What's new in Collectorz.com MP3 Collector 2.3 Build 1

Jul 28, 2007
  • Added: Support for VBR encoded MP3 files with VBRI headers (previously only Xing VBR headers were supported)
  • Added: Support for Unicode (UTF-16) encoded data in ID3v2 tags (as written by e.g. WinAmp)
  • Changed default location of user data (database, backup) to: My Documents - MP3 Collector
  • User Templates can now be (optionally) placed in a user configurable location (Tools / Options), which defaults to My Documents - MP3 Collector - Templates
  • "System" Templates (the ones included with the program) are still in MP3 Collector - Templates
  • Fixed: program hangs when closing on some Vista systems
  • Editing Lists: new right-click menu with Add/Edit/Remove/Merge/Generate commands
  • Simplified Merge system: just multi-select items and choose Merge Selected or Merge Selected To
  • "Generate" functions can now be performed in batch on selected items in list (use Generate commands in right-click menu)
  • New "Auto Re-sort" checkbox on toolbar for enabling/disabling automatic resorting
  • Last Name column is now actually called "Last Name" (previously it was called "Name")
  • Next/Previous buttons in all Edit Item screens (e.g. Edit Artist, Edit Genre, etc..)
  • Added: Automatic update option in Check For Update screen, which downloads and installs the latest version automatically
  • Added: Sorting on text fields now takes numbers into account (e.g. 'title 10' sorts after 'title 2' instead of before)
  • Fixed: for some types of VBR encoded MP3 files the wrong bitrate and duration were reported
  • Fixed: rare problems when tagging files that are in use
  • Fixed: Check for update period was not taken into account
  • Fixed: Sorting of listfields now works similar to sorting of string fields.
  • Fixed: Printing and Export to HTML: Text fields now show HTML tags correctly in list reports (e.g. the Bold tag is shown as bold text)
  • Fixed: Quick Search did not work after having done a Filter earlier using the "EXCEPT" option
  • Fixed: Program icon now looks much better
  • Fixed: pressing Alt-F4 opened the Edit Tag screen, while it should close the program