We are slowly edging towards a future where the Music Web app will be a serious consideration for many of us Collector legacy users. The addition of UDFs will make a huge difference to me & the appeal of the on-line version’s appeal is growing
Yet there are three areas of concern for the Luddite in me.
1- Can I download my own back-up rather than relying on the cloud & would I be able to read it? If the cloud goes down or CLZ ceases trading, the legacy desktop will still limp along but if all my data is only on-line I’d lose 25+ years of cataloguing. Not something I’d be happy about.
2 - The vast majority of my new music is as digital download. These are easy to add in the legacy version but not so easy for the web-based edition. Not being able to add this new music will be a problem. And much of it is obscure classical stuff which barely registers in Core so importing data from my NAS is the surest way to create the data, short of typing every field out manually.
3 - Track level data. I know this has been discussed ad nauseam but, again for my predominantly classical collection, I’ve a lot of data stored away down there. Yes, I could retag everything but that’s a prohibitvely large amount of work
I suppose I’m not expecting immidiate or even intermidiate solutions but rather flagging concerns and looking for reassurance for the future.
Thanks for your interest in CLZ Music Web.
However, I don’t think it will work for you.
- yes, you can download the backups to your local computer. The backup is in XML format, not sure if that counts as “readable”. The backup is mainly meant for restoring back into CLZ Web in case of a problem
However, you can of course also export to a CSV, which you can easily open in Excel. No track data though.
- CLZ Music Web cannot scan your local hard drive for music files. This is a technical limitation, sites running in your web-browser cannot scan your local drive, for security reasons.
- CLZ Music Web only has Title, Artist and Length at the track level.
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Thanks for yet another prompt & honest response. I’m still open to switching or possibly running both (as well as the mobile) but I guess it’s how much am I prepared to give up for the on-line version
The biggest reason for me to stick with the Desktop app (I’ve been using it since 2004) is the ability to create sophisticated filters, like “all the CDs I have from Japan since 2020.” That said, I mostly use the Web version to make additions and changes.
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Yes, those filters are a big plus as is the ability to fine tune the statistics to subsets. I suspect I’ll probably end up with all three versions
@CLZ_Alwin Do you know if adding custom filters is in the roadmap for Web?
That is not planned at the moment, sorry. It is on our ideas list, but there really is not much demand for it.
Most of the things you can do with the filter, you can also do with folders. Not everything, but most.
For the example you mentioned, a folder option with Format / Country / Purchase Year would get you most of the way. (and is much easier to set up for the average user).