Thema: CD/DVD/Film-Verwaltungsprogramme & Tools

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EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text or complete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface. EMDB is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries.

Freeware

Changelog

    User interface: Added Collections filter
    System: Improved startup without internet connection.
    User interface: custom colors of list view were broken.
    EAN UPC import: fixed serveral issues with EAN / UPC code lookup.
    User interface: Mirroring the backdrop was not saved.
    User interface: Fixed displaying full DVD inserts as thumbnail.
    User interface: Fixed displaying & character in list view.
    User interface: selection was sometimes invisiable after sorting.
    User interface: fixed displaying of container column in listview.
    User interface: Fixed displaying loan data in details panel.
    User interface: Deleting a movie showed an empty space even if show empty spaces was disabled.
    User interface: Custom numbering always showed #1 in list view.
    Print: Printing a selection could result in extra empty pages.
    User interface: check for updates did not properly detect hotfixes.
    User interface: Pasting one or movies with Ctrl-V after cut with Ctrl-X doesn't add 'Copy of' as the original is not there anymore.
    Database: when merging databases collections, collection artwork and backdrops are now also merged.
    User interface: Added Version to the possible columns to show in the list view.
    Translations: Updated the Czech, German, Spanish, French, Simplified Chinese and Dutch translations.

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http://www.emdb.eu/

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An intuitive software solution that helps you manage books, DVDs, journals, magazines, music CDs or photograph collections from within a created database.

BSD License     /  Donationware

Changelog

    BiblioteQ @ 20! Happy New Year!
    Configurable YAZ options.
    Corrected case-insensitive searches. Thank you meteos77.
    Corrected revisions of the main view via item details; persistent indices.
    Database Enumerations (binding types, languages, locations, monetary units) are now included in the book import.
    Disable the Reserve Selected Item context menu action if the current item is a photograph.
    Display import preview header strings in the import template table. For example, the preview table's column 1 text may be set to "Title" and the item at (0, 1) in the template table will have its text also set to "Title". Thank you meteos77.
    Display optimizations of large content.
    Do not disable database-connection widgets if a connection is already present.
    Enable case-sensitive-like for general SQLite searches.
    Export Icons View as PNG.
    Group returns of selected items via the All Reserved category.
    ISBN display format options. Please see Other Options.
    Initialize empty barcodes in copy editors.
    Members Browser pagination.
    New Other Options for setting the number of Icons Mode columns.
    New import template. Thank you meteos77.
    New open-postgresql-database terminal option.
    Print Icons View.
    Remove hyphens from ISBN fields within conditionals.
    SQLite 3.37.2; Windows.
    Simplify text before displaying it in the main table and associated tool tips. Thank you meteos77.

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https://biblioteq.sourceforge.io/index.html

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Changelog

IMDb import: Improved retrieving of English, original and country specific titles for localized (translated in native language) pages.
IMDb import: Improved retrieving of Country for localized (translated in native language) pages.
User interface: after batch update from a selection the selection was reset.
User interface: Sorting now always selects the first movie from the list.
User interface: After inserting a movie it sometimes showed up twice in the list / on the shelf.
User interface: Deleting a movie from the a search result belonging to a collection deleted the whole collection.
Database: custom services and versions are now stored in the databases instead of in the config like custom genres and languages. This way restoring a database on a new system will not loose your custom settings.
User interface: Added settings for text and background colors of the movie details panel (and the rest of the main window).
User interface: Added settings for collections label and text colors.
User interface: fixed startup in TV Mode.
User interface: Add from hard disk didn't always add the new movies to the list / shelf.
User interface: Fix white background on labels of movies on the shelf.
TheMovieDb import: fixed importing of (Youtube) trailers.
HTML export: fixed movies in collections were not all shown in all movies overview.
User interface: After changing database or a quick search multiple movies were selected.
Translations: Updated the French, German, Spanish, Slovanian, Simplified Chinese and Dutch translations.

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http://www.emdb.eu/

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Manage large media collections and re-organize them using tags instead of folders that you can share via custom servers with this application.

The Unlicense

Changelog

    Highlights:

    The file domain button of every autocomplete input now has a 'multiple locations' entry. this launches a checkboxlist of all possible search locations and allows you to search more than one domain at once. it works, too! in future, when we can have multiple 'my files' services, you'll be able to choose here unions of what to search. users in advanced mode will see repository updates, all local files, all known files, and the new deleted file domains on this list. I removed the deleted file domains from the front menu because I expect them to be rarely used
    In options->thumbnails, there is now a 'thumbnail scaling' dropdown. you can set it so thumbs only ever scale down (which remains the default), scale to fit (i.e. very small images are also scaled up), or scale to fill. the 'animation' as thumbnails refit and delayed-regen themselves to 'scale to fill' is accidentally one of the coolest things I have done
    Removed the old 'EXPERIMENTAL: thumbnail fill' option. the new mode works essentially the same, but faster and higher quality
    In the page tab menu, there is a new submenu 'pages', which shows all the pages at or below the current level. if you right-click on a page of pages tab, it will just show for that page of pages. click any of the entries, you will select that page. it is a web browser-like quick navigation menu, let me know what you think!
    Rejiggered the page tab menu a little, reordering groups a bit with nicer separators and putting 'select' navigation on the menu even if you click in greyspace
    Fixed a problem in page tab menu logic where if you right-clicked on greyspace, it would render the menu for the bottommost page of pages row rather than the one actually clicked
    Last week's update where a mouse release event will no longer fire in the shortcuts system if the mouse moved a decent distance between press and release should now work in the media viewer canvas when dragging is set to anchor the mouse in place. some advanced users may wish to try setting archive/delete to work on mouse release and use left click to drag

    Bug fixes:

    Fixed pages force-refreshing file queries on session load. this has never been intentional, but it slipped through again and was happening for a month or two now. I have added an explicit test to my routine to make sure this doesn't happen again, sorry for the trouble!
    Fixed a problem in the recent fast shutdown code that was accidentally also shutting down some maintenance work like repository processing as soon as it started, even if 'exit and force work' was chosen
    All images with a completely opaque alpha channel will now have that alpha channel dropped for the new pixel hash calculation, meaning they will now match with regular non-alpha images with the same colour pixel data. in fact, all images with an opaque alpha now have that channel dropped on load, which will save a little memory and CPU any time they are handled (issue #770)
    If the 'durable' temporary database exists on boot, it is now deleted and a fresh one created rather than trying to re-use the old one (which would not have any useful information anyway), and a note is made to log. one user recently had a problem where an existing corrupt temp dir was stopping boot, which this fixes

    Misc:

    Updated the windows build to use a newer version of mpv, moving from roughly 2021-02 to 2022-01. this replaces mpv-1.dll with mpv-2.dll, and I set the installer to delete the old '1'. if you extract, you can delete the old '1' yourself, but things seems fine with both. in any case, let me know if you have any trouble!
    Updated the windows build to use sqlite 3.37.2, the sqlite3 in the db dir is also updated
    The deleted files system now neatly cleans up old file deletion reasons on file import and file undelete
    Cleared out some old thumbnail generation code, including deleting an old and now obselete optimisation where too-large thumbs were scaled down to make new thumbs rather than revisiting source. since our thumb situation is more complicated now, this is gone in favour of nicer quality thumbs and simpler code
    Fixed up some upcoming database maintenance code in my new modules
    Updated and cleaned the code in the old wx-converted checkboxlist and replaced some awkward old access routines
    Cleared out some old HTA archive code

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The Music Collection is a free program that allows you to archive your music collection. Using it you can enter in a collection any kind of music media that you own or you intend to. Also you can add or edit any kind of information concerning the albums in the collection.

The album info can be manually entered or automatically via the Internet. After saving the albums, you can browse them, filter albums by all possible criteria and search for particular album tracks you are interested. Also the program can display and print all data from your music collection in different ways, so you can pick the desired one.

The idea for creating the program was to manage my own music collection and i hope that it would be also useful to any music collector.

Freeware

Whats new:>>

    Added : Option in the HTML export to save the album images in the export location.
    Added : Program settings option to increase the grid row height.
    Added : "SlotNo" in the import wizard fields.
    Added : Ability to import tracks for all mediums in the Web search > Add to saved album.
    Fixed : Some minor bugs.

http://www.gsoft4u.com/

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A mix between an encyclopedia of movies, a video collection manager and a store catalog, this app will prove useful to all movie lovers.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

    [NEW] added 400 movies & series
    [NEW] improved the movie recommendations
    [BUG FIX] fixed several bugs

http://www.coollector.com/

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Media Companion is a handy utility that offers the possibility to gather information from the Internet about your movies and make this information available to you in an organized manner.

The information collected includes such things as posters, backdrops, plot summary, actors and actor images, ratings etc. Media Companion currently supports Movies and TV Shows.

License: GPL

Changelog

    TV - Change color of series title in Treeview if series is empty for better visual representation.
    TV - F2 Manual series add, New year option in TV Preferences, Extras tab.
    TV - F2 Manual series add, add option to autocreate season folders.
    TV - Fix old underlying issue with Episode Id numbers, specially when batch rescraping.
    TV - Tidyup code, final fix series/Episode Id's, Final fix change root folder scraper source.
    TV - New option in TV Preferences -> General, Auto-Hide Banner box if no banner available.
    TV - Episodes save runtime with or without "min" without needing stream details rescrape.
    TV - Fix picturebox split position when changing profiles.
    Movie - Fix ID usage for Fanart.TV site.
    Movie - Renamed a filter for Fanart.TV.
    Movie - Try improve getting year from filename if example (1895-1905) (2015), get four digits in brackets first.
    MC - Removal of Pre-Frodo etc art type selection.
    MC - Update mediainfo dll.
    MC - add support for nfo tag hdrtype, and add overlay icons for hdr10 and dolbyvision.

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediacompanion/

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    Database: installing a hotfix now also creates a backup.
    User interface: preserve aspect ratio when using poster as cover for cases.
    Database: switching databases sometimes caused a crash.
    User interface: prevent horizontal scrollbar in listview.
    Translations: Updated the Arabic, Czech, French, German, Swedish, Simplified Chinese and Dutch translations.

http://www.emdb.eu/

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Changelog

    Misc:

    fixed the recent problem with drag and dropping thumbnails to a level below the top row of pages. sorry for the trouble!
    fixed a bug where the client would not load results sorting by 'import time' when the search file domain was a single deleted file domain
    fixed a list display bug in the edit page parser dialog when a subsidiary page parser has two complicated string-match based content parsers
    collections now sort by modified time, using the largest known modified time in their collection
    added sqlite3.exe console back into the windows build--sorry, it was missing since the github build changeover!
    added a note to the help about backing up when tight on space, which I will repeat here: the sqlite database files are very compressible (70GB->17GB on default 7zip settings!), so if you need more space on your backup drive, this is a good way to reclaim it

    Command palette:

    a user has written a cool 'command palette' for the program! it brings up a type-and-search interface to navigate to pages or menu entries.
    I have integrated his first version and set the default shortcut to Ctrl+P. users who update will get this shortcut if they have nothing else on Ctrl+P on 'main window' set. if you prefer Ctrl+K or anything else, you can change it under file->shortcuts->the main window
    regular users will get a page list they can search and select, advanced users will also get the (potentially dangerous) full scan of the menubar and current thumbnail right-click menu. I will be polishing this latter feature in future to filter out big maintenance jobs and show checkbox status and similar, so if you are advanced, please be careful for now
    try it out, and let me know how it goes. the underlying widget is neat, and I can change its behaviour and extend it significantly

    (Mostly advanced) deleted file improvements:

    files that have been deleted from a local file domain are now aware of their file deletion reason. this is visible in the right-click menu of thumb or media canvas
    the advanced file deletion dialog now initialises using this stored reason. if all pending deletees have the same existing reason stored, it will display it, and if they are all set but differ, this will be noted and an option to not alter them is also available. this will come up later in niche advanced situations with mutiple file services
    reversing a recent change, local file deletion reasons are no longer cleared on undelete or (re)import. they'll now hang around invisibly and initialise any future advanced file deletion dialog
    updated the thumbnail and canvas undelete mechanism to handle multiple services. now, if the files are deleted in more than one domain, you will be asked to multiple-select which you wish to undelete for. if there is only one eligible undelete service, the process remains unchanged--you'll just get a yes/no confirmation if the 'confirm trash' option is set
    misc multiple local file services code conversion work

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Changelog

    Command palette:

    The guy who put the command pallete together has fixed a 'show palette' bug some people encountered (issue #1060)
    He also added mouse support!
    He added support to show checkable menu items too, and I integrated this for the menubar (lightning bolt icon) items
    I added a line to the default QSS that I think fixes the odd icon/text background colours some users saw in the command palette

    Misc:

    File archive times are now recorded in the background. there's no load/search/sort yet, but this will be added in future
    Under 'manage shortcuts', there is a new checkbox to rename left- and right-click to primary- and secondary- in the shortcuts UI. if you have a flipped mouse or any other odd situation, try it out
    If a file storage location does not have enough free disk space for a file, or if it just has <100MB generally, the client now throws up a popup to say what happened specifically with instructions to shut down and fix now and automatically pauses subscriptions, paged file import queues, and import folders. this test occurs before the attempt to copy the file into place. free space isn't actually checked over and over, it is cached for up to an hour depending on the last free space amount
    This 'paused all regular imports' mode is also now fired any time any simple file-add action fails to copy. at this stage, we are talking 'device disconnected' and 'device failed' style errors, so might as well pause everything just to be careful
    When the downloader hits a post url that spawns several subsidiary downloads (for instance on pixiv and artstation when you have a multi-file post), the status of that parent post is now 'completed', a new status to represent 'good, but not direct file'. new download queues will then present '3N' and '3 successful' summary counts that actually correspond to number of files rather than number of successful items
    Pages now give a concise 'summary name' of 'name - num_files - import progress' (it also eli...des for longer names) for menus and the new command palette, which unlike the older status-bar-based strings are always available and will stop clients with many pages becoming multi-wide-column-menu-hell
    Improved apng parsing. hydrus can now detect that pngs are actually apngs for (hopefully) all types of valid apng. it turns out some weird apngs have some additional header data, but I wrote a new chunk parser that should figure it all out
    With luck, users who have window focus issues when closing a child window (e.g. close review services, the main gui does not get focus back), should now see that happen (issue #1063). this may need some more work, so let me know
    The session weight count in the 'pages' menu now updates on any add thumbs, remove thumbs, or thumbnail panel swap. this should be fast all the time, and buffer nicely if it is ever overwhelmed, but let me know if you have a madlad session and get significant new lag when you watch a downloader bring in new files
    A user came up with a clever idea to efficiently target regenerations for the recent fix to pixel duplicate calculations for images with opaque alpha channels, so this week I will queue up some pixel hash regeneration. it does not fix every file with an opaque alpha channel, but it should help out. it also shouldn't take all that long to clear this queue out. lastly, I renamed that file maintenance job from 'calculate file pixel hash' to 'regenerate pixel duplicate data'
    The various duplicate system actions on thumbnails now specify the number of files being acted on in the yes/no dialog
    Fixed a bug when searching in complicated multi-file-service domains on a client that has been on for a long time (some data used here was being reset in regular db maintenance)
    Fixed a bug where for very unlucky byte sizes, for instance 188213746, the client was flipping between two different output values (e.g. 179MB/180MB) on subsequent calls (issue #1068)
    After some user profiles and experimental testing, rebalanced some optimisations in sibling and parent calculation. fingers crossed, some larger sibling groups with worst-case numbers should calculate more efficiently
    If sibling/parent calculation hits a heavy bump and takes a really long time to do a job during 'normal' time, the whole system now takes a much longer break (half an hour) before continuing

    Boring stuff:

    The delete dialog has basic multiple local file service support ready for that expansion. it no longer refers to the old static 'my files' service identifier. I think it will need some user-friendly more polish once that feature is in
    The 'migrate tags' dialog's file service filtering now supports n local file services, and 'all local files'
    Updated the build scripts to force windows server 2019 (and macos-11). github is rolling out windows 2022 as the new latest, and there's a couple of things to iron out first on our end. this is probably going to happen this year though, along with Qt6 and python 3.9, which will all mean end of life for windows 7 in our built hydrus release
    Removed the spare platform-specific github workflow scripts from the static folder--I wanted these as a sort of backup, but they never proved useful and needed to be synced on all changes

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https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

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tinyMediaManager is a compact tool designed to scan your movie folders and organize the information into multiple categories. The program is able to detect the movie files and retrieve posters and other information form IMDB or other websites.

You can use this program to sort your collection, retrieve movie trailers and additional content with minimum effort.

Freeware

Changelog

+ added certification support for Hong Kong #1623
+ added button to create movie sets from within the movie editor
+ (movies/TV shows) added support for clearlogo in the information panels #1604
+ enabled displaying of animated gifs in the artwork panel #1621
+ added an action to just (re)scrape TV shows/episodes (without the need to trigger a search)
+ (TV show) added changing of the display season to the bulk editor #1590
+ (movie sets/TV shows) added enhanced keyboard navigation for tables #1408
+ also parse TMDB id from the filename in update data sources
needs to be in the form tmdb-xxxxx or tmdbid-xxxxx
+ added the option to use the release date as in the NFO files x enhanced the ISO parser for BluRays and DVDs x increased loading speed of large libraries #1613 x removed rating for movie set completeness check x do not check season names for missing seasons #1602 x storing of window locations/sizes in batch mode x force re-reading mediainfo after exchanging the video file #1631 x rewrote caching of animated gifs (if you have animated gifs, you may need to rebuild the image cache) x storing of hidden columns for some tables x cleaner shutdown of the IMDB id cache #1647 x added MAKEMKV to skip folders per default #1636 x proper cleanup of resources in the media files panel #1411 x (movie sets/TV shows) loading of filters at startup x enhanced merging of tags #1588 x fixed renaming of TV show thumbs when auto renaming is active #1630 x RPC: fixed Kodi version display #1651 x avoid downloading of 0byte images #1648 x some fixes to the TVmaze scraper x do not process episodes with season < 0 in the renamer preview x moved the scroll buttons in the update data source submenu to the right place x (TV shows) reworked filter for media files/notes #1656 x mitigate errors of invalid expressions in Kodi scrapers #1661 x (AniDB) better handling of specials x Duplicate filter also checks for matching name/year combo

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http://www.tinymediamanager.org/

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Changelog

    Database: last used database was not always selected.
    EAN / UPC import: Improved retrieving movies via UPC / EAN codes.
    IMDb import: Improve retrieving English artwork when IMDb serves pages localized (e.g. in Bulgaria).
    CSV import: added import of The TVDb Id.
    Database: Added tags.
    Database: Added 60 fps as framerate.
    Database: Improved re-indexing of the database.
    Database: Removing unused images could delete collection images still in use.
    Print: Movies in collections used the collection name instead of the movie title when printing lists.
    Translations: Updated the Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Simplified Chinese and Dutch translations.

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http://www.emdb.eu/

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Changelog

    New help docs:

    The hydrus help is now built from markup using MkDocs! it now looks nicer and has search and automatically generated tables of contents and so on. please check it out. a user converted all my old handwritten html to markup and figured out a migration process. thank you very much to this user.
    The help has pretty much the same structure, but online it has moved up a directory from https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help to https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus. all the old links should redirect in any case, so it isn't a big deal, but I have updated the various places in the program and my social media that have direct links. let me know if you have any trouble
    If you run from source and want a local copy of the help, you can build your own as here: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/about_docs.html . it is super simple, it just takes one extra step. Or just download and extract one of the archive builds
    If you run from source, hit help->open help, and don't have help built, the client now gives you a dialog to open the online help or see the guide to build your help
    The help got another round of updates in the second week, some fixed URLs and things and the start of the integration of the 'simple help' written by a user
    I added a screenshot and a bit more text to the 'backing up' help to show how to set up FreeFileSync for a good simple backup
    I added a list of some quick links back in to the main index page of the help
    I wrote an unlinked 'after_distaster' page for the help that collects my 'ok we finished recovering your broken database, now use your pain to maintain a backup in future' spiel, which I will point people to in future

    Misc:

    Fixed a bug where changes to the search space in a duplicate filter page were not sticking after the first time they were changed. this was related to a recent 'does page have changes?' optimisation--it was giving a false negative for this page type (issue #1079)
    Fixed a bug when searching for both 'media' and 'preview' view count/viewtime simultaneously (issue #1089, issue #1090)
    Added support for audio-only mp4 files. these would previously generally fail, sometimes be read as m4a. all m4as are scheduled for a metadata regen scan
    Improved some mpeg-4 container parsing to better differentiate these types
    Now we have great apng detection, all pngs with apparent 'bitrate' over 0.85 bits/pixel will be scheduled for an 'is this actually an apng?' scan. this 0.85 isn't a perfect number and won't find extremely well-compressed pixel apngs, but it covers a good amount without causing a metadata regen for every png we own
    System:hash now supports 'is' and 'is not', if you want to, say, exclude a list of hashes from a search
    Fixed some 'is not' parsing in the system predicate parser
    When you drag and drop a thumbnail to export it from the program, the preview media viewer now pauses that file (just as the full media viewer does) rather than clears it
    When you change the page away while previewing media with duration, the client now remembers if you were paused or playing and restores that state when you return to that page
    Folded in a new and improved Deviant Art page parser written by a user. it should be better about getting the highest quality image in unusual situations
    Running a search with a large file pool and multiple negated tags, negated namespaces, and/or negated wildcards should be significantly faster. an optimisation that was previously repeated for each negated tag search is now performed for all of them as a group with a little inter-job overhead added. should make '(big) system:inbox -character x, -character y, -character z' like lightning compared to before
    Added a 'unless namespace is a number' to 'tag presentation' options, which will show the full tag for tags like '16:9' when you have 'show namespaces' unticked
    Altered a path normalisation check when you add a file or thumbnail location in 'migrate database'--if it fails to normalise symlinks, it now just gives a warning and lets you continue. fingers crossed, this permits rclone mounts for file storage (issue #1084)
    When a 'check for missing/invalid file' maintenance job runs, it now prints all the hashes of missing or invalid files to a nice simple newline-separated list .txt in the error directory. this is an easy to work with hash record, useful for later recovery
    Fixed numerous instances where logs and texts I was writing could create too many newline characters on Windows. it was confusing some reader software and showing as double-spaced taglists and similar for exported sidecar files and profile logs
    I think I fixed a bug, when crawling for file paths, where on Windows some network file paths were being detected incorrectly as directories and causing parse errors
    Fixed a broken command in the release build so the windows installer executable should correctly get 'v475' as its version metadata (previously this was blank), which should help some software managers that use this info to decide to do updates (issue #1071)

    Some cleanup:

    Replaced last instances of EVT_CLOSE wx wrapper with proper Qt code
    Did a heap of very minor code cleanup jobs all across the program, mostly just to get into pycharm
    Clarified the help text in options->external programs regarding %path% variable

    Pycharm:

    As a side note, I finally moved from my jank old WingIDE IDE to PyCharm in this release. I am overall happy with it--it is clearly very powerful and customisable--but adjusting after about ten or twelve years of Wing was a bit awkward. I am very much a person of habit, and it will take me a little while to get fully used to the new shortcuts and UI and so on, but PyCharm does everything that is critical for me, supports many modern coding concepts, and will work well as we move to python 3.9 and beyond

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Whats new;>>

    Generate e-mail patron reminders.
    New Mokka information. Thank you tamascz.
    New alternate_id_1 and membership_fees database fields. Please upgrade database schemas.
    Open Library queries via alternate identifiers.
    Overdue Fees in Members Browser.
    Sort basic search (main window) results by titles. Thank you tamascz.

https://biblioteq.sourceforge.io/index.html

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Whats new:>>

[NEW] added 500 movies & series
[NEW] improved the movie recommendations
[BUG FIX] fixed several bugs

http://www.coollector.com/