You enter a barcode in the "Add movie" dialog and a result is returned from their own database a database of "profiles" that have been submitted by users and thoroughly scrubbed and edited by "elite" users.In the end, DVD Profiler is for the "elite", and I guess I ain't!! Some examples: You can even keep track of the accompanying movie trailers as well on your media if you're a movie trailer kind of person.Ī lot of little gripes, mostly personal things I guess. If you have rips stored on an HTPC or media server this program keeps track of them. Most movie collection organizers have no provision for movies that are not physical media like DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. The last reason I chose this program is it's not hard-coded for physical media. Grab a new version of your desired script from the forum or from the update function in the program. Did something on your favorite movie site change and now the program won't get information anymore? No need to wait for an update to the program. Another plus for this program is that the author has built in this very powerful scripting engine that will allow users to get movie information from a wealth of sites. Not only that, but he's insane enough to offer that price as a one-time fee with lifetime updates. Next, for what it does and the amount of work he has put into it he asks a mere pittance. That much is evident from reading his forums. First, he's one of the hardest working software authors I have ever seen bending over backwards to make his users happy. The reasons I picked his over any of the others are many. I don't use any.but way back when I had noble intentions of keeping track of all my movies I bought eXtreme Movie Manager. It doesn't seem like much, but since we've started making a little ritual out of returning the borrower's chit, we haven't had anything not come back.Īh psychology.sometimes it's a beautiful thing! Whenever somebody returns a movie to us, we make it a point to hand them back the Post-It with their name on it. My GF came up with a technique that has worked wonders for getting things back. (Nice to note that the "five-finger student discount program" has not been forgotten at some universities.) I instituted that rule after two nigh impossible to replace foreign titles went permanently missing after the nephew I loaned them to brought them to a college film party. I now have a blanket rule that anything that's been "pinked" does not leave the premises. Recently, I've begun marking certain expensive, collectible, or hard to replace titles with a pink highlighter. I also attach a Post-It note to the card showing the name of the borrower and the date it was loaned out. The main reason I keep track of the price is to 'remind' certain borrowers how much it would cost to get a title replaced if they lost it.īorrowed title cards get put behind a divider in the back of the box. The only other information on the card is the purchase date and price I paid for it. I'm more concerned with keeping track of what I own, and who I've loaned it to than anything else, so a title card is pretty much all I need. If I want to look up info on an individual film, I'll just go to IMDB or Amazon and read what I'm looking for. I can seldom see the point of locally caching data that's readily available on the web. My favorite movie collection 'program' is a file box with some 3x5 index cards arranged alphabetically by title. I'm almost embarrassed to admit what I use. As I recall, it is easy to use and has a very clean interface, but for reasons which escape me at the moment, I decided to stick with Movienizer. Admittedly, it's a bit much for my needs.Īnother movie organizer worthy of consideration is Griffith at. I suppose if I were a huge movie buff I would switch to the free version of DVD Profiler at because it is all about details, details, details. That's not logical to me, but as I say, I can live with it. For example, the fact that Adam Sandler played a drug dealer in an ABC Afterschool Special in 1990 is a fascinating tidbit, but Movienizer places that role at #3 in the list above Bedtime Stories (2008) and other recent Sandler films. Presently, it puts TV appearances at the top of the list in the wrong chronological order, but I suppose I can live with it. out of order) for no apparent reason, and that really annoyed me. It used to place an added movie at the top of the list (ie. With the new version 2.0, it now inserts a newly added movie in the correct chronological order. I've used it for the last couple of years, and it suits my limited needs.
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