- Standard vs Pro: these features are now PRO-only: (all owners of a v8 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
- 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
- Simple Layout (hides tree automatically)
- Format can now also be set at the Disc level
- Albums and Tracks Composer fields now automatically inherit Composition.Composer values
- Storage Device information can now be added as a column in Album lists
- Fixed:
- Import from CDPLAYER.INI: index and defaults weren't assigned correctly to imported albums
- Edit Album: Track couldn't be dragged in front of a header when the header was the first in the track list
- Templates:
- Composers / Artists with URLs didn't always show a clickable link
- Personal Rating was not using half-star indications
- Edit Multiple: price fields could not be cleared using F8
- Filter: quick search or filtering could result in Access Violation
- Edit Album: Tracks tab now has extra columns for Composer and Composition
- Edit Album: Tracks tab now remembers column widths
- Edit Track: improved layout of classical fields (composition box is wider now)
- 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
- Names of album items in tree now include composer (when filled in)
- Generate Sort Title didn't work when no article (the, a, etc..) was found
- Tag field: Folders, Filter and #Used counters did not work correctly
- Edit Album / Covers: Edit and Copy button did not get enabled after adding an image
- Edit Album / People tab: Slow adding/editing of persons in the Credit List
- Edit Album / Tracks tab: when adding tracks manually the Track Position value got "stuck" at 20
- Three part person names (e.g. Barbara Taylor Bradford) got split into First/Last Names incorrectly
- Export to iPOD resulted in "Abstract Error"
- 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 lock file issues
- Edit Studio screen was missing some sub-fields (e.g. URL)
- Instrument field was missing from the Person List and Edit Person screens
- Added: Portuguese language support
- Fixed: Access Violations when closing Edit Album screen
- Fixed: Access Violations when switching between saved Sort Orders
- Fixed: "Not a valid integer" errors when opening a database with invalid data in TOC field
- Fixed: Studios: Folders, Filter and #Used counters did not work correctly
- Fixed: Ampersand (&) characters in Field Names were visible in some places where they shouldn't be
- Improved performance of editing items from picklists (Edit Album/Track)
- Error message 'Class TEdit not found' when clicking the Settings button in the Add Album Automatically screen
- Initial order and selection of infosources is now dynamic, based on country defined in Windows Regional Settings
- Amazon UK can now be searched by barcode
- Edit Album screen now supports the Collectorz.com barcode scanner to fill the UPC/Barcode field
- German language updated to version 7. Special thanks to Klaus Elsbernd.
- Changed: Import from text: UPC and TOC fields have been swapped to make import without TOC easier
- Fixed: Online update from Album screen did not add new genres or other lookup items
- More changes to file locations:
- "System" and "User" Templates can now be placed in two separate locations:
- System Templates are back to their old location in:
- Program FilesCollectorz.comMusic CollectorTemplates
- User Templates can now be (optionally) placed in a user configurable location (Tools / Options), which defaults to
- My DocumentsMusic CollectorTemplates
- Location of capphrases.txt is now configurable (Tools / Options / Capitalization) and defaults to
- My DocumentsMusic Collectorcapphrases.txt
- Fixed:
- Lyrics folder was always created at default location in My Documents
- In some cases the main screen layout was reset after minimizing and maximizing the program
- - Edit Album: UPC, Sort Title and Title The fields moved to Main tab page
- - Edit Album: improved layout of Main, Details and Personal tab pages
- - Templates: UPC(Barcode) is shown more prominently now
- Fixed:
- - Add Automatically Wizard: "List Index out of bounds" error when Collectorz.com returns no results
- - Add Automatically Wizard: when using Previous button one could still get to the "CD Scan Results" page
- - Edit Album: Submit button still submitted to Freedb
- - Submit screen: column headers didn't match content
- - Submit screen: "Can Submit" shows clearer msgs now
- - Submit screen: added columns that show whether a front and/or back cover is present
- - Submit screen: added check for max image size (500 kb)
- - Edit Lists: Auto-Resort checkbox had no effect
- Access Violation when program closes on Windows 98
- List Index Out of Bounds when selecting a disc in the tree and editing it via Storage Menu
- Storage Slot is now inherited from disk to track level
- Printer Setup did not remember options.
- Print and Export templates: Rowshading, Report Date and Thumbnails options were not applied correctly in non-english versions.
- Customization screen for menus and toolbars was not translated