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Movie Explorer Pro 2.7: File and Disc editions

Movie Explorer Pro 2.7 introduces editions for files and discs, like ‘Director’s Cut’ and ’Special Edition’, functions to import discs from other movie catalog apps, support for filename tags and identifiers, and a few other useful improvements.

File and disc editions

Special editions of discs or files like ‘Director’s Cut’, ‘Ultimate Edition’ or ’Final Cut’, can now be labeled with an edition tag. These editions are presented in a new ‘Editions’ section in the All Info and Production Inspector panels of the Movies view.

The support for editions includes the following additional features:

  • Edition label in the Discs and Files tiles in the Media Inspector of the Movies view, when applicable.
  • Option to show edition as subtitle in Discs view.
  • Optional ‘Edition’ column in the Discs view when used in list modus.
  • Optional ‘Edition’ column in the Files view.
  • An edition field in the Files view Inspector.
  • A new field ‘Edition’ in the Discs details dialog, when the disc concerns a movie or collection.
  • A new context menu item ‘Edit Edition’ on a selected file in the Media Inspector, or one or more selected files in the Files view, makes it possible to edit the edition of the selected file or files in a dedicated dialog.

Movie Explorer Pro 2.7

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News Explorer 2.1: Bluesky support and more

News Explorer 2.1 brings support for Bluesky feeds based on the official API, a large collection of Shortcuts actions, sharing to Readwise, and some other useful features and improvements.

Bluesky feeds

From now on, Bluesky account feeds are natively supported based on the Bluesky API.

  • Posts are rendered very similar to posts on the Bluesky website.
  • Replies to a post and context posts are automatically downloaded.
  • In the settings of a Bluesky feed you can determine whether reposts and replies to other posts must be downloaded.
  • Bluesky feeds can be added to News Explorer via the ‘New Bluesky Feed’ dialog, by using the ‘Search New Feed’ dialog, or by using ‘Add to News Explorer’ share extension in Safari when an Bluesky account page is opened.
News Explorer 2.1 - Bluesky
News Explorer configured with only Bluesky feeds.

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