Improvements and new features in Musicnizer 4.1

[+] Added custom search for album covers and photos of artists using Bing.

In Musicnizer 4.1 you can easily find additional images: album covers or photos of artists! Simply click "Manage" - "Image search" and use the Bing service to enrich your album collection with new pictures. Assign downloaded pictures as posters or covers afterwards.

Search for album covers with Bing

[+] The program starts faster now.

Now Musicnizer starts up faster than the previous version. Get to work with your music library in a second!

[+] Added cover and photo view for the list. Entries can be filtered by their rating and by availability of covers.

The collection view has become even more flexible! Now you can switch the album list on the left from the detailed view to cover flow. New buttons at the bottom of the list area provide you with new filters for albums and artists: by rating and by image availability.

Album cover flow view vs detailed list

[+] Arrow keys can be used in the image viewer to browse photos.

For more convenience, keyboard navigation was added to the image viewer of Musicnizer. Browse, open, delete album covers, posters, photos of artists using the arrow keys, Delete and Enter on your keyboard!

Use arrow keys to navigate between pictures

[+] A double click on the album/artist information page will open the Edit info dialog for the entry.

Edit information about albums and artists more easily: just double click the corresponding page and you're in the right menu!

[+] Group operations for people (currently only deleting).

The group operations feature that helped to manage albums is now available for artists! Simply activate it by clicking "Manage" - "Group operations" and organize your artists in groups.

Group operations for artists

[+] All albums /artists in the list can be selected with a single click when using Group operations.

Now, if group operations are on, you can select all albums or artists in the collection list with one click on the corresponding button below.

Select all albums in the list

[+] Album title/ artist's name can be changed on the search results page to send a new query.

If you mistyped or entered a completely wrong album name when adding your album, you don't have to restart the process, simply send another search query right from the "Search results" window! Click on the link in the lower part of the window and enter the correct title.

Enter a new title to search for

[+] For Dune album catalog, it is now possible to create only new folders.

If you want to save time and have no need in recreating and replacing the existing records of movies in your Dune catalog, simply uncheck the corresponding box in the second step of the Dune Catalog Wizard:

Create only new entries for your Dune music catalog

[+] Added a plugin to import information from Melomania.

Great news for those who decided to move from Melomania to Musicnizer! Now you can do it in one click without any need to rebuild your music album database from scratch! Musicnizer will simply import all your information.

Import information from Melomania easily

[+] Added the price field.

A new entry is now available for music albums: Price ("General" tab, "Parameters" subtab of the "Edit info" dialog). Enter how much you paid for this or that album. This feature can be helpful for insurance purposes.

Pricing information for the album

[+] Rating of songs is now shown on the album information page.

Just like previously, you can rate your songs in the "Edit info" menu of the corresponding album. Now you can also see the rating in the track list on the album information page:

Track rating

[-] Bugs fixed.

The Musicnizer team always stays alert to bug reports that you leave on our forum or send directly to our support. Every new version of the program fixes some bugs, no matter how small and insignificant they are.

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