Sorry, but it is 2024. The whole world is online and completely dependent on the internet. That includes things much more important than your collection software.
Actually… we were thinking to INCREASE the price for the desktop software, because customer support for the desktop software is still taking MOST of our support time. Even while the group of users on the desktop software is getting smaller and smaller.
Web-based software is much more stable and problem free and therefore much cheaper for us in terms of customer support.
You want to INCREASE the price for the desktop software. It´s no problem for me. I´ll think to quit all my subscriptions and switch to an other software or excel. I love your Desktop Version, because there have much more features. Your MobileApp is a good addition, but this versions aren´t worth the money.
You need a Filter Section like the Desktop Version.
How can I realize this setting.
In the Mobile Music-App. I want see my Death-Metal and Trash-Metal Genres all at one? I cant. I can selcet only one Genre. Either Death or Trash-Metal. Sorry but it´s is essential!
I know you have already told me that this feature is not wanted by many users. Then it’s not a problem if you lose me as a customer. There aren’t that many.
And yet, PERSONAL COMPUTERS are still a thing and still include local storage. Only software companies wish to change that model. Not their customers. Just look at how everybody mocked the “cloud-computer” thingy Microsoft unveiled a couple days ago. Whether you like it or not, local storage beats cloud every day, especially for something that is meant to be used at home…
I think if you kept the desktop versions alive and actively developed, the users still attached to those would be ok paying more for that. If you deprecate them but think it’s still ok to increase the subscription price (or even if you don’t, probably), you’ll probably lose a bunch of us. But as someone else said, we’re not that many, so…
That is not the case. Users want to go web-based too, as it solves so many problems, it is so much easier to manage.
And please, not the Microsoft argument again. Again this is 2024, let’s not do that old 2010 discussion again. The world has moved on.
I am happy to discuss “CLZ desktop vs CLZ web-based” here, but I think we need to stop arguing about “I don’t like the web-based software because it is web-based and I need to be online to use it”. That ship has sailed.
Hi,
I’d be interested in a 7 day trial to check wether the (for me) missing features were added. I’m open to switching, but the handling of box sets, especially the missing option of adding price paid and purchase date in the box set itself was a deal breaker for me. Otherwise I’m not to hung up on the desktop app.
Thanks! It is for me. How are box sets supposed to work? Maybe I don’t get the idea here.
There are box sets, right? Several movies, which are separate entries in the data base. All of them referring to the same box. Now, the whole box set has a purchase price, not the individual movies. How is this supposed to be correctly represented? Putting purchase price into one of the movies is not great. It’s prone to error and a bit confusing. The desktop app just works in this regard. Thank you for your help!
I meant, in the grand scheme of things… with BIG things that we are still planning to add to the Web edition, like:
the ability to have custom episode listing
user defined fields
… this feels like a tiny detail
But yes, putting the purchase price in one of the movies is a solution. OR: add the box set as ONE entry in your collection, I mean, one entry that represents the box.
An additional entry for the box would work indeed. Just to be on the sare side, as it will be quite some work: there’s no plan for any changes to the box sets in the foreseeable future? Then I will be on my merry transition adding spree i just want to make sure to do it in a more or less future proof way and prevent any data loss.
Thank you for the clarification and your help! And happy new year, i suppose!
I have a slightly different perspective. While I have not transitioned to CLZ-Web, I am approaching that switch as an opportunity. Like the other users in this conversation, I am a long-time user of Collectorz - I use three CLZ desktop modules: Music, Movies, and Books. Over these many years I have worked hard to catalog my libraries (I’m not even close to having everything entered, but still working on it.)
Even before CLZ came to live on my computers, I was cataloging my extensive wine cellar (just shy of 3,000 bottles). Talk about opportunities to go crazy with details… Cellar Tracker offers tools for search filters, writing tasting notes, and of course entering and maintaining inventory. I started using Cellar Tracker in 2004 – the year it was released. From the start it was and continues to be a web-based tool.
Here is why I am open to the change from desktop-CLZ to Web-CLZ:
I trust Alwin and Team CLZ.
They have a proven track record not only in their creation of a great set of tools, but in their customer service as well. They really care. Why else would they actively participate in ClubCLZ (and take so much criticism - constructive or otherwise)?
I have experience with several web-based database programs from genealogy to recipes to my wine cellar (see above). They work very well.
Portability. This is a big one for me. My computer workstation is a flight of stairs above where 90% of my music, books, and movies are stored. To read cds for input into MuC, for example, I have to fetch, process, then return – up and down the stairs. This issue is eliminated with a web app. I can access and modify my collections from virtually anywhere on my laptop, tablet, or even phone.
I will go into this transition with an open mind and with curiosity to see what other benefits await in the newly developed CLZ-Web. I just need to find some time to make it happen.
Oh, and did I mention that I trust the CLZ team and their intensions?
i just want to make sure to do it in a more or less future proof way and prevent any data loss.