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excogitation
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Posted - 30 Jan 2008 :  02:04:09  Show Profile  Edit Topic  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Topic
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)
  • 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

Alessio Viti
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Italy
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Posted - 30 Jan 2008 :  17:40:16  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Thank you very much for this detailed report and suggestions!!!

I will try to do everything as soon as possible.

Thank you again,

Alessio
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excogitation
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 30 Jan 2008 :  23:01:18  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
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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mercurius00
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7 Posts

Posted - 11 Feb 2008 :  18:09:26  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
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?
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mercurius00
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7 Posts

Posted - 11 Feb 2008 :  18:15:56  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
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 :)


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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
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mercurius00
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7 Posts

Posted - 12 Feb 2008 :  01:05:38  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Uffa!!! Me l'ha fatto di nuovo!!!

It happened again!|!!!!!!
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin

Italy
9171 Posts

Posted - 19 Feb 2008 :  17:35:31  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Hi Guys,

I will try to check it tomorrow, please sorry for my delay!!

Alessio
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin

Italy
9171 Posts

Posted - 20 Feb 2008 :  13:17:24  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Hi Guys,

I am working on the changes these next days. I will update the first topic with red comments.

Alessio
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