EMDB -> Version History

This is the version history page for EMDB, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 3.53 (Feb 11, 2020)
• Version 3.52 (Dec 9, 2019)
• Version 3.51 (Nov 25, 2019)
• Version 3.50 (Oct 21, 2019)
• Version 3.49 (Sep 12, 2019)
• Version 3.48 (Sep 2, 2019)
• Version 3.47 (Aug 22, 2019)
• Version 3.46 (Jul 22, 2019)
• Version 3.45 (Jul 2, 2019)
• Version 3.44 (Jun 18, 2019)
• Version 3.43 (Jun 7, 2019)
• Version 3.42 (May 26, 2019)
• Version 3.41 (Apr 16, 2019)
• Version 3.40 (Mar 31, 2019)
• Version 3.39 (Mar 26, 2019)
• Version 3.38 (Mar 11, 2019)
• Version 3.36 (Feb 15, 2019)
• Version 3.34 (Feb 14, 2019)
• Version 3.33 (Jan 18, 2019)
• Version 3.32 (Jan 17, 2019)

• Release Date: Feb 11, 2020
• • User Interface: Added visualization for selected sort column and direction in ListView.
  • Database Assigning custom cast photo’s sometimes failed.
  • Edit Multiple Movies: Added Streaming Service as field to edit.
  • Database: Added VUDU as streaming source.
  • User Interface: added option to copy the movie cover to the clipboard.
  • User Interface: Improved keyboard control of message boxes: you can now use arrow keys and ENTER (or SPACE) to select a button to choose.
  • User Interface: Improved the tab order of the Add / Edit Movies Screen.
  • User Interface: Context menu didn't work on multiple selection in ListView.
  • User Interface: Added option to toggle displaying VHS tapes on the Bookshelf.
  • IMDb Import: Fixed IMDb lookup when entering IMDb number in the Title field.
  • TVDB Import: Fixed an issue with episodes from seasons getting mixed up.
  • TV Series: Improved detection of valid episode file names.
  • Add Movie: IMDb Top 250 value was sometimes taken over when multiple movies were manually added in one go.
  • Add from HardDisk: Fixed an issue with custom NFO files.
  • Batch Update: Create Missing NFO's didn't take the setting All / Selected / Filter Results into account.
  • Translations: Updated the Spanish, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, Slovenian and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Dec 9, 2019
• •  Rottent Tomatoes Import: Optimzed download for movies were the years on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes don't match.
  •  Rottent Tomatoes Import: Fixed Batch Update took over values from previous movie is no match.
  •  TheTVDB Import: Fixed crash when search without IMDb number was made.
  •  TheTVDB Import: Fixed Windows 7 blocked TheTVDB import.
  •  User Interface: Added VHS Sleeve visualisation for the bookshelf.
  •  User Interface: Fixed cropping CD Jewel case image from DVD cover.
  •  Cover Import: Removed FreeCovers.net import as the site is gone.
  •  Translations: Updated the Arabic, German, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Nov 25, 2019
• •  Add Movies: Added possibility to add movies using EAN / UPC codes.
  •  IMDb Import: Improved displaying import progress.
  •  User Interface: Added HDR as possible columns to show in ListView and to be used in Print / Export.
  •  User Interface: Fixed a rare issue where the sort order was incorrectly reversed.
  •  IMDb Import: Improved searching for titles with diacritic characters (e.g. àüäëø).
  •  Database: Added EAN / UPC Code field.
  •  Database: Added options to remove duplicate Actors.
  •  Database: Added options to remove unused Writers.
  •  IMDb Import: Fixed importing duplicate Writers for a Movie.
  •  TheTVDB Import: Switched to the new API V3 as the old one became very unstable recently.
  •  Translations: Updated the German, Slovenian and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Oct 21, 2019
• •  Print: Fixed printing of the last page of the movie details sometimes failed.
  •  IMDB Import: Sometimes not all the actor photos were downloaded.
  •  Backups: Added the name of the database to the backup file or folder (if multiple databases are in use).
  •  TomatoMeter Scores: Fixed displaying 0% when no score available or importing of tomatometer is disabled.
  •  TomatoMeter Scores Import: Fixed import due to a change the way the Rotten Tomatoes website handled data.
  •  Add /Edit Dialog: Clearing all data set the TomatoMeter Score to 0% instead of no score.
  •  Cast Photos: Fixed an issue were images were repeated if actors don't have a photo.
  •  Export / Print: Added TomatoMeter Scores.
  •  Translations: Updated the Arabic, Slovenian, German, Italian, Czech, Simplified Chinese and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Sep 12, 2019
• • User Interface: Updated the default toolbar icons.
  •  Backups: Fixed an issue were automatic backups and backups when installing a new version were sometimes saved to AppData\Local\VirtualStore instead of the configured location.
  •  Media Files: Fixed Media Files on External Drives with Label containing [] did not play.
  •  Scan at Startup: Added option to prevent scanning of subfolders.
  •  Rotten Tomatoes: Properly handle scores of 0%.
  •  Loan History: Fixed displaying of short loan durations.
  •  Statistics: Fixed percentage seen movies.
  •  Statistics: Added number of seen TV Series.
  •  Translations: Updated the German, Catalan, Turkish, Arabic and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Sep 2, 2019
• • User Interface: New added movies added on a reserved space while reserved spaces were not shown did not show up until a restart.
  •  Sorting: Added Rotten Tomatoes Sorting.
  •  HTML Export: Fixed displaying the codec in the individual movie pages.
  •  HTML Export: “Include Actor photos in Movie pages” setting was not remembered.
  •  IMDb Import: Fixed downloading of Actor photos sometimes failed.
  •  Media Files: Added support for *.webm file format.
  •  Database: Added support WebM and Ogg Vorbis codecs.
  •  Translations: Updated the Arabic, German, Czech, Simplified Chinese and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Aug 22, 2019
• •  Add From Hard Disk: Created NFO file for single media files was sometimes named movie.nfo instead of filename.nfo.
  •  Sorting: Sorting on Seen did not work if one or more movies didn't have a seen date.
  •  User Interface: Fixed displaying Studio / Network in the Movie Details Panel.
  •  Database: Added 2.76:1 to the Aspect Ratios.
  •  IMDb Import: Made import of Aspect Ratio configurable.
  •  IMDb Import: Protect custom actor photo's from being overwritten.
  •  Batch Update: Protect custom actor photo's from being overwritten.
  •  Edit Multiple Movies: Fixed editing of Genres for Multiple Movies.
  •  Translations: Updated the Arabic, Russian, German, Italian and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Jul 22, 2019
• •  User Interface: Option to keep the selection after sorting worked the other way around.
  •  TV Series: Improved the season text for Series with just some seasons.
  •  Development: Code cleanup and moved to Visual Studio 2019 for development.
  •  System: NFO file could overwrite VIDEO_TS.IFO files
  •  Translations: Updated the German, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Jul 2, 2019
• •  Edit: Clearing all fields and adding new data was handled as adding a new movie instead of changing the current.
  •  Edit: Clear did not clear Tomatometer score and Meta score.
  •  Multiple Edit: Fixed sometimes genres were overwritten when not selected for change.
  •  Multiple Edit: Locked movies are now excluded in multiple edit (except for multiple unlock ;-)
  •  Rotten Tomatoes: Added support for TV Series.
  •  Rotten Tomatoes: Added an option to manually select or change a movie.
  •  Rotten Tomatoes download / batch update: Always use the English title if available to get a better match.
  •  TheMovieDB download: Use IMDb number instead of title to get a better match.
  •  IMDb download: Fixed character name was not retrieved when no character page is available.
  •  IMDb download: Fixed cast photos were not downloaded for actors without character page.
  •  Translations: Updated the Arabic, German, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Persian and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Jun 18, 2019
• •  HTML Export: Updated Responsive Red template to V1.4.
  •  Filter Menu: Fixed missing translations.
  •  Batch Update: Fixed Top250 batch update returned incorrect #1 position for some movies.
  •  User Interface: Fixed displaying of IMDb top 250 on the Movie Details Panel.
  •  Sorting: Improved sorting on Seen column if column is configured to show Yes / No or X instead of the date.
  •  Database: Added Rotten Tomatoes movie link.
  •  Batch Update: Added Rotten Tomatoes TomatoMeter Score Batch update.
  •  Batch Update: Added Actors Photo update (also fixes duplicate photo's and incorrect links to IMDb actor pages).
  •  Translations: Updated the Arabic, German, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Jun 7, 2019
• •  Translations: Fixed crash with Finnish translation when opening the Add / Edit page.
  •  IMDb Import: Fixed an issue where a movie could get #1 incorrectly.
  •  User Interface: Added a Column and Filtering for IMDb Top250.
  •  Search: Fixed Subtitle Search.
  •  Database: Fixed silence Language property.
  •  IMDb Update: Improved the order the cast is listed by first selecting actors with a Photo AND a Character page.
  •  Database: Added Rotten Tomatoes TomatoMeter Score import.
  •  Translations: Updated the Arabic, Catalan, Czech, German, Slovak, Simplified Chinese and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: May 26, 2019
• •  Database: Added IMDb Top 250 property
  •  Database: Added Bengali audio stream and spoken language properties.
  •  System: Fixed crash when deleting all movies.
  •  System: Also delete nfo files when deleting media files.
  •  MediaInfo Batch Update: Fixed an issue with assigning audio stream languages if more then one is present.
  •  System: Fixed issue when deleting media files on removable disks when deleting an entry from the database.
  •  IMDb Import: Added support for recent movies on IMDb having a new (longer) IMDb number."
  •  Translations: Updated the Finnish, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish and Dutch translations."

• Release Date: Apr 16, 2019
• •  Add Movie: Fixed unlocking controls after using Add and Continue on a locked movie.
  •  Add Movie: Fixed new movies sometimes showed up twice on the bookshelf.
  •  Edit Movie: Fixed Movie Details Panel was not updated when editing a movie.
  •  Database Options: Added button to cleanup duplicate Actor Photo's.
  •  System: Cutting / Pasting TV Series lost the Series details and Posters.
  •  User Interface: Added option to immediately sort new added movies or show them at the top of the list.
  •  User Interface: Adding a movie after doing a Search / Filter didn't always show the new movie until restart.
  •  Database: Added MediaBook as Case type.
  •  Batch Update: Improved progres Media Info Batch Update process.
  •  Translations: Updated the Dutch translation.

• Release Date: Mar 31, 2019
• •  General: Fixed a crash at startup for some users.
  •  User Interface: Improved update of list / bookshelf if a single movie is edited.
  •  Add Movie: Fixed inserting movies.
  •  User Interface: Fixed clicking on an actor in the cast overview should show all movies the actors appears in.
  •  Translations: Updated the German, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Arabic and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Mar 26, 2019
• •  Add Movies From Hard Disk: Clicking Cancel when browsing a folder for adding Multiple Movies or a TV Series was not handled correctly.
  •  Database: Added 'iTunes', 'Google Play' and 'Youtube' to the Streaming Services.
  •  Merge Databases: Improved merging code to better handle large databases.
  •  Merge Databases: Posters are now also merged.
  •  Merge Databases: Added a progress indicator.
  •  Merge Databases: Added a detailed result overview.
  •  User Interface: Added movies are now also correctly positioned when a Search result or Filtering is shown.
  •  Print: Improved the layout of the Movie Details Template.
  •  Edit Multiple movies: Added possibility to change Genres of multiple movies.
  •  Add Movies From Hard Disk: Added support for Kodi generated movie.nfo, tvshow.nfo and poster.jpg.
  •  Translations: Updated the French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Mar 11, 2019
• 3.38:
  •  Startup: Fixed scanning for removed Media files at startup.
  •  System: Fixed displaying filenames on External Drives containing [] characters.
  •  Rename Moved Media Files Location: Fixed renaming on external drives.
  
  
  3.37:
  •  System: Changed Folder Browse dialog to better support Network drives.
  •  User Interface: Only enable Copy Files / Open Location in the context menu if an actual media file is present.
  •  Database: Added "IMAX" and "CRITERION COLLECTION" to the Version field options.
  •  Defaults: Added Container to the fields from which you can set a default value.
  •  Edit Multiple Movies: Fixed changing the Codec cleared the Container field.
  •  Add Movie: Clear Groups Edit Box after you use Add And Continue.
  •  System: Fixed detection of External Drive Labels containing [].
  •  User Interface: Fixed setting dates before 1970 with DateTimePicker.
  •  User Interface: Fixed tab order in Add / Edit Movie page.
  •  Backups: Added support for a custom location to store backups.
  •  Backups: Daily / weekly / monthly backups are now saved with a data stamp.
  •  Backups: Display all backups in the selected (custom backup) location.
  •  Backups: Moved backup functions in their own options screen.
  •  Backups: Added notifications when automatic backups are created.
  •  User Interface: Date seen did not always fit in the Movie Details Panel.
  •  Database: Added a Service field if source is streaming to specify the specific service.
  •  Custom values: Added Custom Services.
  •  User Interface: Added movies are now directly inserted in the sorted list instead of added at the top.
  •  Print: Fixed misplacement of lines between movies in Movie Details Template for high resolution printers.
  •  Batch Update: Fixed MediaInfo Batch Update for Media Files on Removable Drives.
  •  Rename Media Files: Fixed Copying Thumbnails to Media File Locations on Removable Drives.
  •  Media Info: The Container is now also detected with MediaInfo.
  •  Search: Fixed Search for manually entered Actors used incorrect casing resulting in wrong results.
  •  User Interface: Added Writers and Composers to the Columns to display in List View.
  •  Translations: Updated the Simplified Chinese, Czech, Arabic, Italian, Slovenian, German and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Feb 15, 2019
• 3.36:
  • System: Upgrading a library also broke file size detection with MediaInfo.

  3.35:
  • System: Upgrading a library broke handling of large files and removable drive labels.

• Release Date: Feb 14, 2019
• •  Startup: Media files on removable disks are also checked for removal if the specific drive is mounted.
  •  System: Fixed crash when parsing media files with invalid dates.
  •  Translatations: The Arabic translation caused a crash when multiple movies were selected.
  •  Translatations: Changed the flag for the Arabic translation to the flag of Saudi Arabia.
  •  User Interface: Added "Copy Media Files to" to context menu to copy media file(s) to a specific location.
  •  Rename media files: Renaming now also renames the NFO file if present.
  •  Add / Edit screen: Fixed showing voice only actor pages on IMDb.
  •  User Interface: Changed the alignment of the rating columns in the listview to left aligned.
  •  User Interface: Always show Characters in Cast tab of Add / Edit screen.
  •  Print: Added Detailed Movie Overview Print template.
  •  User Interface: While editing the Loaned input field special keys for selecting text (e.g Shift-Home, Ctrl-A etc.) operated on the Movie List / Bookshelf instead.
  •  Translations: Updated the Catalan, Spanish and Dutch translations.

• Release Date: Jan 18, 2019
• •  TV Series: Fixed an out of memory error when adding episodes with a specific episode/season format.

• Release Date: Jan 17, 2019
• •  Database: Fixed an issue resulting in an empty database after loading the new data format.
  •  Database: Improved loading speed even more.
  •  User Interface: Removed Paypal and dontation buttons when application is customized.
  •  Add Movies from Hard Disk: Improved TV Series Episode detection.
  •  Translations: Updated the Slovenian, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, German and Dutch translations.