- New CD and cassette support – Track, visualize, and value your CDs and cassettes alongside vinyl
- New Vinyl Only Mode – Global toggle in settings to focus exclusively on vinyl, hiding CD and cassette data across the app
- New Format filtering – Filter by vinyl, CD, or cassette on every page
- New Format badges – CD and TAPE badges displayed on non-vinyl CoverCards with format-specific styling
- New Wantlist FilterBar – Full genre, style, label, and format filtering added to the wantlist page
- New Format toggle on Find and Expand – Filter Discogs search results and recommendations by media format
- New Sidebar stale refresh indicator – Orange progress bar in sidebar during background marketplace data refresh
- New Master data clear/refresh – Settings page now offers a two-step flow: clear cache, then manually refresh when ready
- New Multi-format FAQ – New FAQ entry explaining CD and cassette support with Vinyl Only Mode
- Improved Community format tracking – CD and cassette counts tracked separately in community stats and leaderboard profiles
- Improved Marketplace sync status bar – Summary badges showing current, stale, and new album counts with auto-refresh of stale data after initial load
- Improved Grid filters store – Shared filter state across covers, coverflow, wantlist, and album visualization pages with optional persistence
- Improved Share cards adapt for non-vinyl formats with contain artwork display
- Improved Progressive list detail loading – List album data fetched based on viewport visibility instead of all at once
- Improved Client and server-side caching for list detail and user lists data
- Improved Error FAQ sections – New FAQ entries for Discogs rate limits (429) and service unavailability (503) with deep links from error messages
- Improved Marketplace fetch order prioritized by covers page view state
- Improved Bulk Discogs operations sequenced to prevent per-user rate limit contention
- Improved Batch API calls stop when client disconnects to free rate limit quota
- Improved Collection fetch page size increased to 500 with 120s timeout for large collections
- Improved Master-level community data used for recommendation scoring instead of summed version stats
- Fixed Find Lists history row overflow on mobile
- Fixed Find format filtering correctly passes format parameter to Discogs search API
- Fixed Safari cover image loading fixed with IntersectionObserver fallback for lazy loading
Changelog
Track new features, improvements, and fixes as we continue building Vizcogs.
- New Lists page – Browse and manage your Discogs lists with a dedicated Lists page featuring My Lists and Find Lists tabs
- New Find Lists – Search for any Discogs user's public lists by username, or paste a list URL to view it directly
- New List detail view – Drill into any list to see all albums in a searchable, sortable grid with client-side pagination (50 per page)
- New List detail modal – Click any album in a list to view cover art, year, label, genre/style tags, purchase links, and streaming links
- New Add to Wantlist from lists – Add releases directly to your Discogs wantlist from the list detail modal, or browse pressings for master releases
- New List stats dashboard – Total albums, In Collection, and In Wantlist counts with progressive loading across all your lists
- New Community have/want bar on list cards – Aggregated community collection and wantlist data displayed on each list card
- New Master and Release type indicators – Color-coded tags on each album card showing whether it's a master or specific release
- New Find Lists search history – Last 5 searches persisted across sessions with clickable replay and individual removal
- Improved Clear button on search inputs – Added to Find page query builder and Find Lists search bar
- Improved Cover art resolution upgrade – List grid cards swap to higher-resolution images from detail data as it loads
- Improved Modal detail caching – Album metadata cached per session so reopening the same album loads instantly
- Fixed Lists with master-type items now display all albums instead of filtering to releases only
- New Find page – Search for vinyl by combining genre, style, format, label, artist, era, and country pills with a query builder interface
- New Find search modes – Toggle between Masters (unique albums) and Releases (individual pressings) search modes
- New Find detail modal – Click any result to view full album details with purchase links, community data, and genre/style tags
- New Find marketplace data (Pro) – Fetch live pricing, availability, community ratings, and live have/want counts for search results
- New Find quick searches – 40+ curated one-click searches organized by category (Jazz, Electronic, Funk/Soul, Reggae/Dub, Rock/Psych, Hip-Hop, Global) with a dedicated modal
- New Saved quick searches (Pro) – Save current query builder state as a reusable custom quick search
- New Format pill type – Filter searches by vinyl format (LP, EP, Single, 7", 10", 12", 33⅓ RPM, 45 RPM, 78 RPM)
- New Album share cards – Generate and native-share album detail cards to Instagram, TikTok, X, and more directly from any album in your collection
- Improved Global theme shortcut – Press T anywhere to cycle between system, light, and dark themes
- Improved Bubble visualization – Now available to all users, no longer requires Pro
- Improved Cover art resolver – Results with missing artwork are automatically backfilled from Discogs master/release endpoints
- Improved Vinyl record placeholder – Albums without cover art display a stylized vinyl record icon instead of a blank space
- Fixed Covers toolbar sort/filter buttons now display correctly on iOS mobile
- New Spectrum visualization (Pro) – grading price dot plot showing how condition affects value across your collection, with toggleable grade conditions, sort modes, dot sizing, genre/grade coloring, and connecting lines
- New Spectrum settings modal – Configurable albums shown (25–500), group by dimension, color mode, connecting line toggle, and artist name visibility
- New Spectrum tooltip – Hover any dot to see album art, artist, title, year, genre, user and community ratings, rarity score, availability count, and a full 8-grade price breakdown with the hovered condition highlighted
- New Album detail modal on Spectrum – Click any album label or dot to open the full album detail modal without leaving the page
- New Most Owned seed strategy – New option that seeds recommendations from your most-collected artists, sorted purely by album count
- Improved Seed strategy overhaul – Improved scoring and selection logic across all seed strategies for more representative and diverse artist seeding
- Improved Balanced mode rebalance – Retuned scoring weights and diversity constraints for more varied recommendation results
- Improved Marketplace data import – Tuned rate limiter and reduced parallel batch size to prevent timeouts on large collections
- New Drag-and-drop reordering – Rearrange your My Collection layout by dragging albums to new positions, with hold-to-drag on mobile and instant drag on desktop (!)
- New Dashboard settings modal – Centralized control panel for album size, rotation interval, placeholders, category tags, and cover flip
- New Album size slider – Adjust album card size with a real-time preview slider in the new settings modal
- New Show/hide stats and compact mode – New display settings to toggle album stats or switch to a minimal compact view on My Collection
- New Category tags setting – New display setting to toggle labels on album covers showing which insight category each slot belongs to
- New Cover flip (Pro) – Hover over any album cover to reveal its back cover artwork with a smooth 3D flip animation
- Improved My Collection – switched from column-based category layout to a single unified grid with a flat slot order
- Improved Grid-aware keyboard reordering – Arrow keys move slots in all four directions: left/right by position, up/down by full row
- Improved Folders, conditions, and notes in the album detail modal are no longer Pro-gated and now available to all users (!)
- Improved Recommendation scoring rebalanced across all 8 modes (Balanced, Complete, Classics, Discover, Genre Focus, Style Focus, Label Focus, Artist Focus)
- Improved Genre+style combo scoring signal – new recommendation signal that rewards albums matching genre+style combinations in your collection
- Improved Unique icons for each connection point type in the recommendation album detail modal
- Improved Recommendations are blocked during active data imports to prevent rate limit conflicts
- Improved Expand results now clear previous results when switching categories
- Improved Auto-demo for shared links – unauthenticated visitors on feature pages automatically see demo data instead of an empty state
- Improved Server-side marketplace data cache – cross-device Redis cache so marketplace data doesn't need re-downloading on every device (6-hour TTL per Discogs ToS)
- Improved Spotify popularity data replaced with Last.fm and Deezer fallback after Spotify removed popularity fields
- Improved Server-side Spotify 429 retry with conservative rate limiting for more reliable data enrichment
- Fixed Modal swipe-to-dismiss no longer triggers when scrolling tab content (!)
- Fixed Marketplace data no longer requires full re-download when switching devices
- Fixed Infinite reactive loop on Compare overview page
- Fixed Unhandled fetch error on /stats when network is unavailable
- New Add to Wantlist – Browse specific pressings of a recommended album and add directly to your Discogs wantlist
- New Era balance slider (Pro) – Tune recommendations toward classic or modern releases with a continuous slider
- New Exploration mode (Pro) – Toggle to invert your era signal, boost randomness, and maximize decade spread for adventurous discovery
- New Dismiss and replace – Dismiss any recommendation card with a hover X button; a backfill candidate fades in from the pool to keep the grid full
- New Fresh picks badge – "New" label on recommendation cards you haven't seen in previous sessions
- New Pool transparency – Results header shows "12 of N" so you know how large your candidate pool is
- Improved Larger candidate pools – Balanced/Discover raised to 400, Classics to 350, Genre/Style to 300 for better rotation
- Improved Shorter cache TTLs – Category results expire in 8 hours (was 48h) and focused results in 24 hours (was 72h)
- Improved Recommendation grid refined to 3-column, 12-album layout with wider cards and larger album art
- Improved Rate limit progress feedback – Progress UI now shows "Waiting for Spotify rate limit" instead of stalling silently during artist network building
- Improved Context-aware empty states – Error messages now explain whether rate limits, filters, or connection issues caused zero results
- Improved Plot visualization defaults improved for a better first impression
- Fixed Free users can now reset dismissed albums from the results header instead of only from the Pro-gated settings modal
- Fixed Strict focus modes no longer leak non-matching results from label backfill queries
- Fixed Timeline card width no longer shifts when changing sort mode
- New Recommendation settings (Pro) – Sort mode, era preference, country filter, rarity slider, seed strategy, and artist include/exclude controls for fine-tuning Expand results
- New Strict / Aligned focus mode (Pro) – Toggle between exact-match filtering and weighted discovery in Genre, Style, Artist, and Label focused modes
- New Decade-aware sourcing – Recommendation engine now injects decade-scoped queries based on your collection profile, producing era-balanced candidate pools
- New Format tags on recommendation cards – Album, Single, Compilation, and other release type badges displayed on each recommendation card
- Improved Classics mode overhauled with 5-sub-signal composite scoring for classic status and improved ownership-based ranking
- Improved Recommendation progress redesigned from 8 granular phases down to 3–4 stages with inline ETA
- Improved Refresh now resamples from cached candidate pool instead of re-fetching, with automatic pool replenishment when depleted
- Improved Wider search axes and deeper candidate pools for Balanced, Complete, and Discover modes
- Improved Deezer API calls now use retry/backoff with client-side rate limiting to prevent failures during artist network building
- Improved Search results filtered to exclude entries with no artwork or zero community engagement
- Improved Focused mode candidate pools increased (Genre/Style 120→180, Artist/Label 100→150) with related artist networks now enabled for Genre and Style focus
- Improved Aligned mode widens search axes, enables focus-scoped compound and decade queries, and uses tighter diversity constraints for more varied results
- Improved Discogs button in recommendation detail modal linking to pressing details, and corrected Where to Buy link to go directly to the marketplace
- Fixed Recommendations no longer skew heavily toward older decades – era alignment now contributes to Balanced scoring
- Fixed Settings modal width, section ordering, and decade button layout corrected
- New My Collection – Dynamic display grid with 26 possible album slots revealing deep collection insights across Taste / Identity, Marketplace / Value, Rarity / Scarcity, and Material / Physical categories
- New My Collection customization – Full user customization featuring per-slot album rotation, slot show / hide, slot positioning (intra-category), dynamic "at a glance" collection overview, inline customize mode, keyboard shortcuts, and info modal with album slot definitions
- New Expand page – Dedicated collection expansion and recommendation page with 4 general recommendation modes and 4 focused recommendation modes
- New General expand modes – Balanced (mixed approach across all signals), Complete (fill gaps in artist discographies), Classics (essential, highly collected albums), and Discover (outlier picks to expand your musical taste)
- New Focused expand modes (Pro) – Genre focused, Style focused, Label focused, and Artist focused
- New Expand recommendation engine – Cutting-edge album recommendation engine built specifically for vinyl collectors featuring collection fingerprinting, adaptive sourcing depth based on collection size, per-category scoring weights, behavior modulation, and diversity enforcement
- New Keyboard shortcuts system – Global shortcut help modal, Esc for visualization pages, M for Cover Flow metadata, I for My Collection info
- New Default landing page setting – Choose which page loads after sign-in, Covers or My Collection
- New Estimated collection weight stat – Includes sleeve and jacket weight in the estimate
- Improved NO MORE RECORD CAP – Free users get 5 syncs/month (replacing 500-record cap), with full collection returned each sync
- Improved Album grid pages standardized to responsive widescreen layout with container query breakpoints
- Improved Standardized shared SearchBox component from 8 page-level search implementations
- Improved Standardized top padding, pagination padding, and layout widths across all grid pages
- Improved Mobile drawer navigation redesigned with My Collection featured link and removed pro prompt
- Improved Sidebar navigation restructured with My Collection as top-level item
- Improved Tag style toggle added for mobile, album size hidden on small screens
- Improved TypeScript coverage expanded – centralized API response types
- Improved Loading messages updated with 10-second rotation cycle
- Fixed Collection cache preserved across disconnect for sync-limited users instead of being cleared
- Fixed Colored vinyl detection no longer matches non-vinyl component descriptions
- Fixed Community page no longer shows hardcoded genre count of 10
- Fixed Mobile drawer home button fixed for demo, public, and no-collection states
- Fixed Sync count no longer increments when collection is unchanged
- Fixed Top Artist collection rotation now cycles through full discographies
- New 7 new visualizations – Arc Diagram and Album Radar (Albums), Calendar Heatmap, Chord Diagram, and Ridgeline (Collection), Hexbin Density and Value Radar (Value)
- New Compare page – Compare any two collections side-by-side with diverging bar charts, taste match scoring, shared albums grid, an 8-axis collection radar comparison, and Discover tab with artist and genre-based recommendations
- New Recommendation engine – Dual-mode scoring (artist-focused and genre-focused) with streaming links, confidence ratings, and shuffle
- New Community leaderboard – Public community page with paginated top 250 collectors (50 per page)
- New Share collections – Public collection viewing at /collection/[username], share modal with QR code and native share, dynamic OG images for social previews
- Improved Covers – style URL parameter support for filtering, XL grid size increased to 400px
- Improved Covers – added info tooltip explaining why non-vinyl formats are filtered out
- Improved Community – added UserCard icon buttons with compare links when in Connected mode
- Improved Reorganized Visualize menu into Albums, Collection, and Value submenus for easier navigation
- Improved Standardized visualization toolbars with shared CSS across all pages
- Improved Standardized legend positioning, SVG margins, and content padding
- Improved Auto-load master data when Year (Release) selected in Collection Plot
- Improved Renamed "Market Lowest" to "Market Low" across value charts
- Improved Support Vizcogs button now hidden for Pro users
- Improved Sidebar icons added to visualization toolbars
- Fixed Fixed Value hero section responsive layout at wide breakpoints
- Fixed Fixed Value page album click to show modal instead of navigating away
- Fixed Fixed legend/breadcrumb heights to account for 1px border
- Fixed Fixed artistInfo null access and defaulted Plot Y axis to Community Rating
- New Artist sorting – Three artist sort modes now available: Discogs default (The Beatles → T), ignore articles (The Beatles → B), or last name first (Elvis Presley → P)
- New Crate organization – Organize your collection into custom crates by A–Z, genre, decade, label, or country (all with internal sort)
- New Custom year overrides (Pro) – Override release years on any album (or add if Discogs has no release year)
- New Artist sort overrides (Pro) – Set custom sort names for any artist
- Improved Sort preferences now persist per page
- Improved Added Artist Sorting FAQ section explaining sort modes
- Improved Added Year Display FAQ section explaining pressing vs release year
- Improved Simplified year display settings with cleaner controls
- Fixed Year sorting reactivity on Covers and Crates pages
- Fixed Custom artist sort reactivity across all browse pages
- Fixed Custom year overrides now apply consistently across all year-based features
- Fixed Pro users now automatically receive their full collection after upgrading
- Fixed Share Studio cover images on mobile now show vinyl placeholder instead of broken image icon
- Fixed Mobile cover grid no longer overflows on narrow viewports
- Fixed App now auto-reloads when encountering stale assets after updates
- Fixed IndexedDB connection errors now auto-reconnect instead of failing silently
- Fixed Marketplace cache handles failures more gracefully with retry logic
- Improved Free tier now prioritizes newest records, with count of hidden albums shown
- Improved Mobile drawer now has exit button for demo users
- Improved Added YouTube and Spotify embed support for album streaming
- New Official launch of Vizcogs 1.0
- New 6 Browse modes – Covers, Coverflow, Crates, Timeline, Random, and Wantlist
- New 8 Collection visualizations – Fingerprint, Flow, Graph, Map, Sunburst, Tag Cloud, Treemap, and Trends
- New 4 Value visualizations – Bubble, Growth, Heatmap, and Plot
- New Share Studio for creating social media cards
- Improved Smart dual-key OAuth system for improved connection reliability
- Improved Mobile-responsive design across all pages
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