Centurion CD carousel devices
• - Use Storage fields in Edit Movie screen to link your movies to Centurion CD volumes
• - Movie Collector handles Centurion CD disc inserts
• Improved TV Series / Episode support:
• - new Episode / Air Date field
• - new Episode / Running Time field
• Templates:
• - New MvC5 Compact template, for previewing in Add Automatically screens, in Blue and Black styles
• - New Full Covers templates in Blue and Black styles
• - New "Gray" style for Movie Collector 5 template
• Improved CueCat support:
• - Improved CueCat handling in main screen
• - Improved CueCat handling in Add Automatically screens
• - CueCat can now also be used in the Edit Movie screen (automatically fills barcode field then)
• In Collection Status:
• - New value "On Order"
• - Filter status is now shown in bottom of main screen
• Export HTML, Paged by Title First Letter option now allows choosing the Sort Order of items within pages.
• Add Automatically: Downloading price data is now optional (through Search Settings)
• Submit to Collectorz.com: now remembers Last Submission Date for each movie
• Tools / Options: new setting "User Files Folder", for choosing the folder where column, sort and filter settings are saved (defaults to My Documents\Movie Collector)
• Fixed:
• Filter screen:
• - Filtering on Price and Current Value fields did not work correctly ("value is invalid" errors)
• - Filtering on Date fields did not work correctly
• - Filtering on empty values on picklist fields did not work correctly.
• - When saving a filter, leading or trailing spaces in values got lost
• - Several user interface issues in the filter screen
• Export to iPod: when exporting including status indicator, the lists were not split correctly.
• DVD Profiler import: Purchase price was not correctly imported
• Sort title generation of person names could result in leading space in first name field
• Add Automatically:
• - Sort Title was always filled in, even when exactly the same as the Title
• - Wizard Mode: after adding then editing the main screen did not correctly select the added item
• - DVDFr script stopped working due to their website changes
• - Gay DVD Empire scripts stopped working due to their website changes
• Main screen:
• - Reassign index fields had no effect while in folder view
• - Changing the sort order sometimes required two column header clicks
• - Closing application from Windows taskbar while customizing toolbar caused an Access Violation
• - When selecting multiple items 'Edit Movie' was still enabled in right click menu
• Loans screen: filter text was cleared when pressing the filter button
• Edit Movie screen:
• - Price fields now only accept valid price values
• - Crew lists didn't display scrollbar when column sizes exceeded list width
• Printing:
• - Some pictures like rating stars were not showing in print out
• Templates: Classic Details View templates were always showing Storage header even if none were specified.
• Windows Media Center: when exporting to a folder the index.html was missing in some cases
• Edit Lists : fields of Box Sets were not counted in "used" count

Changes from v5.3.1 -> v5.3.2

• Added:
• AutoCap feature for Episode Titles (in Add/Edit Episode screen)
• Fixed:
• Export to HTML: index.html was not created when using "Use main screen setting" under Sort Order
• Export to HTML: "Range Check Error" when using "Use main screen setting" under Sort Order
• Import Other Database: Storage device values were not imported
• Automatic Sort Titles didn't work correctly for titles already in "Title, The" format
• License name that has non-ASCII characters was not removed from lock file correctly causing "Read-Only" situations

Changes from v5.2.5 -> v5.3.1

• Searching your database:
• Completely redesigned Filter screen
• Build advanced filters using brackets, AND, OR, NOT, equal, not equal, greater than, less than, contains, wildcards
• Save your filters and activate them directly using the Filter menu on the toolbar
• Faster Quick Search
• Sorting:
• Save your sort order definitions and activate them directly using the Sort Order menu on the toolbar
• Simpler Sort Field selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want.
• Columns:
• Save your column definitions and activate them directly using the Columns menu on the toolbar
• Simpler Columns selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want.
• Folder selection:
• Save you custom folder field combination and activate them directly from the Folder menu above the tree
• Simpler Folder field selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want.
• Automatic Sort Titles
• new "Generate Sort Title" button in Edit Movie screen
• Sort Titles are now automatically generated from the Title when using Add Automatically
• use Tools / Options / Sort Titles to configure recognized articles (the, a, le, la, die, der, das, etc..)
• Automatic Capitalization of Titles
• new AutoCap button next to Title in Edit Movie screen
• Titles are now automatically capitalized when using Add Automatically
• use Tools / Options / Capitalization to configure auto-cap settings and exceptions
• Fixed:
• Edit Lists: Auto-Resort checkbox was shown at the wrong position when using a small screen
• Three part person names (e.g. Barbara Taylor Bradford) got split into First/Last Names incorrectly
• Edit Movie / Covers: Edit and Copy button did not get enabled after adding an image
• Adult DVD Empire search

Changes from v5.2.4 -> v5.2.5

• Missing Full Details Classic Print Template added
• Size of covers in Classic View Template fixed
• Rating stars were white instead of yellow in Classis View Template
• Access Violation when using Edit at the end of the Add Wizard

Changes from v5.2.3 -> v5.2.4

• New CSS Styles system now also available for Export and Print templates
• New Movie Collector 5 template can now also be used for printing
• All Full Details Classic styles can now be used for Exporting to HTML
• Add Automatically:
• DVD Empire: search results now include HD-DVD and BluRay releases
• Gay DVD Empire" results are now sorted by (search) rank
• All Amazon sources: the cover price is now retrieved and put into the purchase price field.
• Norwegian language support, thanks to Erlend Øfstaas
• Rare Access Violations after adding a new movie using the Add Wizard
• Adding an episode to a disc reversed the modifications to the current disc
• Manage List Screen: the auto resort checkbox sometimes appeared in the wrong location
• Lock File system: concurrent use check now includes Windows user name
• Updated French language file to verison 5.2.3, thanks to Cyrille Maurice

Changes from v5.2.2 -> v5.2.3

• Change:
• Add Automatically: screens now remember last used search box
• Add Automatically Advanced Mode: Bar code is now automatically cleared after Add to Queue
• Read-Only mode: new Tools / Maintenance / Reset Lock File command for resolving lock-file issues
• Fixed:
• Dropping Box Set covers in the Edit Box Set screen did not work correctly.
• Loan Management features were available in Standard edition
• Incorrect "Read-Only" mode messages after problematic program shutdowns

Changes from v5.2.1 -> v5.2.2

• Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window error in edit movie screen

Changes from v5.1.2 -> v5.2.1

• Improved network support
• New lock file system automatically prevents concurrent editing
• When one user is already using a database in Writable mode, subsequent users will automatically open the database in Read-Only mode
• in Read-Only all editing features are hidden and disabled, allowing viewing and searching only
• Create Read-Only workstations by running a forced Read-Only installation (start the installer with the /readonly command line parameter)
• Improved Loan Management
• Print loan lists
• Use Flic scanner in Loan Management screen to Loan or Return movies
• Use the Quick Search box to search your Loan History by Title, Bar code or Loaner name
• New Email and Address fields in the Loaner item
• New date selectors in Loan Info screen
• Edit Movie screen
• New Tags fields on Personal tab page
• New entry boxes for easier adding of values to check list fields (e.g. Genre, Extras)
• Full Help File in German (thanks Klaus!)
• Updated Croation language file to version 5, thanks to Cedomir
• Updated German language file to version 5, thanks to Klaus
• Updated Greek language file to version 5, thanks to NASKO
• Upgraded to Delphi 2007
• Fixed:
• Edit Movie: Several problems when using the Update and Submit buttons
• Edit Movie: List Index out of bounds error when choosing Cancel, then No on the Yes/No question panel
• Add Automatically: Movie credits did not show up in Preview panel
• Disc (Extra) features were not being retrieved properly from info sources
• Quick search was not searching in discs and episodes
• Add Automatically Wizard: Access Violation when using Previous button while searching
• Buttons on covers-tab were not enabled properly when adding a cover
• In some cases Format icon did not follow Format changes directly

Changes from v5.1.1 -> v5.1.2

• Added:
• Edit Movie screen: horizontal splitter in Episodes / Features tab page
• Fixed:
• Database conversion: several problems converting existing Storage Slot data
• "Invalid pointer operation" when closing the Add Movie Manually screen using the "X"
• "Opening in Read-Only Mode" errors
• Episodes in Details View: Disc headers are now only shown when there are episodes on multiple discs
• Box Sets: when scanning images the front and back covers got saved under the same filename
• several localization issues

Changes from v5.0.2 -> v5.1.1

• Added / Changed:
• Multi-Disc support:
• Use the new Episodes & Features tab page to create Disc items for each disc in a multi-disc DVD set
• Enter Episode lists per disc
• Enter Standard Features and Extra Features per disc
• Improved carousel support: now enter Storage Device and Slot per disc
• Automatic Episode numbering
• Improved View, Export and Print template to show episodes, features and storage data per disc
• Enhanced Box Set support
• Box Set item now has extra fields for Front cover, Back Cover, Release Date, Barcode, Purchase Date, Price, Store, Condition, Current Value and Notes
• All Box Set fields are now shown in a special Box Set bar at the top of the Details View (in both Movie Collector 5 and Classic templates)
• new Box Set List button on toolbar for direct access to the Box Set List screen
• new Movie fields on Edition tab page: Distributor and Extras
• Edit Movie screen now supports the Collectorz.com barcode scanner to fill the Barcode field
• Windows Media Center: it is now possible to link to .VOB files or .IFO files (DVD rips) in the movie links section and play them from Windows Media Center
• Improved look of In Collection Status images in tree and list
• Fixed:
• Edit Movie: Incorrect "Are you sure?" message when cancelling without having made any changes
• Edit Movie: [Add/Edit] command disappeared from drop down list after using F2
• Export to HTML: Crew did not appear in version 5 export templates
• Details View: Templates with multiple stylesheets were not detected in user templates directory

Changes from v5.0.1 -> v5.0.2

• Access Violation after closing the Edit Movie screen (happened only on some system configurations)
• "Abstract Error" when scanning a barcode directly from the main screen
• When using Next/Previous to add Links to multiple movies, the links were all added to the first movie only.
• Export to HTML:
• - descending sort order did not work
• - Custom list template appeared in Saved Template List
• - Include Thumbnail Column setting in saved templates did not work correctly
• Loans:
• - Returning a loan did not work
• - Main screen was not refreshed after using the Manage Loans screen
• When adding the "Episodes" field to a printed list, the column showed no values
• Storage / Eject command was missing from right click menu in Images View
• Windows Media Center export did not work when there was an ampersand (&) in the Windows username
• Movie Collector 5 template:
• - Original Title was missing
• - IMDb Rating was missing
• - for movie entries without cast or crew, the Personal Details overlapped the "floating" box on the right
• several localization issues (thanks Klaus!)

Changes from v4.11.1 -> v5.0.1

• Support for Episodes of TV Series
• List episode titles and plots of TV Series on new "Episodes" tab page in Edit Movie screen
• Download episode titles from the Collectorz.com info source automatically
• Episode list shows up in Details View on main screen
• Support for Box Sets
• new Box Set field in Edit Movie screen
• show your movies grouped by Box Set in the main screen.
• Add links to movie files (DivX, Xvid, WMV, etc...)
• Use the improved Links tab page to add movie files by dragging and dropping
• Start your movie player by clicking the link in the Details panel in the main screen
• Windows Media Center support:
• Browse your Movie Collector database through Windows Media Center
• Start linked movie files directly
• Add Movies Automatically:
• Improved Advanced Mode: tabs at the top have been combined, making it easier to search by Title AND Barcode in one go
• Improved Wizard Mode:
• It now takes less steps to add a movie
• Screen is now resizable, for better previewing of results
• Filter Collectorz.com search results:
• show editions of a particular Region only (e.g. Region 1 only)
• show editions that have a Cover only
• or just hide all editions and list movie entries only
• Amazon UK can now be searched by barcode
• new Check Connection button
• Initial order and selection of info sources is now dynamic, based on country defined in Windows - Regional Settings
• Details View Templates:
• New CSS Styles system
• Template menu now allows selecting various "styles" for each template (using a submenu)
• Styles can be created using CSS style sheets
• Added several new styles for Full Details template
• New Movie Collector 5 template, in 3 different styles (blue, black and iTunes)
• New toolbar icons
• New design for add/edit/remove and loan buttons
• Many existing icons have been improved (smoother edges)
• Edit Movie screen enhancements:
• Improved layout of fields within tab pages
• Screen is now resizable (and remembers its size too)
• Column widths of Cast and Crew lists are now remembered
• Improved Links tab page:
• Add links to websites by dragging & dropping from your browser
• Add links to local files by dragging & dropping
• Added images show up in the Details View in the main screen
• Easier editing of links and their descriptions
• The "..." buttons next to pick list fields have been removed and replaced by a new [Add ...] command inside the drop down list
• Fixed: "tabbing" to date fields needed an extra tab key press
• Storage Slot data can now also be set as : 1 or 3-8 or 3,5,6,7,9
• Export to HTML:
• New Movie Collector v5 Blue and Black detail page templates
• Improved look of List and Thumbnails index pages
• Improved look of Next/Previous navigation at the top of exported pages
• New "Paged by First Letter of Title" option
• Completely revised and updated Help file (english version only for now)
• Fixed:
• Minor corrections to Danish translation (Wizard mode)
• Image preview during online search failed if the Windows user account name contained two consecutive spaces
• Online update from Edit Movie screen did not add new genres or other lookup items
• Edit Lists screen now shows user defined field names (only for lists that are not shared by multiple fields)
• Import from DVD Profiler 3.0 did not work

Changes from v4.10.6 -> v4.11.1

• Added:
• Import from Text feature moved from Add Automatically screen to File / Import From / Text, so that items are imported directly into the database, instead of to the Search Queue.
• Edit Lists: new "Merge Selected To" command in right mouse button menu, to allow selection of the merge "destination item"
• new "Cover Image Dropping" setting in Tools/Options/Images to for disabling the "Copy or Link?" prompt
• Language support for Slovenian, Swedish, Greek, Russian and Danish
• Windows Vista compatibility/compliance:
• changed default location of user data (database, backup, images and thumbnails) to: \My Documents\Movie Collector\
• User Templates can now be (optionally) placed in a user configurable location (Tools / Options), which defaults to \My Documents\Movie Collector\Templates\
• "System" Templates (the ones included with the program) are still in /Movie Collector/Templates/
• changed location of Script and other "temp" files to: \Documents And Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Collectorz.com\Movie Collector\
• Fixed: program hangs when closing on some Vista systems
• Fixed:
• Drag and drop of images from FireFox didn't work
• Details View did not update correctly after replacing a cover image (e.g. by dragging&dropping)
• DVD Profiler import did not read the genre field
• Performance problem when loading folder lists in Images View
• Minor corrections to Polish language

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