Solved Movie Inventory Software

[seekermeister]

I want a program that facilitates inventorying my movie collection, so that I don't have to look up and type in all of the details myself. There seems to be no end to this type of program, when I Googled, but to find one that is either free or cheap, is no small feat. Some use scanners, which might be good, except the additional cost, and some do an online lookup and download of info, but I'm not sure about the security and privacy.

I'm hoping that someone has personal experience along this line, and can cut my search short.

 

[TonyTiger2004]

I want a program that facilitates inventorying my movie collection, so that I don't have to look up and type in all of the details myself. There seems to be no end to this type of program, when I Googled, but to find one that is either free or cheap, is no small feat. Some use scanners, which might be good, except the additional cost, and some do an online lookup and download of info, but I'm not sure about the security and privacy.

I'm hoping that someone has personal experience along this line, and can cut my search short.

I Personally recommend Movie Inventory from Collectorz. You can purchase the software without the scanner or with. The scanner makes it incredibly easy to scan the bar codes on the Movies and puts them in the system Correctly.

I have used the program as i have around 350 DVD's and its a hassel trying to find out what i have and dont have. The Program allows you to type in keywords to find the movies. There is also ways to put in what shelf they're located on. Will also help you arrange then in alphabetical order if you choose to do so.

You dont need the scanner, i think now you can even use some Newer Phones to scan. It isnt exactly cheap but i highly recommend it.

Movie Inventory Software, catalog your movies automatically (for Windows & Mac OS X)

NOTE: IF someone else offers a better suggestion, i being a movie collector myself would be interested in hearing. Something Cheaper or Better.

- Tony

 

[derekimo]

I want a program that facilitates inventorying my movie collection, so that I don't have to look up and type in all of the details myself. There seems to be no end to this type of program, when I Googled, but to find one that is either free or cheap, is no small feat. Some use scanners, which might be good, except the additional cost, and some do an online lookup and download of info, but I'm not sure about the security and privacy.

I'm hoping that someone has personal experience along this line, and can cut my search short.

Are you looking for something to gather the metadata and backdrops for your library?

These are what I use and it works great,

http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/10757-yammm-yet-another-media-meta-manager.html

And this to set it up in the library,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11232-media-center-setup-movie-library.html

 

[seekermeister]

I want a program that facilitates inventorying my movie collection, so that I don't have to look up and type in all of the details myself. There seems to be no end to this type of program, when I Googled, but to find one that is either free or cheap, is no small feat. Some use scanners, which might be good, except the additional cost, and some do an online lookup and download of info, but I'm not sure about the security and privacy.

I'm hoping that someone has personal experience along this line, and can cut my search short.

Are you looking for something to gather the metadata and backdrops for your library?

These are what I use and it works great,

http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/10757-yammm-yet-another-media-meta-manager.html

And this to set it up in the library,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11232-media-center-setup-movie-library.html

Meta data...that is one of those terms that I only have a vague understanding of the definition. It sounds like it is only the most basic information. I want something that gives pretty comprehensive info about each movie...title, cast, audio/video data, special features, etc.

I want this inventory for both my personal use and possibly for insurance purposes.

 

[seekermeister]

I want a program that facilitates inventorying my movie collection, so that I don't have to look up and type in all of the details myself. There seems to be no end to this type of program, when I Googled, but to find one that is either free or cheap, is no small feat. Some use scanners, which might be good, except the additional cost, and some do an online lookup and download of info, but I'm not sure about the security and privacy.

I'm hoping that someone has personal experience along this line, and can cut my search short.

I Personally recommend Movie Inventory from Collectorz. You can purchase the software without the scanner or with. The scanner makes it incredibly easy to scan the bar codes on the Movies and puts them in the system Correctly.

I have used the program as i have around 350 DVD's and its a hassel trying to find out what i have and dont have. The Program allows you to type in keywords to find the movies. There is also ways to put in what shelf they're located on. Will also help you arrange then in alphabetical order if you choose to do so.

You dont need the scanner, i think now you can even use some Newer Phones to scan. It isnt exactly cheap but i highly recommend it.

Movie Inventory Software, catalog your movies automatically (for Windows & Mac OS X)

NOTE: IF someone else offers a better suggestion, i being a movie collector myself would be interested in hearing. Something Cheaper or Better.

- Tony

That was the first program that I found Googling. It may be very good, but when I attempted to download the trial, it wanted me to select one of a number of other steps, which would mean giving my personal information to someone elsewhere. It's bad enough to do this when registering a program, not just for a trial.

 

[TonyTiger2004]

I want a program that facilitates inventorying my movie collection, so that I don't have to look up and type in all of the details myself. There seems to be no end to this type of program, when I Googled, but to find one that is either free or cheap, is no small feat. Some use scanners, which might be good, except the additional cost, and some do an online lookup and download of info, but I'm not sure about the security and privacy.

I'm hoping that someone has personal experience along this line, and can cut my search short.

Are you looking for something to gather the metadata and backdrops for your library?

These are what I use and it works great,

http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/10757-yammm-yet-another-media-meta-manager.html

And this to set it up in the library,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11232-media-center-setup-movie-library.html

Meta data...that is one of those terms that I only have a vague understanding of the definition. It sounds like it is only the most basic information. I want something that gives pretty comprehensive info about each movie...title, cast, audio/video data, special features, etc.

I want this inventory for both my personal use and possibly for insurance purposes.

Movie Collectorz is your best bet. That i have noticed, i know its pretty expensive but it works well.

 

[derekimo]

I want a program that facilitates inventorying my movie collection, so that I don't have to look up and type in all of the details myself. There seems to be no end to this type of program, when I Googled, but to find one that is either free or cheap, is no small feat. Some use scanners, which might be good, except the additional cost, and some do an online lookup and download of info, but I'm not sure about the security and privacy.

I'm hoping that someone has personal experience along this line, and can cut my search short.

Are you looking for something to gather the metadata and backdrops for your library?

These are what I use and it works great,

http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/10757-yammm-yet-another-media-meta-manager.html

And this to set it up in the library,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11232-media-center-setup-movie-library.html

Meta data...that is one of those terms that I only have a vague understanding of the definition. It sounds like it is only the most basic information. I want something that gives pretty comprehensive info about each movie...title, cast, audio/video data, special features, etc.

I want this inventory for both my personal use and possibly for insurance purposes.

Meta Data is what you are talking about above.

This is where yammm gets its info TMDb — The open movie database

as for the insurance purposes, maybe you should go with something like what TonyTiger2004 suggested.

 

[seekermeister]

Are you looking for something to gather the metadata and backdrops for your library?

These are what I use and it works great,

http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/10757-yammm-yet-another-media-meta-manager.html

And this to set it up in the library,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11232-media-center-setup-movie-library.html

Meta data...that is one of those terms that I only have a vague understanding of the definition. It sounds like it is only the most basic information. I want something that gives pretty comprehensive info about each movie...title, cast, audio/video data, special features, etc.

I want this inventory for both my personal use and possibly for insurance purposes.

Movie Collectorz is your best bet. That i have noticed, i know its pretty expensive but it works well.

I found a different download link on their page, that worked in the normal way, so I got it installed, but I was hoping that in addition to manual entry and scanning, I could point it to the location on the PC where I have many of my collection encoded, and that it would search the directory and sub-directories for the titles. If it can do that, I failed to find it.

 

[derekimo]

Are you looking for this?

 

[seekermeister]

I did find the way to have it search the PC, and it does seem to work well, except that the number of movies that it found were less than I have in the directory that it searched. I have not yet figured which movies were skipped, therefore can't guess as to the reason.

 

[derekimo]

I did find the way to have it search the PC, and it does seem to work well, except that the number of movies that it found were less than I have in the directory that it searched. I have not yet figured which movies were skipped, therefore can't guess as to the reason.

Just a guess on my part but do you have different formats of movies?

Maybe it's only looking for certain ones.

 

[TonyTiger2004]

I did find the way to have it search the PC, and it does seem to work well, except that the number of movies that it found were less than I have in the directory that it searched. I have not yet figured which movies were skipped, therefore can't guess as to the reason.

Its most definitely one of the best programs for cataloging a move collection i have found. Just play around with it, It took me a bit to get used to it. And i didn't use the newer one so i dunno whats changed.

- Tony

 

[seekermeister]

I think that I'm going to buy it, because even if it doesn't get everything, it gets a lot of it. It's not really all that expensive, unless one orders an expensive scanner with it. With a coupon that I found, it's only $39.95 for the pro version...what is the difference between the standard and the pro?

EDIT: I'm going to have to think on that some more, because it just crashed and caused me to have to do a forced restart. Maybe just a quirk, but first impressions count.

 

[seekermeister]

I don't know that I need a scanner, but I got to eBaying for them anyway. It appears that I could get a pretty good laser scanner a lot cheaper than Collectorz sells them for, but I'm wondering just how compatible that program is with scanners in general? Do I necessarily need one of the scanners that they offer?

 

[TonyTiger2004]

I don't know that I need a scanner, but I got to eBaying for them anyway. It appears that I could get a pretty good laser scanner a lot cheaper than Collectorz sells them for, but I'm wondering just how compatible that program is with scanners in general? Do I necessarily need one of the scanners that they offer?

No you dont need the scanner they offer, but you can find the scanner they offer cheaper somewhere else, and to answer the question about the difference between Standard Version and Pro See Attachment.

 

[seekermeister]

I might regret it, but I went ahead and bought the pro version of the program. I'm still familiarizing myself with it, and don't know half of what I need to. In the examples, it shows a movie displaying a lot more details than I have by simply scanning and adding the batch. At the moment, I spending most of my time with it, just locating cover images. It may or may not be capable of cataloging all the details that I would like, but it seems to have most of them.

 

[TonyTiger2004]

I might regret it, but I went ahead and bought the pro version of the program. I'm still familiarizing myself with it, and don't know half of what I need to. In the examples, it shows a movie displaying a lot more details than I have by simply scanning and adding the batch. At the moment, I spending most of my time with it, just locating cover images. It may or may not be capable of cataloging all the details that I would like, but it seems to have most of them.

Yeah definitely let us know what you have figured out, and how well its working. I would like to know before i decide to get it. When i tried it a bit back it was the trial version and i loved it. Just havn't had the money to get the scanner and program, as much of my collection is DVD's on my shelf.

- Tony

 

[seekermeister]

One factor that would probably decide for me whether to buy a scanner or not, is whether it would automatically enter all of the pertinent data, without me having to do so myself? When scanning files on the PC, it appears that I have to enter the majority myself.

Ebaying, I found that there are a number of different types of scanners...mostly having to do with their type of connection. Although I would like it, I can rule out the wireless scanner, based on price. As for the rest, I guess it would just be a matter of convenience in choosing a type...except that there is also a group called symbol scanners. These are not what is needed...are they?

EDIT: I think that the reason that the scan did not find all of my movies, was that it only found the .mkv and .flv...not the .ogv.

 

[TonyTiger2004]

One factor that would probably decide for me whether to buy a scanner or not, is whether it would automatically enter all of the pertinent data, without me having to do so myself? When scanning files on the PC, it appears that I have to enter the majority myself.

Ebaying, I found that there are a number of different types of scanners...mostly having to do with their type of connection. Although I would like it, I can rule out the wireless scanner, based on price. As for the rest, I guess it would just be a matter of convenience in choosing a type...except that there is also a group called symbol scanners. These are not what is needed...are they?

EDIT: I think that the reason that the scan did not find all of my movies, was that it only found the .mkv and .flv...not the .ogv.

I believe scanning bar codes on the back of DVD cases it fills out all the information, But i agree if it did not i wouldn't be interested in purchasing the scanner. If you figure that out for sure do let me know

EDIT: Think it needs to be a CCD Scanner to work correctly, probably any USB CCD Scanner would probably work.

- Tony

 

[seekermeister]

There are a number of scanners of that description, but a couple of them included the term PoS (point of sale) in their description. Would that have any bearing on this use?