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This shows you how often EMDB was updated with us over the past few months. Whenever available, we also include additional information for each update (new features, changes etc.).

version 0.63 - posted on Jun 12, 2008

  • Language properties: Fixed saving of Korean, Thai, Hindi, Turkish and Polish.
    Movie Properties: Added D-Theater (D-VHS) and Lasterdisc to the possible Source and Media properties.
    Cover Thumbnails: Fixed changing the title of a Series resulted in loosing the thumbnail.
    User interface: Fixed Minimize and Restore changing the column width.
    CSV Import: Added a preview to be able to select the columns more easily.
    CSV Import: Added possiblility to skip a header.
    CSV Import: Added more column types to import.
    HTML Export: Added an option to select or leave out the latest additions and/or the list of all movies.
    HTML Export: Added an option to choose ascending or descending order of the list of all movies.
    Translations: Added Russian translation.
    Add Movies: Fixed problem with Add and Continue not saving all movies.
    User interface: Added *.m3u as link in the Location field (to join movies consisting of multiple files).

version 0.62 - posted on May 09, 2008

  • Search: Fixed crash when searching if movies were deleted with fixed numbering.
    IMDB import: Added feature to retrieve Country specific titles instead of the default (international) titles.
    Loan feature: Fixed automatic selection of next movie loaned by the same person when a movie is returned.
    Movie Properties: Fixed incorrect initial translation of Movie Features.
    Movie Properties: Added Subtitle language(s) property.
    Movie Properties: Added Color/BW property.
    Thumbnails: Use Name instead of IMDB number as thumbnail filename for series to be able to specify different thumbnails for each season.
    IMDB Import: Added detection of TV Series.
    User Interface: Added setting of colors for property labels in the main window and text color of the selection bar.
    Movie Properties: Added browse function to select media stored on local harddisk including starting it from the main window (by clicking on the location which changes to a link if applicable)
    IMDB Import: Fixed Plot import which got broken by changes of the IMDB page layout.
    Custimization: Customized versions will not show the PayPal dialog after updating to a newer version.

version 0.60 - posted on Mar 07, 2008

  • Search: Fixed searching of actors when a name from the list was selected: only exact matches should than be found.
    IMDB import: Fixed a bug when the number of actors to be imported is higher as the number of actors listed. Sometimes an invalid actor was added.
    IMDB import: The spoken language of the movie is now also imported.
    Options: Sometimes the Custom Genres were cleared.
    Movie Properties: Added 2.35:1 and 1.85:1 as possible aspect ratios.
    Delete: Fixed a problem where deleting a movie with the option `keep current numbering` checked the Certifications and thumbnails could get mixed up sometimes.
    Sorting: Fixed an issue were titles starting with double quotes (e.g. TV series) were not sorted on their actual title (without the quotes).

version 0.59 - posted on Feb 14, 2008

  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.
    HTML Export: Fixed a bug were changed thumbnails were not updated in an existing HTML export.
    HTML Export: Thumbnails of the latest additions are now rescaled taking the aspect ration into account.
    HTML Export: Added Others to the A til Z and 0..9 groups of movies to also list movies with language specific starting characters (like the Danish ?, ?, ?, ?, ? and ?).
    IMDB Update: Fixed every single movie update tries to connect to the internet, even if the first one failed.
    Printing: Fixed printing `Current selection and sort order` when no selection was made. All movies in the current sort order are now printed in this case.
    Printing: Fixed printing of loaned movies.
    Printing: Added a header and a footer to the printouts.
    Printing: Added left margins to the printouts. For the time being the margin is fixed to 5 characters.
    Prefix Correction: Fixed a bug when a movie title was changed due to a prefix the thumbnail name was not changed along (if no IMDB number was available which is the prefered thumbnail name).
    Installation: Fixed aproblem were installing a font could go wrong.

version 0.58 - posted on Feb 04, 2008

  • Translations: Updated the German, Danish and Slovak translations.
    Internet access: Finally completely fixed crash when the internet is being accessed (check for updates / retrieve data from IMDB) without being online.
    Printing: Fixed printing of the current selection and sort order.
    Search: Fixed search on actors.
    Windows Vista: Fixed UAC (User Account Control) problem resulting in new added movies not being saved, settings not being remembered, etc. From now on you can run EMDB on Vista logged in as a User or an Administrator, without the need to `Run As Administrator` and
    with UAC either enabled or disabled.
    HTML Export: Added #LOCATION#, #VERSION#, #LOANED# and #SEEN# tags.
    HTML Export: Updated the Default template: added an all movies list to the main page, added some properties to the individual movies pages and more.
    Movie Properties: Added `Collector s Edition` to the version property.
    Thumbnails: Fixed problem were movies without IMDB number and with an & in the title, the thumbnails were not shown in the main window.
    Customization: Fixed a rare uppercase problem preventing EMDB to change it s title.

version 0.57 - posted on Dec 02, 2007

  • -Development environment: Moved to Visual Studio 2008 / MFC 9.0.
    -Internet access: Fixed crash when the internet is being accessed (check for updates / retrieve data from IMDB) without being online.
    -Backup: Fixed cover thumbnails were not copied during manual backup.
    -Search: Added global text search (searches in titles, actors, directors and descriptions).
    -Search: previous search text for titles and global search are now remembered.
    -Search: Last used tab in Search dialog is now remembered.
    -Movie Properties: Removed DivX/XviD from the possible Media as they are no media.
    -Loan Tracking: When returning a movie, the next one loaned by that person is now selected.
    -IMDB import: Fixed distortion in the multiple result overview due to changes in the imdb web layout.

version 0.56 - posted on Nov 18, 2007

  • Database: Made reading of the database robust against some invalid values.
    Translations: Added a Polish translation.
    Movie Properties: Added Polish as language property.
    User Interface: Changed default thumbnail.

version 0.55 - posted on Nov 16, 2007

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

version 0.55 - posted on Nov 15, 2007

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

version 0.54 - posted on Nov 12, 2007

  • The recently introduced local configuration file replacing the registry could cause problems in some cases: settings were restored to their defaults. Also the customized naming got broken. Version 0.54 fixes this too.

version 0.52 - posted on Nov 09, 2007

  • IMDB Import: For movies with multiple directors none was imported. Now the first one is used (`A Bugs Life`).

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

    Translations: Updated the Slovakian translation.
    Translations: You can now use the | character as a new line indicator.
    User Interface: Made the space for the loan date in the main window a bit larger.
    Manual Backup: Manual backups (and restores) now include both the database and the thumbnail images.
    Database: Fixed (incorrect) reported damaged database when only directors and/or actors but no movies are present.
    Database: Changed the automatic backup mechanism: EMDB now automatically keeps a Last Known Good Database to prevent data loss when something happens to your database. You can still (and should) create manual backups though.
    Database: Added a check on version numbers. You shouldn t (and can t anymore) use a newer database with an older version of EMDB.

    Application: EMDB is now fully portable: all settings are stored in a local configuration file (emdb.cfg) instead of the Windows registry. Your current settings are read from the registry and stored in the configuration file.
    Movie Properties: Added Turkish as language property.
    Movie Properties: Fixed Media types HardDisk/BluRay and HD-DVD were not saved.

version 0.51 - posted on Oct 24, 2007

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version 0.50 - posted on Oct 22, 2007

  • Translations: Updated the Portuguese translation.
    Import CSV: Fixed version was always set to UNRATED.
    Printing: Fixed wrong column headers (previous fix only fixed the column headers for Export.
    Backup: Fixed manual backup caused original database to be cleared.
    Backup: Changed way to select file when creating or restoring manual backup.
    IMDB import / Check for updates: Improved error handling when no connection to the internet could be made.
    Add Dialog: Fixed infinitive loop when deleting values of Number of Discs and Duration.
    Add Dialog: Allow Number of Discs to be 0 (in case of storage on Hard Disk).
    Movie Properties: Added Thai and Hindi as language properties.

version 0.49 - posted on Oct 18, 2007

  • Printing / Export: Fixed wrong column headers.
    Import CSV: Changed the user interface of the columns to import. fixed several bugs in importing. Made the whole importing more robust.
    HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails of last added movies were not shown.
    HTML Export: Fixed default thumbnail was not always shown.
    Export / Printing: Added Medium to the possible print and export columns.
    User Interface: Fixed media were never translated.

version 0.48 - posted on Oct 09, 2007

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version 0.48 - posted on Sep 17, 2007

  • HTML Export: Take customized name into account.
    Movie Properties: Added Film-Noir (`The Maltese Falcon`) which is (allthough rarely) used on IMDB to the Genres.
    User Interface: Sound properies are now shown in order of quality.
    User Interface: Order of the columns in the main window can now be changed. - User Interface: Changed font of the main list to the Windows Icons font which is better readable.
    CSV Import: When importing movies, the default movie properties are now applied.
    Options: Certification was not updated during IMDB update all movies.
    IMDB Import: Fixed import of Actors which was broken due to changes in the IMDB web layout.
    Translations: Updates the Japanese and Danish translations.
    Translations: Added English language file as base for new translations.

version 0.47 - posted on Aug 29, 2007

  • - HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails when old (name of the movie instead of IMDB
    number) or mixed thumbnail naming was still being used.
    - HTML Export: Added default thumbnail when no thumbnail was added to a movie
    yet.
    - Printing: Fixed a bug when printing a movie with no director specified.
    - User Interface: Added possibility to define your own `no cover available`
    thumbnail.
    - Database: Made the reading of corrupted databases (from realy old versions
    of EMDB) much more robust. Even more data can now be recovered!
    - Options: Made checking for new version at startup optional.
    - User Interface: Fixed sorting on search results.
    - Add Dialog: Fixed last Source in the pulldown menu not being translated.
    - Printing: Fixed a bug in the page headers of the print output.
    - Printing: Fixed a bug in printing the rating.
    - Options: Added icons to the different entries of the options page.
    - Movie properties: Added HD DVD / BluRay Disc / Digital TV / Satelite sources.
    - Movie properties: Added Hard Disk as media.
    - Loan tracking: Added Loan date.

version 0.46 - posted on Jun 30, 2007

  • IMDB import: For some movies the first entry of the list of possible matches was missing due to the previous fix.

version 0.45 - posted on Jun 27, 2007

  • IMDB import: Fixed broken import due to changed layout of the IMDB website.
    User Interface: Changed initial sort order of Number, Year and Rating columns.

version 0.44 - posted on Jun 08, 2007

  • HTML Export: Fixed broken thumbnails due to new thumbnail file names. - Movie properties: Added Finnish and Korean languages. Split Chinese in Cantonese and Manderin.
    Translations: Added Finnish translation.
    Movie properties: Added new genre `Short`.
    Search: Added search on Director.
    User Interface: Window state (minimized / maximized) is now saved and restored.
    Options: Fixed loan history setting which was switched off sometimes.
    General: Added check for new verion at startup.
    Printing/Exporting: Added warning when no columns are selected.

version 0.43 - posted on May 25, 2007

  • IMDB Import: Added possibility to use a Proxy.
    IMDB Update: Batch update now also imports the thumbnail cover (if enabled).
    IMDB Import: Plot outline is now only retrieved when activated.
    IMDB Import: Import on excisting movie doesn t overwrite an existing thumbnail
    anymore.
    User Interface: Column width after the very first install on a system is now
    correct.
    User Interface: A message is shown when no matches on a search were found
    instead of showing an empty list.
    Export / Printing: Fixed incorrect loaned text due to recently introduced
    loan history.
    Printing: Fixed incorrect (empty) document name when printing.
    Printing: Fixed incorrect columns were printed.
    Printing: Fixed a crash when printing a second time in one session.
    Thumbnails: Thumbnails are now saved using the IMDB nummer as file name
    to better support multiple movies with the same title.

version 0.42 - posted on Apr 10, 2007

  • IMDB Import: fixed import of director due to changed IMDB web layout.
    Database: fixed loan tracking which got broken by adding the loan history.
    User Interface: fixed crash when the IMDB button was clicked with the database still empty.
    User Interface: Added Location as possible column in the main window and to the possible print / export output columns.
    Translations: Updated the French and Danish translations.
    Export / Printing: Fixed a bug were sometimes the incorrect column widths were used.

version 0.41 - posted on Mar 30, 2007

  • Database: fixed possible corrupted database when removing a movie when the delete mode was set to Keep numbering .
    Translations: Fixed the English translation of the text of the main caption when in search mode.
    Database: Fixed crash when removing all movies and no covers were added.

version 0.40 - posted on Mar 13, 2007

  • User Interface: column width was not stored correctly.
    Translations: added untranslated items in the Export and Import tabs of the Options dialog.
    Translations: Fixed Remove all movies messagebox translation.
    Translations: Updated the Danish translation.
    Translations: Added Japanese and French translations.
    Movie properties: Added (optional) Loan tracking history.
    CSV Import: Again fixed a bug when importing a CSV (comma seaprated values) file.
    User Interface: Added check for corrupted window position and size stored in the registry to prevent invisible main window on startup.
    User Interface: Added a progress indicator during startup.
    User Interface: Fixed the text of the caption of the main window.
    Translations: Fixed the translation of the text of the main caption when in search mode.

version 0.39 - posted on Feb 26, 2007

  • CSV Import: Fixed a bug when importing a CSV (comma seaprated values) file.
    Movie properties: Added possibility for custom Genres.
    Movie properties: Added Certification property.
    User Interface: Added Certification column to the main window.
    User Interface: Improved column width calculation when resizing the main window.
    User Interface: Protect columns to fall outside main window or to be too small on startup.
    IMDB Import: Certification for a specific country can now be retrieved from IMDB.

version 0.38 - posted on Feb 20, 2007


  • IMDB Import: Fixed broken IMDB import caused by the new layout of the IMDB website.
    IMDB Import: Added Complete title and Short title to the prefixed alternative titles.

version 0.37 - posted on Feb 08, 2007

  • Import: Fixed a bug when importing a CSV (comma separated values) file.
    Import: Skip empty lines of a CSV file.
    Import: Added check for number of columns to import a CSV file. User Interface: Movie properties dialog is now shown when Enter button is pressed.
    User Interface: Added Seen and Director columns to the main window.
    Movie properties: Added Serbian and Norwegian language properties.
    Translations: Added Czech and Norwegian translations.
    General: EMDB can now only be started once. A second attempt to launch will bring the original application to the front.

version 0.36 - posted on Dec 22, 2006

  • IMDB Import: Fixed another IMDB import bug caused by changes in the HTML layout of the IMDB website: direct matches were not found.

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

version 0.35 - posted on Dec 06, 2006

  • IMDB Import: Fixed the IMDB import caused by changes in the HTML layout of the IMDB website.

version 0.34 - posted on Nov 27, 2006

  • Movie properties: Added Russian and Greek language properties.
    Movie properties: Added SPECIAL EDITION version.
    Movie properties: Added Number of Discs property.
    Movie properties: Added BlueRay en HD-DVD to the Media property.
    Movie properties: Added MPEG1 en H.264 to the Codecs property.
    Add Movies dialog: Changed test for duplicates to a warning so a movie can now be added more than once (e.g. for normal and special versions)
    Translations: Added Greek, Catalan and Swedish translations.
    User Interface: Column width in main window is remembered and restored.
    User Interface: Columns to show in the main window are now selectable.
    User Interface: Duration, Country, Medium and Language Columns added to the main window.
    Database: Added options to create and restore manual backups and restore the automatic backups which are made every time a movie is changed or added.
    Translations: Only the selected translation file is read in memory instead of all translations during startup.
    User Interface: Last used Options page is remembered and restored.

version 0.33 - posted on Aug 30, 2006

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version 0.32 - posted on Aug 18, 2006

  • Database - The database and all exports are now saved in unicode format to preserve special characters.
    Translations - Updated the Hungarian translation.
    Database - All references are now validated during reading of the database file.
    Look and Feel - Fixed the tab order in the Add Movie dialog.
    Bug fix - Remove the retrieved IMDB type of an alternative title when manually editing.
    Movie Information - Added a TV-Series entry.
    Movie Information - Added a Version entry (e.g. UNRATED, DIRECTORS CUT).
    Movie Information - Added a Seen entry.
    Bug fix - Rating was reset to zero when updating a movie from IMDB.
    Bug fix - Rating was updated too small when updating all movies in the options. (rating is multiplied by 10 internally to preserve fraction, this was not done when updating).
    Translations - Added a reference English language file to the Software section of the website.

version 0.31 - posted on Jul 25, 2006

  • IMDB Import - Added an Update all movies from IMDB feature.
    Look and Feel - Changed the Options dialog from tabbed propertysheet to .NET style.
    IMDB Import - Fixed a bug in the colors of the IMDB Search results dialog.
    Typo - Fixed a typo in the IMDB Search results dialog.
    Bug fix - Fixed a bug when searching on genres in a list with one or more deleted movies with reserved numbers.

    Look and Feel - Changed the Exit button bitmap. Look And Feel - Replaced all custom spin controls with standard ones.
    IMDB Import - Set the default selection of the IMDB Search results dialog to the first movie.
    Sorting - Fixed sorting order of the rating column: position of 10 is now ok and not rated movies are always shown last independent of an ascending / descending sorting order.
    Sorting - Fixed sorting order of the loaned column: empty entries are always shown last independent of an ascending / descending sorting order.
    Alternative Titles - Added more alternative title options ( working title , trailer title and USA .
    Translation - Added translations for all alternative title types. IMDB Import - Show alternative titles of found movies in the IMDB search results dialog.
    Improvement - Set focus back to the list in the main window when cancelling Search, Options, Add and Change dialogs.
    Movie properties - Added Hungarian language to the DVD properties. Translations - Added Hungarian translation.
    Database - Reading of corrupted database is now even more robust.
    Thumbnails - Fixed deleting of the thumbnail image when deleting a movie.
    Thumbnails - Added deleting of the thumbnail images when deleting all movies.
    Thumbnails - Fixed creation of thumbnail when movie title contains `.

version 0.30 - posted on Jun 29, 2006

  • Search - Added Adult genre to the search genre page.
    Database - Fixed a rare backwards compatibility problem.
    Database - Made the reading of corrupted databases more robust.
    Database - Saving of the Database with deleted movies (were the numbers are reserved) is now more efficient.
    HTML export - Fixed // in the image path and tags of the HTML export.
    Options - Added a Color settings page to the options to change the colors of the main list.

version 0.29 - posted on Jun 09, 2006

  • Development environment - Moved to Visual Studio 2005 + statically linked MFC 8.0 Library + full Unicode support.
    New genres - Added Biography genre ( The World s fastest Indian ) and on many requests Adult genre.
    Saving strategy - Database is now saved after every new added or changed movie.
    Layout - Increased space for plot outline on many requests. Changed the layout of the main window and the Add Movie dialog.
    Alternative titles - Added alternative title (International English title, Alternative spelling and DVD title are imported from IMDB).
    Search - Search on title now also searches in the alternative titles.
    Resizing - Better resizing and positioning of controls in the main window on startup.
    HTML export - Removed non-web allowed characters from thumbnail filenames in HTML export. Added new tags to HTML template. Generated HTML code is now better (but not yet fully) W3C compliant.
    Visualisation - Show Hour glass cursor when sorting columns to indicate time consuming operation in progress.
    Import IMDB - Fixed a crash when importing a movie from IMDB were no director is specified ( Festen ).
    Swap - Added a swap function to swap two movies (e.g. swap their numbering).
    Import csv - Fixed some csv import issues.
    Bug fixes - Fixed a crash when double-clicking a header (eg. Popular Titles ) in the IMDB multiple results selection dialog.

version 0.28 - posted on May 08, 2006

  • Added an option to not rotate the imported cover images.
    Added Italian translation.
    Fixed Dolby Digital 2.0 setting not being saved.
    Fixed Genres in main window not being translated correctly when switching languages.
    Fixed some backwards compatibilty issues in the database file format.
    List of actors in search actors dialog is now sorted alphabeticaly.
    Number of latest additions can now be set in HTML export.
    Added importing of thumbnail images from IMDB on many requests.
    Fixed thumbnail images larger than 250 x 375 not being displayed.

version 0.27 - posted on Mar 18, 2006

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version 0.26 - posted on Mar 13, 2006

  • Fixed a hang during IMDB import.
    Added HTML export feature with custom template support.
    Fixed bug in Remove unused Directors.
    Fixed crash in default tab in options dialog.
    Changed the flag of Portugese translation to the Brazilian one because it s a Brazilian Portugese translation.
    Main window is now only updated if necessary after using the Options dialog.
    Increased maximum number of actors to be imported from IMDB from 10 to 99.
    Fixed a bug in the order of actors when a movie was edited.
    Added buttons to change the order of actors in the Add / Edit Movie dialog because the IMDB order of importance is not always correct.
    EMDB can now only be started once.
    Fixed a crash when Restarting after deleting the last movie from the list.
    Fixed crash when selection Delete or Change button when no movies were selected.
    Fixed missing extension when exporting to text / csv file.

version 0.25 - posted on Mar 02, 2006

  • Added current movie number to the Add / Modify Movie dialog caption.
    Fixed Date Added and IMDB Link not being saved.
    Improved IMDB import for Plot Outline and Runtime ( The Business (2005) ).
    Fixed IMDB import for Plot Outline with embedded HTML links ( Domino ).
    Improved IMDB import for Duration when more than one time is provided.
    Fixed a bug causing a crash when exporting.
    Improved the layout of the export output.
    Added Portugese translation thanks to Manuel Chaves.
    Added Portugese language to the movie properties.

version 0.24 - posted on Jan 31, 2006

  • Fixed a problem retrieving the title of a movie from IMDB due to changes of the IMDB HTML layout.
    Made the parsing of IMDB pages more robust.

version 0.23 - posted on Jan 27, 2006

  • Added Director to the export / print options.
    Added Codec / Aspect ratio / Resolution / Location to the movie properties.
    Added Date Added to the movie properties.
    Added Location, Date Added and Plot Outline to the main window.
    Added Dolby Digital 2.0 to the sound properties.
    Added Genre search function.
    Added Actors search function.
    Added more print options.
    Added a csv import function.
    Fixed columns in export file.
    Fixed saving of language attributes.
    Fixed bug not showing new added movie when in selection (Find) mode.
    Added default settings for adding a new movie.
    Even more user interface items are now translated.
    Added German, Swedish, Spanish and Slovak language files.
    Fixed clicking on rating by mistake during doubleclick in listcontrol main window.
    Fixed some IMDB parsing errors.
    Fixed a bug when saving the database with some deleted movies without renumbering.
    Several small bugfixes.

version 0.22 - posted on Nov 03, 2005

  • Added comma separated file option to the export options.
    Added Country and Duration as properties to a movie. Both are imported from IMDB.
    Added more Source and Media items.
    Changing the rating is now a bit more precise.
    Initial Printing. No fancy formatting yet.
    More user interface items are now translated.
    Added Danish translation thanks to Christian Roig.
    Small bugfixes.

version 0.21 - posted on Oct 05, 2005

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