By Harald
Beta-Tester wanted for brand new version 1.5
IMPORTANT: The beta tests for MGM 1.5 are closed!
Media Gallery Manager 1.5 has been finally released and made public on the official download page.
To switch from beta version to the official releases download MGM from this page.
I am really really exited about the brand new version 1.5 of the Media Gallery Manager. I started working on this version back in summer 2010 and knew it will be a bigger change. Some times I thought I should revise the version number from 1.5 to version 2. Anyway 9 month later and here it is and it's MGM Version 1.5.
This version is a totally new Media Gallery Manager. Everything works faster and even more reliable. This improvement of speed is extremely valuable for those of us who have some thousands of galleries (yes thousands of galleries not photos) and some ten thousands or hundred thousands of photos on their account. In previous versions it was extremly slow to connect to such accounts. But MGM 1.5 to the rescue. MGM 1.5 connects to any account very very quickly and it is independant of the amount of galleries and photos hosted on the account.
Next MGM 1.5 comes with the most wanted feature: Create, modify and delete groups, galleries, photos on Zenfolio within MGM as well as create, rename, delete folders and images.
Further MGM 1.5. offers a great new feature to integrate MGM as a bulk uploader with your existing image management solution. During synchronization of the Zenfolio account with a local folder structure MGM reads meta information for groups and galleries out of special files within the folder structure and uses the meta information to populate the fields of newly created groups and galleries. So it is possible to manage title, caption, categories, keywords, custom reference and gallery passwords within your existing image database, export them to MGM and MGM writes the information into Zenfolio groups and galleries.
More details about all improvements and new features can be found on the page about all new features in Media Gallery Manager 1.5.
Now why the title of this blog post?
This version includes really a lot of changes in code of Media Gallery Manger and I have tested most of the functionality but I feel that some more testing is needed before it is released to the public and I will continue testing to be able to release it very soon.
However I offer beta-testers to use MGM 1.5 starting with today. Therefore I expect, that beta-tester give me some feedback about how it is doing and send information about bugs.
Especially I'm looking for beta-tester that will use MGM 1.5 on one or several of the operation systems: Mac OS X 10.6+, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Linux.
If you are interested in beta-testing MGM 1.5 please send me an email via the contact page.
More Information for Beta-testers is provided on this page.
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