Here you can find all
release notes from earlier versions of EMDB. The
versions themselves are not available on this website
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Database:
Added option to merge databases (duplicate
movies, based on IMDB numbers, are filtered
out).
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Database:
Added option to save a partial database (based
on search results or filtering).
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User Interface:
Omit months if they are zero in loan duration
longer than 1 year.
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Database:
Added 'Persian' to possible Spoken Languages and
Audio Streams.
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Translations:
Added a Persian Translation.
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Translations:
Updated the Arabic, Slovak, Finnish, Hebrew and
Greek translations.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed importing of duration.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed importing of year for TV Series.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed detection of TV Series.
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HTML Export:
Added tag #IMDB_NUMBER# on request (for custom
templates)
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Add/Edit Movie:
Fixed crash when Edit TV Series was clicked.
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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)
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Translations:
Fixed the Hebrew Translation.
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Translations:
Updated the Turkish, Czech and Danish
translations.
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Database:
Fixed some random crashes (at startup or during
HTML export) after updating to V1.43.
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User Interface:
Fixed random selected languages when opening
Spoken Languages and Audio Streams Search tabs.
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Translations:
Added Hebrew Translation.
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Translations:
Updated the German translation.
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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.
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User Interface:
Added Search for Spoken Languages.
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User Interface:
(Re)Added possibility to show both ratings in
the main window.
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Database:
Added 'Yiddish' to possible Spoken Languages and
Audio Streams.
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User Interface:
Added Ctrl-P as accelerator key for playing a
movie.
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Translations:
Updated the Slovak and German translations.
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Database:
Directors got mixed up now and then. Hopefully
fix now.
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User Interface:
When inserting a movie the new movie showed up
twice in the list (although correctly saved in
the database).
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User Interface:
Play button was never disabled for TV Series.
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User Interface:
Swapped movies were not correctly shown in the
list.
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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).
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Search:
unknown directors were included in the search
results when searching for a specific director.
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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.
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Browse HDD:
popups with "No matches found" replaced by a
logging message.
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User Interface:
"Clear All Fields" did not clear all data and
the "Update IMDB" button was not reset to
"Search IMDB".
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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.
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User Interface:
Copy-Paste did not work correctly between Edit
screens of different movies.
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User Interface:
Added IMDB button in IMDB multiple results
dialog to check IMDB for the selected title(s).
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Translations:
Updated the Arabic, Czech, German, Greek and
Danish translations.
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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.
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User Interface:
Fixed strange numbering when adding new movies (e.g.
'1953 (0)').
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Database:
Fixed number of votes for rating was not always
saved.
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IMDB Import:
Number of votes was not saved when using Add and
continue and IMDB Batch Update.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed the import of Year for TV mini-series.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed the import of Spoken Languages.
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Translations:
fixed translation for 'Portuguese'.
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Translations:
Updated the German, French, Danish and Turkish
translations.
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User Interface:
Fixed sorting on duration.
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User Interface:
Added an option to apply the last used filter on
startup.
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User Interface:
Made the window title more descriptive when
applying a filter.
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User Interface:
Fixed the option of disabeling BluRay boxes for
HD movies.
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IMDB Import:
Added number of votes for rating.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed HTML code '"' not being converted.
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Search: Added
option to combine multiple searches / Filters.
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Search: Added
option to search on audio streams.
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Database:
prepared TV Series for support of individual
episodes and import from TheTVDB.com.
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Translations:
updated the Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Danish,
Greek, Slovak, Czech, Turkish and Russian
translations.
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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 ;-)
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Import from HDD:
Fixed a crash when importing large number of
movies in several sub folders.
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Import from HDD:
Movies with multiple results were you should
select one from a list are queued until all
automatic resolved movies are finished.
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Import from HDD:
Plot outline was not imported from
Moviemeter.nl.
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Import from HDD:
Director was not imported if Director was
already in the database.
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Import from HDD:
Better handle full DVD and Bluray file
structures.
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User Interface:
Covers in movie details panel were sometimes
cropped.
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User Interface:
Show TV Series cases option was not working.
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User Interface:
Fixed sorting on resolution.
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Translations:
Updated the Greek, Turkish and Swedish
translations.
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Database: Fixed
short (2 characters) AKA titles got lost.
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User
Interface: Fixed aspect ratio of bluray covers
in the Movie Details Panel.
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HTML Export: individual
movie pages were not created correctly when
creating Patch folder.
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User Interface: Added
Resolution to the possible columns to show.
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Print / Export: Added Resolution to possible
columns to export / print.
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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).
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User
Interface: Show the number of movies in the
titlebar.
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Translations: Updated the Turkish
translation.
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User Interface:
Fixed director and User Ratings were not cleared
when clearing all data in the Add Movie Screen.
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HTML Export:
Added number of the movie to the movie details
page.
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HTML Export:
Year is not shown as "()" anymore when year is
not present.
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HTML Export:
Several small improvements.
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HTML Export:
Created separate buttons for creating Full
website and creating Patch new additions only.
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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.
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Add movies from
HDD: Added *.FLV support.
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IMDB Import:
Added several special characters to convert
correctly ('Ï', 'Ì', 'Í' and 'Î').
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Import from csv:
Added Comments and User Ratings to the possible
fields to import.
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Translations:
Updated the Arabic, Czech, Finnish, German,
Greek and Norwegian translations.
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User Interface:
Fixed crash when returning a loaned movie if
list is filtered.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed importing of Directors.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed incorrect handling of 'ý' and 'Ó'
characters.
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Translations:
Added translation for "All" (Seasons for TV
Series).
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Translations:
Updated the Danish and Dutch translations.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed HTML codes for special characters were not
always correctly converted during import.
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IMDB Update All
Movies: Updating a single property did not
work in all cases.
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User Interface:
Added Dropdown with predefined resolutions in
edit multiple movies dialog.
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User Interface:
Loaned label displayed on the cover was not
removed when returning a movie in Bookshelf
View.
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User Interface:
Next movie loaned by same person was not
automatically selected when returning a movie in
Bookshelf View.
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Translations:
Updated the Arabic, Turkish and Spanish
translations.
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User Interface:
Loan label not correctly updated when changing
the loan properties of the current movie in
Bookshelf mode.
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User Interface:
Selection changes sometimes result in partially
drawn dvd boxes in bookshelf mode.
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Options:
Proxy settings were not correctly remembered.
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Import / Export:
Added IMDB number to the possible fields to
import. Added both IMDB and User rating to the
fields to import and export.
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Export:
Exporting duration does not add 'minutes'
anymore.
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User Interface:
added certification to the Movie Detail Panel.
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User Interface:
Fixed filter on High Definition did not get all
HD movies.
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User Interface:
Added Movies only (excluding TV Series) filter.
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Translations:
Updated the Slovak, Spanish, French and Finnish
translations.
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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.
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User Interface:
Fixed crash when scrolling and clicking fast
back and forth in Bookshelf mode using the mouse
scroll wheel.
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Add movies from
HDD: improved reading of full BluRay disc
structures.
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Add movies from
HDD: fixed names includes path when no IMDB
query is performed after search is done.
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HTML export:
fixed HTML code for User Rating was shown when
User rating is not selected to be shown.
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User Interface:
Fixed some drawing issues in bookshelf selection
mode.
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User Interface:
Fixed incorrect movies are shown when switching
from List mode to Bookshelf mode after searching
/ filtering.
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Movie Properties:
added "Complete Series" postfix when Season is
not specified.
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Movie Properties:
Set maximum of Episodes to 999 instead of 99 (to
better support the new "Complete Series"
property.
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Print: Fixed
printing of the Seen column.
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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.
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Import from HDD:
Added support for BluRay folder structure.
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HTML Export:
EMDB now adds a backup of the database to the
generated web files.
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IMDB Import:
fixed retrieving of the IMDB link.
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Database:
Added option to remove unused thumbnails.
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Translations:
Updated the Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian,
Spanish and Turkish translations.
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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)
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Export / HTML
Export: Added option to choose all movies or
the current selection to export.
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User Interface:
Added Region to the possible columns to show.
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Print / Export:
Added Region to the properties to Print /
Export.
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Thumbnails:
fixed problem with missing or duplicate
thumbnails when TV Series property is changed
afterwards.
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User Interface:
Using Ctrl-A in Add Movie screen selected all
movies in the main window.
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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.
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DataBase:
Fixed problem were Directors got mixed up after
a new version of EMDB was installed.
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Translations:
Added (native) Portuguese translation and
renamed the current Portuguese translation to
Portuguese (Brazil).
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Translations:
Updated the Greek, German, Spanish and French
translations.
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User Interface:
Fixed exporting/printing of Seen, Own and Which
List fields.
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User Interface:
Added DateAdded to the columns to display in the
listview or to export / print.
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User Interface:
Also take resolution into account when filtering
SD / HD.
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User Interface:
Made the sorting on columns in List View mode
faster.
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User Interface:
Fixed Swap button in Database Options was not
translated.
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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.
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IMDB import:
Fixed importing of year for video titles (e.g.
Held Up (Video 2010)).
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User Interface:
Changing the season number broke linking to an
existing thumbnail.
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IMDB Update:
Updating in Add / Edit dialog cleared fields if
no new data was found.
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IMDB Update All
Movies: Updating cleared fields if no new
data was found.
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IMDB Update:
Updating in Add / Edit dialog overwrote an
existing thumbnail.
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Export:
export now uses the current search / filter
results and shown sort order.
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Export / Print:
Fixed exporting/printing the IMDB number.
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User Interface:
Added IMDB number to the possible columns to
show in List View mode.
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User Interface:
Fixed crash when sorting columns in List View
mode on a search or filter result.
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Movie Properties:
Added possiblility to override default IMDB
genres.
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Translations:
Updated the Turkish, Arabic, Brazilian
Portuguese, Danish and Slovak translations.
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User Inteface:
Added Insert Button. The Swap Movies feature is
moved to the Database section of the Options.
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Database:
fixed saving of a database with deleted movies
when 'Keep current numbering' is enabled.
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Swap Movies
Screen: fixed displaying when empty
(reserved) movies are present.
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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.
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Export / Print:
Added Seen, Own, WishList and Comments to the
possible fields to export or print.
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Options:
'First use actors with picture' setting was not
saved correctly.
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Movie Properties:
Added "THEATRICAL VERSION" to the possible
version fields.
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Movie Properties:
Added Romanian to the possible spoken languages,
audio-streams and subtitles.
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IMDB Import:
Added Aspect ratio to the imported movie
properties.
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IMDB Import:
Fixed sometimes user comments were used as plot
outline.
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User Interface:
Added Subtitles to the columns to be select for
list view.
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User Interface:
Improved controls being drawn delayed during
startup with a lot of covers on the bookshelf.
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System: Added
support for *.ts files.
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Translations:
Proxy Server/Port explanation text was not
changed when switching languages.
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Translations:
renamed the 'Reset All' button in the Add Movie
screen to 'Clear All Fields' as this seems more
clear.
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Translations:
Updated the Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Danish,
Italian, German and Russian translations.
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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).
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Movie Properties:
added some additional aspect ratio's.
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Movie Properties:
added Number of Episodes property for TV Series.
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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.
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Translations:
updated the Norwegian and Turkish translations.
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User Interface:
fixed options to show numbers and loan labels in
bookshelf viewing mode were not saved correctly.
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IMDB Import:
fixed importing of title and year of some TV
movies and TV Series.
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IMDB Import:
Improved import of Certification and Duration of
movies which did not contain sections for Motion
Picture Rating and Technical Specs.
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Print / Export:
Added season indication to titles of TV Series.
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Movie Properties:
Added Australia and some other countries to the
DVD and Bluray region codes.
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User Interface:
fixed a crash when switching from listview mode
to bookshelf mode after a search without
results.
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Movie Properties:
Added MPEG-2 Part 2, H.264, MPEG-4 AVC and SMPTE
VC-1 BluRay codecs and 25 / 50GB BluRay Media.
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Translations:
Updated the Greek and Turkish translations.
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Translations:
Added Arabic translation.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- IMDB Import: fixed
import got broken due to the (really great) IMDb
website redesign.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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HTML Export: Fixed settings were not
remembered correctly.
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HTML Export: HTML pages are now fully
translatable.
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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.
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IMDB Update all movies: Year,
Duration, Country and PlotOutline were
cleared when updating and the field was not
checked to be updated.
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Thumbnail Import: fixed and optimized
the import from FreeCovers.net.
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Add / Edit Movie Dialog: Year,
Duration and Country were cleared when
updating and the field was not checked to be
updated.
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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.
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Loan tracker: Changing the name of an
exitsing loan entry the data got cleared.
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Loan tracker: Filter the internally
used characters '/', '\' and '|' to prevent
corruption of loan date.
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Translations: Updated the Dutch,
Turkish, Slovak and Finish translations.
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Playing Movies: fixed playing of
movies containg &-characters in their
filename. Also added a messagebox when an
error occurs when start playing fails.
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IMDB Update all movies: You can now
overrule the default IMDB import settings to
e.g. only update the thumbnails or only the
ratings.
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IMDB Update all movies: Update can
now also be done on a search or filter
result.
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Internet Access: Fixed a crash when a
Proxy was enabled but not a valid proxy was
specified.
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User Interface: Added text to movies
without thumbnails in Bookshelf viewing
mode.
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User Interface: Fixed restoring last
used position on second monitor.
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HTML Export: Fixed layout of Latest
Additions in Google Chrome, IE8, Firefox 3
and Safari.
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Translations: Updated the Turkish and
Dutch translations.
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Playing Movies: Added support for
Real Media formats *.rm and *.rmvb.
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Database: A backup (called
backupXXX.dat where XXX is the previous ran
version) is created when a new version is
installed.
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IMDB Update all movies: Updating is
now done in the background so the UI is much
more responsive regarding canceling the
process.
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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.
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HTML Export: Fixed patch folder was
not cleaned before creating patch.
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Movie Properties: Added some default
versions.
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User Interface: Fixed Loan History
Button should only be enabled when the
selected movie has loan history.
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Add Movie Dialog: Fixed the date was not
shown correctly when opening the Add Movie
Dialog.
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Translations: Updated the Dutch,
Turkish and Danish translations.
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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.
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Database: Fixed a bug in the Database
validation introduced in version 1.02
resulting in (incorrect) corrupted database
notifications.
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IMDB Import: Use IMDB data if only
the cover download fails during an import.
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IMDB Import: retrieve higher
resolution cover by first following the link
of the thumbnail on the moviepage for IMDB
thumbnails.
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IMDB Update All: Add range to update.
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IMDB Update All: Add option to select
first hit for multiple results.
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User Interface: Add HTML Export to
the button Export of the main toolbar.
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Options: Put Update All Movies in a
seperate page.
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Translations: Fixed translation of
the Swap button in Add Movie Dialog.
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Translations: Updated the Dutch and
Turkish translations.
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CSV Import: Fixed date format was not
stored correctly.
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Add Movies from HDD: Fixed not all
fields were set correctly with default
values.
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Movie Properties: Location can now
use relative Paths for playing movies.
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Add Movies Dialog: Season was not
saved when using Next / Previous.
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General: Added support for *.m2ts and
*.divx formats in playing from main window
and added movies from your hard drive.
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Movie Properties: Added Hebrew to the
Language and Subtitle Language Properties.
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IMDB Update: Fixed Movie Title Prefix was
not taken into account when performing an
IMDB Update.
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IMDB Update: Title is only updated
the first time an IMDB query is performed
(so not when using the IMDB Update).
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IMDB Search: In the Add movie dialog
the function of the IMDB Search button
changes to IMDB Update if already queried
before.
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Movie Title Prefix: During "Update
all titles in the database" in the Movie
Title Prefix Options the thumbnail file
renaming sometimes failed.
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Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to
swap the Title and Also Known As fields.
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Add Movie Dialog: Fixed loosing the
thumbnail if the season of a TV Series is
changed afterwards.
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HTML Export: Added possibility to
generate a patch folder to easily update an
online collection.
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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.
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User Interface: Loan History button
is disabled if no history available.
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User Interface: fixed double
scrollbar in List viewing mode (again).
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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.
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Movie Properties: Added 'Musical' Genre.
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User Interface: fixed double scrollbar in
List viewing mode.
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User Interface: Fixed sorting on titles did
not take season for TV series into account.
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HTML Export: Added thumbnail JPEG Quality
setting to significantly reduce the total
required web space.
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HTML Export: Latest additions are now shown
next to each other.
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HTML Export: Added comments to the movie
pages (if present).
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HTML Export: Fixed incorrect displaying of
thumbnail if not defined yet.
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Options: Fixed setting of Title prefix was
not remembered.
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Translations: Updated the Dutch, Slovak and
Turkish translations.
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System: Fixed rare crash at startup on 64
bits Windows.
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System: Fixed a rare EMDB allways on top
problem.
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Thumbnails: Fixed incorrect aspect ratio
when selectiong a front only image from the
clipboard or selecting an image from disk.
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User Interface: Fixed position of bookshelf
was reset after editing a movie.
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User Interface: Prevented flickering when
navigation through pages or rows in bookshelf
viewing mode.
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Translations: Updated the Finnish
translation.
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System: Fixed several settings of the
Options Dialog were sometimes resetted.
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System: Fixed crash when closing application
on Windows XP.
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User Interface: Added scrollwheel support to
Bookshelf Viewing mode.
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IMDB Update All Movies: thumbnails were not
saved correctly.
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Add Movie Dialog: Browse HDD did not use the
correct path to query IMDB for DVD folders.
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Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to rotate
the thumbnail.
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User Interface: Removed Ctrl-X as shortcut
key for closing EMDB as it broke the default
Windows cut selected text functionality.
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Movie Properties: Added BluRay Regions and
Sound properties.
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User Interface: Fixed sorting of the
Comments column.
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User Interface: Added a ScrollBar to
Bookshelf viewing mode.
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User Interface: Fixed several small
Bookshelf navigation issues.
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User Interface: Fixed search and filter
results were not shown in bookshelf viewing
mode.
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User Interface: Added background pre-loading
of images to Bookshelf viewing mode to speed up
browsing.
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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).
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Translations: System and Region labels of
the Add Movie Dialog were not translated.
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Translations: Updated the Turkish and
Spanish translations.
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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.
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System: Fix for not always creating the EMDB
folder in the User folder resulting in
thumbnails not being saved.
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User Interface: Add Movie did not update the
bookshelf.
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User Interface: Edit Movie did not update
the bookshelf.
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User Interface: Fixed an error when
navigating through the bookshelf with Page Up
and Down.
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User Interface: Fixed double displayed '&'
in Loan field of Main Window.
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User Interface: Sorting of the Nr Discs
column did not work correctly.
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HTML Export: Export sometimes hung.
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HTML Export: Fixed strange charachters in
movie pages.
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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).
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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).
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Translations: Swap button was not
translated.
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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.
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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.
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Add Movie Page: Using Previous / Next did
not save changes made.
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User Interface: Made the main window a bit
wider to fit the Swap button again. More people
as I expected seem to use it.
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Translations: The translation of the Update
button of the Add Movie Dialog (1130) was not
applied.
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Thumbnails: Fixed selecting different
thumbnails for existing movies with the same
title did not work.
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IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Year got
broken due to another change on the IMDB
website.
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User Interface: Added accelerator keys [A]
til [Z] jumping to the next movie title in the
list starting with the selected character.
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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).
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User Interface: Fixed crash when sorting on
the Nr. column after filtering or searching.
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Add Movie Dialog: Fixed Browse HDD did not
add all movies in a folder.
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IMDB Import: fixed import of Certification
due to IMDB web layout changes.
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Browse HDD: Fixed thumbnails were not
downloaded when update from IMDB was selected.
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HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails of TV Series
were not shown.
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Add Movie Dialog: Fixed Season was not saved
when using Add and Continue.
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User Interface: Added a Play button instead
of the hyperlink on the location field.
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Translations: Updated the Catalan, Portugese
and Turkish translations.
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Database: Fixed incorrect language
properties after performing IMDB update for all
movies.
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Database: Fixed Flemish language properties
were not correctly stored.
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User Interface: Fixed large list of
languages was not completely shown, even is the
main window size was increased.
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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.
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Translations: Updated the Slovak
translation.
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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.
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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.
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File Import: When changing the separator
character the previous one was still used the
first time you imported a file.
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Translations: Updated the Turkish
translation.
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IMDB Import: Fixed importing of rating due
to IMDB website layout changes.
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Translations: Updated the Slovak
translation.
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Movie Properties: Added Arabic to the
language properties.
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Movie Properties: Fixed a problem with
storing Greek and German language settings.
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User Interface: Fixed displaying of texts
with '&' were shown as '&&' (e.g. 'Julie &
Julia' was shown as 'Julie && Julia').
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User Interface: Fixed some small drawing
glitches in thumbnail edges.
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Import Thumbnails: improved importing of
thumbnails. It's now faster and more reliable.
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HTML Export: Categories [0..9] and [Other]
were not listed.
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HTML Export: Season is now added tot titles
of TV Series.
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Add Movie dialog: Fixed some movie
properties were resetted when using the subtitle
languages dialog.
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Translations: Updated the Spanish
translation.
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Thumbnails: Fixed several problems with
thumbnails when changing the default database
location.
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Generate HTML: Updated the Default template
to only show those sections which actually
contain at least one movie.
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User Interface: Added 'Nr Discs' and
'Comments' to the possible columns in the main
window.
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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.
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IMDB Import: Made some improvements to
prevent (occasionally) IMDB import freezes.
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Database: The default location is made
relative to be able to use EMDB as portable
application.
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CSV / Text Export: fixed strange characters
in Save As Type dropdown box.
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Movie Properties: Added Season for TV
Series.
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Thumbnail import: Fixed thumbnail import
from Freecovers.net.
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Translations: Updated the Dutch, Finnish,
Portugese and Turkish translations.
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Translations: Added Slovenian translation.
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Export: Exporting Certification failed.
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General: When deleting a movie with
renumbering sometimes the list got messed up
(database was fine though).
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User Interface: Main Window columns were
reset when changing Export column options.
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Export / Print: Added AKA as possible Export
/ Print columns.
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User Interface: Added TV-Series Filter.
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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.
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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.
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Update IMDB: Take year into account to
prevent multiple results.
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Add / Edit Movie: Thumbnails were not saved
when using Next / Previous button.
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Add / Edit Movie: Check for duplicates when
using Add and Continue was not performed.
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Add movies from HDD: skip already added ones
(based on path and filename)
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Translations: Added Serbian translation.
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Translations: Updated the Turkish and
Chinese translations.
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System: When no network connection available
two error messages were shown.
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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.
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IMDB import: Fixed incorrect country
specific title for "fake movie title",
"promotional abbreviation" and "working title".
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FreeCovers.net cover import: Added (still
experimental) import for full DVD inserts.

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Add Movie Dialog: Added option to update
only the cover from IMDB, DVD Empire or
FreeCovers.
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Add Movie Dialog: Last used folder for
browsing Harddisk is now remembered.
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Add Movie Dialog: Cancel in browse harddisk
now cancels instead of still performing the
browsing.
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Translations: Added Chinese translation.
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Browse HD: Fixed sometimes extensions were
included in IMDB lookup causing incorrect
results.
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Startup: Check for updates now uses the
emdb.tk redirector instead of the direct link.
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Export / Print: Added Certification as
possible column.
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Export / Print: Order of columns is now
freely configurable.
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IMDB Import: Multiple Languages are now
retrieved correctly.
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IMDB Update All: Languages are now retrieved
if option is checked.
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System: Tested successfully on Windows 7.
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DVDEmpire cover import: Fixed import of
titles containing '&'
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DVDEmpire cover import: Fixed import of
titles starting with 'The' (e.g. 'The Missing'
which is listed on DVDEmpire as 'Missing, The').
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DVDEmpire cover import: Improved the best
match algorithm.
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Add Movie: Checking for duplicate entries is
now based on IMDB number and if this is not
present the combination of Title and Year.
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DVDEmpire cover import: sometimes the
downloaded covers were not resized correctly.
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IMDB Update All: thumbnails were not updated
from DVDEmpire even though the option was
checked.
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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.

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IMDB Import: Fixed a rare hang during
import.
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User Interface: Added a filter for Owned
movies.
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General: Fixed some memory leaks.
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IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Cast and
Rating due to (again) changes in the IMDB web
layout.
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IMDB Import: Added option to first use
actors which have a picture to filter less
important cast as the order sometimes seems
random.
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IMDB Import: Made IMDB import more
configurable.
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IMDB Import: Added option to add movies
based on IMDB number instead of title.
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System: Better handling of missing internet
connection at startup.
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User Interface: Added search option for
Country.
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Options: Fixed a problem in the
configuration file which caused the import IMDB
thumbnail option not to be remembered correctly.
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IMDB Import: Fixed import of Director and
Cast of TV Series.
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User Interface: Added search options for
several Year queries and Certification.
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IMDB Import: Fixed import of Director, Cast
and Certification due to changes in the IMDB web
layout.
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General: Fixed some memory Leaks.
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IMDB Import: Added (voice) for voice only
contributions (like Animation)
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Translations: Updated the Danish
translation.
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HTML Export: fixed series were not listed in
the A-Z sections.
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HTML Export: fixed navigation from a movie
page to the main page got broken.
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Import from HDD: fixed import and added
parsing of all subfolders.
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General: Added *.ogg support (in Browse HDD
and lauch from location field).
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HTML Export: Added Subtitles and Location
properties to the individual movie pages.
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HTML Export: Don't show default cover if no
cover available in list of Latest Additions.
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Options: Backup frequency was not remembered
correctly.
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IMDB import: fixed handling of special
characters due to a change in the IMDB HTML
code.
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IMDB import: IMDB update in the Edit Movie
dialog removed the custom genres and languages.
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IMDB update all movies: Fixed update hung
when no mouse activity.
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User Interface: fixed filtering: Show All
was not working when Show Wish list was selected
previously.
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Translations: Updated the Finnish and Slovak
translations.
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System: fixed long startup time.
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User Interface: fixed custom genres and
languages were not visible in the Add / Edit
Movie dialog.
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User Interface: fixed Add / Edit Movie
dialog was always above all windows of other
applications.
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Thumbnails: fixed saving of thumbnails
sometimes went wrong when movie title contained
invalid characters (%?/\|"<>*:).
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HTML Export: Fixed swapping of the links to
[Others] and [0..9].
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HTML Export: Fixed TV Series (surrounded by
double quotes e.g. "Lost") were not added to the
[A]-[Other] sections.
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HTML Export: Individual movie pages are now
put in a separate folder.
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User Interface: Added support for NetBook
resolution (1024 x 600) on MANY requests.

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Translations: Fixed default proxy server and
port were not translated.
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Translations: Updated the Dutch, German and Turkish
translations.
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User Interface: Added Filter option to show
Seen, Not Seen, Wish List, Loaned, Search
Results or All movies.
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IMDB update: the update overwrote manually
added thumbnails.
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Options: Removing all data in the options
dialog caused a crash when returning to the main
window.
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Search: Added Comments and Location to the
fields the global search uses.
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User Interface: fixed sorting of the Codec
column in the main window.
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Customized version: Short names did not
fully overlap the default title.
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User Interface: The Director column is now
sorted on the Last names.
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User Interface: Fixed sorting at startup was
not always on the previous sorted column (if
this option was enabled).
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User Interface: Added Codecs as possible
column for the list in the main window.
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Donation: fixed selection other amounts and
currencies.
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User Interface: Added IMDB number as
possible field to import, export, print and HTML
generation.
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User Interface: Added support for more movie
types to launch via the location field.
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User Interface: Fixed hitting the Return key
closed the application. Return now opens the
Edit/view window of the selected movie.
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IMDB Import: Fixed incorrect result when
selecting an entry from multiple results when
one or more videogames (VG) were filtered out.
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IMDB Import: Added option to show or hide
alternative names in the multiple results
dialog.
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IMDB Update: Custom genres were overwritten
during an IMDB update for all movies.
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Translations: Updated the Danish
translation.
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Translations: Fixed several untranslatable
items and missing items in the English template.
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Translations: Fixed possible crash when
initial language was set to the language of the
OS and this being Non-English.
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HTML Export: made the html export output w3c
compliant.
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Movie Properties: Added Whish list and Own
properties.
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User Interface: The Show All functionality
(to show the whole list after performing a
Search) got broken in the previous
version.
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IMDB Import: Fixed initial selection was on
second title in multiple result dialog.
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IMDB Import: Removed Video Games from titles
in multiple result dialog.
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IMDB Import: Fixed special HTML characters
(e.g. "á") were sometimes not converted to
normal characters.
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HTML Export: Fixed HTML pages with special
characters were not saved correctly (e.g. Czech
characters like 'ě' and 'ž').
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Customized Version: Fixed some characters
were cut of incorrectly at the bottom of the
header (e.g. lowercase 'g' and 'j').
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User Interface: List was not updated when a
single movie was edited.
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Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to browse a
folder on your hard drive for movies
(*.avi;*.mkv) to be added.
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Translations: Language is set to the Windows
UI Language at first startup.
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User Interface: Selection was lost when
changing the UI Language.
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User Interface: Translation of Movie details
were not updated when changing the UI Language.
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Translations: Updated the Turkish and
Finnish translations.
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IMDB Import: Fixed some movies were not
shown in multiple result dialog.
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Import csv: Default subtitle language was
not applied.
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User Interface: Movie info was not refreshed
after editing a single movie.
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Add / Edit Movie: Image was always rotated
if needed when copied from the clipboard whether
the option was enabled or not.
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User Interface: Made the IMDb logo behave
like a real button.
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Movie Properties: Added *.wmv as possible
type for stored movies.
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User Interface: Initially disable / hide
buttons which should not be used when no movie
is selected.
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Add Edit Dialog: Last movie was not stored
correctly when using Next or Previous buttons in
Edit mode.
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Database: Added Auto backup feature.
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IMDB Import All: Excisting genres were
cleared when import of genres was not enabled.
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IMDB Import All: Added feature to only
update new (not having an IMDB number yet)
movies.
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Translations: Updated the Turkish
translation.
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User Interface: Added a List-Only mode.
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IMDB Import: Fixed movies with special
characters (e.g. !&'") in the query string were
not found.
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Search: Fixed a (rare) problem were
sometimes too much titles were found.
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Search: Increased the available space for
the translation of the "Exact Match" checkbox on
the Cast tab.
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Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed the number of
available actors not being updated when the
selection was changed in the Edit Cast dialog.
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Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed incorrect displayed
index of new movie to add (was one too low).
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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).
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Movie Properties: Added DVD (*.IFO) as
possible type for movies stored on your hard
disk.
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Search: Fixed a (rare) problem were
sometimes too much titles were found.
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Search: Increased the available space for
the translation of the "Exact Match" checkbox on
the Cast tab.
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Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed the number of
available actors not being updated when the
selection was changed in the Edit Cast dialog.
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Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed incorrect displayed
index of new movie to add (was one too low).
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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).
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Movie Properties: Added DVD (*.IFO) as
possible type for movies stored on your hard
disk.
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Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed Previous/Next buttons
corrupted some info.
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IMDB import: (Again) fixed Rating not being
imported due to (again) web layout changes.
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Movie Properties: Added *.mkv as possible
type for stored movies.
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User Interface: Fixed sorting of Alternative
Title did not work.
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User Interface: Alternative Title column now
shows the title without type.
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User Interface: Fixed first column not shown
correctly when started maximized.
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Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed browsing for a file
deleted some settings.
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Add/Edit Dialog: Added Previous/Next buttons
to be able to easily browse through your movies.
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Add/Edit Dialog: When using the OK button,
only save the data if something is actually
changed.
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IMDB Update all movies: Added possibility to
skip a movie without aborting.
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Customisation: Fixed title in caption not
being updated at startup.
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Customisation: Fixed large customized names
not completely shown in loading dialog.
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Translations: Updated the Danish and Spanish
translations and the English template.
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IMDB import: Fixed reporting when no matches
found on an IMDB query.
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IMDB import: Fixed rating not being imported
due to web layout changes.
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HTML Export: Added index ("#INDEX#") as
possible tag to the HTML export.
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Backup: Added default extension (*.dat) to
creating and restoring a database backup.
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User Interface: Sorting the list (by
clicking a column header) now keeps the original
selection and position.
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IMDB Update all movies: Fixed update stops
on empty entry or no matches found.
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Translations: Updated the Danish, Turkish
and Slovakian translations.
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IMDB import: Fixed IMDB import due to
changes of their website layout.
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Add Movie: fixed items not being saved when
using Add and Continue.
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Movie Properties: Added Region and System
movie properties.
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Translations: Added Turkish translation.
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User Interface: Added animated startup
screen.
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Language properties: Fixed saving of Korean,
Thai, Hindi, Turkish and Polish.
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Movie Properties: Added D-Theater (D-VHS)
and Lasterdisc to the possible Source and Media
properties.
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Cover Thumbnails: Fixed changing the title
of a Series resulted in loosing the thumbnail.
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User interface: Fixed Minimize and Restore
changing the column width.
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CSV Import: Added a preview to be able to
select the columns more easily.
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CSV Import: Added possiblility to skip a
header.
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CSV Import: Added more column types to
import.
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HTML Export: Added an option to select or
leave out the latest additions and/or the list
of all movies.
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HTML Export: Added an option to choose
ascending or descending order of the list of all
movies.
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Translations: Added Russian translation.
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Add Movies: Fixed problem with Add and
Continue not saving all movies.
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User interface: Added *.m3u as link in the
Location field (to join movies consisting of
multiple files).
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Search: Fixed crash when searching if movies
were deleted with fixed numbering.
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IMDB import: Added feature to retrieve
Country specific titles instead of the default
(international) titles.
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Loan feature: Fixed automatic selection of
next movie loaned by the same person when a
movie is returned.
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Movie Properties: Fixed incorrect initial
translation of Movie Features.
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Movie Properties: Added Subtitle language(s)
property.
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Movie Properties: Added Color/BW property.
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Thumbnails: Use Name instead of IMDB number
as thumbnail filename for series to be able to
specify different thumbnails for each season.
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IMDB Import: Added detection of TV Series.
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User Interface: Added setting of colors for
property labels in the main window and text
color of the selection bar.
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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)
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IMDB Import: Fixed Plot import which got
broken by changes of the IMDB page layout.
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Custimization: Customized versions will not
show the PayPal dialog after updating to a newer
version.
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Thumbnails: Fixed a problem were thumbnails
from TV Series were not displayed due to the new
thumbnail algorithm of the previous version.
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Translations: Updated the Danish
translation.
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HTML Export: Fixed a bug were changed
thumbnails were not updated in an existing HTML
export.
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HTML Export: Thumbnails of the latest
additions are now rescaled taking the aspect
ration into account.
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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).
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IMDB Update: Fixed every single movie update
tries to connect to the internet, even if the
first one failed.
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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.
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Printing: Fixed printing of loaned movies.
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Printing: Added a header and a footer to the
printouts.
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Printing: Added left margins to the
printouts. For the time being the margin is
fixed to 5 characters.
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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).
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Installation: Fixed a problem were installing
a font could go wrong.
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Translations: Updated the Danish
translation.
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HTML Export: Fixed a bug were changed
thumbnails were not updated in an existing HTML
export.
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HTML Export: Thumbnails of the latest
additions are now rescaled taking the aspect
ration into account.
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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).
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IMDB Update: Fixed every single movie update
tries to connect to the internet, even if the
first one failed.
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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.
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Printing: Fixed printing of loaned movies.
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Printing: Added a header and a footer to the
printouts.
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Printing: Added left margins to the
printouts. For the time being the margin is
fixed to 5 characters.
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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).
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Installation: Fixed a problem were installing
a font could go wrong.
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Translations: Updated the German, Danish and
Slovak translations.
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Internet access: Finally completely fixed
crash when the internet is being accessed (check
for updates / retrieve data from IMDB) without
being online.
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Printing: Fixed printing of the current
selection and sort order.
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Search: Fixed search on actors.
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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.
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HTML Export: Added #LOCATION#, #VERSION#,
#LOANED# and #SEEN# tags.
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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.
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Movie Properties: Added "Collector's
Edition" to the version property.
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Thumbnails: Fixed problem were movies
without IMDB number and with an & in the title,
the thumbnails were not shown in the main
window.
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Customization: Fixed a rare uppercase
problem preventing EMDB to change it's title.
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Development environment: Moved to Visual
Studio 2008 / MFC 9.0.
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Internet access: Fixed crash when the
internet is being accessed (check for updates /
retrieve data from IMDB) without being online.
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Backup: Fixed cover thumbnails were not
copied during manual backup.
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Search: Added global text search (searches
in titles, actors, directors and descriptions).
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Search: previous search text for titles and
global search are now remembered.
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Search: Last used tab in Search dialog is
now remembered.
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Movie Properties: Removed DivX/XviD from the
possible Media as they are no media.
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Loan Tracking: When returning a movie, the
next one loaned by that person is now selected.
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IMDB import: Fixed distortion in the
multiple result overview due to changes in the
imdb web layout.
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Database: Made reading
of the database robust against some invalid
values.
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Translations: Added a
Polish translation.
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Movie Properties:
Added Polish as language property.
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User Interface:
Changed default thumbnail.
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Translations: Updated the Japanese
translation.
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Database: Fixed
reading of databases with reserved (empty)
entries (which keep the numbering intact when
deleting movies).
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Customized naming: The
customized naming got broken (fixed in version
0.54).
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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).
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IMDB Import: For movies with multiple
directors none was imported. Now the first one
is used ("A Bugs Life").
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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.
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Translations: Updated the Slovakian
translation.
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Translations: You can now use the '|'
character as a new line indicator.
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User Interface: Made the space for the loan
date in the main window a bit larger.
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Manual Backup: Manual backups (and restores)
now include both the database and the thumbnail
images.
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Database: Fixed (incorrect) reported damaged
database when only directors and/or actors but
no movies are present.
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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.
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Database: Added a check on version numbers.
You shouldn't (and can't anymore) use a newer
database with an older version of EMDB.
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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.
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Movie Properties: Added Turkish as language
property.
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Movie Properties: Fixed Media types
HardDisk/BluRay and HD-DVD were not saved.
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Options: Default settings for Media, Codec
and Source were not always correctly applied.
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Add Dialog: Mouse pointer now changes to
a hand when hovering over the rating indicating
it can be changed by clicking / dragging.
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Translations: Updated the Portuguese
translation.
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Import CSV: Fixed version was always set to
UNRATED.
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Printing: Fixed wrong column headers
(previous fix only fixed the column headers for
Export.
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Backup: Fixed manual backup caused original
database to be cleared.
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Backup: Changed way to select file when
creating or restoring manual backup.
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IMDB import / Check for updates: Improved
error handling when no connection to the
internet could be made.
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Add Dialog: Fixed infinitive loop when
deleting values of Number of Discs and Duration.
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Add Dialog: Allow Number of Discs to be 0
(in case of storage on Hard Disk).
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Movie Properties: Added Thai and Hindi as
language properties.
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Printing / Export: Fixed wrong column
headers.
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Import CSV: Changed the user interface of
the columns to import. fixed several bugs in
importing. Made the whole importing more robust.
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HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails of last added
movies were not shown.
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HTML Export: Fixed default thumbnail was not
always shown.
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Export / Printing: Added 'Medium' to the
possible print and export columns.
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User Interface: Fixed media were never
translated.
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HTML Export: Take customized name into
account.
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Movie Properties: Added Film-Noir ("The
Maltese Falcon") which is (allthough rarely)
used on IMDB to the Genres.
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User Interface: Sound properies are now
shown in order of quality.
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User Interface: Order of the columns in the
main window can now be changed.
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User Interface: Changed font of the main
list to the Windows Icons font which is better
readable.
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CSV Import: When importing movies, the
default movie properties are now applied.
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Options: Certification was not updated
during IMDB update all movies.
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IMDB Import: Fixed import of Actors which
was broken due to changes in the IMDB web
layout.
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Translations: Updates the Japanese and
Danish translations.
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Translations: Added English language file as
base for new translations.
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HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails when old (name
of the movie instead of IMDB number) or mixed
thumbnail naming was still being used.
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HTML Export: Added default thumbnail when no
thumbnail was added to a movie yet.
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Printing: Fixed a bug when printing a movie
with no director specified.
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User Interface: Added possibility to define
your own "no cover available" thumbnail.
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Database: Made the reading of corrupted
databases (from realy old versions of EMDB) much
more robust. Even more data can now be
recovered!
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Options: Made checking for new version at
startup optional.
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User Interface: Fixed sorting on search
results.
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Add Dialog: Fixed last Source in the
pulldown menu not being translated.
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Printing: Fixed a bug in the page headers of
the print output.
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Printing: Fixed a bug in printing the
rating.
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Options: Added icons to the different
entries of the options page.
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Movie properties: Added HD DVD / BluRay Disc
/ Digital TV / Satelite sources.
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Movie properties: Added Hard Disk as media.
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Loan tracking: Added Loan date.
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IMDB import: Fixed broken import due to
changed layout of the IMDB website.
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User Interface: Changed initial sort order
of Number, Year and Rating columns.
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HTML Export: Fixed
broken thumbnails due to new thumbnail file
names.
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Movie properties:
Added Finnish and Korean languages. Split
Chinese in Cantonese and Manderin.
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Translations: Added
Finnish translation.
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Movie properties:
Added new genre "Short".
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Search: Added search
on Director.
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User Interface: Window
state (minimized / maximized) is now saved and
restored.
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Options: Fixed loan
history setting which was switched off
sometimes.
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General: Added check
for new version at startup.
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Printing/Exporting:
Added warning when no columns are selected.
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IMDB Import: Added
possibility to use a Proxy.
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IMDB Update: Batch
update now also imports the thumbnail cover (if
enabled).
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IMDB Import: Plot
outline is now only retrieved when activated.
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IMDB Import: Import on
existing movie doesn't overwrite an existing
thumbnail anymore.
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User Interface: Column
width after the very first install on a system
is now correct.
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User Interface: A
message is shown when no matches on a search
were found instead of showing an empty list.
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Export / Printing:
Fixed incorrect loaned text due to recently
introduced loan history.
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Printing: Fixed
incorrect (empty) document name when printing.
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Printing: Fixed
incorrect columns were printed.
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Printing: Fixed a
crash when printing a second time in one
session.
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Thumbnails: Thumbnails
are now saved using the IMDB number as file name
to better support multiple movies with the same
title.
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IMDB Import: fixed
import of director due to changed IMDB web
layout.
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Database: fixed loan
tracking which got broken by adding the loan
history.
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User Interface: fixed
crash when the IMDB button was clicked with the
database still empty.
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User Interface: Added
Location as possible column in the main window
and to the possible print / export output
columns.
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Translations: Updated
the French and Danish translations.
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Export / Printing:
Fixed a bug were sometimes the incorrect column
widths were used.
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Database: fixed
possible corrupted database when removing a
movie when the delete mode was set to 'Keep
numbering'.
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Translations: Fixed
the English translation of the text of the main
caption when in search mode.
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Database: Fixed crash
when removing all movies and no covers were
added.
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User Interface: column width was not stored
correctly.
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Translations: added untranslated items in
the Export and Import tabs of the Options
dialog.
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Translations: Fixed 'Remove all movies'
messagebox translation.
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Translations: Updated the Danish
translation.
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Translations: Added Japanese and French
translations.
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Movie properties: Added (optional) Loan
tracking history.
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CSV Import: Again fixed a bug when importing
a CSV (comma seaprated values) file.
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User Interface: Added check for corrupted
window position and size stored in the registry
to prevent invisible main window on startup.
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User Interface: Added a progress indicator
during startup.
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User Interface: Fixed the text of the
caption of the main window.
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Translations: Fixed the translation of the
text of the main caption when in search mode.
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CSV Import: Fixed a bug when importing a CSV
(comma separated values) file.
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Movie properties: Added possibility for
custom Genres.
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Movie properties: Added Certification
property.
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User Interface: Added Certification column
to the main window.
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User Interface: Improved column width
calculation when resizing the main window.
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User Interface: Protect columns to fall
outside main window or to be too small on
startup.
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IMDB Import: Certification for a specific
country can now be retrieved from IMDB.
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Import: Fixed a bug when importing a CSV
(comma separated values) file.
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Import: Skip empty lines of a CSV file.
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Import: Added check for number of columns to
import a CSV file.
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User Interface: Movie properties dialog is
now shown when Enter button is pressed.
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User Interface: Added Seen and Director
columns to the main window.
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Movie properties: Added Serbian and
Norwegian language properties.
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Translations: Added Czech and Norwegian
translations.
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General: EMDB can now only be started once. A
second attempt to launch will bring the original
application to the front.
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IMDB Import: Fixed another IMDB import bug caused by
changes in the HTML layout of the IMDB website:
direct matches were not found.
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General: EMDB can now be personalized. For
just $10 you get your own named database with
lifetime support for all future versions!!!
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Movie properties: Added Russian and
Greek language properties.
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Movie properties: Added 'SPECIAL EDITION'
version.
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Movie properties: Added Number of Discs
property.
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Movie properties: Added BlueRay en HD-DVD to
the Media property.
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Movie properties: Added MPEG1 en H.264 to
the Codecs property.
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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)
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Translations: Added Greek, Catalan and
Swedish translations.
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User Interface: Column width in main window
is remembered and restored.
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User Interface: Columns to show in the main
window are now selectable.
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User Interface: Duration, Country, Medium
and Language Columns added to the main window.
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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.
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Translations: Only the selected translation
file is read in memory instead of all
translations during startup.
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User Interface: Last used Options page is
remembered and restored.
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Fixed a hang in parsing the AKA titles from IMDB
import (movie "Antitrust").
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Removed Swedisch selection because I didn't
receive a promised Swedish translation yet.
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Added Croatian translation.
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Added Croatian to the language properties.
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Updated the icons in the translations combobox
in the options dialog with new hi-color 3D ones
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Updated the icons of the main dialog toolbar.
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The database and all exports are now saved in
unicode format to preserve special characters.
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Updated the Hungarian translation.
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All references are now validated during reading
of the database file.
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Fixed the tab order in the Add Movie dialog.
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Remove the retrieved IMDB type of an alternative
title when manually editing.
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Added a TV-Series entry.
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Added a Version entry (e.g. UNRATED, DIRECTORS
CUT).
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Added a Seen entry.
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Rating was reset to zero when updating a movie
from IMDB.
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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).
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Added a reference English language file to the
Software section of the website.
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Added an Update all movies from IMDB feature.
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Changed the Options dialog from tabbed
propertysheet to .NET style.
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Fixed a bug in the colors of the IMDB Search
results dialog.
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Fixed a typo in the IMDB Search results dialog.
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Fixed a bug when searching on genres in a list
with one or more deleted movies
with reserved numbers.
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Changed the Exit button bitmap.
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Replaced all custom spin controls with standard
ones.
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Set the default selection of the IMDB Search
results dialog to the first movie.
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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.
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Fixed sorting order of the loaned column: empty
entries are always shown last independent of an
ascending / descending sorting order.
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Added more alternative title options ('working
title', 'trailer title' and 'USA'.
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Added translations for all alternative title
types.
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Show alternative titles of found movies in the
IMDB search results dialog.
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Set focus back to the list in the main window
when cancelling Search, Options, Add and Change
dialogs.
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Added Hungarian language to the DVD properties.
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Added Hungarian translation.
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Reading of corrupted database is now even more
robust.
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Fixed deleting of the thumbnail image when
deleting a movie.
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Added deleting of the thumbnail images when
deleting all movies.
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Fixed creation of thumbnail when movie title
contains ".
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Added Adult genre to the search genre page.
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Fixed a rare backwards compatibility problem.
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Made the reading of corrupted databases more
robust.
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Saving of the Database with deleted movies (were
the numbers are reserved) is now more efficient.
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Fixed // in the image path and </a> tags of the
HTML export.
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Added a Color settings page to the options to
change the colors of the main list.

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Moved to Visual Studio 2005 + statically linked MFC 8.0 Library
+ full Unicode support.
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Added Biography genre ('The World's fastest Indian')
and on many requests Adult genre.
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Database is now saved after every new added or changed movie.
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Increased space for plot outline on many requests. Changed the layout of the main window
and the Add Movie dialog.
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Added alternative title (International English title, Alternative spelling and DVD title are imported from IMDB).
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Search on title now also searches in the alternative titles.
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Better resizing and positioning of controls in the main window on startup.
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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.
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Show Hour glass cursor when sorting columns to indicate time consuming operation in progress.
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Fixed a crash when importing a movie from IMDB were no director is specified ('Festen').
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Added a swap function to swap two movies (e.g. swap their numbering).
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Fixed some csv import issues.
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Fixed a crash when double-clicking a header (eg. 'Popular Titles') in the IMDB multiple results selection dialog.
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