EMDB update history @SnapFiles
This page shows you how often EMDB has been updated with us over the past few months.
We also try to include additional information for each update (new features, changes etc.), however this information may not always be available.
May 15, 2013 v1.77
- TVSeries: Added an option to manually select a series if automatic resolving fails.
User Interface: Fixed HD filter for 19201080 (BLU RAY) resolution due to a fixed typo in the previous version.
User Interface: Medium Bluray + DVD was not included when appying the HD filter.
IMDB Import: Fixed import of Certification and Studio.
Database: Added a Short list property.
User Interface: Added a Short list filter.
User Interface: Added an About screen
Translations updated
Apr 16, 2013 v1.76
- TV Series: Fixed some series were not found although they are listed on TheTVDB.
TV Series: Added Update feature to update without loosing associations with media files.
TV Series: Added single season support.
TV Series: Preferred language to retrieve data in is now remembered.
TV Series: EMDB now uses the series Poster as season Poster if the season Poster is not present.
TV Series: EMDB now uses the series Poster as general thumbnail if it was not already set (e.g. when imdb has no thumbnail image for the series).
User Interface: Fixed Details button was not updated in the Add/Edit screen when using Previous/Next.
User Interface: Added filters for Physical media (disks) and Media files.
Mar 30, 2013 v1.75
Mar 28, 2013 v1.74
- TVSeries: Added full support for saving TV Series data retrieved from TheTVDB. All user feedback is taken into account. More functionality will be added.
IMDB Import: Further improved the `Force English titles` feature.
IMDB Import: Fixed importing of the character.
IMDB Import: Changed the error messsage when a query returned no results from Failed to retrieve data from IMDB to No matches found .
Add Movies from HDD: Added an option to use the first entry when multiple results are found in an IMDB query.
Mar 12, 2013 v1.73
- IMDB Import: Removed support from localized versions of imdb (like emdb.es and emdb.fr) as these are no longer supported by imdb.
Added an option to force the import of English titles for localized data presented by imdb
Export to HTML: Fixed creating of the patch set of files.
Rename Media Files: Added an option to copy the thumbnails to the folder the media files are in.
User Interface: Fixed crash when search returns no results on an earlier selection.
User Interface: Added Source to the posible columns to show in list view mode.
Thumbnails: Made EMDB robust against invalid thumbnails (like 0 bytes sized).
Defaults: Added Own, Wish List and Seen flags to the Default settings Options Page.
Translations: Updated the Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Dutch translations.
Feb 20, 2013 v1.72
- IMDB Import: Fix import several fields due to yet another change of the IMDB web layout.
User Interface: Fixed the translation of the Play / TV Series button in the toolbar.
Feb 11, 2013 v1.71
- IMDB Import: Fix import of year for TV Movies.
IMDB Import: Fix import of (short) plot outline from IMDB.com.
Update All Movies: If a movie was not found on IMDB the previous data was used.
Add Movies From Hard disk: Fix crash when adding a single movie from hard disk.
Add Movies From Hard disk: Fix limiting the number of movies to be added in one go.
Jan 30, 2013 v1.69
- IMDB Import: Fixed importing of some more fields and the imdb thumbnails.
IMDB Import: Fixed importing of several fields due to a change in the IMDB web layout.
Jan 30, 2013 v1.70
Jan 29, 2013 v1.68
Jan 11, 2013 v1.67
- Movie Properties: Added Price property.
User Interface: Added initial Statistics screen including total value of your collection.
File Renaming: Added some more movie properties to use in the file names.
System: Added an option to also delete the associated media files when deleting an entry from the database.
Add Movies From Hard disk: Fixed picking up cover.jpg as thumbnail.
Add Movies From Hard disk: Added possibility to abort IMDB lookup for the remai
ning movies.
Add Movies From Hard disk: Added possibility to select the maximum number of movies to delete in a single run.
User Interface: Added a temporarily edit box in the new TV Series screen to be able to edit the season info while TV Series support is a prototype.
Dec 20, 2012 v1.66
- System: Fixed a crash when leaving Edit Movie or the new TV Series screens on certain computers.
Dec 18, 2012 v1.65
Dec 01, 2012 v1.64
- User Interface: Fixed Search Dialog problems.
Export/Print: Increased the maximum column width to 9999.
Import csv: Handle imdb numbers with format ttxxxxxx .
User Interface: Edit Movie screen did not update the subtitle languages when using Next/Previous.
User Interface: fixed the Hires application icon.
Translations: Updated the Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Persian, Greek, German, Finnish, Danish, Catalan and Arabic translations.
Nov 29, 2012 v1.63
- IMDB import: Fixed broken import due to changed IMDB Search page.
Nov 06, 2012 v1.62
- User Interface: Added Light Wood, Modern and iOS looks for the bookshelf.
System: Fixed crash on Windows XP 16 bit color depth systems.
User Interface: fixed loan date shows up as 1 day or Today randomly.
User Interface: Added option to change distance between boxes in bookshelf viewing.
User Interface: Added separate tab for all bookshelf settings.
User Interface: Fixed Edit season info for TV Series cleared the location field.
Database: Added a Change BaseDir feature in the Media Rename Options.
Translations: Updated the Italian, Greek, Turkish and Dutch translations.
Oct 22, 2012 v1.61
- Add Movies from Hard disk: In case a DVD is added the location field is filled with the Disk Label.
User Interface: Added search on Comments and Location.
IMDB Import: plot outline is not always retrieved correctly.
IMDB Import: Fix special characters were not handled correctly when importing Studio/Network.
Database: Covers were not added correctly when merging from another database.
Database: Restoring from a backup did not show the new movies imediately (a restart was necessary).
HTML Export: Some movie pages were not created when having reserved entries in your database.
Sep 27, 2012 v1.60
- Add movies from Hard disk: Fixed Add Single Movie button was not working.
Add movies from Hard disk: Bookshelf / list was not updated after adding one or more movies.
Add movies from Hard disk: Only add CD1 for multi file movies.
User Interface: Fixed playing of DVD Media types (IFO / VOB).
Translations: Updated the Portuguese (Brazil) translation.
Sep 24, 2012 v1.59
- Media File Renaming: Keep CD1/CD2 in filenames.
Media File Renaming: Added %I (IMDB number) as possible tag.
User Interface: Updated several icons in dialogs.
User Interface: Added support for starting of *.ogm and *.ogv media files.
User Interface: When a movie was inserted the bookshelf always jumped to the top so the new movie might not be visible.
User Interface: Improved the QuickSearch: If a second character typed is valid for the movie selected by the first character the selection should not jump to the next valid movie.
Configuration: fixed Saving of the Show number of votes and Round Personal Ratings sometimes got mixed up.
Database: Added repair database function. For now this removes duplicate interal Ids which cause thumbnails to be shared between different movies.
HTML Export: Fix some movies don t show up in the [A] - [Z] sections in some cases.
HTML Export: Fix individual movie pages were not created in some cases.
User Interface: In the IMDB Selection Screen pressing enter showed an undefined input screen.
Translations: Updated the Persian, Slovak, Swedish and Dutch translations.
Sep 11, 2012 v1.58
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IMDB Import: Improved Studio / Network selection.
User Interface: Improved updating of the Bookshelf after multiple edits / additions.
Translations: Updated the Greek translation.
Sep 05, 2012 v1.57
- User Interface: Added a QuickSearch function. Just type one or more letters and the first movie which title is starting with these letters is selected. Type them again (or use F3) and the next fitting movie is selected. This works both in Bookshelf and List Viewing Mode. In Bookshelf Mode a visual guidance indicating which letter sequence is currently used is shown.
System: Fixed crashes when adding movies or navigating in Bookshelf viewing mode.
User Interface: Made the error message at startup when unable to connect to WWW.EMDB.TK to check for updated more clear.
User Interface: Removed duplicate errors when quering imdb with no network connection.
User Interface: Filtering and Searching now maintain the current Sorting order instead of resetting the sorting to the default (by number).
User Interface: Make rounding of the Personal Ratings optional. Although the rounding was requested quite a lot this feature was not appreciated by everybody ;-).
IMDB Import: Make importing of the Studio optional and add it to the overrule default settings of the Update all movies.
Translations: Updated the Danish, Persian, Swedish, Turkish and Dutch translations.
Aug 23, 2012 v1.56
- HTML Export: Incorrect movie pages were created when creating a Patch folder.
User Interface: Columns in list view did not always maintain their width.
User Interface: After adding multiple movies using Add and Continue the last movie was not saved after using the Ok button to close the Add Movies screen.
User Interface: After editting an entry from a selection the selection was lost.
User Interface: Added Invert Search Results to the Filters.
Movie Properties: Added Dolby Digital ES Matrix , Dolby Digital ES 6.1 and Stereo (how can I missed this one until now!?) to the possible Audio Stream formats.
Movie Properties: Renamed the Media Propery Hard Disk to Digital Copy as this seems more clear.
Movie Properties: Added Studio (for movies) / Network (for TV Series) property.
User Interface: Personal Rating is rounded to 0.5 when changing the rating in the Add/Edit Movies screen.
User Interface: Setting the Personal Rating in the Add/Edit Movies screen checks the seen checkbox as you must have seen the movie when you set the rating.
User Interface: Sorted the entries in the Add / Edit Audio Streams dialog drop downs alphabetically.
Translations: Updated the Persian, Greek, Finnish, German, French and Dutch translations.
Jul 04, 2012 v1.55
- General: Added movies were not saved in some conditions.
Jul 04, 2012 v1.54
- User Interface: Thumbnails were not always refreshed after editing a movie.
Jul 03, 2012 v1.53
- General: Fixed the random crashes / hangs some people experienced.
Jul 02, 2012 v1.52
- HTML Export: Not all movie detail pages were created when reserved database entries (after deleting movies with no renumbering) were present.
User Interface: Added option to choose whether to start at the top or keep the current selection when sorting.
User Interface: Added an option whether to delete the thumbnails when clearing the database.
User Interface: Next/Previous buttons were not enabled during editting a Movie.
Add Movies from HDD: Added an option to edit the search string when an imdb query is not successful.
User Interface: After editing a movie from a selection the selection was lost.
User Interface: Assigned F1 to Online Help.
Database: Fixed importing/exporting of thumbnails when merging/saving a selection of the database.
Database: Added a check to prevent saving a selection of the database in the same location as the original database (which would overwrite the original thumbnails).
Movie Properties: Added D-Box (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Box_Technologies) property.
Jun 08, 2012 v1.51
- General: Fixed some small glitches in V1.50.
Options: Fixed a crash when opening the Defaults options page.
User Interface: Moved 3D from the top (movie part) to the bottom (medium part) in the Add/Edit screen.
Movie Properties: Added 2D + 3D Movie property.
User Interface: Added a 3D filter.
User Interface: Added 3D to possible columns to display in List View Mode, Export and Print.
HTML Export; Added 3D features to the Index Page and individual Movie pages of the HTML Export.
User Interface: Changed the default button of the Delete confirmation from Yes to No .
Database: Changed the way the thumbnails are stored. This fixes all kind of issues with multiple movies with the same name and TV Series with multiple seasons stored as seperate entries loosing or sharing thumbnails.
IMDB Import: Plot outline retrieved from MovieMeter.nl was not filtered for special HTML characters (e.g. -)
User Interface: added a Sort button in the main toolbar on many requests.
User Interface: When sorting on duration the movies without a duration are now put at the end of the list.
Translations: Updated the Persian and Dutch translations.
Jun 08, 2012 v1.50
- Options: Fixed a crash when opening the Defaults options page.
User Interface: Moved 3D from the top (movie part) to the bottom (medium part) in the Add/Edit screen.
Movie Properties: Added 2D + 3D Movie property.
User Interface: Added a 3D filter.
User Interface: Added 3D to possible columns to display in List View Mode, Export and Print.
HTML Export; Added 3D features to the Index Page and individual Movie pages of the HTML Export.
User Interface: Changed the default button of the Delete confirmation from Yes to No .
Database: Changed the way the thumbnails are stored. This fixes all kind of issues with multiple movies with the same name and TV Series with multiple seasons stored as seperate entries loosing or sharing thumbnails.
IMDB Import: Plot outline retrieved from MovieMeter.nl was not filtered for special HTML characters (e.g. −)
User Interface: added a Sort button in the main toolbar on many requests.
User Interface: When sorting on duration the movies without a duration are now put at the end of the list.
Translations: Updated the Persian and Dutch translations.
Jun 01, 2012 v1.49
- Options: On many requests: Added an options page to rename your media files based on database properties.
User Interface: Increased the width of the Date Added field in the Add / Edit Movie page to fit longer date formats.
Add Movies from HDD: Fixed importing of Bluray and DVD file structures.
Insert Movie: The inserted Movie was not placed at the current position in the list or on the Shelf.
Movie Properties: Added 3D Side by Side (SBS) Movie property.
Translations: Updated the Arabic, Greek, German and Dutch translations.
May 18, 2012 v1.48
- Fixed Alternative title got corrupted every time the database was saved. Your corrupted database will be repaired when V1.48 is started the first time. I m sorry for the inconvenience.
May 15, 2012 v1.47
- File Import: Fixed Comments were not imported correctly.
File Import: Added Nr Discs, Subtitles, Wish List, Own, Date Added, Region and Resolution to the possible fields to import.
File Import: Extended the number of fields to select for import.
User Interface: Added visualisation for HD-DVDs in Bookshelf mode.
Database: Fixed keeping current numbering when deleting a movie.
Add movies from HDD: Added option to use folder instead of file names to query IMDB.
Add movies from HDD: Cut of file or folder names after ( , [ and { characters.
Translations: Updated the Persian and Slovak translations.
May 03, 2012 v1.46
- Database: Added option to merge databases (duplicate movies, based on IMDB numbers, are filtered out).
Database: Added option to save a partial database (based on search results or filtering).
User Interface: Omit months if they are zero in loan duration longer than 1 year.
Database: Added Persian to possible Spoken Languages and Audio Streams.
Translations: Added a Persian Translation.
Translations: Updated the Arabic, Slovak, Finnish, Hebrew and Greek translations.
Mar 19, 2012 v1.45
Mar 05, 2012 v1.44
- General: Tested EMDB on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Everything seems to work just fine
Database: Fixed some random crashes (at startup or during HTML export) after updating to V1.43.
User Interface: Fixed random selected languages when opening Spoken Languages and Audio Streams Search tabs.
Translations: Added Hebrew Translation.
Translations: Updated the German translation.
Mar 01, 2012 v1.43
- Database: Directors still got mixed up for some people. The database will be completely checked and fixed the first time this version of EMDB is started. You might need to update the directors via the Update All function in the options one more time afterwards.
User Interface: Added Search for Spoken Languages.
User Interface: (Re)Added possibility to show both ratings in the main window.
Database: Added Yiddish to possible Spoken Languages and Audio Streams.
User Interface: Added Ctrl-P as accelerator key for playing a movie.
Translations: Updated the Slovak and German translations.
Feb 17, 2012 v1.42
Feb 17, 2012 v1.41
- Database: Directors got mixed up now and then. Hopefully fix now.
User Interface: When inserting a movie the new movie showed up twice in the list (although correctly saved in the database).
User Interface: Play button was never disabled for TV Series.
User Interface: Swapped movies were not correctly shown in the list.
User Interface: Swap Movies dialog was a bit confusing regarding the text of the buttons. Changed the Ok button to Exit (Ok did not swap anything as this might be expected).
Search: unknown directors were included in the search results when searching for a specific director.
User Interface: Made displaying number of votes optional. Number of votes was requested quite often but apparently also a lot of users did not like it.
Jan 16, 2012 v1.39
- IMDB Import: Fixed some remaining issues for people still using the old layout (you can change this in the site preferences in your account when logged in (setting is called show previous title and name page design (reference view) . This should NOT be checked for the new layout.
User Interface: Fixed strange numbering when adding new movies (e.g. 1953 (0) ).
Database: Fixed number of votes for rating was not always saved.
IMDB Import: Number of votes was not saved when using Add and continue and IMDB Batch Update.
IMDB Import: Fixed the import of Year for TV mini-series.
IMDB Import: Fixed the import of Spoken Languages.
Jan 16, 2012 v1.40
- IMDB Batch Update: Fixed incorrect rating / number of votes import.
Jan 10, 2012 v1.38
- IMDB Import: Fixed import of several fields due to yet another change of the IMDB website.
Jan 09, 2012 v1.37
- User Interface: Fixed sorting on duration.
User Interface: Added an option to apply the last used filter on startup.
User Interface: Made the window title more descriptive when applying a filter.
User Interface: Fixed the option of disabeling BluRay boxes for HD movies.
IMDB Import: Added number of votes for rating.
IMDB Import: Fixed HTML code " not being converted.
Search: Added option to combine multiple searches / Filters.
Search: Added option to search on audio streams.
Database: prepared TV Series for support of individual episodes and import from TheTVDB.com.
Translations: updated the Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Danish, Greek, Slovak, Czech, Turkish and Russian translations.
Nov 17, 2011 v1.36
- Import from HDD: New user interface with lots of options.
User Interface: Fixed sorting on numbers when more than 9999 movies in the database. Works fine now up to a million movies. That should be enough ;-)
Import from HDD: Fixed a crash when importing large number of movies in several sub folders.
Import from HDD: Movies with multiple results were you should select one from a list are queued until all automatic resolved movies are finished.
Import from HDD: Plot outline was not imported from Moviemeter.nl.
Import from HDD: Director was not imported if Director was already in the database.
Import from HDD: Better handle full DVD and Bluray file structures.
User Interface: Covers in movie details panel were sometimes cropped.
User Interface: Show TV Series cases option was not working.
User Interface: Fixed sorting on resolution.
Translations: Updated the Greek, Turkish and Swedish translations.
Nov 07, 2011 v1.35
- User Interface: Show TV Shows with a red case on the shelf. This is ment for the very populair TV Rips. If the TV series is on BluRay (source not set to TV or media is BD, HDDVD or BDRecordable) it is displayed as a bluray case.
Database: Fixed short (2 characters) AKA titles got lost.
User Interface: Fixed aspect ratio of bluray covers in the Movie Details Panel.
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Oct 19, 2011 v1.34
- User Interface: Fixed director and User Ratings were not cleared when clearing all data in the Add Movie Screen.
HTML Export: Added number of the movie to the movie details page.
HTML Export: Year is not shown as empty anymore when year is not present.
HTML Export: Several small improvements.
Aug 10, 2011 v1.33
- User Interface: Fixed crash when returning a loaned movie if list is filtered.
IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Directors.
IMDB Import: Fixed incorrect handling of some characters.
Translations: Added translation for `All` (Seasons for TV Series).
Translations: Updated the Danish and Dutch translations.
Jul 23, 2011 v1.32
- IMDB Import: Fixed HTML codes for special characters were not always correctly converted during import.
IMDB Update All Movies: Updating a single property did not work in all cases.
User Interface: Added Dropdown with predefined resolutions in edit multiple movies dialog.
User Interface: Loaned label displayed on the cover was not removed when returning a movie in Bookshelf View.
User Interface: Next movie loaned by same person was not automatically selected when returning a movie in Bookshelf View.
Jul 04, 2011 v1.31
- IMDB Import: Fixed the import caused by yet another IMDB website layout change.
Jul 02, 2011 v1.31
Jun 17, 2011 v1.30
- User Interface: HD movies show up as BluRay boxes with blue selection glow on the shelf.
User Interface: Loan label not correctly updated when changing the loan properties of the current movie in Bookshelf mode.
User Interface: Selection changes sometimes result in partially drawn dvd boxes in bookshelf mode.
Options: Proxy settings were not correctly remembered.
Import / Export: Added IMDB number to the possible fields to import.
Added both IMDB and User rating to the fields to import and export.
Export: Exporting duration does not add minutes anymore.
User Interface: added certification to the Movie Detail Panel.
User Interface: Fixed filter on High Definition did not get all HD movies.
User Interface: Added Movies only (excluding TV Series) filter.
Translations: Updated the Slovak, Spanish, French and Finnish translations.
Jun 01, 2011 v1.29
- User Interface: Fixed crash in List Mode at the end of the list and using a key to jump to the next title starting with that character.
User Interface: Fixed crash when scrolling and clicking fast back and forth in Bookshelf mode using the mouse scroll wheel.
Add movies from HDD: improved reading of full BluRay disc structures.
Add movies from HDD: fixed names includes path when no IMDB query is performed after search is done.
HTML export: fixed HTML code for User Rating was shown when User rating is not selected to be shown.
User Interface: Fixed some drawing issues in bookshelf selection mode.
User Interface: Fixed incorrect movies are shown when switching from List mode to Bookshelf mode after searching / filtering.
May 23, 2011 v1.28
- Movie Properties: Added support for both User Ratings and IMDB Ratings.
User Interface: Finally added a visible selection to the boolshelf viewing mode. Hope you like the glow effect as much as I do!
Movie Properties: added `Complete Series` postfix when Season is not specified.
Movie Properties: Set maximum of Episodes to 999 instead of 99 (to better support the new `Complete Series` property.
Print: Fixed printing of the Seen column.
Import from HDD: display folder and file name when no single match could be resolved to help user select the right movie from the list.
Import from HDD: Added support for BluRay folder structure.
HTML Export: EMDB now adds a backup of the database to the generated web files.
IMDB Import: fixed retrieving of the IMDB link.
Database: Added option to remove unused thumbnails.
Translations: Updated the Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Turkish translations.
Apr 06, 2011 v1.27
- User Interface: Skin support!
Export / HTML Export: Added option to choose all movies or the current selection to export.
User Interface: Added Region to the possible columns to show.
Print / Export: Added Region to the properties to Print / Export.
Thumbnails: fixed problem with missing or duplicate thumbnails when TV Series property is changed afterwards.
User Interface: Using Ctrl-A in Add Movie screen selected all movies in the main window.
IMDB Update All: Fixed Voice only Actors (in Animation movies) were added as Name* . Existing errors are corrected the first time this version is started.
DataBase: Fixed problem were Directors got mixed up after a new version of EMDB was installed.
Mar 29, 2011 v1.26
- User Interface: Fixed crash when manually trying to add an actor in the Add Movie screen.
Mar 23, 2011 v1.25
- User Interface: Fixed exporting/printing of Seen, Own and Which List fields.
User Interface: Added DateAdded to the columns to display in the listview or to export / print.
User Interface: Also take resolution into account when filtering SD / HD.
User Interface: Made the sorting on columns in List View mode faster.
User Interface: Fixed Swap button in Database Options was not translated.
Database: When editing an existing movie and using the Clear All Fields button the new record was saved over the first movie of the database.
IMDB import: Fixed importing of year for video titles (e.g. Held Up (Video 2010)).
User Interface: Changing the season number broke linking to an existing thumbnail.
IMDB Update: Updating in Add / Edit dialog cleared fields if no new data was found.
IMDB Update All Movies: Updating cleared fields if no new data was found.
IMDB Update: Updating in Add / Edit dialog overwrote an existing thumbnail.
Export: export now uses the current search / filter results and shown sort order.
Export / Print: Fixed exporting/printing the IMDB number.
User Interface: Added IMDB number to the possible columns to show in List View mode.
User Interface: Fixed crash when sorting columns in List View mode on a search or filter result.
Movie Properties: Added possiblility to override default IMDB genres.
Translations: Updated the Turkish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish and Slovak translations.
Feb 15, 2011 v1.24
- User Inteface: Added Hi resolution Icon.
User Inteface: Added Insert Button. The Swap Movies feature is moved to the Database section of the Options.
Database: fixed saving of a database with deleted movies when Keep current numbering is enabled.
Swap Movies Screen: fixed displaying when empty (reserved) movies are present.
Edit Multiple Movies Screen: Only load images of selected movies which are visible in the Edit Multiple Movies screen. This speeds up editing large number of movies (e.g. Ctrl-A -> Edit) tremendiously. The number of movies is now shown in the caption of the screen.
Export / Print: Added Seen, Own, WishList and Comments to the possible fields to export or print.
Options: First use actors with picture setting was not saved correctly.
Movie Properties: Added `THEATRICAL VERSION` to the possible version fields.
Movie Properties: Added Romanian to the possible spoken languages, audio-streams and subtitles.
IMDB Import: Added Aspect ratio to the imported movie properties.
IMDB Import: Fixed sometimes user comments were used as plot outline.
User Interface: Added Subtitles to the columns to be select for list view.
User Interface: Improved controls being drawn delayed during startup with a lot of covers on the bookshelf.
System: Added support for *.ts files.
Translations: Proxy Server/Port explanation text was not changed when switching languages.
Translations: renamed the Reset All button in the Add Movie screen to Clear All Fields as this seems more clear.
Translations: Updated the Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Italian, German and Russian translations.
Dec 14, 2010 v1.23
- IMDB Import: Added support for localized pages. In some countries (like Sweden) the localized movie title is displayed as main title. EMDB now supports this and can get the original English title as main title and the localized title as AKA (or the other way around).
Movie Properties: added some additional aspect ratios.
Movie Properties: added Number of Episodes property for TV Series.
User Interface: Browsing the location for TV series now opens a folder browser rather than a file browser. If a folder is selected the Play button in the main window will than open the folder rather than playing a file.
Translations: updated the Norwegian and Turkish translations.
Dec 01, 2010 v1.22
- User Interface: fixed options to show numbers and loan labels in bookshelf viewing mode were not saved correctly.
IMDB Import: fixed importing of title and year of some TV movies and TV Series.
IMDB Import: Improved import of Certification and Duration of movies which did not contain sections for Motion Picture Rating and Technical Specs.
Print / Export: Added season indication to titles of TV Series.
Movie Properties: Added Australia and some other countries to the DVD and Bluray region codes.
User Interface: fixed a crash when switching from listview mode to bookshelf mode after a search without results.
Movie Properties: Added MPEG-2 Part 2, H.264, MPEG-4 AVC and SMPTE VC-1 BluRay codecs and 25 / 50GB BluRay Media.
Translations: Updated the Greek and Turkish translations.
Translations: Added Arabic translation.
Oct 27, 2010 v1.21
- 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.
Oct 22, 2010 v1.20
- 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 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.
Oct 13, 2010 v1.19
- 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.
Sep 29, 2010 v1.18
- 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.
Sep 29, 2010 v1.17
- 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.
Sep 28, 2010 v1.17
Sep 27, 2010 v1.16
Sep 18, 2010 v1.14
- IMDB Import: fixed import got broken due to the (really great) IMDb website redesign.
Aug 05, 2010 v1.13
- 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.
Jul 30, 2010 v1.12
- 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.
User Interface: Fixed progress bar during startup was not updated.
Translations: Updated the French translation.
Jul 28, 2010 v1.11
- 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.
Jul 22, 2010 v1.10
- 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.
Jul 13, 2010 v1.09
- 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).
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.
Jun 30, 2010 v1.08
- 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.
Jun 23, 2010 v1.07
- HTML Export: Fixed settings were not remembered correctly.
HTML Export: HTML pages are now fully translatable.
HTML Export: at the bottom of the main page (index.htm) additional code can be inserted from a custom page (counter.htm) to be able to have a page counter at the bottom of the main page.
IMDB Update all movies: Year, Duration, Country and PlotOutline were cleared when updating and the field was not checked to be updated.
Thumbnail Import: fixed and optimized the import from FreeCovers.net.
Add / Edit Movie Dialog: Year, Duration and Country were cleared when updating and the field was not checked to be updated.
Add movies from HDD: if a movietitle.jpg is detected in the same folder as a new added movie this cover is used as thumbnail. If a movietitle.nfo is detected the content is scanned for an imdb link to update the movie.
Loan tracker: Changing the name of an exitsing loan entry the data got cleared.
Loan tracker: Filter the internally used characters to prevent corruption of loan date.
Translations: Updated the Dutch, Turkish, Slovak and Finish translations.
May 29, 2010 v1.06
- Playing Movies: fixed playing of movies containg &-characters in their filename. Also added a messagebox when an error occurs when start playing fails.
IMDB Update all movies: You can now overrule the default IMDB import settings to e.g. only update the thumbnails or only the ratings.
IMDB Update all movies: Update can now also be done on a search or filter result.
Internet Access: Fixed a crash when a Proxy was enabled but not a valid proxy was specified.
User Interface: Added text to movies without thumbnails in Bookshelf viewing mode.
User Interface: Fixed restoring last used position on second monitor.
HTML Export: Fixed layout of Latest Additions in Google Chrome, IE8, Firefox 3 and Safari.
Translations: Updated the Turkish and Dutch translations.
May 19, 2010 v1.05
- Playing Movies: Added support for Real Media formats *.rm and *.rmvb.
Database: A backup (called backupXXX.dat where XXX is the previous ran version) is created when a new version is installed.
IMDB Update all movies: Updating is now done in the background so the UI is much more responsive regarding canceling the process.
IMDB Update all movies: The progress is now shown with 2 progress bars and more descriptive texts.
IMDB Update all movies: Made the update process more robust.
HTML Export: Fixed patch folder was not cleaned before creating patch.
Movie Properties: Added some default versions.
User Interface: Fixed Loan History Button should only be enabled when the selected movie has loan history.
Add Movie Dialog: Fixed the date was not shown correctly when opening the Add Movie Dialog.
Translations: Updated the Dutch, Turkish and Danish translations.
May 14, 2010 v1.04
- System: Fixed `The procedure entry point GetDateFormatEx could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll` when running on Windows XP (I had no idea so many of you still running this ;-) I m sorry for the inconvenience.
May 13, 2010 v1.03
- System: Fixed date was not correctly displayed localized when the language for displaying Dates in Control Panel was set differently than the Language of the Operation System.
Database: Fixed a bug in the Database validation introduced in version 1.02 resulting in (incorrect) corrupted database notifications.
May 12, 2010 v1.02
- IMDB Import: Use IMDB data if only the cover download fails during an import.
IMDB Import: retrieve higher resolution cover by first following the link of the thumbnail on the moviepage for IMDB thumbnails.
IMDB Update All: Add range to update.
IMDB Update All: Add option to select first hit for multiple results.
User Interface: Add HTML Export to the button Export of the main toolbar.
Options: Put Update All Movies in a seperate page.
Translations: Fixed translation of the Swap button in Add Movie Dialog.
Translations: Updated the Dutch and Turkish translations.
CSV Import: Fixed date format was not stored correctly.
Add Movies from HDD: Fixed not all fields were set correctly with default values.
Movie Properties: Location can now use relative Paths for playing movies.
Add Movies Dialog: Season was not saved when using Next / Previous.
May 03, 2010 v1.01
- General: Added support for *.m2ts and *.divx formats in playing from main window and added movies from your hard drive.
Movie Properties: Added Hebrew to the Language and Subtitle Language Properties.
IMDB Update: Fixed Movie Title Prefix was not taken into account when performing an IMDB Update.
IMDB Update: Title is only updated the first time an IMDB query is performed (so not when using the IMDB Update).
IMDB Search: In the Add movie dialog the function of the IMDB Search button changes to IMDB Update if already queried before.
Movie Title Prefix: During `Update all titles in the database` in the Movie Title Prefix Options the thumbnail file renaming sometimes failed.
Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to swap the Title and Also Known As fields.
Add Movie Dialog: Fixed loosing the thumbnail if the season of a TV Series is changed afterwards.
HTML Export: Added possibility to generate a patch folder to easily update an online collection.
General: Dates are now stored in the database as dates and not as strings. Dates are now shown according the Local settings. Loan time is shown in days, weeks and months by default.The Loaned column is now sorted on loan duration by default. Sorting and displaying options are added to the Loan options.
User Interface: Loan History button is disabled if no history available.
User Interface: fixed double scrollbar in List viewing mode (again).
Apr 20, 2010 v1.00
- User Interface: fixed some issues when the font size of the Display settings is increased
Movie Properties: Added Musical Genre.
User Interface: fixed double scrollbar in List viewing mode.
User Interface: Fixed sorting on titles did not take season for TV series into account.
HTML Export: Added thumbnail JPEG Quality setting to significantly reduce the total required web space.
HTML Export: Latest additions are now shown next to each other.
HTML Export: Added comments to the movie pages (if present).
HTML Export: Fixed incorrect displaying of thumbnail if not defined yet.
Options: Fixed setting of Title prefix was not remembered.
Translations: Updated the Dutch, Slovak and Turkish translations.
Apr 06, 2010 v0.99
- System: Fixed rare crash at startup on 64 bits Windows.
System: Fixed a rare EMDB always on top problem.
Thumbnails: Fixed incorrect aspect ratio when selecting a front only image from the clipboard or selecting an image from disk.
User Interface: Fixed position of bookshelf was reset after editing a movie.
User Interface: Prevented flickering when navigation through pages or rows in bookshelf viewing mode.
Translations: Updated the Finnish translation.
Apr 01, 2010 v0.98
- System: Fixed several settings of the Options Dialog were sometimes reset.
System: Fixed crash when closing application on Windows XP.
User Interface: Added scrollwheel support to Bookshelf Viewing mode.
IMDB Update All Movies: thumbnails were not saved correctly.
Add Movie Dialog: Browse HDD did not use the correct path to query IMDB for DVD folders.
Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to rotate the thumbnail.
User Interface: Removed Ctrl-X as shortcut key for closing EMDB as it broke the default Windows cut selected text functionality.
Movie Properties: Added BluRay Regions and Sound properties.
User Interface: Fixed sorting of the Comments column.
Mar 27, 2010 v0.97
- User Interface: Added a ScrollBar to Bookshelf viewing mode.
User Interface: Fixed several small Bookshelf navigation issues.
User Interface: Fixed search and filter results were not shown in bookshelf viewing mode.
User Interface: Added background pre-loading of images to Bookshelf viewing mode to speed up browsing.
User Interface: Added shortcut Keys Ctrl-ArrowUp and Ctrl-ArrowDown to show and hide the Movie Details in the Main Window (both in Bookshelf and List viewing mode).
Translations: System and Region labels of the Add Movie Dialog were not translated.
Translations: Updated the Turkish and Spanish translations.
Mar 20, 2010 v0.96
- System: Fix for sometimes not correctly moving the database and thumbnails in version 0.95 resulting in not showing the movies. Tested on Windows XP, Windows Vista 32 / 64 bits and Windows 7 32 / 64 bits.
System: Fix for not always creating the EMDB folder in the User folder resulting in thumbnails not being saved.
User Interface: Add Movie did not update the bookshelf.
User Interface: Edit Movie did not update the bookshelf.
User Interface: Fixed an error when navigating through the bookshelf with Page Up and Down.
Mar 17, 2010 v0.95
Mar 17, 2010 v0.95
- User Interface: Fixed double displayed and in Loan field of Main Window.
User Interface: Sorting of the Nr Discs column did not work correctly.
HTML Export: Export sometimes hung.
HTML Export: Fixed strange charachters in movie pages.
User Interface: Added Bookshelf viewing mode! still in development: no selection highlighting or mouse scrolling yet. Drawing is not optimized.
User Interface: ESC key now closes (Cancels) every open dialog again (except the main window).
User Interface: Added accelerator keys for Adding a movie (Ctrl-A), Editing a movie (Ctrl-E), Printing (Ctrl-P), Exit EMDB (Ctrl-X) and toggeling the Viewmode between List and Boolshelf mode (Ctrl-Tab).
Translations: Swap button was not translated.
System: Database and configuration file are moved to user folder if installed in C:Program Files and running on Windows Vista or Windows 7 because Microsoft does not like applications to write in their installation folder in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Changing your UAC settings could cause duplicate versions of these files and the incorrect one to be used resulting in loosing settings or movies in the database.
Feb 24, 2010 v0.94
- User Interface: movie title accelerator keys did not work backwards (e.g. if a title started with a B was selected the [A] did not select the first movie starting with an A. Also added [0] til [9] as accelerator keys.
Add Movie Page: Using Previous / Next did not save changes made.
User Interface: Made the main window a bit wider to fit the Swap button again. More people as I expected seem to use it.
Translations: The translation of the Update button of the Add Movie Dialog (1130) was not applied.
Thumbnails: Fixed selecting different thumbnails for existing movies with the same title did not work.
IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Year got broken due to another change on the IMDB website.
Feb 19, 2010 v0.93
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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.
Thumbnails: Made it possible to have duplicate movies in your list each having it s own thumbnail. (thumbnails are no longer stored using the IMDB number but with the movie title and eventualy a sequence number).
User Interface: Fixed crash when sorting on the Nr. column after filtering or searching.
Add Movie Dialog: Fixed Browse HDD did not add all movies in a folder.
IMDB Import: fixed import of Certification due to IMDB web layout changes.
Browse HDD: Fixed thumbnails were not downloaded when update from IMDB was selected.
HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails of TV Series were not shown.
Add Movie Dialog: Fixed Season was not saved when using Add and Continue.
User Interface: Added a Play button instead of the hyperlink on the location field.
Translations: Updated the Catalan, Portugese and Turkish translations.
Jan 25, 2010 v0.92
Database: Fixed incorrect language properties after performing IMDB update
for all movies.
Database: Fixed Flemish language properties were not correctly stored.
User Interface: Fixed large list of languages was not completely shown, even
is the main window size was increased.
User Interface: If the Language, Sound or Features properties text does not
fit on the main window this is now indicated with ... at the end.
Translations: Updated the Slovak translation.
Jan 19, 2010 v0.91
- Database: correct the language properties for Serbian, Norwegian, Finnish, Korean, Cantonese, Thai, hindi, Turkish and Polish. There was an error in the database until version 0.89 causing these movies to be stored incorrectly. In version 0.90 this was fixed but this resulted in incorrect retrieval of these properties. This is now corrected the first time the database is loaded in version 0.91. Movies with one of these languages added in version 0.90 are also `corrected` although they were already okay. You have to change these manually. I m sorry for this.
IMDB Import: Increased the timeout for importing as this resulted in Error E02 messages for some people with poor connections or high background network load.
File Import: When changing the separator character the previous one was still used the first time you imported a file.
Translations: Updated the Turkish translation.
Jan 09, 2010 v0.90
- IMDB Import: Fixed importing of rating due to IMDB website layout changes.
Translations: Updated the Slovak translation.
Movie Properties: Added Arabic to the language properties.
Movie Properties: Fixed a problem with storing Greek and German language settings.
Dec 23, 2009 v0.89
- User Interface: Fixed displaying of texts
User Interface: Fixed some small drawing glitches in thumbnail edges.
Import Thumbnails: improved importing of thumbnails. It s now faster and more reliable.
HTML Export: Categories [0..9] and [Other] were not listed.
HTML Export: Season is now added tot titles of TV Series.
Add Movie dialog: Fixed some movie properties were resetted when using the subtitle languages dialog.
Translations: Updated the Spanish translation.
Dec 16, 2009 v0.88
- Thumbnails: Fixed several problems with thumbnails when changing the default database location.
Generate HTML: Updated the Default template to only show those sections which actually contain at least one movie.
User Interface: Added Nr Discs and Comments to the possible columns in the main window.
User Interface: Added an option to force Tabbed Add Movie Dialog. This mode was already set when the vertical resolution is below 768 pixels (e.g. when running EMDB on a netbook). Use this when the Add Movie Dialog does not fit on your screen, e.g. when you changed the DPI settings of your Display Driver.
IMDB Import: Made some improvements to prevent (occasionally) IMDB import freezes.
Database: The default location is made relative to be able to use EMDB as portable application.
CSV / Text Export: fixed strange characters in Save As Type dropdown box.
Movie Properties: Added Season for TV Series.
Thumbnail import: Fixed thumbnail import from Freecovers.net.
Translations: Updated the Dutch, Finnish, Portugese and Turkish translations.
Translations: Added Slovenian translation.
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