MeD's Movie Manager Changelog

What's new in MeD's Movie Manager 2.9.1.3

Feb 10, 2012
  • General improvements:
  • Enabled anti-aliasing in Swing GUI providing smoother text.
  • When not showing icons in the movie list, the text size is now automatically increased when increasing the list height.
  • The reports in the report generator were showing incorrect page count.
  • Bug fixes:
  • IMDb parser would hang. (Fixed in automatic update 10.03.2010)

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.9.1.2 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • General improvements:
  • Reports for the report generator have been improved and a couple of extra reports were added.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Personal rating was sometimes shown as -1.0 if it hadn't been set.
  • Some strange behaviour with the lists on startup was fixed.
  • Export and Import would fail when using Substance Look & Feel.
  • Report Generator did not function properly.
  • Note:
  • Because of bugs with the default additional info values, the current values may be wrong when loading from old config file (v2.9.0.1 and older). To fix this, open the Config.ini file with a text editor and either remove the values, or change to the correct additional info name.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.9.1 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • New in this version:
  • Added personal rating. This can also be retrieved from IMDb when supplying username and password.
  • Added new Look & Feels: NimROD.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Default values for the additional info fields were saved for the wrong fields when they were rearranged.
  • Note:
  • Because of bugs with the default additional info values, the current values may be wrong when imported from old config file.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.9.0.1 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Config file from v2.8.7 failed to load correctly.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.9.0 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • New in this version:
  • New update notification and automatic download system.
  • General improvements:
  • Added better shortcut handling. Press ALT+k on Windows/GNU+Linux or ⌘+k on OSX to see available shortcuts for a window.
  • Updated the HSQLDB driver which will hopefully fix some stability issues with HSQL.
  • Added right click popup when editing movie/episode to clear additional info values.
  • IMDb dialog now has a field for changing the search text when searching for IMDb info.
  • Added option to remove quotes ("") from series titles.
  • Improvements to the Multi-Add-function:
  • Shows the progress of the import procedure.
  • It's now possible to define custom folders as root devices in the tree.
  • Hardcoded codec info has been replaced with user defined text.
  • Search nfo/txt files for IMDb URL when adding movies.
  • Improved "use folder instead of file name" option to use parent folder if the current folder is named CD1/CD2 etc.
  • New option to prefix movie titles with "_verify_" when using the option "Select First Hit".
  • Added progress bar if expanding a directory takes more than a second.
  • Changed directory separator from '\\' to system file separator in a few places in add multiple movies function.
  • Bug fixes:
  • After editing a movie, the lists it is a member of was not shown in the right click popup in the movie list. (Bug ID:2879774)
  • Database converter was unable to convert MySQL or HSQL database to MS Access database.
  • Fixed an issue with selecting multiple entries in the movie list with the SHIFT key.
  • Application would hang if pressing cancel when choosing player after pressing the play button.
  • IMDb scraper would get the episode number and series wrong in some situations.
  • IMDb scraper did not retrieved cast on series.
  • IMDb scraper did not retrieve rating.
  • IMDb scraper could hang (seemingly) indefinitely in some situations (some rare movies).

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.8.7 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Cast was no longer retrieved due to changes in HTML on IMDb.
  • Notes were not saved when editing in main window.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.8.6 (Jul 21, 2009)

  • General improvements:
  • No longer have blue border around covers (with some web browsers) when exporting to full HTML.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Advanced search was broken with MS Access database.
  • Does not load custom queries when using relative path.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.8.4 (Jun 4, 2009)

  • General improvements:
  • Support for MediaInfo on 64bit Window

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.8.3 (Jun 1, 2009)

  • Bug fixes:
  • 'Update IMDb Info' would fail for entries with no IMDb id when using Substance L&F.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.8.2 (May 31, 2009)

  • New
  • Finding duplicate entries can now be done using the command "DUPLICATES" in the search filter (Not available for MS Access database). Read more about duplicates_.
  • Added Splash Screen during loading of the movie manager for Java 1.6 and later.
  • General improvements:
  • Playing media files with space in the name should work better on GNU/Linux.
  • 'Add multiple movies' now has the option of grouping files together before searching IMDb by right clicking the list elements in list of files to add. Also, files with similar names are shown with the same color in the list of files to add.
  • Support for using MediaInfo_ library on GNU/Linux.
  • Updated the MediaInfo library with better support for mp4 and mkv (Matoska) files.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Covers were not saved on full HTML export.
  • Showing unlisted entries *only* was not possible.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.8.1 (May 11, 2009)

  • Better support for Windows 7. Config and log file is now written to writable user area.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Search in the movie list did not work when all lists and unlisted entries were selected (Bug introduced in 2.8.0).
  • "Filter out media files already in database" using the "Add multiple movies" was broken.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.8.0 (Apr 13, 2009)

  • It's now possible to view multiple lists at the same time (combined).
  • The lists each entry is connected to is now shown in the popup when right clicking the list entry.
  • Drag and Drop of media files has been added to the movie list and additional info in main window.
  • This version should work better with some Look & Feels, and a few more are included.
  • Config file and log file is no longer written to the application directory on Windows Vista, and should now work a lot better on that OS.
  • - Bug fixes:
  • Full HTML export would seemingly hang on the last entry (Caused by inefficient method).
  • HTML export would sometimes fail when pressing the export button. Caused by the file chooser GUI.
  • IMDb search on Non-ASCII characters in titles could fail.
  • Nimbus Look & Feel (Java 1.6 only) was wrongly removed from the list of L&Fs.
  • In "Add Multiple Movies", files containing more than one dot (punctuation) would not appear in the file tree.
  • Ancient bug in "Add Multiple Movies" function causing the "Add Movies" button not to react if it had already been pressed with no valid media files in the "Media files" list.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.7.7 (Mar 24, 2009)

  • General improvements:
  • HTML export now opens a dialog showing the progress.
  • Bug fixes:
  • "Update IMDb Info" function now lists all the processed movies correctly.
  • On OS X, the quit button in system menu and the shortcut is fixed.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.7.4 (Feb 2, 2009)

  • Version check is fixed.
  • Database backup function fixed.

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.6.1 (May 22, 2008)

  • Fixed some bugs in cover and queries paths settings in Folders menu

New in MeD's Movie Manager 2.32 (Jun 12, 2006)

  • Tooltip text showing aka (Also Known As) titles is now displayed when importing movies from IMDb.
  • Number of record hits in the Queries is now displayed in the title of the panel. (Thanks to Keith)
  • Fixed Bug: TV.COM not functioning (BugID: 1472873)
  • Fixed Bug: Location is wrong (BugID: 1457214) The path (Location field) to the imported files didn't always match.
  • Fixed Bug: MPAA information not saved (v 2.31) (BugID: 1424372)
  • Fixed Bug: The Country and Language fields could suppress the other General info fields.