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grahamdoggart:
I am very new to MC 12 and I am HUGELY impressed.  I have never found such a fantastically user-friendly piece of software for audio management.  Everything I could possibly think of is available within the software package.

Now, there are two things I feel are required to have this software take over from Microsoft or Apple.  Firstly, the theater view needs tweaked so that it is easy to have additional data such as album titles and track data directly when moving around your files and to have the option of a now playing part of the window that is always on.

Secondly, and much more importantly, it needs a functional and automatic movie database set up.  If a person could rip his movie onto the computer and have it automatically detailed with cover art and detailed information regarding the film in question (IMDB) and the DVD release itself (AMAZON US, UK etc.) and that information was easily legible somewhere on the theater view as well as in normal view then I think this software would take leaps and bounds and take over from the big boys.

I have put this post in the main part of the forum and not the developer/3rd party plugin part simply because I personally believe that if it was part of the mainstream software the team involved would prosper immensley.

The only software that comes close to this sort of functionality in my opinion is libra [http://www.getlibra.com] which allows you to catalogue stuff and link it to a digital file.  People pay thousands for hard-wired home theater set ups with DVDs ripped onto servers.

JRiver could offer practically the same for a few dollars. Fantastic!!

I am more than happy to work on creating the functionality and, considering the number of posts requesting this sort of functionality I am sure the team are on it!

If anyone could let me know what is planned or what help is required to setup this - of course if the Media Center 12 team do not want to go this route then I would happily work on the 3rd party plugin.

All data gratefully received.

GD :)

darichman:
Welcome to the board :)

I'm making my own local film database for the few hundred DVDs I've got... and let me say, it's slow and tedious work indeed. I use data mainly from IMDb and AMG so, without a lookup plugin or the like, it's basically a copy paste job for each individual film. And even then it's stored in the library only which scares me just a bit :P

I would like to see MC take a few steps in video cataloguing. Right now the team's fairly focused on new audio developments (see online distribution threads) but I'm sure videos and photos will receive similar attention in time.

cncb:
I wrote a little tool that imports data from DVDProfiler.  I could share this after a little tweaking if there is any interest.

zxsix:
Do you have to put the movies in DVDProfiler software first, or your tool just grabs the data from DVDProfiler's database by matching the Name field?

cncb:

--- Quote from: zxsix on July 25, 2008, 09:17:40 pm ---Do you have to put the movies in DVDProfiler software first, or your tool just grabs the data from DVDProfiler's database by matching the Name field?

--- End quote ---

Yes, you have to use the DVDProfiler software and export your collection to XML.  There is no way that I know of to get at the online database.

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