GCstar 1.4.3 / 1.5.0 Beta 1

GCstar 1.4.3 / 1.5.0 Beta 1 is an innovative, free open source application for managing your collections. Detailed information on each item can be automatically retrieved from the internet and you can store additional data, such as the location or who you've lent it to. You may also search and filter your collection by many criteria. 

Major Features:

1. GCstar 1.5.0.beta1 manages these collections:
   • Movies
   • Video games
   • Books
   • Music
   • Numismatic
   • Wines
   • Board games
   • Comic books
   • TV shows episodes
   • Stamps
   • Periodicals
   • Mini vehicles
   • User defined collections
2. This version is also fully or partly translated in these languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

Enhancements:

• User interface changes
• • Items can be grouped in picture mode as in detailed mode.
  • Pictures are resized if needed when displayed in a window.
  • User filters can be added to toolbar.
  • A right-click on the "Fetch information" button displays a menu where the mode to use can be selected.
  • Column used for quick searches is the one used for ordering in detailed mode.
  • File associated to an item can be a URL (http or ftp) instead of a local file.
  • Search box displays a message when no field have been selected in personal model.
• Export/Import/Fetch/Extract changes
• • User can choose for each field from which sites information should be fetched and in which order (if missing from 1st, choose 2nd, etc...).
  • FolderImport changes (by BubbleGum)
  • • Can add only recent items from a folder.
    • Can update path from moved files.
    • Parse filename to retrieve infos and test for subtitle file.
    • Remove custom regular expression from filename.
    • More options when no or many results.
• Default collections changes
• • New default collections:
  • • Stamps (by Bigoud)
    • Periodicals (by yggdrasiil)
    • Mini vehicles (by jimjim92)
  • Rank in series added to books collections
  • Press rating added to movies collections
• New plugins to fetch information from websites:
• • Video games:
  • • Amazon (CA - EN) and NextGame (IT) provided by TPF.
  • Movies:
  • • Internet Bookshop (IT) provided by t-storm.
    • Alpacine and CartelesMetropoliGlobal (ES) provided by DoVerMan.
    • Kinopoisk (RU) provided by Nazarov Pavel.
  • Books:
  • • Saraiva (PT) provided by nirev.
  • Comics:
  • • Manga-Sanctuary (FR) provided by Biggriffon.
• Bugs fixed
• • Collections with invalid characters are auto-repaired instead of generating error message and being unusable.
  • Prevent data corruption if a crash occurs while saving collection.
  • Histories were lost when editing the collection model.
  • Issues fixed with grouping when there are some spaces in lists.
  • Default size for history of opened files is 5 instead of 1.
  • Item window was shown after closing a picture window.
  • Fixed problems when saving searches with numeric comparisons.
  • Fixed issues with suffixes in plugin to import from a folder.
  • Disable items in popup menu for pictures when collection is locked.
  • Correctly export value in options fields when using personal models.
  • Bug fixed when performing a search while the current item has been modified.
  • Bug fixed in some website plugins:
  • • All Amazon plugins
    • All Tvdb plugins (TV shows episodes)
    • Adlibris (Books - FI, SV)
    • Alapage (Books - FR)
    • Alapage (Video Games - FR)
    • Allocine (Movies - FR)
    • Bedetheque (Comics - FR)
    • Bol (Books - IT)
    • Buscape (Books - PT)
    • Cinemotions (Movies - FR)
    • DicoDuNet (Video Games - FR)
    • Discogs (Music - EN)
    • FilmWeb (Movies - PL)
    • Fnac (Books - FR)
    • GameSpot (Video Games - EN)
    • IMDb (Movies - EN)
    • ISBNdb (Books - EN)
    • JeuxVideo.com (Video games - FR)
    • MobyGames (Video games - EN)
    • nooSFere (Books - FR)
    • OFDb (Movies - DE)