Good software for managing collection?

JohnK

I'm sure theres plenty of people here who have big collections so I'm wondering how do you keep track of it all?

I've got in the region of 400~500 titles here mixed between movies & tv series and I dont have a bloody clue what I own any more. I know I've got a few duplicate titles but I dont know exactly how many or which ones they are. Hell I never even watch anything because it takes so long to go through all the shelves looking for one which takes my fancy that by the time I find it I'm not even in the mood to watch it any more.

Had a bit of a look around with Google and of the two I've tried so far I have to say I'm not impressed. Movie Label 2011 couldnt find any of the barcodes I gave it but could find them via title search. DVD Profiler found all the barcodes but on the very second title it marked a BluRay as DVD and had the wrong cover art.

Is there anything better out there? I really dont want to have to resort to excel

Josey Wales

If you have a Mac the best option is Delicious Library 2. I use it and think it is great.

Kess73

http://www.collectorz.com/movie/catalog-your-dvds.php?from=google&keyword=cn-dvd-keywords&gclid=CPWm08OOpKECFQuElAod4T_jvg

BopNiblets

Libra is one I tried a long time ago, can scan barcodes with a webcam apparently (never tried it myself, collection's not big enough )
Freeware too but I think it's not being developed anymore.
http://download.cnet.com/Libra/3000-2131_4-10715967.html

JohnK

Thanks for the suggestions

Josey Wales wrote: »

If you have a Mac the best option is Delicious Library 2. I use it and think it is great.

Spotted that last night actually and it did look impressive but I'm on a PC so no good unfortunately.

Kess73 wrote: »

http://www.collectorz.com/movie/catalog-your-dvds.php?from=google&keyword=cn-dvd-keywords&gclid=CPWm08OOpKECFQuElAod4T_jvg

Looks good from the point of bulk adding movies but is pulling back less information than some other apps and less cover art.

BopNiblets wrote: »

Libra is one I tried a long time ago, can scan barcodes with a webcam apparently (never tried it myself, collection's not big enough )
Freeware too but I think it's not being developed anymore.
http://download.cnet.com/Libra/3000-2131_4-10715967.html

The download link wont work for me there and its not even mentioned on the codejam website so they look to be finished with it alright.



I've also tried All My Movies this morning and it was going well (if a bit slow) until when scanning one season of a tvshow it adds all episode details for seasons 1-11 to the list and calls it the main title rather than just the season I scanned. Thats feck all use especially if you dont actually have all the seasons.

Anyone else got something to try?

Fago123

I have 750 titles approx and use DVD Aficionado www.dvdaf.com

Renn

Excel.

Anakin.S

I use microsoft access, very basic with only title, director, star and an 'On Loan' Column, I was getting fed up replacing my DVD's because I could never remember who i lent them to

JohnK

Fago123 wrote: »

I have 750 titles approx and use DVD Aficionado www.dvdaf.com

That might be a runner but to be honest I'd prefer an actual application. If their site goes tits up tomorrow I lose everything whereas with an actual app on my machine I have the data regardless of what happens to the company.

Renn wrote: »

Excel.

I used to have everything in excel but I just found keeping it up to date to be a pain since I never wanted to spend the couple of minutes typing out the info or searching for it online. Didnt stay up to date for too long!

Anakin.S wrote: »

I use microsoft access, very basic with only title, director, star and an 'On Loan' Column, I was getting fed up replacing my DVD's because I could never remember who i lent them to

Like above if I have to manually input the info I'm just not going to do it cause yes I am that bloody lazy

Galvasean

Fago123 wrote: »

I have 750 titles approx and use DVD Aficionado www.dvdaf.com

That one's very handy. You can search using the film/series' imdb number.

here's mine. Only about 350. Could use an update.
http://galvasean.dvdaf.com/

ztoical

JohnK wrote: »

I've got in the region of 400~500 titles here mixed between movies & tv series and I dont have a bloody clue what I own any more. I know I've got a few duplicate titles but I dont know exactly how many or which ones they are. Hell I never even watch anything because it takes so long to go through all the shelves looking for one which takes my fancy that by the time I find it I'm not even in the mood to watch it any more.

Have to say I've 2000+ and have only managed to buy the same dvd twice once [Garden State both times as part of the one HMV 3 for 20 deal type things about a year apart]

I once debated making a list of some sort but I never seem to have any issues remembering what I have. My mother on the other hand is forever buying the same dvds - she got one of the harry potter films something like 4 times at once point. I can feel for the trying to find a certain film and then not being in the mood to watch it but don't think having a list would make much difference for me cus I'd still have to go find it. I did have a system, chucked all the boxes and got a whole bunch of those big 350 cd holders [move around alot so they really help] and tired grouping the dvd's together [tv shows together, animated shows together, films grouped by theme or director etc] but once you start watching a bunch of things they end up going back in the wrong place and soon the system is just a mess

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

That one's very handy. You can search using the film/series' imdb number.

here's mine. Only about 350. Could use an update.
http://galvasean.dvdaf.com/

Here is my attempt to catalogue my collection, I gave up about half way through. Have another few thousand to add to it but don't have the time.

As for the buying the same things twice,I have never bought something and then gone home to realise that I all ready own it. On a few ocassions when buying box sets I have ended up with two copies of the same film but I really don't see how you can forget what you own, you may not be able to recall them on the spot but when you're in the shop staring at the DVD case you should be able to remember if you saw the film before and if so was it rental, download or purchase.

bonerm

Galvasean wrote: »

here's mine. Only about 350. Could use an update.
http://galvasean.dvdaf.com/

DVDaf is ok ... until you're looking for a title it doesn't hold (which seems to happen more often that I would have guessed , esp with some UK tv series).

Like was mentioned previously, use MS excel. It's portable and easy to edit/add/update/expand as well. Plus its 10 times easier to use than any of these programs/sites.

To the person who couldn't find their DVD's quick enough one way of ordering them (and I don't know anyone else who does this!) is to group by distributor. Personally I find it much easier to remember which company made a particular movie rather than to remember "what colour the box was" etc. Not as good as alphabetical perhaps but certainly much quicker when it comes to getting your boxes in order than trying to keep everything A-Z. Plus they look all very neat grouped together as particular distributors often use a single format when designing their sleeves. I alwasy found finding DVDs a pain in the arse too but this way I can find pretty much anything I want inseconds (and I have over 700 at this point.)

Anakin.S

Am I the only person who has my DVD's in alphabetical order then?

I don't know if thats good or bad... .

johnny_ultimate

http://maccyd.dvdaf.com/ Was bored so updated this there.

I just find it interesting to gauge an overall view of my collection. Apparently the most represented 'genre' is 'crime drama', which is actually pretty surprising to me (although the vast majority of that is populated by The Wire, The Shield and the Sopranos :pac:)

CodeMonkey

I use eric's movie database from http://www.emdb.tk/. You can donate to author to customise the name if you want. It has built in functionality to pull all information from imdb.com after typing in the name and you can customise what information you want to pull down. It also lets you keeps track of who has your dvd and help you manage your collection plus lots of other neat features.

Galvasean

Anakin.S wrote: »

Am I the only person who has my DVD's in alphabetical order then?

I don't know if thats good or bad... .

I had until recently. Unfortunately I picked up quite a few films over Xmas/new year and never got around to filing them in. That and when people borrow my films to watch they never return them to the proper place. :mad:

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

I had until recently. Unfortunately I picked up quite a few films over Xmas/new year and never got around to filing them in. That and when people borrow my films to watch they never return them to the proper place. :mad:

I was the same, did it for the first 2000 or so but then every time I got a new disc it resulted in a lot of work moving cases around and I just decided to stop. Tried a very loose genre system but the same thing happened, planning to spend some time over the summer putting up new shelves and creating a system which I can easily make space in and will allow me to catalogue them in an easy to navigate manner.

ztoical

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I was the same, did it for the first 2000 or so but then every time I got a new disc it resulted in a lot of work moving cases around and I just decided to stop. Tried a very loose genre system but the same thing happened, planning to spend some time over the summer putting up new shelves and creating a system which I can easily make space in and will allow me to catalogue them in an easy to navigate manner.

I found you'd get those odd shaped boxes that just don't fit in and it messed up the whole system. Put a bunch of shelves up in the last place and there'd be those few boxes that just didn't fit and it drove me nuts [all those big plastic Star trek ones from a few years back being the main pain] Yes you can just leave those few to the side but god damn it I want all the sci-fi stuff together!

Having got rid of boxes and using the big cd holders the system gets marred by having to move loads of things around to add a new disc in and things getting moved around as you watch them. Moved again there recently so things are sort of grouped at the moment - one pile of holders is all tv shows and the other pile is film but can already see things starting to move around and moved right by a big HMV that keeps selling stuff for 3 quid...damn them!

ztoical

ztoical wrote: »

I found you'd get those odd shaped boxes that just don't fit in and it messed up the whole system. Put a bunch of shelves up in the last place and there'd be those few boxes that just didn't fit and it drove me nuts [all those big plastic Star trek ones from a few years back being the main pain] Yes you can just leave those few to the side but god damn it I want all the sci-fi stuff together!

Having got rid of boxes and using the big cd holders the system gets marred by having to move loads of things around to add a new disc in and things getting moved around as you watch them. Moved again there recently so things are sort of grouped at the moment - one pile of holders is all tv shows and the other pile is film but can already see things starting to move around and moved right by a big HMV that keeps selling stuff for 3 quid...damn them!

I tried the Dj cases to store the discs so as to make everythign easier but it just annoys me flicking through it as yet again adding discs to it in any order quickly goes out the window when you realise that to you have to move every disc ahead of it up on or put in a new sheet and have loads of free spaces littered throughout.

I saw some flight cases which hold 500 discs so im thinking of picking up 10 of them and then breaking each genre down in such a way that I can easily leave spill for new acquisition but I still want to have all the cases on my shelves in a manner which not only looks nice but is easy to navigate. Decided I'd plan ahead so that in 2 years time it should till be relatively easy to manage.

Odd shaped boxes are the bane of my existence, trying to make space for some of mine is nigh on impossible. I give box sets their own shelf but even then it's chaotic. Hoping to pick up the Hammer Bix Set and I know damn well that there isn't a hope of it fitting any place in my Horror section given how it's shaped, guess it's joining my Phantasm sphere and Hellraiser box, at least my other franchise h orror collection, eg Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street came in traditional boxes which easily fit on the shelf as they're only the size of 3 normal cases.

My other big complaint is Blu Ray, I have close to 200 at this stage and given how much smaller the cases are you can't add them to the DVD piles and have to start a whole new shelf which wouldn't be too bad if it were'nt for the piss poor pper rr cases which once placed undera nythign heavy quickly begin to fall apart meaning that they need their own space.

mikhail

Anakin.S wrote: »

Am I the only person who has my DVD's in alphabetical order then?

I don't know if thats good or bad... .

I used to. Now I go by year of release (according to IMDB). Quite handy, I find.

ztoical

Deleted User wrote: »

I tried the Dj cases to store the discs so as to make everythign easier but it just annoys me flicking through it as yet again adding discs to it in any order quickly goes out the window when you realise that to you have to move every disc ahead of it up on or put in a new sheet and have loads of free spaces littered throughout.

It is a pain but at this stage given how much I travel the options are leave dvds in storage, copy them all on to a series of hard drives to carry around, or have them in cases...my mother can't understand why I didn't go for option one but this is the woman who bought the second harry potter film 4 times without realizing it.

Some day in the future when I know I'm not going to move again I will build a purpose built system for them and get to spend days putting all the dvds back in their boxes....joy! Knowing my luck by the time I'm ready to do that films and tv will be just plugged directly into our brains.

Anakin.S

mikhail wrote: »

I used to. Now I go by year of release (according to IMDB). Quite handy, I find.

For me that would be too hard to remember the year of release if i wanted to find a specific film. Initially I tried to do it by genre but I'm happy with my system now, but my collection is not even close to size of some of the collections on here, I've only got about 250-300 titles and some of them are TV shows.

Galvasean

I was about to ask how people with 1000plus DVDs manage them. I've a bit over 300 and have complately ran out of shelf space. Just lucky my sister moved out last year, storage space!

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

I was about to ask how people with 1000plus DVDs manage them. I've a bit over 300 and have complately ran out of shelf space. Just lucky my sister moved out last year, storage space!

I'm moving home next week for the summer and will take some pics of the mess that is currently my collection. They're piled ceiling high in some places and navagating through teetering piles of DVDs is a risky business as one wrong step and the entire room could be awash in discs.

homerzero

I Use Extreme Movie Manager , used to use Collectorz.com . Extreme movie manager works much better and only costs €10 for life. i paid over €60 for Movie collectorz , i stopped using it when they developed its own database and only searched that ( no longer searched IMDB etc) . i have been using extrreme movie manager for over a year and would recommend it highly .

Renn

Woah, Darko your link just reminded me how much crap there is out there. Have you got some sort of OCD where you feel a need to buy everything?

My collection was dwindled. That said, some Blu-Rays are still must-buys for me.

Anakin.S

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm moving home next week for the summer and will take some pics of the mess that is currently my collection. They're piled ceiling high in some places and navagating through teetering piles of DVDs is a risky business as one wrong step and the entire room could be awash in discs.

I've got a fantastic image of robots in my head but you surfing on dvd's and not dominos

Renn

Renn wrote: »

Woah, Darko your link just reminded me how much crap there is out there. Have you got some sort of OCD where you feel a need to buy everything?.

No I don't, you see I'm not a film snob and as such will give any film it's fair shot. You can learn more from a bad film than good and while many will mock my viewing habits, I'm quite happy to spend an evening watching The Fast and the Furious followed by The Serpents Egg followed by Mega Snake as I did not so long ago. Far too many people are critical of films before they even give it a chance and while not every film can be Lawrence of Arabia even the most dreadful looking film can off 90 minutes of entertainment which is all anyone can ask for.

Renn

But you're a film student, no?

Renn

Renn wrote: »

But you're a film student, no?

And you're point is?

bonerm

Deleted User wrote: »

No I don't, you see I'm not a film snob and as such will give any film it's fair shot. You can learn more from a bad film than good and while many will mock my viewing habits, I'm quite happy to spend an evening watching The Fast and the Furious followed by The Serpents Egg followed by Mega Snake as I did not so long ago. Far too many people are critical of films before they even give it a chance and while not every film can be Lawrence of Arabia even the most dreadful looking film can off 90 minutes of entertainment which is all anyone can ask for.

Hi, I read you had something like 2000 titles? Just out of personal interest could you give us a rough estimate of how many of them you've watched more than once, just once, and never? Also by watched I mean *actually watched the DVD* rather than owning a DVD of a movie you previously saw in cinemas but as yet have still not watched the DVD itself. Thanks.

Renn

Just asking a question, might explain why you have to sit down and watch so much crap.

bonerm

bonerm wrote: »

Hi, I read you had something like 2000 titles? Just out of personal interest could you give us a rough estimate of how many of them you've watched more than once, just once, and never? Also by watched I mean *actually watched the DVD* rather than owning a DVD of a movie you previously saw in cinemas but as yet have still not watched the DVD itself. Thanks.

I have a too watch pile with about 300 DVDs in it but by and large I have watched every DVD I own excluding those at least once. About a half of the collection has been rewatched at least once or twice more and there is a good portion made up of titles such as Evil Dead, Gladiator and a few hundred others that have been multiple times. My dad and younger brothers would have watched a lot of my collection meaning that each disc has seen a few spins.

A recent example of a disc beign rewatched is Undead or Alive the zombie wetern from Glasgow Phillips, one of the writers on South Park which was watched 4 times over a week. I watched it alone, then two of my brothers watched it a few days later, the next night my other brother watched it and a day or two later it was watched again.

johnny_ultimate

Deleted User wrote: »

No I don't, you see I'm not a film snob and as such will give any film it's fair shot. You can learn more from a bad film than good and while many will mock my viewing habits, I'm quite happy to spend an evening watching The Fast and the Furious followed by The Serpents Egg followed by Mega Snake as I did not so long ago. Far too many people are critical of films before they even give it a chance and while not every film can be Lawrence of Arabia even the most dreadful looking film can off 90 minutes of entertainment which is all anyone can ask for.

Man, I hated the Serpents Egg. Even as a Bergman fanatic I'd have to admit that it's a fairly shoddy piece of work. By his standards anyway.

[steers thread back on topic]

My DVD collection is relatively manageable, but I tend to pick up curios I won't get to watch any other way. I fairly rarely buy crap, the vast majority of my collection would be stuff from directors I'm interested in (DVD is the best place to discover foreign and classic directors). Even when it comes to films I liked in the cinema, I'd only pick them up on DVD - occasionally Blu-Ray - if I really wanted to watch them again. If I see a film I've heard is interesting relatively cheap somewhere, that's when I'm most likely to pick it up.

Renn

Renn wrote: »

Just asking a question, might explain why you have to sit down and watch so much crap.

Ah, so I'm guessing that you are a film snob. The type of person who turns his nose up at anything which isn't a three hour exploriation of the human condition.

Renn

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah, so I'm guessing that you are a film snob. The type of person who turns his nose up at anything which isn't a three hour exploriation of the human condition.

Yep I am. It's why I'll be in attendance at a special screening of The Room tonight. That's how much of a snob I am.

johnny_ultimate

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Man, I hated the Serpents Egg. Even as a Bergman fanatic I'd have to admit that it's a fairly shoddy piece of work. By his standards anyway.

I was far from impressed though Carradine did show that he was quite the competant actor, something which I missed in many of his curios.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

My DVD collection is relatively manageable, but I tend to pick up curios I won't get to watch any other way. I fairly rarely buy crap, the vast majority of my collection would be stuff from directors I'm interested in (DVD is the best place to discover foreign and classic directors). Even when it comes to films I liked in the cinema, I'd only pick them up on DVD - occasionally Blu-Ray - if I really wanted to watch them again. If I see a film I've heard is interesting relatively cheap somewhere, that's when I'm most likely to pick it up.

DVD has been a God send for finding titles froma round the world, the ability to pick up stuff from Asia years before it's released over here is a joy. Takeshi's only cmae out on DVD over here a few weeks back yet I've owned the 2 disc collectors edition for close to 3 years. Same goes for the Johnnie To back catalogue which has yet to get a full release over here yet is all readily available at great prices online.

Given that in many cases it is now cheaper to buy a DVD/Blu Ray than it is to rent or go see it in the cinema. Recently I ordered Edge fo Darkness on Blu Ray for 12 euro which I missed in the cinema. Had I gone to see it in the cinema would have cost me 9 euro and if I was to get a drink or confectionary a hell of a lot more. This is far from a rare occurence and in recent years I have found my self only going to the cinema to see films I really want to.

Renn

Renn wrote: »

Yep I am. It's why I'll be in attendance at a special screening of The Room tonight. That's how much of a snob I am.

Are you really using The Room to defend being a film snob, a film which many of the more vocal snobbish critcs have been talking about for years. FIlms such as the Room and Bridemic are filsm so inept that they magically transcend the so bad it's good catagory to just plain goodnees.

ztoical

Renn wrote: »

Just asking a question, might explain why you have to sit down and watch so much crap.

How do you know whats crap if you don't watch it all? I'm not a film student BTW

Deleted User wrote: »

DVD has been a God send for finding titles froma round the world, the ability to pick up stuff from Asia years before it's released over here is a joy. Takeshi's only cmae out on DVD over here a few weeks back yet I've owned the 2 disc collectors edition for close to 3 years. Same goes for the Johnnie To back catalogue which has yet to get a full release over here yet is all readily available at great prices online.

Given that in many cases it is now cheaper to buy a DVD/Blu Ray than it is to rent or go see it in the cinema. Recently I ordered Edge fo Darkness on Blu Ray for 12 euro which I missed in the cinema. Had I gone to see it in the cinema would have cost me 9 euro and if I was to get a drink or confectionary a hell of a lot more. This is far from a rare occurence and in recent years I have found my self only going to the cinema to see films I really want to.

+ 1 Walking around HMV recently it was amazing to see how many dvds were below the 5 quid mark and whole seasons of tv shows for under 20 when I think back to paying close to £100 for some of the first tv show box sets I picked up several years ago. Now your seeing fantastic box sets of great directors going for around a tenner it's fantastic. Have to say I do like the cinema though, that magical feeling of sitting in this large space in the dark and then the screen comes to life but the cost has got insane. I use to go several times a week when I lived in New York but I was friends with members of the NBR so got to go to all their screenings for free

Renn

Are you really saying you'd spend money on a blu-ray just because you never caught it in the cinema?

Some films I've watched recently:

Wristcutters: A Love Story
The Joneses
Kick Ass
Tales From the Golden Age
Fish Tank

But yeah, clearly a film snob. Look, just because I criticised some of the stuff in your collection doesn't mean you have to get your blu-ray knickers in a twist.

Anakin.S

Deleted User wrote: »

Had I gone to see it in the cinema would have cost me 9 euro and if I was to get a drink or confectionary a hell of a lot more. This is far from a rare occurence and in recent years I have found my self only going to the cinema to see films I really want to.

I'm the same, once you pay for 2 tickets (if you bring the other half), then a popcorn and drink your talking well over the price of the DVD. I didn't go to see Green Zone for this reason, I just pre-ordered it on amazon.

I did go to see Avatar twice in the cinema (both 3d) because I thought that the 3D aspect was vital to the movie

Renn

Renn wrote: »

Are you really saying you'd spend money on a blu-ray just because you never caught it in the cinema?

When it's a film I really want to watch and know wil receive repeat viewing then yes I would spend money on it. I don't see the problem with it to be honest, I rarely drink, don't spend extravagantly on going out and would much rathed spend a night in with my girlfriend watching a Blu Ray or DVD than going out and getting wasted.

I take it you're one of those people who believes that downlaoding a 700m rip is the best way to experience a film.

Renn wrote: »

Some films I've watched recently:

Wristcutters: A Love Story
The Joneses
Kick Ass
Tales From the Golden Age
Fish Tank

But yeah, clearly a film snob. Look, just because I criticised some of the stuff in your collection doesn't mean you have to get your blu-ray knickers in a twist.

You are a film snob, you assume that a film is crap before even watching it. I have no problem with people criticising my collection, I know that some of the films are crap but I didn't form that opinion until after I had watched the film.

ztoical wrote: »

+ 1 Walking around HMV recently it was amazing to see how many dvds were below the 5 quid mark and whole seasons of tv shows for under 20 when I think back to paying close to £100 for some of the first tv show box sets I picked up several years ago. Now your seeing fantastic box sets of great directors going for around a tenner it's fantastic. Have to say I do like the cinema though, that magical feeling of sitting in this large space in the dark and then the screen comes to life but the cost has got insane. I use to go several times a week when I lived in New York but I was friends with members of the NBR so got to go to all their screenings for free

I used to go to the cinema every other day but with no cinema close having a loyalty card as they do in Dublin it just got too much.

Looking in town the last day I picked up 3 films I really wanted to watch, Multiplicity, 3 and Out and Marie Antoinette for the grand total of 5 euro. A few years back it would have been 20 or 30 euro for them.

I paid just over a hundred euro for the complete Next Generation box set a year or so ago. The same box cost 700 when it first came out. Hell looking at stuff like Farscae and Babylon 5 which I paid 70 euros a season for a few years back now selling for 15 euro it really hits home just how much cheaper it is to pick up great films/TV.

Anakin.S

Anakin.S wrote: »

I'm the same, once you pay for 2 tickets (if you bring the other half), then a popcorn and drink your talking well over the price of the DVD. I didn't go to see Green Zone for this reason, I just pre-ordered it on amazon.

I did go to see Avatar twice in the cinema (both 3d) because I thought that the 3D aspect was vital to the movie

Me and my girlfriend went to see Alice In Wonderland in 3D and even with our student card the tickets still cost 20 euro. Add in the 13 euro for popcorn, a drink and sweets and 5 euro for nachos and you the guts fo 40 euro. Normally we would leave the junk food but now and again it's nice to treat yourself but when you start to notice that you can pick up that film plus 2 others on Blu Ray in 3 months time for the same price as you paid that night and still have money left over you do re-evaluate.

Renn

Deleted User wrote: »

When it's a film I really want to watch and know wil receive repeat viewing then yes I would spend money on it. I don't see the problem with it to be honest, I rarely drink, don't spend extravagantly on going out and would much rathed spend a night in with my girlfriend watching a Blu Ray or DVD than going out and getting wasted.

I take it you're one of those people who believes that downlaoding a 700m rip is the best way to experience a film.

I take it you're making up some **** here. When did I say that? I go to the movies quite often, nearly 40 times a year. That's the best way to experience a film.

You are a film snob, you assume that a film is crap before even watching it. I have no problem with people criticising my collection, I know that some of the films are crap but I didn't form that opinion until after I had watched the film.

I've seen a ****load of the films in your collection - that's what I'm basing my opinion on. But you cannot deny that some films have crap written all over it - The Joneses, for example, had a questionable director, bizarre cast, bizarre storyline, and just had bad written all over it (I came up with all of this AFTER watching the movie - honestly went in to this without having an idea what it was about). Saw it and this was all confirmed.

johnny_ultimate

Alright, let's try and keep this topic friendly. Good debate going on, no need for attacking each other in the process.

Renn

Renn wrote: »

I take it you're making up some **** here. When did I say that? I go to the movies quite often, nearly 40 times a year. That's the best way to experience a film.

Not making anything up, you did mention downloading in a post which was edited by Galvasean if I'm not mistaken.

Traditionally it is the best way to experience a film and I do go to the cinema on average a hundred times a year but with the way in which home viewing has taken off you are often offered a better experience by staying at home. You can ensure teh film is in focus, the sound is at adequete levels and that your'e viewing experience won't be disrupted by people texting and talking.

Renn wrote: »

I've seen a ****load of the films in your collection - that's what I'm basing my opinion on. But you cannot deny that some films have crap written all over it - The Joneses, for example, had a questionable director, bizarre cast, bizarre storyline, and just had bad written all over it (I came up with all of this AFTER watching the movie - honestly went in to this without having an idea what it was about). Saw it and this was all confirmed.

To me the film looks like it could be a jovial 90 minute time passer. I don't expect it to redefine what great cinema is but it certainly does not look like crap. You say that you went in with no idea what the film was about yet after watchign it you were able to confirm that it "had a questionable director, bizarre cast, bizarre storyline, and just had bad written all over it".

Back on topic: A nice way to arrange films is by the colour of the case, it looks nice though it can be difficult to find a film for obvious reasons and may result in many a comical drunken moment as you flail about searching for that red case.

L'prof

Deleted User wrote: »

Back on topic: A nice way to arrange films is by the colour of the case, it looks nice though it can be difficult to find a film for obvious reasons and may result in many a comical drunken moment as you flail about searching for that red case.

Haha, knowing me I'd be shítfaced looking for a red case that turned out to be blue only to give up and find it the next day (when I've sobered up) in a few minutes!

Skinfull

List of Apps here

BTW I think that DVDAF has a horrible interface.

hitman79

Just stumbled across this thread and wondering is dvdaf.com the best of a bad lot?

rolo454

I tried out many different programs for cataloguing a movie collection and I found the best one was http://www.coollector.com; apart from the fact that it freezes a lot it seems to be pretty good. It scans your computer for films and displays relevant information. It's also free.