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What's the best DVD collection catalogue software?

AnitaPeterson

AnitaPeterson

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Hi guys,

I've accumulated a nice collection of DVDs, so I realized that I should create a catalogue...

I know that there are programs - and even websites - that allow usesrs to do just that, but the problem is that most of these programs and/pr sites have limited resources.

I have DVDs from all over the world, from Russia to Italy, from the US to Korea, and they range from limited-edition runs of obscure titles to mainstream popular blockbusters... so, for instance, if a program uses the SKU in order to identify a title (for the sake of simplicity and expedience, I'd rather not manually input ~1,000 DVD titles by hand!), it should be smart enough to look it up properly.

So, what's the best DVD cataloging solution? What do you guys use?

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AnandTech Moderator Evadman
 
How would it be used? Do you want to type in a title and have it tell you what shelf it's on? Do you want to search for "Korea" and have it tell you which titles have that attribute?
 
A few years ago, I used DVD Profiler with a CueCat...I need to update my collection, seeing as how I've probably added a few hundred. It's so boooooooring. 😛
 
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
A few years ago, I used DVD Profiler with a CueCat...I need to update my collection, seeing as how I've probably added a few hundred. It's so boooooooring. 😛
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I stopped buying dvds when I got my Netflix subscription. Of my 200+ dvd's, I've probably watched 5 of them in the last 3 years.
 
I've used AllMyMovies. It's storage backend is an MS Access database, so you can connect to it through Access if you want to do anything custom with the data. I personally *hate* the interface for AllMyMovies, though. I'm eventually going to migrate to Movienizer. I really like the user interface, and the back end is SQLite, so I can also connect to it through ODBC, but Movienizer doesn't yet allow users to store duplicates of the same movie in their collection. For example, I might have 3 copies of some specific movie, all of them with different covers/artwork/features, but Movienizer can't currently tell the difference between them, and apparently can't handle that well.
 
Would still like to know how a program like this is used. I understand it has a database of attributes for each DVD, but when/why is it used?
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Would still like to know how a program like this is used. I understand it has a database of attributes for each DVD, but when/why is it used?
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Well my father in law has about 2500 DVDs. He can't remember every movie in his collection. So he keeps a database to help him avoid duplicates, and sometimes just to decide what to watch.
 
You could also check out Personal Video Database. Link
It can fetch movie info and/or cover art from several different sources, many of them from outside the US.

Doesn't hurt that it's free too.
 
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