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Here you can find all release notes from earlier versions of EMDB. The versions themselves are not available on this website but might still available on other download sites.
EMDB 1.46
May 3th, 2012
  • Database: Added option to merge databases (duplicate movies, based on IMDB numbers, are filtered out).

  • Database: Added option to save a partial database (based on search results or filtering).

  • User Interface: Omit months if they are zero in loan duration longer than 1 year.

  • Database: Added 'Persian' to possible Spoken Languages and Audio Streams.

  • Translations: Added a Persian Translation.

  • Translations: Updated the Arabic, Slovak, Finnish, Hebrew and Greek translations.

EMDB 1.45
March 18th, 2012
  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of duration.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of year for TV Series.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed detection of TV Series.

  • HTML Export: Added tag #IMDB_NUMBER# on request (for custom templates)

  • Add/Edit Movie: Fixed crash when Edit TV Series was clicked.

  • User Interface: Added option to have links to movies on IMDB direct to the localized IMDB websites (emdb.pt, emdb.fr, emdb.es, emdb.de and emdb.it)

  • Translations: Fixed the Hebrew Translation.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish, Czech and Danish translations.

EMDB 1.44
March 5th, 2012
  • General: Tested EMDB on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Everything seems to work just fine ;-)

  • Database: Fixed some random crashes (at startup or during HTML export) after updating to V1.43.

  • User Interface: Fixed random selected languages when opening Spoken Languages and Audio Streams Search tabs.

  • Translations: Added Hebrew Translation.

  • Translations: Updated the German translation.

EMDB 1.43
March 1st, 2012
  • Database: Directors still got mixed up for some people. The database will be completely checked and fixed the first time this version of EMDB is started. You might need to update the directors via the Update All function in the options one more time afterwards.

  • User Interface: Added Search for Spoken Languages.

  • User Interface: (Re)Added possibility to show both ratings in the main window.

  • Database: Added 'Yiddish' to possible Spoken Languages and Audio Streams.

  • User Interface: Added Ctrl-P as accelerator key for playing a movie.

  • Translations: Updated the Slovak and German translations.

EMDB 1.42
February 17th, 2012
  • User Interface: Fixed the play button.

EMDB 1.41
February 17th, 2012
  • Database: Directors got mixed up now and then. Hopefully fix now.

  • User Interface: When inserting a movie the new movie showed up twice in the list (although correctly saved in the database).

  • User Interface: Play button was never disabled for TV Series.

  • User Interface: Swapped movies were not correctly shown in the list.

  • User Interface: Swap Movies dialog was a bit confusing regarding the text of the buttons. Changed the Ok button to Exit (Ok did not swap anything as this might be expected).

  • Search: unknown directors were included in the search results when searching for a specific director.

  • User Interface: Made displaying number of votes optional. Number of votes was requested quite often but apparently also a lot of users did not like it.

  • Browse HDD: popups with "No matches found" replaced by a logging message.

  • User Interface: "Clear All Fields" did not clear all data and the "Update IMDB" button was not reset to "Search IMDB".

  • User Interface: The mouse scroll wheel did move the selection in the bookshelf. It is more logical (and common Windows behaviour) to scroll a row and leave the selection.

  • User Interface: Copy-Paste did not work correctly between Edit screens of different movies.

  • User Interface: Added IMDB button in IMDB multiple results dialog to check IMDB for the selected title(s).

  • Translations: Updated the Arabic, Czech, German, Greek and Danish translations.

EMDB 1.40
January 16th, 2012
  • IMDB Batch Update: Fixed incorrect rating / number of votes import.

EMDB 1.39
January 16th, 2012
  • IMDB Import: Fixed some remaining issues for people still using the old layout (you can change this in the site preferences in your account when logged in (setting is called 'show previous title and name page design (reference view)'. This should NOT be checked for the new layout.

  • User Interface: Fixed strange numbering when adding new movies (e.g. '1953 (0)').

  • Database: Fixed number of votes for rating was not always saved.

  • IMDB Import: Number of votes was not saved when using Add and continue and IMDB Batch Update.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed the import of Year for TV mini-series.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed the import of Spoken Languages.

  • Translations: fixed translation for 'Portuguese'.

  • Translations: Updated the German, French, Danish and Turkish translations.

EMDB 1.38
January 10th, 2012
  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of several fields due to yet another change of the IMDB website.

EMDB 1.37
January 9th, 2012
  • User Interface: Fixed sorting on duration.

  • User Interface: Added an option to apply the last used filter on startup.

  • User Interface: Made the window title more descriptive when applying a filter.

  • User Interface: Fixed the option of disabeling BluRay boxes for HD movies.

  • IMDB Import: Added number of votes for rating.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed HTML code '"' not being converted.

  • Search: Added option to combine multiple searches / Filters.

  • Search: Added option to search on audio streams.

  • Database: prepared TV Series for support of individual episodes and import from TheTVDB.com.

  • Translations: updated the Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Danish, Greek, Slovak, Czech, Turkish and Russian translations.

EMDB 1.36
November 17th, 2011
  • Import from HDD: New user interface with lots of options.

  • User Interface: Fixed sorting on numbers when more than 9999 movies in the database. Works fine now up to a million movies. That should be enough ;-)

  • Import from HDD: Fixed a crash when importing large number of movies in several sub folders.

  • Import from HDD: Movies with multiple results were you should select one from a list are queued until all automatic resolved movies are finished.

  • Import from HDD: Plot outline was not imported from Moviemeter.nl.

  • Import from HDD: Director was not imported if Director was already in the database.

  • Import from HDD: Better handle full DVD and Bluray file structures.

  • User Interface: Covers in movie details panel were sometimes cropped.

  • User Interface: Show TV Series cases option was not working.

  • User Interface: Fixed sorting on resolution.

  • Translations: Updated the Greek, Turkish and Swedish translations.

EMDB 1.35
November 5th, 2011
  • User Interface: Show TV Shows with a red case on the shelf. This is ment for the very populair TV Rips. If the TV series is on BluRay (source not set to TV or media is BD, HDDVD or BDRecordable) it is displayed as a bluray case.

  • Database: Fixed short (2 characters) AKA titles got lost.

  • User Interface: Fixed aspect ratio of bluray covers in the Movie Details Panel.

  • HTML Export: individual movie pages were not created correctly when creating Patch folder.

  • User Interface: Added Resolution to the possible columns to show.

  • Print / Export: Added Resolution to possible columns to export / print.

  • User Interface: On many, many requests I added an option to show the order in the list instead of the Database index (so the first movie in the list / on the shelf will always have number 1 regardless the sort order).

  • User Interface: Show the number of movies in the titlebar.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish translation.

EMDB 1.34
October 18th, 2011
  • User Interface: Fixed director and User Ratings were not cleared when clearing all data in the Add Movie Screen.

  • HTML Export: Added number of the movie to the movie details page.

  • HTML Export: Year is not shown as "()" anymore when year is not present.

  • HTML Export: Several small improvements.

  • HTML Export: Created separate buttons for creating Full website and creating Patch new additions only.

  • HTML Export: Fixed a bug in web safe naming cover files resulting in not showing some covers with special characters (e.g. L'école de la chair) on the internet.

  • Add movies from HDD: Added *.FLV support.

  • IMDB Import: Added several special characters to convert correctly ('Ï', 'Ì', 'Í' and 'Î').

  • Import from csv: Added Comments and User Ratings to the possible fields to import.

  • Translations: Updated the Arabic, Czech, Finnish, German, Greek and Norwegian translations.

EMDB 1.33
August 9th, 2011
  • User Interface: Fixed crash when returning a loaned movie if list is filtered.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Directors.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed incorrect handling of 'ý' and 'Ó' characters.

  • Translations: Added translation for "All" (Seasons for TV Series).

  • Translations: Updated the Danish and Dutch translations.

EMDB 1.32
July 22th, 2011
  • IMDB Import: Fixed HTML codes for special characters were not always correctly converted during import.

  • IMDB Update All Movies: Updating a single property did not work in all cases.

  • User Interface: Added Dropdown with predefined resolutions in edit multiple movies dialog.

  • User Interface: Loaned label displayed on the cover was not removed when returning a movie in Bookshelf View.

  • User Interface: Next movie loaned by same person was not automatically selected when returning a movie in Bookshelf View.

  • Translations: Updated the Arabic, Turkish and Spanish translations.

EMDB 1.31
July 2nd, 2011
  • IMDB Import: Fixed the import caused by yet another IMDB website layout change.

EMDB 1.30
June 16th, 2011
  • User Interface: HD movies show up as BluRay boxes with blue selection glow on the shelf.

  • User Interface: Loan label not correctly updated when changing the loan properties of the current movie in Bookshelf mode.

  • User Interface: Selection changes sometimes result in partially drawn dvd boxes in bookshelf mode.

  • Options: Proxy settings were not correctly remembered.

  • Import / Export: Added IMDB number to the possible fields to import. Added both IMDB and User rating to the fields to import and export.

  • Export: Exporting duration does not add 'minutes' anymore.

  • User Interface: added certification to the Movie Detail Panel.

  • User Interface: Fixed filter on High Definition did not get all HD movies.

  • User Interface: Added Movies only (excluding TV Series) filter.

  • Translations: Updated the Slovak, Spanish, French and Finnish translations.

EMDB 1.29
May 31th, 2011
  • User Interface: Fixed crash in List Mode at the end of the list and using a key to jump to the next title starting with that character.

  • User Interface: Fixed crash when scrolling and clicking fast back and forth in Bookshelf mode using the mouse scroll wheel.

  • Add movies from HDD: improved reading of full BluRay disc structures.

  • Add movies from HDD: fixed names includes path when no IMDB query is performed after search is done.

  • HTML export: fixed HTML code for User Rating was shown when User rating is not selected to be shown.

  • User Interface: Fixed some drawing issues in bookshelf selection mode.

  • User Interface: Fixed incorrect movies are shown when switching from List mode to Bookshelf mode after searching / filtering.

EMDB 1.28
May 22th, 2011
  • Movie Properties: Added support for both User Ratings and IMDB Ratings.


  • User Interface: Finally added a visible selection to the boolshelf viewing mode. Hope you like the glow effect as much as I do!

  • Movie Properties: added "Complete Series" postfix when Season is not specified.

  • Movie Properties: Set maximum of Episodes to 999 instead of 99 (to better support the new "Complete Series" property.

  • Print: Fixed printing of the Seen column.

  • Import from HDD: display folder and file name when no single match could be resolved to help user select the right movie from the list.

  • Import from HDD: Added support for BluRay folder structure.

  • HTML Export: EMDB now adds a backup of the database to the generated web files.

  • IMDB Import: fixed retrieving of the IMDB link.

  • Database: Added option to remove unused thumbnails.

  • Translations: Updated the Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Turkish translations.

EMDB 1.27
April 6th, 2011
  • User Interface: Skin support!!! A skin contains icons for the toolbar, definitions for the colors of the List View and a default thumnail image for now. ComiCons skin is included in the installation and selected by default. The original look and feel can be restored in the Appearance section of the options.


ComiCons Skin (click for full size)

  • Export / HTML Export: Added option to choose all movies or the current selection to export.

  • User Interface: Added Region to the possible columns to show.

  • Print / Export: Added Region to the properties to Print / Export.

  • Thumbnails: fixed problem with missing or duplicate thumbnails when TV Series property is changed afterwards.

  • User Interface: Using Ctrl-A in Add Movie screen selected all movies in the main window.

  • IMDB Update All: Fixed Voice only Actors (in Animation movies) were added as 'Name*'. Existing errors are corrected the first time this version is started.

  • DataBase: Fixed problem were Directors got mixed up after a new version of EMDB was installed.

  • Translations: Added (native) Portuguese translation and renamed the current Portuguese translation to Portuguese (Brazil).

  • Translations: Updated the Greek, German, Spanish and French translations.

EMDB 1.26
March 29th, 2011
  • User Interface: Fixed crash when manually trying to add an actor in the Add Movie screen.

EMDB 1.25
March 23th, 2011
  • User Interface: Fixed exporting/printing of Seen, Own and Which List fields.

  • User Interface: Added DateAdded to the columns to display in the listview or to export / print.

  • User Interface: Also take resolution into account when filtering SD / HD.

  • User Interface: Made the sorting on columns in List View mode faster.

  • User Interface: Fixed Swap button in Database Options was not translated.

  • Database: When editing an existing movie and using the Clear All Fields button the new record was saved over the first movie of the database.

  • IMDB import: Fixed importing of year for video titles (e.g. Held Up (Video 2010)).

  • User Interface: Changing the season number broke linking to an existing thumbnail.

  • IMDB Update: Updating in Add / Edit dialog cleared fields if no new data was found.

  • IMDB Update All Movies: Updating cleared fields if no new data was found.

  • IMDB Update: Updating in Add / Edit dialog overwrote an existing thumbnail.

  • Export: export now uses the current search / filter results and shown sort order.

  • Export / Print: Fixed exporting/printing the IMDB number.

  • User Interface: Added IMDB number to the possible columns to show in List View mode.

  • User Interface: Fixed crash when sorting columns in List View mode on a search or filter result.

  • Movie Properties: Added possiblility to override default IMDB genres.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish and Slovak translations.

EMDB 1.24
Februari 15th, 2011
  • User Inteface: Added Hi resolution Icon.

  • User Inteface: Added Insert Button. The Swap Movies feature is moved to the Database section of the Options.

  • Database: fixed saving of a database with deleted movies when 'Keep current numbering' is enabled.

  • Swap Movies Screen: fixed displaying when empty (reserved) movies are present.

  • Edit Multiple Movies Screen: Only load images of selected movies which are visible in the Edit Multiple Movies screen. This speeds up editing large number of movies (e.g. Ctrl-A -> Edit) tremendiously. The number of movies is now shown in the caption of the screen.

  • Export / Print: Added Seen, Own, WishList and Comments to the possible fields to export or print.

  • Options: 'First use actors with picture' setting was not saved correctly.

  • Movie Properties: Added "THEATRICAL VERSION" to the possible version fields.

  • Movie Properties: Added Romanian to the possible spoken languages, audio-streams and subtitles.

  • IMDB Import: Added Aspect ratio to the imported movie properties.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed sometimes user comments were used as plot outline.

  • User Interface: Added Subtitles to the columns to be select for list view.

  • User Interface: Improved controls being drawn delayed during startup with a lot of covers on the bookshelf.

  • System: Added support for *.ts files.

  • Translations: Proxy Server/Port explanation text was not changed when switching languages.

  • Translations: renamed the 'Reset All' button in the Add Movie screen to 'Clear All Fields' as this seems more clear.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Italian, German and Russian translations.

EMDB 1.23
December 14th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: Added support for localized pages. In some countries (like Sweden) the localized movie title is displayed as main title. EMDB now supports this and can get the original English title as main title and the localized title as AKA (or the other way around).

  • Movie Properties: added some additional aspect ratio's.

  • Movie Properties: added Number of Episodes property for TV Series.

  • User Interface: Browsing the location for TV series now opens a folder browser rather than a file browser. If a folder is selected the Play button in the main window will than open the folder rather than playing a file.

  • Translations: updated the Norwegian and Turkish translations.

EMDB 1.22
November 30th, 2010
  • User Interface: fixed options to show numbers and loan labels in bookshelf viewing mode were not saved correctly.

  • IMDB Import: fixed importing of title and year of some TV movies and TV Series.

  • IMDB Import: Improved import of Certification and Duration of movies which did not contain sections for Motion Picture Rating and Technical Specs.

  • Print / Export: Added season indication to titles of TV Series.

  • Movie Properties: Added Australia and some other countries to the DVD and Bluray region codes.

  • User Interface: fixed a crash when switching from listview mode to bookshelf mode after a search without results.

  • Movie Properties: Added MPEG-2 Part 2, H.264, MPEG-4 AVC and SMPTE VC-1 BluRay codecs and 25 / 50GB BluRay Media.

  • Translations: Updated the Greek and Turkish translations.

  • Translations: Added Arabic translation.

EMDB 1.21
October 26th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of the covers from IMDB.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of several special HTML encoding characters.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish, Slovak and French translations.
EMDB 1.20
October 21th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of the IMDB number (for new IMDB layout).
  • User Interface: Added number and loaned labels to the Bookshelf viewing mode.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed HTML parsing for the 'ç' character.
  • IMDB Import: Added option for retrieving the Italian plot outline from www.imdb.it.
  • Add / Edit Dialog: Added Reset button to clear all data for current movie.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian and Danish translations.
EMDB 1.19
October 13th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: Fixed sometimes blank actors were added.
  • Main Window: Added Random Button.
  • Main Window: Fixed deletion of multiple movies.
  • User Interface: Added Ctrl-A to select all movies in List mode. Changed accelerators for Add Movie (Alt-A), Edit Movie (Alt-E) and Print (Alt-P).
  • User Interface: made action for double click on movie in list or bookshelf configurable.
EMDB 1.18
September 28th, 2010
  • IMDB Update All Movies: Fixed update all movies.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed for some movies the plot outline was not imported.
  • Add Movies from HDD: Fixed extensions with 4 characters were not recognized as valid movies.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish, Slovak and Norwegian translations.
EMDB 1.17
September 27th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: Fixed Error E16 during IMDB import.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed crash when no Motion Picture Rating was listed on IMDB.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed HTML encoding of foreign language characters were not correctly converted.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Added progress bar during IMDB import.
EMDB 1.16
September 26th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: finaly found the mystery of the IMDB import issues (thanks to Charles Green): IMDB maintains 2 layouts for each movie page since the beginning of september: the old one and the fully new design.

    If you have an IMDB account you can set the one you like in the site preferences section of your account settings. People without an account should get the new layout and this is the format EMDB expected. But quite some people still got the old one which broke the import. The new version checks which layout is returned by the IMDB website and can handle both.


    The old layout (click for full screen)


    The new design (click for full screen)
     

  • IMDB Import: Fixed Languages and Country were broken for the new layout.
  • Add Movie dialog: Fixed dialog was minimized during imdb import on Windows 7.
EMDB 1.14
September 17th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: fixed import got broken due to the (really great) IMDb website redesign.
EMDB 1.13
August 4th, 2010
  • Internet Import Options: First use actor with picture was not correctly remembered.
  • IMDB Import: Actors were cleared during an import / update when the option to import actors was not checked.
  • Update All Movies: Updated the temporarily overrule settings dialog to the latest changes in the Internet Import Options (import from MovieMeter.nl, IMDb.de, IMDb.fr, IMDb.se, IMDb.pt)
  • Add Movie Dialog: fixed Edit Audio Streams dialog did not contain the custom languages.
  • Movie Properties: Added Icelandic to the Spoken Languages and Audio Streams properties.
  • User Interface: Added an option to set the font used in all screens.
  • Translations: Updated the Dutch, Finnish and Greek translations.
EMDB 1.12
July 29th, 2010
  • User Interface: Changed the main font from Segoe UI to Tahoma as not all Windows systems seem to have Segoe UI installed as I expected and the fallback caused controls not to fit on several dialogs. I'm sorry about that. I'll try to make it configurable later.
  • HTML Export Dialog: Fixed the OK button to close the dialog without performing an additional export.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Fixed changing the Audio Streams resetted other changes.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Thumbnail buttons were not updated correctly in various scenarios like using Next and Previous.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Set tabbed mode for all resolutions from 1024x768 and below.
  • User Interface: Fixed progress bar during startup was not updated.
  • Translations: Updated the French translation.
EMDB 1.11
July 28th, 2010
  • User Interface: Changed the font of all dialogs to Segoe UI which is better readable and looks smoother (in my opinion).
  • Add Movie Dialog: canceling the Browse HDD dialog resulted in a warning nothing was found.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Added spin control for season number.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Fixed thumbnail got lost when using Swap Title and Alternative Title.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Added some default resolutions.
  • IMDB Import: Plot outline can now also be retrieved from the Full Summary.
  • IMDB Import: Plot outline can now also be retrieved from localized websites IMDb.fr (French), IMDb.es (Spanish), IMDb.de (German) and IMDb.pt (Portuguese).
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Finnish translations.
EMDB 1.10
July 21st, 2010
  • Add Movie Dialog: Fixed dragging the rating stars did not instantly update the rating text making it hard to set a specific value.
  • Multiple Movies Edit Dialog: Fixed System was not set correctly.
  • Movie Properties: added 'Mono' and 'Dolby 4.1' to the possible audio streams.
  • Movie details Import: Added import of Dutch Plot outline from movieMeter.nl.
  • Thumbnail Import: Added thumbnail import from movieMeter.nl.
  • User Interface: Increased space for Plot Outline in both Main Window and the Add/Edit Move dialog and added a scrollbar to be able to read the full text if still not fitted.
  • Add / Edit movie dialog: if you update an existing movie with imdb number this is used to load the movie details instead of performing a new query.
  • User Interface: Added SD / HD filters.
  • Movie Properties: Added 3D property.
  • HTML Export: Improved displaying of spoken languages and audio stream properties.
  • HTML Export: Improved visualization of html page navigation.
  • HTML Export Dialog: Made the usage of the dialog a bit more logical (As I kept clicking OK instead of Generate myself ;-)
  • HTML Export Dialog: Made progress messages translatable.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Dutch translations.
  • Installer: Added French, German and Spanish installation languages.
EMDB 1.09
July 12th, 2010
  • User Interface: Added deletion of multiple selected movies (Multiple selection can be done in list mode using default Windows keys: Ctrl + Click adds an item to the slection, Shift + Click selects the whole range from original selection until clicked item).
  • User Interface: Added Editing of multiple selected movies (in list mode).


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  • Movie properties: Added seperate properties for spoken languages (as retrieved from IMDB) and available audio streams (type and language).
  • Movie properties: Added Dolby-TrueHD to the possible audio streams.
  • Swap Movies: fixed Certification property was not swapped.
  • Add Movie Dialog: added option to clear the current thumbnail.
  • Translations: Updated the Dutch and Slovenian translations.
EMDB 1.08
June 30th, 2010
  • HTML Export: #OTHER_TRANSLATION# tag was not translated.
  • HTML Export: Reserved (empty) titles were not taken into account for total number of movies and latest additions.
  • Thumbnail Import: (again) fixed import from FreeCovers.net.
  • Add movies from HDD: Adding movies did not take reserved locations (deleted movies with 'Keep current numbering' enabled) into account.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed showing the alternative titles in the multiple results window.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish translation.
EMDB 1.07
June 23th, 2010
  • HTML Export: Fixed settings were not remembered correctly.
  • HTML Export: HTML pages are now fully translatable.
  • HTML Export: at the bottom of the main page (index.htm) additional code can be inserted from a custom page (counter.htm) to be able to have a page counter at the bottom of the main page.
  • IMDB Update all movies: Year, Duration, Country and PlotOutline were cleared when updating and the field was not checked to be updated.
  • Thumbnail Import: fixed and optimized the import from FreeCovers.net.
  • Add / Edit Movie Dialog: Year, Duration and Country were cleared when updating and the field was not checked to be updated.
  • Add movies from HDD: if a movietitle.jpg is detected in the same folder as a new added movie this cover is used as thumbnail. If a movietitle.nfo is detected the content is scanned for an imdb link to update the movie.
  • Loan tracker: Changing the name of an exitsing loan entry the data got cleared.
  • Loan tracker: Filter the internally used characters '/', '\' and '|' to prevent corruption of loan date.
  • Translations: Updated the Dutch, Turkish, Slovak and Finish translations.
EMDB 1.06
May 28th, 2010
  • Playing Movies: fixed playing of movies containg &-characters in their filename. Also added a messagebox when an error occurs when start playing fails.

  • IMDB Update all movies: You can now overrule the default IMDB import settings to e.g. only update the thumbnails or only the ratings.

  • IMDB Update all movies: Update can now also be done on a search or filter result.

  • Internet Access: Fixed a crash when a Proxy was enabled but not a valid proxy was specified.

  • User Interface: Added text to movies without thumbnails in Bookshelf viewing mode.

  • User Interface: Fixed restoring last used position on second monitor.

  • HTML Export: Fixed layout of Latest Additions in Google Chrome, IE8, Firefox 3 and Safari.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Dutch translations.

EMDB 1.05
May 19th, 2010
  • Playing Movies: Added support for Real Media formats *.rm and *.rmvb.

  • Database: A backup (called backupXXX.dat where XXX is the previous ran version) is created when a new version is installed.

  • IMDB Update all movies: Updating is now done in the background so the UI is much more responsive regarding canceling the process.

  • IMDB Update all movies: The progress is now shown with 2 progress bars and more descriptive texts.


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  • IMDB Update all movies: Made the update process more robust.

  • HTML Export: Fixed patch folder was not cleaned before creating patch.

  • Movie Properties: Added some default versions.

  • User Interface: Fixed Loan History Button should only be enabled when the selected movie has loan history.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Fixed the date was not shown correctly when opening the Add Movie Dialog.

  • Translations: Updated the Dutch, Turkish and Danish translations.

EMDB 1.04
May 13th, 2010
  • System: Fixed "The procedure entry point GetDateFormatEx could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" when running on Windows XP (I had no idea so many of you still running this ;-) I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

EMDB 1.03
May 12th, 2010
  • System: Fixed date was not correctly displayed localized when the language for displaying Dates in Control Panel was set differently than the Language of the Operation System.

  • Database: Fixed a bug in the Database validation introduced in version 1.02 resulting in (incorrect) corrupted database notifications.

EMDB 1.02
May 11th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: Use IMDB data if only the cover download fails during an import.

  • IMDB Import: retrieve higher resolution cover by first following the link of the thumbnail on the moviepage for IMDB thumbnails.

  • IMDB Update All: Add range to update.

  • IMDB Update All: Add option to select first hit for multiple results.

  • User Interface: Add HTML Export to the button Export of the main toolbar.

  • Options: Put Update All Movies in a seperate page.

  • Translations: Fixed translation of the Swap button in Add Movie Dialog.

  • Translations: Updated the Dutch and Turkish translations.

  • CSV Import: Fixed date format was not stored correctly.

  • Add Movies from HDD: Fixed not all fields were set correctly with default values.

  • Movie Properties: Location can now use relative Paths for playing movies.

  • Add Movies Dialog: Season was not saved when using Next / Previous.

EMDB 1.01
May 3th, 2010
  • General: Added support for *.m2ts and *.divx formats in playing from main window and added movies from your hard drive.

  • Movie Properties: Added Hebrew to the Language and Subtitle Language Properties.

  • IMDB Update: Fixed Movie Title Prefix was not taken into account when performing an IMDB Update.

  • IMDB Update: Title is only updated the first time an IMDB query is performed (so not when using the IMDB Update).

  • IMDB Search: In the Add movie dialog the function of the IMDB Search button changes to IMDB Update if already queried before.

  • Movie Title Prefix: During "Update all titles in the database" in the Movie Title Prefix Options the thumbnail file renaming sometimes failed.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to swap the Title and Also Known As fields.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Fixed loosing the thumbnail if the season of a TV Series is changed afterwards.

  • HTML Export: Added possibility to generate a patch folder to easily update an online collection.

  • General: Dates are now stored in the database as dates and not as strings. Dates are now shown according the Local settings. Loan time is shown in days, weeks and months by default.The Loaned column is now sorted on loan duration by default. Sorting and displaying options are added to the Loan options.

  • User Interface: Loan History button is disabled if no history available.

  • User Interface: fixed double scrollbar in List viewing mode (again).

EMDB 1.00
April 20th, 2010
  • User Interface: fixed some issues when the font size of the Display settings is increased (called 'Medium - 125%' in Windows 7 and 'Large Scale (120 DPI)' in Windows Vista.

  • Movie Properties: Added 'Musical' Genre.

  • User Interface: fixed double scrollbar in List viewing mode.

  • User Interface: Fixed sorting on titles did not take season for TV series into account.

  • HTML Export: Added thumbnail JPEG Quality setting to significantly reduce the total required web space.

  • HTML Export: Latest additions are now shown next to each other.

  • HTML Export: Added comments to the movie pages (if present).

  • HTML Export: Fixed incorrect displaying of thumbnail if not defined yet.

  • Options: Fixed setting of Title prefix was not remembered.

  • Translations: Updated the Dutch, Slovak and Turkish translations.

EMDB 0.99
April 5th, 2010
  • System: Fixed rare crash at startup on 64 bits Windows.

  • System: Fixed a rare EMDB allways on top problem.

  • Thumbnails: Fixed incorrect aspect ratio when selectiong a front only image from the clipboard or selecting an image from disk.

  • User Interface: Fixed position of bookshelf was reset after editing a movie.

  • User Interface: Prevented flickering when navigation through pages or rows in bookshelf viewing mode.

  • Translations: Updated the Finnish translation.

EMDB 0.98
March 31th, 2010
  • System: Fixed several settings of the Options Dialog were sometimes resetted.

  • System: Fixed crash when closing application on Windows XP.

  • User Interface: Added scrollwheel support to Bookshelf Viewing mode.

  • IMDB Update All Movies: thumbnails were not saved correctly.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Browse HDD did not use the correct path to query IMDB for DVD folders.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to rotate the thumbnail.

  • User Interface: Removed Ctrl-X as shortcut key for closing EMDB as it broke the default Windows cut selected text functionality.

  • Movie Properties: Added BluRay Regions and Sound properties.

  • User Interface: Fixed sorting of the Comments column.

EMDB 0.97
March 26th, 2010
  • User Interface: Added a ScrollBar to Bookshelf viewing mode.

  • User Interface: Fixed several small Bookshelf navigation issues.

  • User Interface: Fixed search and filter results were not shown in bookshelf viewing mode.

  • User Interface: Added background pre-loading of images to Bookshelf viewing mode to speed up browsing.

  • User Interface: Added shortcut Keys Ctrl-ArrowUp and Ctrl-ArrowDown to show and hide the Movie Details in the Main Window (both in Bookshelf and List viewing mode).

  • Translations: System and Region labels of the Add Movie Dialog were not translated.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Spanish translations.

EMDB 0.96
March 19th, 2010
  • System: Fix for sometimes not correctly moving the database and thumbnails in version 0.95 resulting in not showing the movies. Tested on Windows XP, Windows Vista 32 / 64 bits and Windows 7 32 / 64 bits.

  • System: Fix for not always creating the EMDB folder in the User folder resulting in thumbnails not being saved.

  • User Interface: Add Movie did not update the bookshelf.

  • User Interface: Edit Movie did not update the bookshelf.

  • User Interface: Fixed an error when navigating through the bookshelf with Page Up and Down.

EMDB 0.95
March 17th, 2010
  • User Interface: Fixed double displayed '&' in Loan field of Main Window.

  • User Interface: Sorting of the Nr Discs column did not work correctly.

  • HTML Export: Export sometimes hung.

  • HTML Export: Fixed strange charachters in movie pages.

  • User Interface: Added Bookshelf viewing mode! still in development: no selection highlighting or mouse scrolling yet. Drawing is not optimized.


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  • User Interface: ESC key now closes (Cancels) every open dialog again (except the main window).

  • User Interface: Added accelerator keys for Adding a movie (Ctrl-A), Editing a movie (Ctrl-E), Printing (Ctrl-P), Exit EMDB (Ctrl-X) and toggeling the Viewmode between List and Boolshelf mode (Ctrl-Tab).

  • Translations: Swap button was not translated.

  • System: Database and configuration file are moved to user folder if installed in C:\Program Files and running on Windows Vista or Windows 7 because Microsoft does not like applications to write in their installation folder in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Changing your UAC settings could cause duplicate versions of these files and the incorrect one to be used resulting in loosing settings or movies in the database.

EMDB 0.94
Februari 18th, 2010
  • User Interface: movie title accelerator keys did not work backwards (e.g. if a title started with a B was selected the [A] did not select the first movie starting with an A. Also added [0] til [9] as accelerator keys.

  • Add Movie Page: Using Previous / Next did not save changes made.

  • User Interface: Made the main window a bit wider to fit the Swap button again. More people as I expected seem to use it.

  • Translations: The translation of the Update button of the Add Movie Dialog (1130) was not applied.

  • Thumbnails: Fixed selecting different thumbnails for existing movies with the same title did not work.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Year got broken due to another change on the IMDB website.

EMDB 0.93
Februari 18th, 2010
  • User Interface: Added accelerator keys [A] til [Z] jumping to the next movie title in the list starting with the selected character.

  • Thumbnails: Made it possible to have duplicate movies in your list each having it's own thumbnail. (thumbnails are no longer stored using the IMDB number but with the movie title and eventualy a sequence number).

  • User Interface: Fixed crash when sorting on the Nr. column after filtering or searching.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Fixed Browse HDD did not add all movies in a folder.

  • IMDB Import: fixed import of Certification due to IMDB web layout changes.

  • Browse HDD: Fixed thumbnails were not downloaded when update from IMDB was selected.

  • HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails of TV Series were not shown.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Fixed Season was not saved when using Add and Continue.

  • User Interface: Added a Play button instead of the hyperlink on the location field.

  • Translations: Updated the Catalan, Portugese and Turkish translations.

EMDB 0.92
January 25th, 2010
  • Database: Fixed incorrect language properties after performing IMDB update for all movies.

  • Database: Fixed Flemish language properties were not correctly stored.

  • User Interface: Fixed large list of languages was not completely shown, even is the main window size was increased.

  • User Interface: If the Language, Sound or Features properties text does not fit on the main window this is now indicated with '...' at the end.

  • Translations: Updated the Slovak translation.

EMDB 0.91
January 18th, 2010
  • Database: correct the language properties for Serbian, Norwegian, Finnish, Korean, Cantonese, Thai, hindi, Turkish and Polish. There was an error in the database until version 0.89 causing these movies to be stored incorrectly. In version 0.90 this was fixed but this resulted in incorrect retrieval of these properties. This is now corrected the first time the database is loaded in version 0.91. Movies with one of these languages added in version 0.90 are also "corrected" although they were already okay. You have to change these manually. I'm sorry for this.

  • IMDB Import: Increased the timeout for importing as this resulted in Error E02 messages for some people with poor connections or high background network load.

  • File Import: When changing the separator character the previous one was still used the first time you imported a file.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish translation.

EMDB 0.90
January 8th, 2010
  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of rating due to IMDB website layout changes.

  • Translations: Updated the Slovak translation.

  • Movie Properties: Added Arabic to the language properties.

  • Movie Properties: Fixed a problem with storing Greek and German language settings.

EMDB 0.89
December 22th, 2009
  • User Interface: Fixed displaying of texts with '&' were shown as '&&' (e.g. 'Julie & Julia' was shown as 'Julie && Julia').

  • User Interface: Fixed some small drawing glitches in thumbnail edges.

  • Import Thumbnails: improved importing of thumbnails. It's now faster and more reliable.

  • HTML Export: Categories [0..9] and [Other] were not listed.

  • HTML Export: Season is now added tot titles of TV Series.

  • Add Movie dialog: Fixed some movie properties were resetted when using the subtitle languages dialog.

  • Translations: Updated the Spanish translation.

EMDB 0.88
December 16th, 2009
  • Thumbnails: Fixed several problems with thumbnails when changing the default database location.

  • Generate HTML: Updated the Default template to only show those sections which actually contain at least one movie.

  • User Interface: Added 'Nr Discs' and 'Comments' to the possible columns in the main window.

  • User Interface: Added an option to force Tabbed Add Movie Dialog. This mode was already set when the vertical resolution is below 768 pixels (e.g. when running EMDB on a netbook). Use this when the Add Movie Dialog does not fit on your screen, e.g. when you changed the DPI settings of your Display Driver.

  • IMDB Import: Made some improvements to prevent (occasionally) IMDB import freezes.

  • Database: The default location is made relative to be able to use EMDB as portable application.

  • CSV / Text Export: fixed strange characters in Save As Type dropdown box.

  • Movie Properties: Added Season for TV Series.

  • Thumbnail import: Fixed thumbnail import from Freecovers.net.

  • Translations: Updated the Dutch, Finnish, Portugese and Turkish translations.

  • Translations: Added Slovenian translation.

EMDB 0.87
September 25th, 2009
  • Export: Exporting Certification failed.

  • General: When deleting a movie with renumbering sometimes the list got messed up (database was fine though).

  • User Interface: Main Window columns were reset when changing Export column options.

  • Export / Print: Added AKA as possible Export / Print columns.

  • User Interface: Added TV-Series Filter.

  • HTML Export: Alternative HTML Export location. Because of access problems of the Program Files folder on Vista and Windows 7 you can now choose your own target folder. Default is the User folder.

  • Database: Alternative database location. It is now possible to select a custom location for your database to be able to share a single database over a network.

  • Update IMDB: Take year into account to prevent multiple results.

  • Add / Edit Movie: Thumbnails were not saved when using Next / Previous button.

  • Add / Edit Movie: Check for duplicates when using Add and Continue was not performed.

  • Add movies from HDD: skip already added ones (based on path and filename)

  • Translations: Added Serbian translation.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Chinese translations.

  • System: When no network connection available two error messages were shown.

EMDB 0.86
July 31th, 2009

NOW ALSO FULL COVER ART SUPPORT!
EMDB now uses FreeCovers.net to retrieve full DVD inserts as cover art. You can still use IMDB or DVDEmpire.com if you want.

  • IMDB import: Fixed incorrect country specific title for "fake movie title", "promotional abbreviation" and "working title".

  • FreeCovers.net cover import: Added (still experimental) import for full DVD inserts.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Added option to update only the cover from IMDB, DVD Empire or FreeCovers.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Last used folder for browsing Harddisk is now remembered.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Cancel in browse harddisk now cancels instead of still performing the browsing.

  • Translations: Added Chinese translation.

  • Browse HD: Fixed sometimes extensions were included in IMDB lookup causing incorrect results.

  • Startup: Check for updates now uses the emdb.tk redirector instead of the direct link.

  • Export / Print: Added Certification as possible column.

  • Export / Print: Order of columns is now freely configurable.

  • IMDB Import: Multiple Languages are now retrieved correctly.

  • IMDB Update All: Languages are now retrieved if option is checked.

  • System: Tested successfully on Windows 7.

EMDB 0.85
July 21th, 2009
  • DVDEmpire cover import: Fixed import of titles containing '&'

  • DVDEmpire cover import: Fixed import of titles starting with 'The' (e.g. 'The Missing' which is listed on DVDEmpire as 'Missing, The').

  • DVDEmpire cover import: Improved the best match algorithm.

  • Add Movie: Checking for duplicate entries is now based on IMDB number and if this is not present the combination of Title and Year.

  • DVDEmpire cover import: sometimes the downloaded covers were not resized correctly.

  • IMDB Update All: thumbnails were not updated from DVDEmpire even though the option was checked.

EMDB 0.84
July 14th, 2009

BETTER COVER ART!
EMDB now uses DVDEmpire.com to retrieve the cover art when importing movie data. These covers are more detailed and you can even specify to use the DVD or Bluray cover.

  • IMDB Import: Added new default cover art download from DVDEmpire.com.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed a rare hang during import.

  • User Interface: Added a filter for Owned movies.

  • General: Fixed some memory leaks.

EMDB 0.83
July 9th, 2009
  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Cast and Rating due to (again) changes in the IMDB web layout.

  • IMDB Import: Added option to first use actors which have a picture to filter less important cast as the order sometimes seems random.

  • IMDB Import: Made IMDB import more configurable.

  • IMDB Import: Added option to add movies based on IMDB number instead of title.

  • System: Better handling of missing internet connection at startup.

  • User Interface: Added search option for Country.

EMDB 0.82
Juni 30th, 2009
  • Options: Fixed a problem in the configuration file which caused the import IMDB thumbnail option not to be remembered correctly.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of Director and Cast of TV Series.

  • User Interface: Added search options for several Year queries and Certification.

EMDB 0.81
Juni 26th, 2009
  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of Director, Cast and Certification due to changes in the IMDB web layout.

  • General: Fixed some memory Leaks.

  • IMDB Import: Added (voice) for voice only contributions (like Animation)

  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.

  • HTML Export: fixed series were not listed in the A-Z sections.

  • HTML Export: fixed navigation from a movie page to the main page got broken.

  • Import from HDD: fixed import and added parsing of all subfolders.

  • General: Added *.ogg support (in Browse HDD and lauch from location field).

  • HTML Export: Added Subtitles and Location properties to the individual movie pages.

  • HTML Export: Don't show default cover if no cover available in list of Latest Additions.

  • Options: Backup frequency was not remembered correctly.

EMDB 0.80
April 2nd, 2009
  • IMDB import: fixed handling of special characters due to a change in the IMDB HTML code.

  • IMDB import: IMDB update in the Edit Movie dialog removed the custom genres and languages.

  • IMDB update all movies: Fixed update hung when no mouse activity.

  • User Interface: fixed filtering: Show All was not working when Show Wish list was selected previously.

  • Translations: Updated the Finnish and Slovak translations.

EMDB 0.79
March 22th, 2009
  • System: fixed long startup time.

  • User Interface: fixed custom genres and languages were not visible in the Add / Edit Movie dialog.

  • User Interface: fixed Add / Edit Movie dialog was always above all windows of other applications.

EMDB 0.78
March 21th, 2009
  • User Interface: fixed Add/Edit dialog was cut off at the bottom when using larger scale fonts (not the default 96 DPI) in Windows Display settings.

EMDB 0.77
March 20th, 2009
  • Thumbnails: fixed saving of thumbnails sometimes went wrong when movie title contained invalid characters (%?/\|"<>*:).

  • HTML Export: Fixed swapping of the links to [Others] and [0..9].

  • HTML Export: Fixed TV Series (surrounded by double quotes e.g. "Lost") were not added to the [A]-[Other] sections.

  • HTML Export: Individual movie pages are now put in a separate folder.

  • User Interface: Added support for NetBook resolution (1024 x 600) on MANY requests.

  • Translations: Fixed default proxy server and port were not translated.

  • Translations: Updated the Dutch, German and Turkish translations.

EMDB 0.76
March 8th, 2009
  • User Interface: Added Filter option to show Seen, Not Seen, Wish List, Loaned, Search Results or All movies.

  • IMDB update: the update overwrote manually added thumbnails.

  • Options: Removing all data in the options dialog caused a crash when returning to the main window.

  • Search: Added Comments and Location to the fields the global search uses.

  • User Interface: fixed sorting of the Codec column in the main window.

  • Customized version: Short names did not fully overlap the default title.

  • User Interface: The Director column is now sorted on the Last names.

  • User Interface: Fixed sorting at startup was not always on the previous sorted column (if this option was enabled).

EMDB 0.75
Februari 25th, 2009
  • User Interface: Added Codecs as possible column for the list in the main window.

  • Donation: fixed selection other amounts and currencies.

  • User Interface: Added IMDB number as possible field to import, export, print and HTML
    generation.

  • User Interface: Added support for more movie types to launch via the location field.

  • User Interface: Fixed hitting the Return key closed the application. Return now opens the Edit/view window of the selected movie.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed incorrect result when selecting an entry from multiple results when one or more videogames (VG) were filtered out.

  • IMDB Import: Added option to show or hide alternative names in the multiple results dialog.

  • IMDB Update: Custom genres were overwritten during an IMDB update for all movies.

  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.

  • Translations: Fixed several untranslatable items and missing items in the English template.

  • Translations: Fixed possible crash when initial language was set to the language of the OS and this being Non-English.

  • HTML Export: made the html export output w3c compliant.

  • Movie Properties: Added Whish list and Own properties.

EMDB 0.73 + 0.74
Januari 12th, 2009
  • User Interface: The Show All functionality (to show the whole list after performing a Search) got broken in the previous version.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed initial selection was on second title in multiple result dialog.

  • IMDB Import: Removed Video Games from titles in multiple result dialog.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed special HTML characters (e.g. "&#225;") were sometimes not converted to normal characters.

  • HTML Export: Fixed HTML pages with special characters were not saved correctly (e.g. Czech characters like 'ě' and 'ž').

  • Customized Version: Fixed some characters were cut of incorrectly at the bottom of the header (e.g. lowercase 'g' and 'j').

  • User Interface: List was not updated when a single movie was edited.

  • Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to browse a folder on your hard drive for movies (*.avi;*.mkv) to be added.

  • Translations: Language is set to the Windows UI Language at first startup.

  • User Interface: Selection was lost when changing the UI Language.

  • User Interface: Translation of Movie details were not updated when changing the UI Language.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Finnish translations.

EMDB 0.72
December 16th, 2008
  • IMDB Import: Fixed some movies were not shown in multiple result dialog.

  • Import csv: Default subtitle language was not applied.

  • User Interface: Movie info was not refreshed after editing a single movie.

  • Add / Edit Movie: Image was always rotated if needed when copied from the clipboard whether the option was enabled or not.

EMDB 0.71  has been released
December 2th, 2008
  • User Interface: Made the IMDb logo behave like a real button.

  • Movie Properties: Added *.wmv as possible type for stored movies.

  • User Interface: Initially disable / hide buttons which should not be used when no movie is selected.

  • Add Edit Dialog: Last movie was not stored correctly when using Next or Previous buttons in Edit mode.

  • Database: Added Auto backup feature.

  • IMDB Import All: Excisting genres were cleared when import of genres was not enabled.

  • IMDB Import All: Added feature to only update new (not having an IMDB number yet) movies.

  • Translations: Updated the Turkish translation.

  • User Interface: Added a List-Only mode.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed movies with special characters (e.g. !&'") in the query string were not found.

EMDB 0.70  has been released
November 19th, 2008
  • Search: Fixed a (rare) problem were sometimes too much titles were found.

  • Search: Increased the available space for the translation of the "Exact Match" checkbox on the Cast tab.

  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed the number of available actors not being updated when the selection was changed in the Edit Cast dialog.

  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed incorrect displayed index of new movie to add (was one too low).

  • IMDB import: Changed the query string to give better results when searching for a title which is not the original one (aka, also known as).

  • Movie Properties: Added DVD (*.IFO) as possible type for movies stored on your hard disk.

EMDB 0.69  has been released
October 28th, 2008
  • Search: Fixed a (rare) problem were sometimes too much titles were found.

  • Search: Increased the available space for the translation of the "Exact Match" checkbox on the Cast tab.

  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed the number of available actors not being updated when the selection was changed in the Edit Cast dialog.

  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed incorrect displayed index of new movie to add (was one too low).

  • IMDB import: Changed the query string to give better results when searching for a title which is not the original one (aka, also known as).

  • Movie Properties: Added DVD (*.IFO) as possible type for movies stored on your hard disk.

EMDB 0.67/68  has been released
September 27th, 2008
  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed Previous/Next buttons corrupted some info.

  • IMDB import: (Again) fixed Rating not being imported due to (again) web layout changes.

  • Movie Properties: Added *.mkv as possible type for stored movies.

  • User Interface: Fixed sorting of Alternative Title did not work.

  • User Interface: Alternative Title column now shows the title without type.

  • User Interface: Fixed first column not shown correctly when started maximized.

  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed browsing for a file deleted some settings.

  • Add/Edit Dialog: Added Previous/Next buttons to be able to easily browse through your movies.

  • Add/Edit Dialog: When using the OK button, only save the data if something is actually changed.

  • IMDB Update all movies: Added possibility to skip a movie without aborting.

  • Customisation: Fixed title in caption not being updated at startup.

  • Customisation: Fixed large customized names not completely shown in loading dialog.

  • Translations: Updated the Danish and Spanish translations and the English template.

EMDB 0.66  has been released
September 17th, 2008
  • IMDB import: Fixed reporting when no matches found on an IMDB query.

  • IMDB import: Fixed rating not being imported due to web layout changes.

  • HTML Export: Added index ("#INDEX#") as possible tag to the HTML export.

  • Backup: Added default extension (*.dat) to creating and restoring a database backup.

  • User Interface: Sorting the list (by clicking a column header) now keeps the original selection and position.

  • IMDB Update all movies: Fixed update stops on empty entry or no matches found.

  • Translations: Updated the Danish, Turkish and Slovakian translations.

EMDB 0.64 / 0.65  has been released
August 3th, 2008
  • IMDB import: Fixed IMDB import due to changes of their website layout.

  • Add Movie: fixed items not being saved when using Add and Continue.

  • Movie Properties: Added Region and System movie properties.

  • Translations: Added Turkish translation.

  • User Interface: Added animated startup screen.

EMDB 0.63  has been released
June 11th, 2008
  • Language properties: Fixed saving of Korean, Thai, Hindi, Turkish and Polish.

  • Movie Properties: Added D-Theater (D-VHS) and Lasterdisc to the possible Source and Media properties.

  • Cover Thumbnails: Fixed changing the title of a Series resulted in loosing the thumbnail.

  • User interface: Fixed Minimize and Restore changing the column width.

  • CSV Import: Added a preview to be able to select the columns more easily.

  • CSV Import: Added possiblility to skip a header.

  • CSV Import: Added more column types to import.

  • HTML Export: Added an option to select or leave out the latest additions and/or the list of all movies.

  • HTML Export: Added an option to choose ascending or descending order of the list of all movies.

  • Translations: Added Russian translation.

  • Add Movies: Fixed problem with Add and Continue not saving all movies.

  • User interface: Added *.m3u as link in the Location field (to join movies consisting of multiple files).

EMDB 0.61 / 0.62  has been released
May 8th, 2008
  • Search: Fixed crash when searching if movies were deleted with fixed numbering.

  • IMDB import: Added feature to retrieve Country specific titles instead of the default (international) titles.

  • Loan feature: Fixed automatic selection of next movie loaned by the same person when a movie is returned.

  • Movie Properties: Fixed incorrect initial translation of Movie Features.

  • Movie Properties: Added Subtitle language(s) property.

  • Movie Properties: Added Color/BW property.

  • Thumbnails: Use Name instead of IMDB number as thumbnail filename for series to be able to specify different thumbnails for each season.

  • IMDB Import: Added detection of TV Series.

  • User Interface: Added setting of colors for property labels in the main window and text color of the selection bar.

  • Movie Properties: Added browse function to select media stored on local harddisk including starting it from the main window (by clicking on the location which changes to a link if applicable)

  • IMDB Import: Fixed Plot import which got broken by changes of the IMDB page layout.

  • Custimization: Customized versions will not show the PayPal dialog after updating to a newer version.

  • Thumbnails: Fixed a problem were thumbnails  from TV Series were not displayed due to the new thumbnail algorithm of the previous version.

EMDB 0.60  has been released
March 6th, 2008
  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.

  • HTML Export: Fixed a bug were changed thumbnails were not updated in an existing HTML export.

  • HTML Export: Thumbnails of the latest additions are now rescaled taking the aspect ration into account.

  • HTML Export: Added Others to the A til Z and 0..9 groups of movies to also list movies with language specific starting characters (like the Danish æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø and Å).

  • IMDB Update: Fixed every single movie update tries to connect to the internet, even if the first one failed.

  • Printing: Fixed printing "Current selection and sort order" when no selection was made. All movies in the current sort order are now printed in this case.

  • Printing: Fixed printing of loaned movies.

  • Printing: Added a header and a footer to the printouts.

  • Printing: Added left margins to the printouts. For the time being the margin is fixed to 5 characters.

  • Prefix Correction: Fixed a bug when a movie title was changed due to a prefix the thumbnail name was not changed along (if no IMDB number was available which is the prefered thumbnail name).

  • Installation: Fixed a problem were installing a font could go wrong.

EMDB 0.59  has been released
February 14th, 2008
  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.

  • HTML Export: Fixed a bug were changed thumbnails were not updated in an existing HTML export.

  • HTML Export: Thumbnails of the latest additions are now rescaled taking the aspect ration into account.

  • HTML Export: Added Others to the A til Z and 0..9 groups of movies to also list movies with language specific starting characters (like the Danish æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø and Å).

  • IMDB Update: Fixed every single movie update tries to connect to the internet, even if the first one failed.

  • Printing: Fixed printing "Current selection and sort order" when no selection was made. All movies in the current sort order are now printed in this case.

  • Printing: Fixed printing of loaned movies.

  • Printing: Added a header and a footer to the printouts.

  • Printing: Added left margins to the printouts. For the time being the margin is fixed to 5 characters.

  • Prefix Correction: Fixed a bug when a movie title was changed due to a prefix the thumbnail name was not changed along (if no IMDB number was available which is the prefered thumbnail name).

  • Installation: Fixed a problem were installing a font could go wrong.

EMDB 0.58  has been released
February 4th, 2008
  • Translations: Updated the German, Danish and Slovak translations.

  • Internet access: Finally completely fixed crash when the internet is being accessed (check for updates / retrieve data from IMDB) without being online.

  • Printing: Fixed printing of the current selection and sort order.

  • Search: Fixed search on actors.

  • Windows Vista: Fixed UAC (User Account Control) problem resulting in new added movies not being saved, settings not being remembered, etc. From now on you can run EMDB on Vista logged in as a User or an Administrator, without the need to "Run As Administrator" and
    with UAC either enabled or disabled.

  • HTML Export: Added #LOCATION#, #VERSION#, #LOANED# and #SEEN# tags.

  • HTML Export: Updated the Default template: added an all movies list to the main page, added some properties to the individual movies pages and more.

  • Movie Properties: Added "Collector's Edition" to the version property.

  • Thumbnails: Fixed problem were movies without IMDB number and with an & in the title, the thumbnails were not shown in the main window.

  • Customization: Fixed a rare uppercase problem preventing EMDB to change it's title.

EMDB 0.57  has been released
December 2nd, 2007
  • Development environment: Moved to Visual Studio 2008 / MFC 9.0.

  • Internet access: Fixed crash when the internet is being accessed (check for updates / retrieve data from IMDB) without being online.

  • Backup: Fixed cover thumbnails were not copied during manual backup.

  • Search: Added global text search (searches in titles, actors, directors and descriptions).

  • Search: previous search text for titles and global search are now remembered.

  • Search: Last used tab in Search dialog is now remembered.

  • Movie Properties: Removed DivX/XviD from the possible Media as they are no media.

  • Loan Tracking: When returning a movie, the next one loaned by that person is now selected.

  • IMDB import: Fixed distortion in the multiple result overview due to changes in the imdb web layout.

EMDB 0.56  has been released
November 18th, 2007
  • Database: Made reading of the database robust against some invalid values.

  • Translations: Added a Polish translation.

  • Movie Properties: Added Polish as language property.

  • User Interface: Changed default thumbnail.

EMDB 0.55  has been released
November 14th, 2007
  • Translations: Updated the Japanese translation.

  • Database: Fixed reading of databases with reserved (empty) entries (which keep the numbering intact when deleting movies).

  • Customized naming: The customized naming got broken (fixed in version 0.54).

  • Local configuration file: The recently introduced local configuration file replacing the registry could cause problems in some cases: settings were restored to their defaults (fixed in version 0.53).

EMDB 0.52  has been released
November 8th, 2007
  • IMDB Import: For movies with multiple directors none was imported. Now the first one is used ("A Bugs Life").

  • IMDB Import: For movies with general prefix ("The", "A") the prefix is moved to the end optionally to make the sorting of titles more usefull. "A Bugs Life" is renamed to "Bugs Life, A". Added a tab to the option dialog to enable this feature and to customize the prefixes taken into account. You can also update all movies already in the database.

  • Translations: Updated the Slovakian translation.

  • Translations: You can now use the '|' character as a new line indicator.

  • User Interface: Made the space for the loan date in the main window a bit larger.

  • Manual Backup: Manual backups (and restores) now include both the database and the thumbnail images.

  • Database: Fixed (incorrect) reported damaged database when only directors and/or actors but no movies are present.

  • Database: Changed the automatic backup mechanism: EMDB now automatically keeps a Last Known Good Database to prevent data loss when something happens to your database. You can still (and should) create manual backups though.

  • Database: Added a check on version numbers. You shouldn't (and can't anymore) use a newer database with an older version of EMDB.

  • Application: EMDB is now fully portable: all settings are stored in a local configuration file (emdb.cfg) instead of the Windows registry. Your current settings are read from the registry and stored in the configuration file.

  • Movie Properties: Added Turkish as language property.

  • Movie Properties: Fixed Media types HardDisk/BluRay and HD-DVD were not saved.

EMDB 0.51  has been released
October 22th, 2007
  • Options: Default settings for Media, Codec and Source were not always correctly applied.

  • Add Dialog: Mouse pointer now changes to a hand when hovering over the rating indicating it can be changed by clicking / dragging.

EMDB 0.50  has been released
October 21st, 2007
  • Translations: Updated the Portuguese translation.

  • Import CSV: Fixed version was always set to UNRATED.

  • Printing: Fixed wrong column headers (previous fix only fixed the column headers for Export.

  • Backup: Fixed manual backup caused original database to be cleared.

  • Backup: Changed way to select file when creating or restoring manual backup.

  • IMDB import / Check for updates: Improved error handling when no connection to the internet could be made.

  • Add Dialog: Fixed infinitive loop when deleting values of Number of Discs and Duration.

  • Add Dialog: Allow Number of Discs to be 0 (in case of storage on Hard Disk).

  • Movie Properties: Added Thai and Hindi as language properties.

EMDB 0.49  has been released
October 9th, 2007
  • Printing / Export: Fixed wrong column headers.

  • Import CSV: Changed the user interface of the columns to import. fixed several bugs in  importing. Made the whole importing more robust.

  • HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails of last added movies were not shown.

  • HTML Export: Fixed default thumbnail was not always shown.

  • Export / Printing: Added 'Medium' to the possible print and export columns.

  • User Interface: Fixed media were never translated.

EMDB 0.48  has been released
September 16th, 2007
  • HTML Export: Take customized name into account.

  • Movie Properties: Added Film-Noir ("The Maltese Falcon") which is (allthough rarely) used on IMDB to the Genres.

  • User Interface: Sound properies are now shown in order of quality.

  • User Interface: Order of the columns in the main window can now be changed.

  • User Interface: Changed font of the main list to the Windows Icons font which is better readable.

  • CSV Import: When importing movies, the default movie properties are now applied.

  • Options: Certification was not updated during IMDB update all movies.

  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of Actors which was broken due to changes in the IMDB web layout.

  • Translations: Updates the Japanese and Danish translations.

  • Translations: Added English language file as base for new translations.

EMDB 0.47  has been released
August 29th, 2007
  • HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails when old (name of the movie instead of IMDB number) or mixed thumbnail naming was still being used.

  • HTML Export: Added default thumbnail when no thumbnail was added to a movie yet.

  • Printing: Fixed a bug when printing a movie with no director specified.

  • User Interface: Added possibility to define your own "no cover available" thumbnail.

  • Database: Made the reading of corrupted databases (from realy old versions of EMDB) much more robust. Even more data can now be recovered!

  • Options: Made checking for new version at startup optional.

  • User Interface: Fixed sorting on search results.

  • Add Dialog: Fixed last Source in the pulldown menu not being translated.

  • Printing: Fixed a bug in the page headers of the print output.

  • Printing: Fixed a bug in printing the rating.

  • Options: Added icons to the different entries of the options page.

  • Movie properties: Added HD DVD / BluRay Disc / Digital TV / Satelite sources.

  • Movie properties: Added Hard Disk as media.

  • Loan tracking: Added Loan date.

EMDB 0.46  has been released
June 29th, 2007
  • IMDB import: For some movies the first entry of the list of possible matches was missing due to the previous fix.

EMDB 0.45  has been released
June 27th, 2007
  • IMDB import: Fixed broken import due to changed layout of the IMDB website.

  • User Interface: Changed initial sort order of Number, Year and Rating columns.

EMDB 0.44  has been released
June 8th, 2007
  • HTML Export: Fixed broken thumbnails due to new thumbnail file names.

  • Movie properties: Added Finnish and Korean languages. Split Chinese in Cantonese and Manderin.

  • Translations: Added Finnish translation.

  • Movie properties: Added new genre "Short".

  • Search: Added search on Director.

  • User Interface: Window state (minimized / maximized) is now saved and restored.

  • Options: Fixed loan history setting which was switched off sometimes.

  • General: Added check for new version at startup.

  • Printing/Exporting: Added warning when no columns are selected.

EMDB 0.43  has been released
May 24th, 2007
  • IMDB Import: Added possibility to use a Proxy.

  • IMDB Update: Batch update now also imports the thumbnail cover (if enabled).

  • IMDB Import: Plot outline is now only retrieved when activated.

  • IMDB Import: Import on existing movie doesn't overwrite an existing thumbnail anymore.

  • User Interface: Column width after the very first install on a system is now correct.

  • User Interface: A message is shown when no matches on a search were found instead of showing an empty list.

  • Export / Printing: Fixed incorrect loaned text due to recently introduced loan history.

  • Printing: Fixed incorrect (empty) document name when printing.

  • Printing: Fixed incorrect columns were printed.

  • Printing: Fixed a crash when printing a second time in one session.

  • Thumbnails: Thumbnails are now saved using the IMDB number as file name to better support multiple movies with the same title.

EMDB 0.42  has been released
April 9th, 2007
  • IMDB Import: fixed import of director due to changed IMDB web layout.

  • Database: fixed loan tracking which got broken by adding the loan history.

  • User Interface: fixed crash when the IMDB button was clicked with the database still empty.

  • User Interface: Added Location as possible column in the main window and to the possible print / export output columns.

  • Translations: Updated the French and Danish translations.

  • Export / Printing: Fixed a bug were sometimes the incorrect column widths were used.

EMDB 0.41  has been released
March 30th, 2007
  • Database: fixed possible corrupted database when removing a movie when the delete mode was set to 'Keep numbering'.

  • Translations: Fixed the English translation of the text of the main caption when in search mode.

  • Database: Fixed crash when removing all movies and no covers were added.

EMDB 0.40  has been released
March 12th, 2007
  • User Interface: column width was not stored correctly.

  • Translations: added untranslated items in the Export and Import tabs of the Options dialog.

  • Translations: Fixed 'Remove all movies' messagebox translation.

  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.

  • Translations: Added Japanese and French translations.

  • Movie properties: Added (optional) Loan tracking history.

  • CSV Import: Again fixed a bug when importing a CSV (comma seaprated values) file.

  • User Interface: Added check for corrupted window position and size stored in the registry to prevent invisible main window on startup.

  • User Interface: Added a progress indicator during startup.

  • User Interface: Fixed the text of the caption of the main window.

  • Translations: Fixed the translation of the text of the main caption when in search mode.

EMDB 0.39  has been released
February 26th, 2007
  • CSV Import: Fixed a bug when importing a CSV (comma separated values) file.

  • Movie properties: Added possibility for custom Genres.

  • Movie properties: Added Certification property.

  • User Interface: Added Certification column to the main window.

  • User Interface: Improved column width calculation when resizing the main window.

  • User Interface: Protect columns to fall outside main window or to be too small on startup.

  • IMDB Import: Certification for a specific country can now be retrieved from IMDB.

EMDB 0.38  has been released
February 20th, 2007
  • IMDB Import: Fixed broken IMDB import caused by the new layout of the IMDB website.

  • IMDB Import: Added 'Complete title' and 'Short title' to the prefixed alternative titles.

EMDB 0.37  has been released
January 07th, 2007
  • Import: Fixed a bug when importing a CSV (comma separated values) file.

  • Import: Skip empty lines of a CSV file.

  • Import: Added check for number of columns to import a CSV file.

  • User Interface: Movie properties dialog is now shown when Enter button is pressed.

  • User Interface: Added Seen and Director columns to the main window.

  • Movie properties: Added Serbian and Norwegian language properties.

  • Translations: Added Czech and Norwegian translations.

  • General: EMDB can now only be started once. A second attempt to launch will bring the original application to the front.

EMDB 0.36  has been released
December 18th, 2006
  • IMDB Import: Fixed another IMDB import bug caused by changes in the HTML layout of the IMDB website: direct matches were not found.

  • General: EMDB can now be personalized. For just $10 you get your own named database with lifetime support for all future versions!!!

EMDB 0.35  has been released
December 6th, 2006
  • IMDB Import: Fixed the IMDB import caused by changes in the HTML layout of the IMDB website.

EMDB 0.34  has been released
November 24th, 2006
  • Movie properties: Added Russian and Greek language properties.

  • Movie properties: Added 'SPECIAL EDITION' version.

  • Movie properties: Added Number of Discs property.

  • Movie properties: Added BlueRay en HD-DVD to the Media property.

  • Movie properties: Added MPEG1 en H.264 to the Codecs property.

  • Add Movies dialog: Changed test for duplicates to a warning so a movie can now be added more than once (e.g. for normal and special versions)

  • Translations: Added Greek, Catalan and Swedish translations.

  • User Interface: Column width in main window is remembered and restored.

  • User Interface: Columns to show in the main window are now selectable.

  • User Interface: Duration, Country, Medium and Language Columns added to the main window.

  • Database: Added options to create and restore manual backups and restore the automatic backups which are made every time a movie is changed or added.

  • Translations: Only the selected translation file is read in memory instead of all translations during startup.

  • User Interface: Last used Options page is remembered and restored.

EMDB 0.33  has been released
August 30th, 2006
  • IMDB import - Fixed a hang in parsing the AKA titles from IMDB import (movie "Antitrust").

  • Translations - Removed Swedisch selection because I didn't receive a promised Swedish translation yet.

  • Translations - Added Croatian translation.

  • Movie properties - Added Croatian to the language properties.

  • User interface - Updated the icons in the translations combobox in the options dialog with new hi-color 3D ones

  • User interface - Updated the icons of the main dialog toolbar.

EMDB 0.32  has been released
August 17th, 2006
  • Database - The database and all exports are now saved in unicode format to preserve special characters.

  • Translations - Updated the Hungarian translation.

  • Database - All references are now validated during reading of the database file.

  • Look and Feel - Fixed the tab order in the Add Movie dialog.

  • Bug fix - Remove the retrieved IMDB type of an alternative title when manually editing.

  • Movie Information - Added a TV-Series entry.

  • Movie Information - Added a Version entry (e.g. UNRATED, DIRECTORS CUT).

  • Movie Information - Added a Seen entry.

  • Bug fix - Rating was reset to zero when updating a movie from IMDB.

  • Bug fix - Rating was updated too small when updating all movies in the options. (rating is multiplied by 10 internally to preserve fraction, this was not done when updating).

  • Translations - Added a reference English language file to the Software section of the website.

EMDB 0.31  has been released
July 24th, 2006
  • IMDB Import - Added an Update all movies from IMDB feature.

  • Look and Feel - Changed the Options dialog from tabbed propertysheet to .NET style.

  • IMDB Import - Fixed a bug in the colors of the IMDB Search results dialog.

  • Typo - Fixed a typo in the IMDB Search results dialog.

  • Bug fix - Fixed a bug when searching on genres in a list with one or more deleted movies
    with reserved numbers.

  • Look and Feel - Changed the Exit button bitmap.

  • Look And Feel - Replaced all custom spin controls with standard ones.

  • IMDB Import - Set the default selection of the IMDB Search results dialog to the first movie.

  • Sorting - Fixed sorting order of the rating column: position of 10 is now ok and not rated movies are always shown last independent of an ascending / descending sorting order.

  • Sorting - Fixed sorting order of the loaned column: empty entries are always shown last independent of an ascending / descending sorting order.

  • Alternative Titles - Added more alternative title options ('working title', 'trailer title' and 'USA'.

  • Translation - Added translations for all alternative title types.

  • IMDB Import - Show alternative titles of found movies in the IMDB search results dialog.

  • Improvement - Set focus back to the list in the main window when cancelling Search, Options, Add and Change dialogs.

  • Movie properties - Added Hungarian language to the DVD properties.

  • Translations - Added Hungarian translation.

  • Database - Reading of corrupted database is now even more robust.

  • Thumbnails - Fixed deleting of the thumbnail image when deleting a movie.

  • Thumbnails - Added deleting of the thumbnail images when deleting all movies.

  • Thumbnails - Fixed creation of thumbnail when movie title contains ".

EMDB 0.30  has been released
June 29th, 2006
  • Search - Added Adult genre to the search genre page.

  • Database - Fixed a rare backwards compatibility problem.

  • Database - Made the reading of corrupted databases more robust.

  • Database - Saving of the Database with deleted movies (were the numbers are reserved) is now more efficient.

  • HTML export - Fixed // in the image path and </a> tags of the HTML export.

  • Options - Added a Color settings page to the options to change the colors of the main list.

  • Visualisation - Fixed a small glitch in displaying the bitmap of the Delete button.

EMDB 0.29  has been released
June 08th, 2006
  • Development environment - Moved to Visual Studio 2005 + statically linked MFC 8.0 Library + full Unicode support.

  • New genres - Added Biography genre ('The World's fastest Indian') and on many requests Adult genre.

  • Saving strategy - Database is now saved after every new added or changed movie.

  • Layout - Increased space for plot outline on many requests. Changed the layout of the main window and the Add Movie dialog.

  • Alternative titles - Added alternative title (International English title, Alternative spelling and DVD title are imported from IMDB).

  • Search - Search on title now also searches in the alternative titles.

  • Resizing - Better resizing and positioning of controls in the main window on startup.

  • HTML export - Removed non-web allowed characters from thumbnail filenames in HTML export. Added new tags to HTML template: #LOANED#, #MEDIUM#, #SOURCE#, #AUDIO#, #ALTERNATIVE_TITLE#, #LANGUAGES# and #EXTRAS#. Generated HTML code is now better (but not yet fully) W3C compliant.

  • Visualisation - Show Hour glass cursor when sorting columns to indicate time consuming operation in progress.

  • Import IMDB - Fixed a crash when importing a movie from IMDB were no director is specified ('Festen').

  • Swap - Added a swap function to swap two movies (e.g. swap their numbering).

  • Import csv - Fixed some csv import issues.

  • Bug fixes - Fixed a crash when double-clicking a header (eg. 'Popular Titles') in the IMDB multiple results selection dialog.

 
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