What's new in Free TvDB 5.33
Dec 4, 2014
- seasons not present anymore in a series are cleaned up in the local db (this caused the update loop bug)
New in Free TvDB 5.32 (Dec 3, 2014)
- (fixed) rare bug: after updating a series, the software keep looping in the update process
- changed the location confirm icon with a save icon
- some bug fix
New in Free TvDB 5.30 (Nov 26, 2014)
- (fixed) DB load error in case a series XML is not present and cannot be downloaded from thetvdb.com
- (fixed) after auto/manual updating a series the focus is lost and another series/season is selected
- some bug fix
New in Free TvDB 5.20 (Nov 12, 2014)
- (fixed) rare crash on some systems when opening the config window (System.InvalidOperationException)
- updated error reporting engine
- updated internal libraries code
- various code fix
New in Free TvDB 5.10 (Jul 3, 2014)
- automatic ZIP library download in case the file ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll is not present
- added a new registration method: SMS. Useful if you don't have a credit card or PayPal
- new error reporting system engine
- various code fix
New in Free TvDB 5.02 (Apr 4, 2014)
- updated registration library code
New in Free TvDB 5.00 (Mar 25, 2014)
- Added a new registration method: download a temporary license code.
- Removed third bundle software.
- Updated internal libraries code.
New in Free TvDB 4.98 (Feb 26, 2014)
- rare software crash after opening the config with a wrong proxy configuration added a skip button in the bundle pre-installation message: the third party software installation can be easily skipped
- various optimizations, fix and code updates
New in Free TvDB 4.96 (Sep 12, 2013)
- fixed a startup module
- fixed a function in the proxy module
New in Free TvDB 4.95 (Aug 20, 2013)
- fixed the YouTube parser
- fixed the XML parser
- improved proxy detect on startup (option "auto enable proxy" should be active)
New in Free TvDB 4.93 (Jun 19, 2013)
- (fixed) script error while trying to watch YouTube video
New in Free TvDB 4.92 (May 29, 2013)
- updated the software installer
New in Free TvDB 4.91 (May 17, 2013)
- (fixed) sometimes the bundle installer does not detect correctly the end of a succesful installation
- updated the software installer
New in Free TvDB 4.90 (May 13, 2013)
- new software updater: the next new versions will be downloaded and installed without the need to unzip manually!
- when a new version is available, the list of latest changes is shown in the same window
- added a new registration method: now the software can be registered by installing a third party app. Useful for people that don't have PayPal.
- fixed the software updater check
- (fixed) software crash when temp dir cannot be created
- recompiled with .NET 3.5
New in Free TvDB 4.85 (Jan 14, 2013)
- fanart / posters / imdb images now are shown in fullscreen
New in Free TvDB 4.82 (Nov 22, 2012)
- (fixed) the youtube video search does not find any result
- updated internal modules
New in Free TvDB 4.80 (Sep 19, 2012)
- added a new button in the Video tab: "Search bloopers video on YouTube"
- more search results from YouTube are displayed in the video panel
- the video search results panel can be closed
- the Op.Theme tab has been renamed to "Video"
- in multi user systems when setting a fan art as a wallpaper, it is changed only on the desktop of the logged user
- added error handling in the YouTube parser engine
- added series to DB are removed from the search results
- (fixed) menu option "set as wallpaper" sometimes is not visible and sometimes is visible on images that cannot be set as wallpaper due to low resolution / size
- (fixed) window borders of zoomed images are slightly larger than the screen working area
- (fixed) on netbook the YouTube search buttons in the Video tab are not visible
- various code updates
New in Free TvDB 4.56 (Sep 14, 2012)
- fixed a potential issue with firewall/proxy software which filter or modify web data - video gallery: if a youtube video is no more available, an exclamation point is displayed instead of a blank image
New in Free TvDB 4.55 (Aug 21, 2012)
- added a button in the Op.Theme tab to search related video on YouTube of selected series
- fixed the YouTube video finder module
New in Free TvDB 4.50 (Aug 9, 2012)
- new feature: if an opening theme is not present in the database, the software search automatically it on YouTube
- corrupted images are deleted and re-downloaded automatically
- added a button to stop loading IMDB images
- (fixed) IMDB gallery continue to load images after selecting another series or closing TvDB
- (fixed) if a season poster is not found, the software display a stretched banner poster
- (fixed) random routine (of banner and fanart selector) always skip the last image
- various bugfix (DB module), code updates (internet module) and some improvements
New in Free TvDB 4.10 (May 21, 2012)
- added series status in episode page
- various code updates (internal functions)
New in Free TvDB 4.02 (Apr 27, 2012)
- fixed) the log report an error every time a series (in the results window) is selected using the checkbox
New in Free TvDB 4.00 (Apr 27, 2012)
- fan art images can be set as wallpaper (just right click on them and choose the relative menu option!)
- cast images can now also be viewed by selecting only the series or season (like images)
- now also ended series are automatically updated (for downloading/updating new or missing images/data)
- random fanart are no more rotated while loading an episode (this will increase performance)
- fixed) after loading, the message "Checking software updates" does not disappear
- fixed) when a series fails to download updated info, the cursor reimains in hourglass
- fixed) when adding multiple series the software display an incorrect total of series added
- various code fix
New in Free TvDB 3.80 (Apr 21, 2012)
- scan directories and search is disabled in offline mode
- (fixed) when addind a single series the software display "two series added"
- (fixed) offline mode is not activated when network goes down while viewing posters and fanart
- (fixed) on slow pc, when a new version is downloaded, the software display a warning msg because has not finished to initialize
- various bugfix (offline mode)
New in Free TvDB 3.70 (Apr 20, 2012)
- added a check box in the found list to easily select and add multiple series to db (instead of using ctrl / shift)
- added aired date, director, writer and guest stars to all episodes list
- added a button to remove a category
- improved offline mode: when network connection is not available the software will not try to download data anymore.
- A message will be displayed on the bottom. To back online and retry simply click on it. Thanks to Kushal for reporting this problem.
- code fix (config window)
New in Free TvDB 3.50 (Apr 17, 2012)
- improved IMDb images gallery: thumbnails are resized and cropped to better fill the panel
- added a new option: show db size. To improve performance, the calculation of db size can be disabled.
- added a new option: backup database every week
- when viewing an image, its size is displayed on title window
- (fixed) when compacting DB some images cannot be deleted (locked)
- (fixed) after downloading a new version of the software, it refuses to exit because is still working
- optimized images handling
New in Free TvDB 3.00 (Apr 17, 2012)
- new images section! Automatically show and download images from IMDb!
- opened images can be closed with ESC or ENTER key
- various fix
New in Free TvDB 2.20 (Mar 23, 2012)
- (fixed) guest stars are not shown in cast panel
- removed the Facebook like button
- decreased timeout when downloading data
- various code fix & update
New in Free TvDB 2.12 (Jan 18, 2012)
- (fixed) cast images are not loaded when clicking on another episode and returning to the cast panel
- (fixed) cast images are always loaded when switching to a different tab and returing back to the cast tab
- (fixed) random fanart images are not rotated anymore if the cast panel is displayed and there are no actors images to load
New in Free TvDB 2.10 (Jan 17, 2012)
- (fixed) Facebook Like button is not visible on Windows 7 64bit
- changed series name label and season
- various optimizations
New in Free TvDB 2.00 (Jan 16, 2012)
- the cast page has been improved: all cast images are shown on a dedicated panel!
- added "I Like" Facebook button on the episode info panel. Now you can share your favorites series with your friends! The "like" is for the series, not the single episode
- the "update all series" button has been removed. It's useless because the series are auto updated after selecting them
- improved db loading time
- the "please wait" box is visible on all the panels
- fixed some bugs
New in Free TvDB 1.71 (Jan 16, 2012)
- updated the ini config module: fixed a bug (error message while reading/writing an empty ini file)
New in Free TvDB 1.70 (Nov 16, 2011)
- video list is dowloaded in compressed format (more fast), some other updates
New in Free TvDB 1.60 (Nov 3, 2011)
- added export function! The database now can be exported in txt, csv and xml format! Now it can be easily printed with other software!
- changed the background color
- some other fix
New in Free TvDB 1.50c (Oct 21, 2011)
- internal code updates for the new domain
New in Free TvDB 1.50b (Oct 21, 2011)
- updated modules for the new hosting (1.50b)
- now Free TvDB can be easily used also offline: if thetvdb.com server is down, a blinking alert is displayed instead of showing a messagebox error (also when downloading images)
- (fixed) internal exception when trying to resize an image file that is not present
- various codefix
New in Free TvDB 1.50 (Sep 28, 2011)
- now Free TvDB can be easily used also offline: if thetvdb.com server is down, a blinking alert is displayed instead of showing a messagebox error (also when downloading images)
- (fixed) internal exception when trying to resize an image file that is not present
- various codefix
New in Free TvDB 1.42 (Sep 3, 2011)
- (fixed) all episodes: error if no episodes are available
- (fixed) incorrect msg displayed after compacting db
- various fix
New in Free TvDB 1.41 (Sep 2, 2011)
- optimized all episodes tab: if a banner / ep. screen is already present on local cache, it will be used instead of using the remote img
- all episodes: centered the season number
New in Free TvDB 1.40 (Sep 2, 2011)
- added a new tab: all episodes info!
- updated the compact db module: now the images folders can be cleaned
- updated the download module
- total series & db size are shown on window title
- some fix
New in Free TvDB 1.35 (Aug 25, 2011)
- enabled the ability (in the 'add series' tab) to select and add multiple series simultaneously
- the add series panel is focused when using the scan directory
- a wait box is displayed during some operations (init db, add series, scan dir, compact db)
- application exe md5 integrity check
New in Free TvDB 1.30 (Aug 24, 2011)
- added a new feature: scan directory & search! Have a large amount of series stored on a HDD? Don't want to enter them manually? Just select the directory and Free TvDB will search all the series (based on directory name)! The results will be sent automatically to the search listbox!
- after adding a series, the search result is not cleared (this is useful if you want to add series with the same title)
- increased a bit the loading performance
- decreased the downloading timeout for youtube thumbnails
- some fix
New in Free TvDB 1.29 (Aug 13, 2011)
- increased downloading timeout to 30 seconds. Currently thetvdb.com is having some problems and it's a bit slow, this may help :)
- the software will try to download data for three times before showing a connection error
New in Free TvDB 1.28 (Aug 13, 2011)
- (fixed) no wide banner / season banner displayed if there is only a version different than English
- code cleanup
New in Free TvDB 1.27 (Aug 9, 2011)
- fixed the position of some interface elements
New in Free TvDB 1.26 (Aug 5, 2011)
- modified the search: instead of finding only the first series, all the results now are highlighted
- some changes to the interface
New in Free TvDB 1.25 (Aug 4, 2011)
- added the bloopers video gallery
- changed the video ratio to 16:9
- some code fix
New in Free TvDB 1.20 (Aug 4, 2011)
- rewritten the search function: instead of filtering, the series found is highlighted
- added a search box in the video gallery
- at startup the series list is positioned at top
- various fix
New in Free TvDB 1.15 (Aug 2, 2011)
- (fixed) program crash if a series has no episodes available
- the maximum numbers of backups can be configured in the options
- some enhancements
New in Free TvDB 1.14 (Jul 29, 2011)
- added a search box
- now the software remembers the state of the series tree and restores it at the startup
New in Free TvDB 1.13 (Jul 27, 2011)
- added a button in the episode info to view the series overview (it's located near the series name)
- some enhancements and fix
New in Free TvDB 1.12a (Jul 26, 2011)
- to prevent database corruption, Free TVDB will now wait until a saving operation is completed (the corruption may occurs on slow systems or on very large database)
- (fixed) episode watched feature and location update doesn't works when a series is automatically updated
- (fixed) on netbook the window is set in a wrong position
New in Free TvDB 1.11 (Jul 11, 2011)
- added a new feature: video gallery! Now you can browse and watch all the opening themes!
- fixed: program crash if no posters or fanart is present
New in Free TvDB 1.02 (Jul 6, 2011)
- fixed: images resized incorrectly when the original resolution is higher than the display resolution
New in Free TvDB 1.01 (Jul 6, 2011)
- fixed compatibility with 64 bit operating systems: now the opening themes can be viewed also on these systems (sorry for the problem!)
New in Free TvDB 0.9b (Jun 24, 2011)
- optimized for netbook! When running on a netbook, the interface is automatically resized and optimized to fit the screen resolution
- the config is saved also when closing the options using the X
- optimized the code (the exe is a bit smaller)
New in Free TvDB 0.9 (Jun 24, 2011)
- right click on a series / season to copy the episodes list to clipboard (the output mask can be edited in the options)
- right click on any image to: browse gallery with explorer, copy path to clipboard, copy image to clipboard
- added a button to compact the database (this will remove all unused images)
New in Free TvDB 0.8b (Jun 24, 2011)
- fixed: when downloading a series in English and the default language is not English, the software downloaded the non-English version.
- the search result now display the language description instead of language code
- renamed the tab "series" in "episode info"
- some fix
New in Free TvDB 0.8a (Jun 24, 2011)
- added multi-language support! Series info can be downloaded in 23 different languages!
- the window can now be resized and maximized
- the "update all series" feature now works again
- code cleanup & some fix
New in Free TvDB 0.7 (Jun 24, 2011)
- important performance fix: increased loading speed. The database is loaded more fast at startup!
- posters and fan art can be viewed also when selecting series name or season number
New in Free TvDB 0.6a (Jun 24, 2011)
- important performance fix: high cpu usage when moving a series to a different category (resolved)
New in Free TvDB 0.6 (Jun 24, 2011)
- added categories! Now you can better organize you collections of tv series! By default all existing series will be moved to "TV Series" category. To move a series to a different category, just right click on it from the list and select the new category.
- more fast! By default the skin interface is disabled. This will increase performance while switching through tabs. You can enable it in the options.
- the random fan art gallery can be refreshed manually by clicking of the small button near it.
- some bugfix
New in Free TvDB 0.5a (Jun 24, 2011)
- optimized memory usage: every posters and fan art images are resized before displaying the thumbnails
- more fast while loading posters and fan art (a thumbnail is used instead of loading and resizing the original image)
- series / seasons can be updated directly from the list (right click with the mouse)
- code cleanup and some bugfix
New in Free TvDB 0.4 (Jun 8, 2011)
- series / seasons can be deleted directly from the list (right click with the mouse)
- a progress bar is displayed while downloading images
New in Free TvDB 0.3 (Jun 8, 2011)
- added random fanart gallery (can be disabled in the options)
- important bugfix & optimizations