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excogitation |
Posted - 30 Jan 2008 : 02:04:09 First of all let me say, that I've tried all movie managers out there (at least all that I could find), and because 90% are missing a "search your harddisk for movies"-option your manager is the only one I would use (so far).
There are however some issues I want to point out. I don't want to lessen your work by it - I just hope I will contribute in making this software even better.
- First and most important to me this application is not optimized for high dpi settings
- if you look at the example images you'll see that it's no eye-candy on a high-resolution monitor when using a different than standard dpi setting How to Write High-DPI Applications: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms969894.aspx
- Character encoding problem (e.g.Ĉon Flux becomes #198; in tree) I have update the new IMDB Scripts just now, should be fixed
- There should be an option to rename a single movie
(quick accessible through e.g. F2 (standard windows behaviour)) because you don't have to reimport the movie if it gets renamed outside EMM
- quick file scanning, autoscan import folders for new files
- open multiple folders a time for import
(e.g. if I have a drive Z and there's mainly movies on it but also some folders backup data that take forever to scan - then I have to import each folder that contains movies manually and after each one I have to wait for ages till it completes)
- reconnect renamed movie to the db id (e.g. by usign a checksum
- support of mysql as alternative instead of an Access db
(I suppose this would improve performance a lot)
- import personal rating from imdb
- show movies I might also like (from IMDB), or people that liked
the same movies (this could turn out to be a good way making some money if you linkted those movies to Amazon)
- easy and advanced userinterface
or edit/import and playback interface
- actor sorting according to imdb (most wellknown left)
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- use curl instead of browser to retrieve data from the internet (if you don't already)
- mini statistics don't get updated (loaned, etc) after deleting movie
- moving movie to different genre by drag & drop
- cool new icons for the menubar
(forum contest? I really like the play panel) or making the program skinnable
- one skin throughout the whole program
(at the moment there are some parts blue and some standard windows theme (I like the blue skin) - prevent the program from crashing/hanging when trying to close Macig Script
- Find missing files shows no results in 6.1.20
- MagicScript sometimes goes to the taskbar and I can only get it back by right-click maximize
Should be fixed in 6.1.3
- choose thumbnail size for thumbnail view
- delete all actors not working (collection maintenance)
- option to store movie db inside EMM dir (instead of my documents)
- in tree view all movies get only selected with strg+a after the second time
- Seen True False should be Yes No
- When you click on an actor's image in actor view it gets
opened in IE instead of the default browser
Since I'm using a 15,4" display with 1680*1050 pixels resolution I have to adjust the dpi (120%) because otherwise the text size is just too small to work with.
It just seems that you've not optimized the program for users like me :-)
examples: Startup window:
Download window:
Missing movies list:
Main window:
Image window:
Actor image opens in IE regardless off standard browser setting
Movie still gets displayed after deletion
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7 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
Alessio Viti |
Posted - 20 Feb 2008 : 13:17:24 Hi Guys,
I am working on the changes these next days. I will update the first topic with red comments.
Alessio |
Alessio Viti |
Posted - 19 Feb 2008 : 17:35:31 Hi Guys,
I will try to check it tomorrow, please sorry for my delay!!
Alessio |
mercurius00 |
Posted - 12 Feb 2008 : 01:05:38 Uffa!!! Me l'ha fatto di nuovo!!!
It happened again!|!!!!!! |
mercurius00 |
Posted - 11 Feb 2008 : 18:15:56 quote: Originally posted by mercurius00
I'm using 1680*1050 too. I got some issues, i had one particularly relevant:
- When i open the Importing window, it goes only if full opened and not windowed: when i try to window it simply disappear and goes at icon.
Suggestions?
I solved the matter by restoring original configuration... But should be another way :)
---- Italian translation:
Gentile Alessio, avevo questo problema: se metto a tutto schermo EMM mi succede che andando ad aprire la finestra d'importazione questa scompare se ridimensionata e funziona solo se messa a tutto schermo... Ho risolto in un secondo momento riportando tutto alla configurazione originale tramite l'apposita funzione. Ma che scocciatura!!
Per il resto tutto ok, in bocca al lupo e complimenti per il programma |
mercurius00 |
Posted - 11 Feb 2008 : 18:09:26 I'm using 1680*1050 too. I got some issues, i had one particularly relevant:
- When i open the Importing window, it goes only if full opened and not windowed: when i try to window it simply disappear and goes at icon.
Suggestions? |
excogitation |
Posted - 30 Jan 2008 : 23:01:18 You're very welcome.
If you ever need a tester for high DPI or if I can contribute in any other way, feel free to contact me.
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Alessio Viti |
Posted - 30 Jan 2008 : 17:40:16 Thank you very much for this detailed report and suggestions!!!
I will try to do everything as soon as possible.
Thank you again,
Alessio |