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Extreme Movie Manager Wishlist

I have gone through most of the postings in the forum and created a wishlist with all those wishes (extended by my own wishes). This list is fairly complete and it's now up to you all to post here old wishes or wishes I have overseen or wishes I have not understand.

This wishlist is for your information and helps you in finding which features have been requested. So before posting you should check it out. You'll need to find the corresponding posts yourself (sorry). Your feature request should be well thought-out and easy to understand. Please consider, if your wish really makes sense and is of use not only for you but also for as much users as possible. For bug reports a corresponding forum is available. Here only suggestions
and feature requests are desired. The list isn't sorted on importance and wishes on the list might not be picked up by Alessio.


The list (Updated: 13.10.2009)



xMM - System

- Multi-user LAN version
- Portable version of XMM(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- XMM connect to a database over the internet.
- Plugin interface (with documentation)
- PDA support
- ODBC support
- Open more DB's simultaneously, displaying multiple movies database at the same time in the left panel
- Local AMDB support or direct support of IMDB listfiles
- Redo/Undo Function
- User definable hotkeys/shortcuts
- Custom tag system to divide and sub-divide the movie collection (like in DVD-Profiler)
- separate config-File for each database
- changing language without new start of xMM
- customisable toolbar(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- customized view (colours, fields, image size). When some fields are not used, xMM should remove them for a clearer layout(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- hypertext functionality also for movie directors(DONE in XMM 7.0.2.5)
- movies of an actor should be listed automatically in the corresponding actor database entry (DONE in XMM 7.0)
- Macros (maybe VBScript)
- Barcode scanner support, e.g. Cuecat
- start the XMM from command line
- unicode support
- auto complete
- extended database functions also for actors and series
- auto-sync of two databases
- password protection for database files
- rearranging the QuickEdit View tabs by dragging and dropping (just like Firefox tabs)
- wish list tab and director tab
- database read only
- pick/change the location where the data files and scripts are stored(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- Player's Manager
- Loan History
- standard window controls/functions (Maximize and Restore buttons for ALL sub-windows )
- statistic
- Decide Max Number of backups to keep
- multi-user support (several persons use one database)


xMM - Data Fields

- Clear separation of "film data" from "media data". Support for multiple media for one film without duplicating of film data
- more pulldown menues for data fields(DONE PARTIALLY in XMM 5.1.9)
- wish list of wanted movies within the database (graduation: maybe/ wanted/ most wanted etc.).(DONE PARTIALLY in XMM 5.2.6.0)
- wanted movies in extra tab/filter, no MovieID
- data field: "Title Sort" to able to sort movies for example without "A", "The" etc.
- data field tab to manage planned recordings with his digital receiver (with an interface with tv programm software).
- improvement of several fields, e.g. language, subtitles, audio format. Too small and not clearly arrangeable when you have long data entries, e.g. more than 10 subtitles on a DVD
- better handling of "multi entry fields" like the "subtitles" field: handling like the skript manager with a source list and a target list where you can move the several possible data entries
- pulldown menus (like STATUS) should save new values automatically
- memorable quotes with possibility to store sound files
- "Links" field, to store a list of website links
- Field "Free time": automatic calculation of free time on medium (VHS + DVD)
- better multi-disc support: movies/boxsets with more than one disc; more than one movie on one disc
- b&w/colour field: extension for movies that are b&w and coloured, b&w-movies that were colorized or 3D-Movies
- field for the default directory of the databases
- Support for multiple audio streams pro media
- possibility to set a default media type
- possibility to store extended movie length info
- currency(€, $ etc.) for price field
- multiple value for categories
- more custom fields
- Time in date fields should be concealable
- direct access to Managing Box sets.


xMM - TV-Shows

- series: more fields (like for movies)(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- loan episodes function like movies (+ the ability to add all episodes with the same CatalogNo)
- function "Show all series/episodes of this actor" in Actors-Database (DONE in XMM 7.0)
- By Importing tv-series actors should be added to actors database
- Actors and series/episodes should be "linked"
- series banners
- add tv series from a DVD collection of divx/xvid files
- "loaned to" box to the tv series like the one for the movies
- translate the air date and premiere date to the internal database date format when reading TV Shows with the scripts
- Statistics
- right click actors in the "cast" tab to add them to the database
- Tv Series renamer
- Episodes updatedable from a direct link.
- "Location" and "Media Label" fields for each episode.
- Unicode Character support for "Season Number" field, so we can use words like "Special", instead of using season number "0".
- episodes's "Custom Field" title editing / being able to changing names (Custom1, Custom2... to something else)
- boxsets: association of seasons and/or episodes to a boxset
- option to add the actors that you add to an episode cast to the show it belongs to
- option to right click actors in the episode cast and add to database
- Marked/seen colours for episodes of tv shows
- possibillity to select a moviecard for Episodes as for moview (separate selections)


xMM - Movie File Recognition + Managment

- better svcd recognition: bitrate, correct A.bitrate, movie length, MB
- recognition of vob-files
- calculating and adding the screen ratio, when scanning the file(s) resolution
- calculating the quality of the video in a percentage (like 'AVICodec' program)
- background of the files should change to red if the desination file can't be validated, and green if it can.
- supporting subtext (import + identification): Subtexts (subtexts) are extra files (normally ended with crt, sub or idx) that by using a plugin to your film player overlays the movie with the subs.
- file-assign option to a movie (for example a .nfo-file)
- Rescanning Movie Parameters (mass files add!) without losing or duplicating the information that are already entered about these video files in the database
- automatically read out codec information on multiple files, which then are automatically linked to the correct entries
- recognition of more than one audio stream
- file manager: possibility to change the File Name and/or directory of a movie file/several movie files
- an option to add TAGs to avi files (like title, genre, director, actors)
- Scanning DVDrips on the hard drive
- rename the folder/directory containing the movie file(s) to be the same name as the movie [eg: MovieTitle (Year)]


xMM - Import

- dvd profiler import: status bar during import, more fields e.g. all the dvd related stuff should be imported
- import of .mdb databases
- Select your preferred language for scripts and have eMM hide or delete all other languages in the scripts window or folder
- importing actors: problem that a given name will have more than one hit in the actor selection list --> system where xMM will pass the movie title, where a specific actor is sourced from, to the searching criteria.
- mass file add: analize the files to know if a movie was 2 or more files or has subtitle files
- mass import: automatically import a cover for each imported movie, as long as the cover file has the same name as the imported movie
- Mass file add: option to dissable scanning subdirectories.
- DVD insert: automatic recognition of the main IFO
- mass CD/DVD add function which iterates into the disk's sub-directories
- mass add function: support of ALL extensions
- Import automation
- save import profile
- when importing movies: possibility to to choose which actors are taken to the database
- When a script has no matches or no acceptable matches, there should be a way to go back and choose another script to try in this case
- visible way to indicate that there was a potential problem in matching up the Internet Episode Name with the file name Episode Name
- save settings of the scripts despite scripts update
- option to automaticly take all Episodes


xMM - Cover Manager

- if gif-files were imported, xMM renames them to jpg. xMM should keep the original extension.
- re-order and rename all pictures
- extended label printing: CD-Label (Jewel Case/Slim Case), VHS (Cover/Front/Back/Video Label) and DVD (Front/ Back/Booklet (Amaray)/ Booklet (Super Jewel Box)/Inlay Card (Amaray)/DVD Label)
- improvement of cover sequence managment: scroll bar instead of the navigation arrows, additional sort options, additional folder operations (create, copy, move, rename)
- drag-drop function in the cover manager
- rudimetray image editing like auto rotate, select/de-select stretching ....
- more options for filename mask
- quickly import already downloaded covers
- direct acquisition of cover images or photos from a TWAIN and WIA-compatible scanner
- changing the picture oder directly in the EDIT window
- series: function for add a cover to much episodes at once
- possibility to copy covers from the cover's manager into the clipboard and vice versa
- Rename all covers to the currently selected cover filemask setting
- button forward and backward to navigate among the movies
- Activate click of the mouse to open the cover with the irfanview
- button to move the current cover to the last position too
- when adding movies from cd, XMM should directly import the Covers from the CD too
- function for pasting a cover from clipboard DIRECTLY in the first position without selecting the last cover inserted and press the "move at first position" button
- In the Cover Manager it would be very useful to have the same buttons you have in the ADD/EDIT Movie Information window: 'top, previous, next, bottom'
- fit to screen when viewing images
- Fanart should be saved to another directory and another column of database
- cover manager: delete alle marked covers, mark covers,zoom function to increase the size of the picture, link to cover print
- function to copy the cover (front, or front + back) from database to directory
- When the CoverManager window opens, the first image should be automatically selected.
- Export Covers with filename according to rules ("Director" - "Title" - "Year") to a user defined folder


xMM - Export

- SQL-export + Automatic upload on a server
- xml & on-the-fly xslt transformation to create data adjusting card files
- option to upsize the .mdb file to .mdf or even better MS SQL Server 2005
- Export to Palm / Pocket PC
- xMM should save export profiles
- Moviecard export: possibility to define the filename of the exported moviecard (like in mp3-tagging tools using the data field names as "mask")(DONE partially)
- MovieCard support for more than 50 images(DONE in XMM 7.0.3.8, HTML Card support up to 99 covers)
- Moviecard export: create an index of the exported moviecards (with ability to split index into multiple pages, navigation through both index and moviecard, ability to create index pages with cover thumbnails)
- multiple moviecards print (all in one single file)
- (x)HTML-database: select the movies for export
- Automatically keep exported collection in sync with xMM
- exporting actors database in any kind
- exporting series database in any kind
- export option to MyHtpc file
- Export automation
- print database function: options for the fields to be printed, ideally with the option to put them in a user-specified order (with a saveable name for the defined report)
- pdf export
- web export of "my entire collection"
- Free configurable printing templates (report generator)
- - "Photo browser" for actors on moviecards


xMM - Scripting

- Update of the MagicScript Reference Guide
- MagicScript Reference Guide in a more printer friendly format
- import the plot keywords from imdb
- import more dvd relevant things like languages, subtitels etc.
- option to set the order in which the functions are executed
- possibility to import zipped files (-->Darktown), unzip function
- possibility to grabb and store "non-graphic" data files (txt, pdf, wav, mp3, nfo, sub text files)
- All variables available for get/put. Especially SeriesName
- Basic string manipulation functions, i.e. any kind of substring function, on variables and not just current web input
- Descriptions of undocumented commands, such as #SUPERSCRIPT#
- Download infos from Wikipedia
- Script chains also for actors and series
- Import of alternative titles
- sorting/filtering scripts (by language, webpage, type)
- save settings of the scripts despite scripts update
- #WEBQUERY# -> Add posibility to use SEVERAL codepages for #MOVIE# constant. Or maybe add ability to use URL-Encoded strings!
- MagicScript support for populating the boxset fields.
- update options for scripts (additional columns in update window: "A" for Actor - "C" for Cover - "M" for Movie - "S" for Show (- "T" for Theme), Language: Add language name or multilingual - or none for covers only)

xMM - Search / Filter /Sorting

- More advanced search/filters using brackets, AND, OR, NOT, equal, not equal, greater than, less than, contains, wildcards(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- multi-dimensional search(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- Remember/save searches/filters, directly available in Treeview
- original title sorting: alphabetical display of original titles in the tree
- Recognition of "free" MovieIDs
- Option to sort Cast by name/role
- definition of own filters(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- ability to apply more than one filter(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- genre filter: show each movie in every assigned genre (multiple genres classification)
- finding "similar movies"
- possibility to make more customized sortings (and save them)
- Function to automatically put zeros in front of numbers in catalogueNo field, to sort correctly, or maybe make it a numerical field
- place the alphabetical sort (A B C D ...) right to the ACTORS SLOT so the people could quicker use it
- Sorting by loaned out status AND user
- using the next/previous buttons in the edit window, to go to the next/previous movie according to the sort order in the grid
- Option to Copy from field X to field Z (also in multi-edit)
- Multi-custom Treeview
- "Search for missing files on drive/directory (selectable)" to simply rebind the entries to the file found in this search
- option for searching duplicates to look through the MD5 sum
- Listing of all movies of an actor that are in the database(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- more flexible duplicate finder
- re-numbering routine with a user-defined start number
- "Sort" Function für Media Type
- sort the grid using two or more criteria(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- extend FindDuplicates to use Name + Year
- custom grouping storable and more than one of them.
- Custom sorting options for the shelves and the thumbnail view
- quick search bar(DONE in XMM 7.0)
- multi database search
- GroupBy feature in the Treeview control to treat both the Genre and Subgenre as one
- filter to display only the movies which had been added using a particular script
- full-text search(DONE in XMM 7.0.3.5, Search in all fields)
- option for "A" (similar as for "The")
- Find Duplicates should have options: [Exact] [Similar]
- Possibility to make a filter by a blank in any columns (ex: possibility to list all movies with not the column "year" filled)
- Actor search
- restore "Position" (i.e. "Starting Position" field from the DVD/VHS "Quick Edit" tab) field to main Grid
- right-click an actor and ask for all movies with that actor to be shown
- search in the field "Acquired From", add this field to the grid, as a column, connect "Friends List" to this field
- add the field 'media language' to the available fields in the select fields menu for the tree view filters


xMM - Media Center

- Media center mode(DONE PARTIALLY with support for Vista MCE in XMM 6.3.8)
- Keyboard and Remote support for Media Center
- Media Portal Plugin
- XBMC compatibility
- Plugin for Movie GUI Builder
- WDHDTV support


xMM - Online Features
- buy and sale movies from collection on a virtual marketplace
- exchange of wishlists and recommendations
- information about new releases
- price ticker/finder
- replacement of old xhtmtl-Database for online publishing of movie collections




xMM - Misc

- option to display year after the title, vs. actually changing the title
- playing movies: function button not only for the first movie file
- "colour code" --> coloured rows (for example: wanted movies:blue; loaned out movies: red ..... and so on)(DONE Partially in XMM 5.2.6.0)
- automatic warning for loaned movies (maybe in combination with colour code: green/yellow/red) with e-mail function
- Print Preview
- XMM should request the right DVD when user want to play movie directly from the database
- when deleting a movie entry the corresponding actors/directors should also be automatically deleted (with a confirmation dialog box or configurable in the options)
- option to enter automatically the BOX ID (e.g. during www import or mass add)
- Movie Pick - interactive graphical way to browse collection (like in DVD profiler)
- Conditional Formatting (like in MS Excel)
- show small flags in the grid which show the language of a movie
- Customizable Mini Statistics
- Mini Statistics: add another new field: Current Total
- option to delete double entries in the Actors table
- possibility to add pdf-files to a movie
- exchange movies through databases: option if movie should be copied or moved
- exchange movies through databases: all colums from my grid should be displayed and should be sortable
- menu or a key combination to expand all the lists in the left panel
- the editbox should be cleared and ready to accept new entry by default and after a "save" (or "enter")
- Right click on an actor name from list in both quickedit and edit should have option to both add actor to database + get data from internet
- ability to save a current view as a tab
- renumbering possibilities for catalognr.
- resize the thumbnails to make them smaller or larger when viewing them
- multiple clone function
- clear all fields & Covers from a record
- statistic: genre and subgenre should not be counted seperately
- Dacal carousel support
- Custom/User Media Icons
- Director and Actor statistics
- Unicode support for the MovieCard page rendering
- Windows Home Server Add-in
- Copy contents of "Field X" to "Field Z" - it should work with any two fields
- Multiple Delete contents of "Field X" (any field)
- Allow "Change Field Content" by dragging a Grid entry to a different Group in Treeview
- Decide Max Number of backups to keep
- default template for adding new movies, where we could enter default data that would be pre-pasted into their respective fields each time we add a movie
- quickedit windows for actors, boxsets and episodes
- html card for boxsets
- "split screen" boxets/movies, series/episodes for html cards
- option like "Do not ask for import for these movies anymore!" or "Don't ask again."
- Preconfigured Data Insertion
- Allow "Change Field Content" by dragging a Grid entry to a different Group in Treeview. (If tree view shows "Year", dragging an entry from the Grid in "1978" should change the film's year accordingly.
- update Category in "Edit Multiple"
- function to rebuild actors database from existing movies
- function like "Change word in all fields" in "Multiple Changes"...
- option, that all german special characters like ö,ä,ü and ß (and the corosponding large letters Ö,Ä and Ü) are automatically are replaced with ae for ä, oe for ö, ue for ü and ss for ß.
- customisation of shelves view, e.g. genre filter(DONE in XMM 7.0.4.7 with quicksearch)
- Split appearance of person in actor card to categories - for example actor/director/writer...
- after a deletion, XMM should select the previous entry from the list (or the new first entry, when the deleted movie was the first one)

Edited by - Mawu on 14 Oct 2009 18:49:27

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Great Mawu,

your wishlist is really useful. I always put all wishes in a text file, but this list is useful also for people that come to XMM world just now

Thank you!

Alessio

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I wish Alessio had a couple of twin brothers to help him with all that.
;- )=

Nevertheless a GOD list

Dif-tor heh smusma!
[Live Long and Prosper!]

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Not yet, I am thinking to clone myself, the things to make are really much

Alessio

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a back-up database feature would be nice. Should also be configurable to make scheduled back-ups, like everytime EMM is started/shut down/whatever.

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OK, it's a cool and useful suggestion.

Thank you!

Alessio

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Great list

I have a few suggestions to the "xMM - Scripting" section.
1) An option to set the order in which the functions are executed.
It would speed up the execution because you can avoid some instances of #OPENNEWWEB#-#RESTOREWEB# which slows down the script engine.
For example:
#FUNCTIONSORDER#=MOVIETITLE,DIRECTOR,GENRE
etc. etc.
or have a special section which the script engine reads and executes in the order you specify:
#FUNCTIONSORDER#
MOVIETITLE
DIRECTOR
GENRE
#ENDFUNCTIONSORDER#
and if it's missing then the script engine could use a default order (like it does now).
I know that people might have deselected #ACTORS#, #DIRECTORS# etc. but you could just have an #IF# check a variable to find out if the current page is the right one or not.
For example:


#IF# #37#==#00#
// The current page is "Main Details" open the "Combined Details"
#OPENNEWWEB#=#36#
#ENDIF#



2) A "special" function in the script that always gets executed first before the other functions (well after the right movie is selected or found of course) regardless of what the user selected. It would make it easier to update/maintain the script.
If for example you made a script for iMDB then you could place the code to get the "Site ID" (WEB ID) there and store it in a variable instead of putting the same code in every function.

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I like FB's idea of a begin/end concept in the script

#BEGINIMPORT#, and #ENDIMPORT# would be great to have. They just get called automatically before the first data import block (like #TITLE#), and after the last import block.

This would allow setup or cleanup code to run.

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Cool Idea!

I will try to do quickly, I hope for the next release but it's hard.

Thank you!

Alessio

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Hi Alessio...

Firstly:
Thanks for all the time and effort you put into xMM. Not many apps around these days that the writer adds so many new updates and new utilities to on a regular basis. I paid my $10 and you have stuck to your word of life time upgrades. You have impressed me with the effort you put into your work on eMM and how you take the time to stop by here (the forum) for user input and answers. Good job dude...

OK,,, A couple suggestions/requests for eMM:

1)minor) Resizable Winows for... "Add/Edit Window" & "Script Chain Editor" & "MagicScript Import Engine" Or all windows...

2) The Movie List:
When viewing "Movies Title" ad a drop down box or + or maybe even just highlight any series or sequels.
EXAMPLE:
Back To The Future 1 2 3... Show only Back To The Future in the list and have a + to click on to show the rest of the series. Or show all 3 movies in a row as xMM does now, but maybe just have them highlighted in a box or allow a selectable size of font and or color.

3) Question: Is there any way to read movie info off a retail DVD? Same as it can Read AVI / MPEG etc,,,? If it is possable then maybe add the "Read Files" button to the main screen so you can just pop a DVD in and hit "Read Files" and have it auto fill movie title and any info that might be able to be taken from a retail DVD...


That's enough for now. I could go on, but I'll save some ideas/requests for Pro eXtreme Movie Manager 3.0 Ultra!

Thanks Alessio...

Rick
Edited by - Rick on 23 Aug 2004 00:11:48

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Thank you very much for your appreciation!!!

1) I don't know if will be possible for all windows, I will try

2) Good and cool idea! I will think to this.

3) You can read some information of a DVD, but you must manually select the IFO file inside the DVD. I am sorry, at this time is the only way.

Thank you again!

Alessio

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oops. I see now I should have posted my message to the main topic (Suggestions / New Features) I just saw "Wish List" and jumped in...

That's what happens when you post "12am" messages after a long days work...
Edited by - Rick on 29 Aug 2004 09:05:28

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ODBC support is my number one wish.

I even tried linking an Access database via linked tables to a SQL server. It kind of works but EMM detects it as an old database and attempts to import it (which it does fine).

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Alessio,

one of the easiest things you can give us back is an zipped update of your XMM. I don´t like to run an installer just for updating. The installer copies all scripts and so on to the directories...this I dont like because I just use 5 or 6 different scripts.
Please give us the zipped "eXtreme Movie Manager.exe" file back.

PLEASE!!

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OK, I will do in the next release, but if I will add a new OCX or DLL I must make an install software for register it.

Alessio

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Hi

I just tried your program for the first time, and it is perfect in many ways, but for me i would like to see these things in the app before i switch over:

1. (The most critical) = Smarter movie/actor lookup:

When you have imported the selected movie from IMDB as i prefer, you already have links for the 100% correct actors. Then the script should remember this information, when importing actors in the 2nd stage - then the script will not be confused which actor is in the movie. F.x. i look up "10 Things I Hate About You". There is 49 Actors/Actresses. After importing the movie, the actor script stops many times asking which actor is in. I investigate which is the right one and choose so. Even after this trouble if does not put a web-link for the actor in almost 50% of the cases - that gives very little info on those actors. I know that whis option will make the import take a lot longer - but you should build it in as optional.

2. When 'Reading Files' from HDD og CD/DVD, it would be great to be able to select 'All Files In Each Subfolder is same movie' - personally i have a folder for each movie.

3. Having 'Select All' and 'Select None' boxes when importing/updating information about movies/actors.

4. Nicer WinXP-like user-interface.

5. Regognize files like .srt files (and others) .nfo files f.x. and use this info when reading files. F.x. it could say "Subtitles found, which language is it ?" Or perhaps it can even find out by itself. Also a default option = English could be great. Or an option: "Always import .nfo files" Then you could read the .nfo file inside the EMM.

Basically i would like to add all movies on a media with 1 click after i set the nescesary options, and the next thing i will see is "Import Complete".

Some examples for options:

- More file extentions to choose from.
- Import .nfo/.txt file if available
- Treat each subfolder as a movie
- Treat movie-file below XXXXX KB as sample movie / Trailer.
- Use cover picture in import directory (if available) as default (instead of replacing with a perhaps less quality one from IMDB.)
- or Use cover picture in import directory if bigger than the one from the web import.
- Follow actor link on IMDB when importing movie, to find the correct actor (SLOW)


Best Regards

Goa
Denmark

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I'm new to EMM, and it's certainly the best I've tried so far -- it comes SO close to being perfect for me.

I'd like to see a MASS CD/DVD Add function which iterates into the disk's sub-directories. I organize my movies into directories when they are multi TV episodes, or split encodes, or movies with subtitles. As it is now, EMM skips those over as if they didn't exist.

Also in MASS Add function I'd like to see ALL extensions supported. My movies ending with .mov .3ivx or .mp4 are just not found. I don't particularly care if the file details can't be read from inside those files, but skipping them is an even worse situation, and frankly, all I need is to import the title.

Those two functions are showstoppers for me. If resolved, I'll gladly register EMM because it will then do what I need.

I would also like to see a simple script which gets ONLY the IMDB id # for the movie. This way I can MASS import many movies, quickly verify their titles in IMDB (sometimes you need to sit at the computer and comfirm multi-matches or partial matches, which can take a very long time if you use the full FreakBrother script for example). After all titles confirmed, I can safely run the FreakBrother script on all for a few hours unattended.

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@clokwise
You mentioned that you wanted a simple script to quickly import only the "iMDB ID".
That is actually unnecessary because you can specify what the program should import.
Unfortunately there's a bug in the program so you can't select only the "Site ID" (iMDB ID) at the moment.

But follow these steps:
1) Click the "WWW" (Import from internet with MagicScript) button.
2) Click the "Import Configuration" tab. Here is where you specify what the program should import.
3) Now uncheck everything here except the "Site ID" (iMDB ID) and "Tagline".
4) Click the "Apply Changes" button to save your changes.
5) Now select the movies you want to import and run the import with the iMDB script like you usually do
This way the import gets the "Site ID" which can be used when you run the "complete import".

If you need help to set up the program to automaticly run the "complete import" then have a look under the heading "Using the script for updating:" in this thread:
http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=772

Just don't forget to select all those boxes again on the "Import Configuration" tab before you run the complete import

EDIT:
I've changed the instructions since there was a problem when the old ones were used
Edited by - FreaKBrother on 08 Jan 2005 22:24:28

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Is it possible to make importing my old database, which is saved in Excel (CD number, movie namie, language, runtime, etc...) - I have more than 500 movies and it would be a little bit hard to make everything (create new base) from a starting point again.

P.S. my movie list you can download at http://kepykla.at.tut.by/kepykla_tut_by.zip

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@liudnux

Why do you not load your list into excel and make and csv-export? The csv-file can be imported very easy into extreme Movie Manager.

BTW: wrong thread for your question

bye
Mawu

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hi,

and thank you for the great list!

two suggestions:

1) multiple changes window: select more movies at once (holding SHIFT ).... today i had to select 200 movies ... :( --> this selection possibility would be great for the movielist in normal view too. this would solve some problems.

2) possibility to rezize the list window .... i collect many series and have problems to see the episodenames: CDDVDID - SERIESNAME - EPISODENUMBER - EPISODENAME --> a possibility to change the view (list above the MOVIECARD) would give us more space for names and additional information ....)


thank you for your work


cortexwave
Edited by - cortexwave on 09 Jan 2005 01:52:24

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Simple Wishlist:

Can you add a simple wishlist to the program? I don't want to added movies that I don't have yet. It gets confusing when I export a list out to my friend on movies I don't have. It's confusing to me when I see it on my list and wonder if I really have that movie or not. Maybe something simple to keep track of movie on a wishlist. I have bad memory and always forget a movie that was thinking about getting but never wrote it down. If you want to make it fancy, add another tab for Wishlist after the Movie and Actors Tab so they won't be exported or mixed in with other movies.

Thanks!

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DJKevion, can't you just start a new database with your wanted list?

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Hi! A feature I'd like to find in Cover manager is a "Scan image" or something similar to acquire directly from a scanner Cover images or photos... :-)

I read the Cortexwave's "miniwishlist" and I can say I'd love to find those features too

Keep on doing the great work!

Alex "Gus" Gusmini
Edited by - alexgus on 06 Feb 2005 16:33:22

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Hi,

You are right, this function can be really useful.

I will try to add it in future release.

Alessio

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Add Open CD\DVD drive button on the icon bar. Would help not to press button on the drive when cataloging the disks

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Another feature suggestion - duplicates finder. When you have larger movies db, you want to know if you have duplicates of the same movie

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Thank you Mbaram, I have add your request to my work-list.

Bye!

Alessio

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Hi,

I see here in this forum many proposals. Comparing to
other, xMM is already a very nice program with many
"bells and whistles". But, unfortunately it lucks some
significant conceptual things, which i would rate as
"the must" for a such program. For further success of xMM
on the market I think that the following four options are
the most important :

- Clear separation of "film data" from "medien data".
Support for multiple medien for one film without duplicating
of film data.

All Movie data now is putted together. It would be more
usefull to put a clear separation on "film data" and
"medien data". For example, I have many films on
different medien: DVD (standard), DVD (copie),
DivX (English), DivX (German), VHS, etc.

- Support for multiple audio streams pro media.

Now it is quite difficult to archive media with
several audio streams. It would be usefull to have
information for every audio stream that is available -
Codec, Audio Bitrate, Channels and Language.
The program should automatically read this information
from the media. For example, I have many DVDs and CDs
in DivX format with two audio streams in different bitrates
and different languages. Possibity to arrange the database
according to this information is also very important.

- Unicode support.

Or any other possibility to have descriptions
on many languages. For example, German and Russian.

- Slow.

For example, standard sorting of the database according
to different attributes. Ant is much more faster.

Best wishes,
Digger

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Hi Digger,

Thank you very much for your suggestions. I must admit that all you write is really, I must improve XMM very much.

I hope to do it as soon as possible.

Thank you again!

Alessio

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Matroska (.MKV) support, please!

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Don't know if it's allreay inhere somewhere, but when I want to see the first cover by clicking on it in the main window it opens up real big.
Since my 1st picture is always a scan of the original dvdcover I never get to see the complete picture.
Is it possible to show the picture at my max screen resolution ?
Or maybe make the image viewer scalable so I can scroll to see the rest of the picture.

Thx

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Hi Henry,

I will try to make the "resize" in next release, I think it's better if I make a fullscreen window without scrollbars.

Bye!

Alessio

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Brain Fart!

Hi Alessio...

I just realized that there is already a solution to the below "quote" request!

In the main view there are the Movies/Actors tabs. All you have to do is select "Serie's Name / Title" in the Movies tab. As long as you have entered the series name in the Movie/Normal section then this works nicely sorting TV series and movie sequels...

RE:

quote:Originally posted by Rick

Hi Alessio...

2) The Movie List:
When viewing "Movies Title" ad a drop down box or + or maybe even just highlight any series or sequels.
EXAMPLE:
Back To The Future 1 2 3... Show only Back To The Future in the list and have a + to click on to show the rest of the series. Or show all 3 movies in a row as xMM does now, but maybe just have them highlighted in a box or allow a selectable size of font and or color.


Thanks Alessio...

Rick



--------- SRAtM ---------
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open Close CD-tray

pretty simple
_http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/misc/misc/cd-rom/article.php/c3739/

Also i'm wondering if others experience lagging in the whole program as the DB gets bigger, i have some 1800 movies in it and i think the program is quite slow to react to "Add" and also when i have imported data from web i see windows opening/closing.

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Hi

- A Wishlist in a new Tab would be great.

- For the WWW Import it would be great to select a BOX ID to import
the Movie Infos for all movies in this Box.
So you must not select all Movies from the new Box manuell for the Import.

- For the Mass Add with Movietitle i wish an option to enter
automatically the BOX ID.


Bye!

MST81

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hi alessio
could you please make the custom 10 field bigger (e.g. like the custom 11 field)?
because i want to use velibors imdb script with goofs and trivia import but i would like to have the trivia in custom 10 and the goofs in custom 11 but the custom 10 field is too small..

and another suggestion: how about renaming the "studio" field to "production company" like it is in imdb?

thx
cybernoid

>..my finger's on the 'kill' switch...<
-Orgy, Fiction (Dreams in Digital)

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quote:Originally posted by Veikko

open Close CD-tray

pretty simple
_http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/misc/misc/cd-rom/article.php/c3739/

Also i'm wondering if others experience lagging in the whole program as the DB gets bigger, i have some 1800 movies in it and i think the program is quite slow to react to "Add" and also when i have imported data from web i see windows opening/closing.



I have 2000 movies in the base and I'm experiencing problems when I'm importing data from net. It's really slow sometimes.

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Hi Guys,

Finally I am come back

XMM is slow in importing scripts from ONLINE mode or importing Movies information?

Thank you,

Alessio

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Is it possible to make mouse scroll working within Grid View ?
And also I would like if you could make Exporting to Excel a little bit better ... for example if Movie ID , Title , Director etc... would create a column for themself .... it's a litte disturbing to see everything in one column !

Thanks In Advance
Edited by - eretron on 14 Oct 2005 05:43:59

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Hi,

The MOuse Scroll function depends mainly to the Mouse drivers and Operating System. In my PC with XP sp2 and Logitech mouse all is OK, in others systems not. I am not sure how to fix this.

About the Excel export : this function should works exactly how you asked, one column for every fields. The export produce a CSV files that excel should open correctly.

Please send to me this CSV file, I will try to find the problem.

Thank you,

Alessio

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I would like to send you csv file ... but i don't know your e-mail adress ...

I'm using XP with SP2 also ... with microsoft intelli explorer 2.0 and Microsoft intellipoint 5.2 drivers ...

Until you send me your's e-mail here is a screenshot!

Best Regards

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Hi,

Just send it to

alessioviti _at_ binaryworks.it

Bye!

Alessio

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Hi, first of all, I love this tool. Thanks a lot for your great work.
I do have a question though:

Is it possible to change an exisiting MovieID?
I guess it was in Release 4.8

I just deleted a lot of old movies and am not able to insert new ones with a now unused MovieID.

Thanks, Maxx

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hi,

i am also very happy with your movie manager :-). bought it today and
i realy like the many possibilities it contains.

one wish:

it would be usefull not only to jump to the first movie beginning
with the letter pressed on the keyboard (actual pressing for example
the R-Key jumps to the first movie like Rambo). instead it would be helpfull to type more letters for example "run" then the programm
should jump to the movie "running man" which is the first movie starting with "Run" in my list.

if it will be not much work or easy to include i would be very happy with this feature included in one of your future updates


Update - i add another wish here:

is it possible to set a default media type. i only have dvds so setting dvd to default and not having to choose it from the listfield (divx, vhs, laserdisc ...) would be great.

thanks
avi
Edited by - avi on 18 Apr 2006 23:10:03

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I would like to use a bar code reader to scan the bar code and then use that info to search the net for the movie info. will save everyone hours of typing. thank you for all your hard work.
Doc.

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I love the backup database in v5.2.x.x and I know the restore database function is pending.
How about making the restore function able to selectively restore a specific backup, and a function to selectively delete old backups. This would be very usefull especially if someone has the XMM set to make a backup everytime it starts as i do.

I love XMM
Thanks.

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Thank you suggestion Xtracker, I have add your request my work-list

Bye!

Alessio

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**1. In the "Add Original DVD" function.
When typing the titles in, your hands are already on the keyboard so how about adding the
ability to use the <Enter> key to read the drive info and save instead of just only the
mouse on the button. Base the cursor in the Title Entry Box so that titles can be added
without having to reach for the mouse every time except to select the drive or to close the
window.

Probably a little petty but more keyboard support would be awesome instead of strictly mouse orientated. Some of us grew up in DOS and old IBM keypunch systems and can move around a program with a keyboard faster than someone with a mouse.

I love XMM and your work is awesome.
TrackerX

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Good suggestion, I will do this.

Thank you!

Alessio

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Hi
5.x - I miss the basic filters that were available in 4.x.
Are they in 5.x (and I am not looking in the right place?) or are they on the 'to do' list?

Filters would be much better use of the space currently occupied by mini-statistic which is 'nice to know' but not necessary for permanent display.
KR
R

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Hey Im back same old requeasts though
#TAKEDUALLAYER#
#TAKEDUALSIDE#
#TAKECHAPTERS#
#TAKENUMBER# as in 2 disk special edtions number of disks

"Computer games don't effect kids; I mean if
Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkend
rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic
music" (Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc 1989

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What about the option for searching duplicates to look through the MD5 sum

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Good idea, I have add it to my work-list

Thank you!

Alessio

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Many congratulations for this very excellent software. this is wat I was looking for since long time.
I've, if possible 2 wishes to be implemented for this sw:

1) Is it possible to have the possibility to manage multiple values for fields like the 'genre', in order to classify a movie as belongings to multiple genre (e.g. classic, animation, kids, ...)?

2) when an interface like media center?

thanks in advance.

rpal

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Hi Rpal!

1- At this time you can add more genres by sepatare with "," or you can insert the "main" genre in the genre field and all others in the subgenre

2-I am working on it, but it take very much time. I don't know when will be ready.

Thank you!

Alessio

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Thanks Alessio,
related to multiple genres, I've tried with several separators (including the comma), but it generates a new genre (e.g. "Action, Fiction") and do not classify the movie under 2 different genres.
thanks.

rpal

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Ops, you are right Rpal, I haven0t think to this problem. I will try to find a solution.

Thank you!

Alessio

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I remember seeing this request but can't find it in this thread so I'll post it:

It's great that there is a button in the main menu to import a picture from the clipboard. But it would be MUCH better if this picture could automatically be put in the first place!
After all, why would I go through all the trouble of making a picture for the movie without wanting to see it when I click on the movie?

Especially in regard to the problem with the slow XMM (see http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1932 ) this is REALLY time-consuming but could probably be easily resolved!

Also, it would be nice (not important though since right now the importing of movie files doesn't work anyways) if one could select several files at once when you search for files in the "Search your Hard Disk for Movies" option.


I noticed that you have "movie id renumbering" on your list as still missing from XMM 4.8 - I see there is an option in 5.2.8 but it doesn't seem to work so getting this to work would be as well (but also not that important imho ).

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Hi,

In the "Quick Edit View" --> "Starring" here are listed names of actors of the movie currently selected.

What I need when I select an actor and do a right click is to have another option already available in others tab but not here:

"Show all movies of this actor"

It will save me some clicks to select this option here rather than in another tab.

Thanks you very much Alessio. :)

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'Lookup CD/DVD for Movies' should remember the last selectetd drive and start importing automaticly.
(now i first have to select the drive and then press manually the start button).

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Done, will be on 5.3.7.0

Bye!

Alessio

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Some suggestions for exchange movies through databases.
1) Is this just a copy or a move of films ? Maybe there should be an option/two menu items.
Because i want to move films from one DB to another. Now it seems only to be a copy.
After the copy i delete the copied films from the initial DB and than all infos from the movie are removed from the new database, too. That's not good ;)
2)Now it only displays title and movieid for the movies but it should display all colums from my grid.

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3) The colums should be sortable like in the normal grid.

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After i select Check for Updates from the help menu i have to manually press the Check for Updates Button in the Dialog.
This is one step too much ;)

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Hi Carsten!

1) at this time is just a copy.

For 2,3, and last suggestion, I will try to do it soon.

Thank you!

Alessio

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[English]

Hello, excused for my bad English, I wish myself an old function from the 4.8er. In the record sheet "medium" with the fields "codecs" "audio format" and "sub-title" drop down carries out, like that as it with the "language" is already present. Which I practically can select things already first writing in and this later only must. I hope which one it to understand can. Yours sincerely Casper


[Deutsch / German]

Hallo,

entschuldigt für mein schlechtes Englisch, ich wünsche mir eine alte Funktion aus der 4.8er.
Und zwar in der Karteikarte „Medium“ bei den Feldern „Codec“ „Tonformat“ und „Untertitel“ ein Drop-Down leiste, so wie es bei der „Sprache“ schon vorhanden ist.
Das ich praktisch selbst Sachen schon vorab Reinschreiben kann und diese später nur noch auswählen muss. Ich hoffe das man es verstehen kann.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Casper

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Hi,

Could it be possible to have a menu or a key combination to expand all the lists in the left panel?

Geronimo

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OK Geronimo,

I will try to do this soon.

Thank you!

Alessio

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Hi Alessio,

first of all, thanks for all the hard work you're putting into xMM.

I have a question to wich I can't find the answer anywhere on the forum.

Is it possible to select the collums I wish to print out my collection ?

If not, I would like to make this a topic on your wishlist.

Thanks
Ronald

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HI SnakEyes,

No, at this time is not possible with the Print function.

I have add it in my work-list

Thank you!

Alessio

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Save export profile is on the list.
I just wanted to say that save import profile should also be on the list.

But the list needs some kind of priority ordering:
(after all, Alessio's cloning machine is broken at the moment...)

For instance, I'd say that support for multiple media per title, and a drop-down list everywhere appropriate are both more important than saving profiles.
(on the other hand, saving profiles is fairly simple coding wise since the complicated part is already done)
Edited by - caunt on 14 Nov 2006 00:23:26

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@Caunt

quote:But the list needs some kind of priority ordering:



Only Alessio can do that. I tried to influence the priority ordering a little bit by setting the "Still Missing from xMM 4.8" at the top


quote:](after all, Alessio's cloning machine is broken at the moment...)



Are you sure? 10 updates the last two months by one person?

quote:For instance, I'd say that support for multiple media per title, and a drop-down list everywhere appropriate are both more important than saving profiles



The "multiple media per title" feature is on the list from the beginning. I think it was my own suggestion and it is a bit problematic, because you will have to change the whole database structure.

Drop-down lists seem to be on the way. By doing this Alessio can maybe pick up the other suggestions concerning data fields like a better handling of multi entry fields (languages, subtitles, dvd features)or a bigger field for dvd features (e.g. a table within the field with all features listed).

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Hi Alessio,

Could you add new choises for "Picture Mask" (General Settings) ? Now, we have only two options:
1. %MovieID%-%Title%
2. %MovieID%

It will great for me to have another one: "%Title%".

Thank you very much,

Gabi

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Hi Gabi,

I have delete this option for a reason: if you have two movies with the same name they will have the same pictures!

For me is not a problem add this option, but please be sure you want really use it.

Alessio

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Hi,

OK, I understand the reason. You can leave default option "%MovieID%-%Title%" and %MovieID% at third position. I'm really sure that I want to use... :)

Thank you again,

Gabi

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This has been mentioned before, somewhere...

- Multiline field, preferably scrollable, for "Features".

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Thank you Mistiqq!

Alessio

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Hi, i dont know is it possible that the image viewer(from cover manager)show hi-res covers in some resized mode so that the image dont splash over the whole screen when someone try to see cover.

Thx in advance

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Hi Jazzy,

I am working to fix this problem, I hope to finish soon.

Thank you!

Alessio

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I would love to have EMM show the proper date (IE- 11/23/06, instead of Saturday 23, 2006) for the 'Aired Date' within TV Series. I notice the website "TV.COM" itself even uses that format, as i have been using that site for a while to get my info manually when naming file's and such, but some reason EMM displays differently still.

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Hi djdafreund,

I am trying to find a "workaround" for this.

As you can see in TV.COM, the air date in format "12/12/2006" are only in episode list.

If you enter in a episode details, the air date is in format "Saturday 23, 2006". This is the reason why engine take the extended format.

Alessio

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Ahh, gotcha. I never used that, only air date's within the episode to gather the correct name of the episode. That's making sense now that you mentioned that. Glad to hear your trying to get that working. Thanks!!! Good luck with it, i definitely use that format a lot myself, so hopefully it won't cause you too much trouble.

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HI! Is it possible to add a dropdown menu to the following fields:

CODEC
AUDIOFORMAT

into the quick edit and edit form

and then customable these values in the dropdown menus like genres ect.
this would be the only thing im missing in xmm 5.xx and i would upgrate to 5.xx PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS ;)

GREETINGS

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Hello,

I've been searching around for a movie manager with some specific features and this one is as close to what I'm looking for as I've found. It's missing one main thing (for me) though.

I'm running XMM on computer connected to my flat panel TV. I've got a few hundred movies and I want people (myself included) to be able to browse my movie collection by covers -- basically like a jukebox -- and be able to select a movie and play it. The thumbnail view is close, but the images would need to be bigger and there would be a selector controlled by the cursor keys. "Enter" would play the selected movie.

So two questions:

One, does the ability to do this already exist? (some kind of "jukebox" mode?)

Two, if it doesn't, do I have a snowball's chance in hell of looking forward to it in the near future? Depending on the container used for the thumbnails, adding a cursor may or may not be difficult either. I imagine the difficulty of resizing the thumbnails would depend on how it was coded (could be really easy or a big pain). I'm sure you all have a ton of things to work on, too.

Thanks!

- Som

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Hi Alessio,

Would it be possible to add a "loaned to" box to the tv series like the one for the movies ? at the moment i write the persons name in the story field on the first episode of the series (ie box set series of 24 season 1 12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M.) so i can remember who borrowed it

Many thanks
Simon

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Hi Alessio,

I have 2 requests (small ones I think :) )
- In Media tab, the Subtitles field is a textbox could you change this to a listbox where we can select the language (single subtitle is fine)
- All my movies have the same Media Language and the same Subtitles, would it be possible to change the default value. Whenever we would add a movie these fields will have a default value. This would be very handy.

Thanks and keep up the great work!
btw. Happy Newyear!!

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Hello,could you implent the feature to see how mutch space the movies take into the mini statistic?That would be great because i wanna write in all films the size so that i can see how mutch mb/GB/TB i have. Thank you very mutch

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I had no time reading this topic, but a small feature is missing for me. At "Media Types", there should be some other options, like these:
- DivX DVD
- DivX CD
- XviD DVD
- XviD CD.

Simy

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Hi Alessio, I would like to congradulate you again for your work and continious efforts. You have done a good job as many others mentioned here, yet you should never be tired to be aknowledged now and then :)

OK. here are my suggestions:

1) The program is defenetaly needs WISH LIST TAB and DIRECTOR TAB. In my oppenion they both are a MUST.
2) In Thumbnails window thumbnails would use little tittles under them.
3) Maybe a help video for writing a script.

Obviously through thousand wished and demands you must feel very overwhelmed and tired maybe even curse the day you decided to have youeself a database program and then put it out there! Well, to late now:) I wish I could help you with writing some codes but I dunno how. So all I, we can do is to point out what you can do to perfect eMM and wish you good luck and patients so that is what I will do:) Take care and may the force be with you.

cem

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Okay, as I promised in bug reporting here is my seriously time saving suggestion:) When you check the boxes about take the direct links automatically and also when you check both both boxes for 'skip the script error' and 'skip the serious script error' You still get an error or warning window which will let you say 'OK' or 'RETRY' and 'CANCEL' time to time... I always say 'OK' or 'RETRY' and to do that hundreds of time I have wait a couple hours with it. Wouldn't it be great if there was an option to pre-conditioning those windows? So you set it up and it will download what ever it can without you baby sitting 'MagicScript Import Engine' and when you are back everything would be cooked and served:) And if a movie is wrong then you simply correct it singly.
Let me know what you think of it.
Thanx in advance

cem

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Is it possible to add the icons for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray in media type ?
I added them myself but i cant find a way to add the official icons.

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My 2 cent to the topic about "Media" field.

I am using this field now for saving information about the used container format, e.g.
AVI, MKV, OGG, DVD,.... It is more important to know than DVD+R or DVD-R, because it
defines if you can play this media with some device or not.

There is also no other place for that in XMM now and Both are quite equivalent now and
here only makes sence to distinguish between single, double layer, double side and double side/double layer.

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Alessio,

Software is working well still, my thanks for your hard work.

Just a quick suggestion which I would think wouldn't take too much to add in but would make things a little easier is this.

When running an import for movie information, with quick mode disabled, the information would be greatly improved if the tile found (by the IMDB search for example) was displayed in the section to the left (along with ID, Title, Status).

Currently when it finds a Direct Link the only information given is "1 Direct Link Only" and there is no way to check if this was correct or not before moving onto the next Phase (downloading).

A further improvement would allow an item to be selected from the list and the link cleared or searched again...

Cheers. Tim

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Great tool!

How about adding entries for BD-ROM & HD-DVD to the media type listing?

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Could be movie list be browsable by typing the name of the movie like it used to be.

press b - goes to 1st movie that starts with 'b..'
press be - goes to 1st movie that starts with 'be..'

etc.

That feature was very very handy

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Hi Veikko,

Should already work, I will check if there is a bug.

Ale

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Would it be possible to have a default media format set when adding a new movie. Most of mine are DVD so If it were already set to dvd I'd save lots of time changing it :)

// or just have the program remember the last format selected.
Edited by - Veikko on 16 Oct 2007 15:33:39

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quicker access to pal and ntsc format fields for dvd formats. some sort of check box or something for the two standards.

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please add integration with Media-Portal's movie database./or make another movie-plugin.

BTW: you can consider to skip making a "media center" yourself, I think I saw it somewhere, the best is opensource and free alredy, just make a plugin for MediaPortal.

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Hello,

I just bought the AllMyMovies software a month ago. Too bad. Yours seems to be much more versatile and complete.
Nevertheless I would need a few answers in order to buy this one.
- Is it possible to import movie titles through scanning a specific directory on the HDD but NOT based on the files contained, just the subdirectories names? The way I do it the directory that contains the movie, any kind of movie (BR, HD-DVD, mkv, avi, wmv-hd, etc...), has the most accurate name.
- Is it possible to have a "one click solution" to import, say, IMDB data and cover for a list of movies without being asked to select a choice etc...? Even if I have to correct some flaws later on?

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Hi Xtrips!

1)At this time XMM read the filename, not the subfolder name. Of course XMM search also in the subfolder but the name of the movie will be equal to the First filename (if the movie has more that one file). Maybe I can try to add this function in future.

2)Yes, there is already this opportunity, you have to select the "Quick Script" to use. from the Button "internet"->"quick update with default script"->"set default script" and after "Start now".

Thank you!

Alessio

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Hello,

Thanks for answering. Ok for answer 1, I will wait.
As for answer 2, it's not true, as far as I checked again and again.
The wizard still stops at most entries to ask me to "Take selected Links".
Can't it just take the most obvious one and keep going?

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Hi,

maybe i have not understand : of course you have to select, for every movie, the directlink (i mean the link of the exac movie to import).

Alessio

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i'm eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!

eric

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would it be possible, that XMM remembers when i've maximized the xmm window, so that he will strat next time with same windowpositions and size?
Today i have to maximiz my window everytime, or is this a little bug?

...NIZE TOOHL! <- THX CSUNO

EDIT:

Also, it would be nice, when the window of the "MagicScript Engine" (when you import some...) remebers the positions of the seperators, which i have tho resize everytime i open a new import window...

hope you can follow me ;-)
Edited by - csuno on 08 Dec 2007 11:42:40

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Hello

Just stopping in to say hi to y'all as a new member.

Aaron

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Hello

Just stopping in to say hi to y'all as a new member.

Aaron

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I have 2 Suggestions for your excellent program :

1. The option to make the MD5 hash window not stay on top of all other windows. When I import many movies at once I like to go and do something else while it is scanning the files, but that makes it difficult.

2. This is harder to implement I think. It would be nice, when importing TV episodes from the internet, to have the option to automatically have the script reset the episode number back to 1 every time the season changes. I do not name the first episode of season 2 as episode 25, for example.

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quote:Originally posted by Veikko

Could be movie list be browsable by typing the name of the movie like it used to be.

press b - goes to 1st movie that starts with 'b..'
press be - goes to 1st movie that starts with 'be..'

etc.

That feature was very very handy



This still doesn't work for me. ^

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quote:Originally posted by cem

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1) The program is defenetaly needs WISH LIST TAB and DIRECTOR TAB. In my oppenion they both are a MUST
...
cem


Hi Alessio!
I think cem's idea is very good. I support it, 'cause I think many movie fan has favourite directors, and it could be good if I can see which Lynch movie is missing from my collection
Respectively

Simy

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Hi all :)
I've got 2 suggestions:
1. Icons for x264, BluRay and HDDVD, since I've got quite a HD-collection :)
2. A possibility to use .ico-Files as covers.

It would be great if you guys could implement this.

Greetz, mancer

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would be good to import information about new video formats. like .mkv and .mp4 i.e. hdrips

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I would like to be able to select the drive - particulary a network drive - and directory where XMM stores it's various parts. As it seems to work now, XMM wants everything to be somewhere on the C:\ drive. I keep the 'My Documents' file on a network drive, XMM wants to find 'My Documents' somewhere on the C:\ drive. I keep my movies on another network drive and with the current version (6.2.3.0) of XMM after I search the movie drive to find new movies then try to use one of the scripts to add information from the internet, XMM can no longer find the scripts and re-sets causing me to have to reload the database and redo all of my customizations. As near as I can tell, these problems are caused because XMM expects things to be found in particular places - places that cannot be set by the user. I would be real helpful to be able to specify where the various parts are found.

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A feature I would like to see is the ability to scan drives to locate movies which are already in the database but have been moved to new locations.

This feature I feel is useful especially when having several removable HARD Drives that may get added to system but recieve a new drive letter.

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Since this is my first post I just want to say that XMM is the very best of all the manager/database software I have tried. Thanks for the excellent work.

One thing that I personally need from XMM is an updated "Export to (x)HTML-DB". Currently the feature only works with IE and has a few issues when you browse for movies. It will stop as you browse and you have to use the back button to continue browsing. Also the "movie title" never updates so all my movies say "movie title" at the top. The code was created in 2003 as posted on the template itself. Not sure if it has since been updated.

It would be great to have the (x)HTML-DB updated so that it was functional with IE7 and Firefox 2.0.

Thanks again for your efforts and nice work.

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Ca we have In TV Shows Field "Date Seen" for each episode

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Hi,

I will try to add this field asap.

Thank you!

Alessio
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I just purchased XMM and it has just about everything I have been looking for in a movie manager. A couple of things are missing for my needs though, one of them is on your list:

-XMM should have an option to use folder names as movie name and include all video files inside that folder (including sub folders contents) for import.

Almost all my media is on DVD and it is in the form of

D:\My Movie (2008)\movie-1.avi
D:\My Movie (2008)\movie-2.avi
D:\My Movie (2008)\folder.jpg

The above fix would make my importing life greatly easier. Any idea when you will get time to look into it?

This also brings me to my next wish. When you are importing a folder like the above if an image is found in the directory could you automatically make it the cover image for the entry?

Thanks for all the hard work XMM really is quality software and a great program.

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Hello Alessio

my compliments for your software, is really complete and powerful and for once I was really glad to spend the registration fee.
I've seen this item on the wishlist:

- Field "Free time": automatic calculation of free time on medium (VHS + DVD)

I vote for that, because very often you want to add a new DivX to your collection and you don't know on which DVD it will fit, if any. So a free space counter for the media support would be really fine. It could be the "free time" and the "free space" (in MB) indicator.

You could also sort your media by free space/time.

I think this feature would be really useful and quick to implement at the same time.

Regards
PJ

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Hi Alessio!

First let me send you a big thanks for all the hard work you put into XMM! Ive been using it for more than 4 years now, and it hasnt let me down yet :)

I preliminary use it for integration with Meedio for Movies. Im not sure if you use it your self, but I have some feature requests that would be really cool.

As you probably know, XMM`s TV section used to have a script called fluxxx, which downloaded banners / covers from the site I hosted and helped start..
This has now gone over to thetvdb.com along with all the metadata for TV shows.

Well, Meedio as come a bit further since the initial start of the "fanart" images (banners, covers), and the meedio community actively contribute with graphics / "fanart" for movies and tvshows etc. Up until now users of meedio would have to use a plugin written for meedio to grab the fanart backgrounds for movies, (for reference, the plugin is called meemoviesimporter and can be found on meedios.com site) what I was thinking, themoviedb.org has got these beautiful backgrounds for movies called fanart. They are downloadable from the website and from the plugin I referred to earlier (meemoviesimporter). The importer in meedio downloads the images based on the IMDB numbertag.

So in short:
Have a XMM script download these fanarts for the movies in xmm-library, to a section called fanart in XMM :)
Would this be possible?

reference images / links:
http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/218

http://pce.hostili.com/images/rata4x65.jpg

Themoviedb.org API:

To use the API, just make an IMDb request to the following URL:

http:// api.themoviedb.org/backdrop.php?imdb=

So as an example,

http:// api.themoviedb.org/backdrop.php?imdb=tt0468569

this will result in links to the various backdrops.



best regards
Richard Skarsten

ps: just found this on themoviedb.org`s forum:

"Before the rest of the API gets released people will have to apply for a key. We'll do this for a couple of reasons but primarily so we can track usage and keep developers up to date with progress and any changes we might make."

But this should cause any problems I think...
Edited by - T0ffluss on 26 Oct 2008 08:57:51

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Its really be great if the program uses an optional "Media Center" interface, where all the covers are displayed like in Apple´s Front Row (iTunes, Elisa Media Center Free, and the "unusable-sloooow-nerohome" can tell what I mean, too)

In the bottom, could be displayed basic information of the item selected in "front row interface". These information should be selected by the user.
In the top, icons/labels could tell us what kind of order/filtering are applyed to the list.

When I press enter, it should play the movie (or ask for the media)

The "playable" part should be like "Media Player Classic" or something really simple, fast and efficient. Some solution CODEC free (built-in CODECs) like VideoLan could be great too. Matroska FullHD content compatibility will make it great option for everyone, ant in tune with the future needs.
VideoLan has an horrible interface, but if the Xtreme Movie Manager FrontRow, was the navigation interface, and something like VideoLAN was called full screen only when I double click or press enter in a movie, that should be great too.....


Edited by - marcioscheibel on 14 Nov 2008 20:40:23

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Hey guys,

I'm the admin over at TMDb, and thought I would just drop a line about the API.

Two things,

1) You can find all of the API documentation http://scriptpi.themoviedb.org/2.0/docs/ (your forum is replacing the word a p i with scriptpi for whatever reason).

2) The API key can be per app, not per person so don't worry about individual users needing a key.

Cheers!
<b>Travis Bell</b>
themoviedb.org | The open movie database
Edited by - travisbell on 15 Nov 2008 23:51:45

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hi everybody,
It would be nice to be able to sort the films per directors like actors, years etc. and I assume this is something not so hard

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Any scripters want to take on the TMDb challenge? :)
ref:
(3-4 posts above this one)

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Many thanks Alessio for your great work!
Keep it up bro!

One suggestion:

When selecting an individual movie, it would be really great if in the context menue you could have under
>Get Information from the Internet

something like the
>Add Movies>With internal Webbrowser
function.

Basically manually picking a movie via the internal browser for an existing database entry.


That shouldn't be too hard to implement, right?

Thanks and cheers!

Dominic

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Hi Guys,

About TMDb I have open another TOPIC, please write here:


http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4655

Thank you,

Alessio
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My wish: Free configurable printing templates!

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Hi Alessio,

i really love your XMM and i have some ideas for it who i wanne
tell you.

1. I think it would be cool if the custom grouping would be storable
and more than one of them. I like the grouping like m-dvd.org (http://www.m-dvd.org/Images/Screenshots/Video_Modul.jpg)
got it.

2. In the movie information/editing i wouldn't split Media and
DVD/VHS, cause this is confusing. Audio Format is twice and stuff
like "AC3-Digital" is the same like "Dolby Digital 5.1 EX" because
Dolby-D is always AC3. I would merge this two tabs.

3. A checkbox for indexed movies in the movie tab would be
good. You know, the movies who are not allowed to sell.


4. Is there something for saving the XMM configuration like "movie grid fields"?

5. The next thing i don't know to deal with are the TV Shows.
The CatalogNo from the TV Shows don't show up under "My Movies"
so you never know if the number is already in use. Than the CatalogNo's
don't show up in "My TV Shows", so if you looking on what DVD is lets say
Spongbob episode "Home Sweet Pineapple" than you allways have to oben the
edit window.
www.paradise-bodies.com

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I would really love the following feature:

When exporting tv series to html, dont just export the series, but also the season.. and maybe even the episode names.

Is it possible to write one's own export scripts?

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Amazing Software. Just got it yesterday and I LOVE it.

Only request I would like to add, and I hope it hasn't already been asked a million times, but could we see an option to choose a different format for the index file when exporting to html? I would love to see a simple grid of thumbnail cover images that link to individual movie cards. That would be really cool.

Reason being, I bought this to make looking through our movie collection easier for my girlfriend who is not very computer savvy.

Either wya, Thanks for making such an amazing tool for such a reasonable price. :)

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please make a new field in Statistics or the ministatistic with the WHOLE SIZE (Gigabyte or Terrabyte) of the Movie Collection, because why is there a field that says "Filesize" and nowhere you can use it???

I hope you can do that, couldnt be that hard or?

Hope So & Greets

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Hi Arndt,

I have add the total MB in the Statistic Window, will be on next release.

Thank you,

Alessio
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Hi Alessio, I was just wondering if it possible for XMM to have a search filter or something that would allow one to do a multi data base search, it would be real handy to be able to chain together certain DB's for a particaular search. reason is that I have several Db's that I really don't want to merge.

Thnx

Anzac

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Hi,

I can try to make a special window for do this, bacause in the main program I cannot load more than one database a time.

Thank you,

Ale
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Hey. This is my first post here, Cheers :)

I wanted to ask whether it is possible that once I add a new movie to the collection it automatically gets selected once I imported the information from one of the internet scripts. It's because I have to enter a special information (CD location) manually after adding the movie, and this field is down in one of the tabs when opening the details of a movie.

Apart from that I wanted to ask whether the priority of the feature-request to filter for import-scripts based on the language (e.g. filter to just show english scripts or just German scripts or whatever) could be raised

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@NameZero912
You can drag the field with your CD location to the front tab (Main). I use the field CatalogNo to give my movies the number where they are located in my boxes. I have added this field also to the main grid so I can sort it and see the empty fields on the top of the list.

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Hi.

It would be nice if in this dropdown menu :



we could see the selected script instead of a meaningless number.

so if we could have :
Rapide avec script par défaut : IMDB (Complete)

instead of :
Rapide avec script par défaut : 1

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In former versions in the chain-feature there were shortcuts (i.e. F8), that was great.
Liebe Grüße, Schlumi

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a 'language' Column in the main grid would be nice
Also I noticed a 'subtitles' field, wich is nice, what would be nicer would be XMM noticing that I have a .srt / .sub / .txt file named the same as the .avi file ans so fill the subtitle field by itself (tell me if my explication is not clear :-))

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Does XMM detect automatically subtitles when named like the movie + an extension like .txt / .srt / .sub ? it would be nice

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it would be great, if you can add the column "channels" like in the previous versions. i'm still missing the feature to scan for duplicate files :(

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Hi Ulli,

I will try to add the fiend asap.

About the Duplicate, you mean the duplicate movies, right?

Thank you,

Alessio
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Hi Alessio,

you're right: thats what I like to see in one of the next versions ;)

best regards,
Ulli.

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wow Alessio - i'm really impressed of your work!

->Added the function to show duplicates (in the treeview, under special filters)
works quiet perfect! thanks a lot!!!

->Added Channels field to grid
i can't find the field:



deeply grateful,
ulli


Edited by - Ulli on 06 Jun 2009 20:48:49

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it would be great, if you can add the column "DirectLinks" or "Web Links" , can u do that ?

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Hi,

What release do you have? because in the 7.0.3.3 the channel columns is present, maybe it's already in the grid and you have not see it?

About Directlinks, I will try to add it, but I don't see the meanings of it, it's only useful for ScriptEngine, not?

Alessio
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i wish i had directlinks column in my grid export file

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OK, I have add it, will be on 7.0.3.4

Alessio
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quote:Originally posted by Alessio Viti


What release do you have? because in the 7.0.3.3 the channel columns is present, maybe it's already in the grid and you have not see it?



i'm so embarrassed

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quote:Originally posted by Arndt

please make a new field in Statistics or the ministatistic with the WHOLE SIZE (Gigabyte or Terrabyte) of the Movie Collection, because why is there a field that says "Filesize" and nowhere you can use it???

I hope you can do that, couldnt be that hard or?

Hope So & Greets



Could you do that in the new release too? Would be great!

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Can you please make the XMM program update and the XMM scripts update different modules ?
I'm sick of having to wait all the scripts to check if there are updates when I only want to update the program itself.

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Hi,
Great job! I have two suggestions:
1. Is it possible to save settings of the scripts despite scripts update (I use IMDb and it has a lot of settings and the script is often updated and I have to set settings after each update)?

2. Is it possible to add AKA to Title/Original title (not replace it with AKA) in IMDb script - I want it to be "title AKA my_country_title"?
To be exact this would be perfect for me:
Before update from internet:
Title: Smultronstallet [Director's Cut]
Original title: <empty>
After update from internet:
Title: Smultronstallet [Director's Cut] AKA Tam, gdzie rosna poziomki
Original title: Smultronstallet

3. If the title has the Unicode character it seems like it isn't forwarded to the IMDb correctly (try "Smultronstället" - it doesn't give any search results)

Kind regards,
Tomasz
Edited by - Tomasz on 26 Jul 2009 21:33:46

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Wish for xMM: Scripting

#WEBQUERY# -> Add posibility to use SEVERAL codepages for #MOVIE# constant. Or maybe add ability to use URL-Encoded strings! PLEEASE! :)

P.S. For example: russian users do not have possibility to add RUSSIAN films in database, because of not supporting URL-Encoding in queries (ex. Kinopoisk.ru)

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quote:Originally posted by Mawu

Extreme Movie Manager Wishlist

...

- Scanning DVDrips on the hard drive



This is one of mine, too...

Just a suggestion, as it's ALMOST there. If you could set the scanner to scan for VIDEO_TS.IFO instead of just an extension (IFO), then go up two folders (skipping the VIDEO_TS) folder, to add the folder name as the movie name.

Incidentally, even without this functionality, if you associate .IFO with a DVD player in Windows (I use WinDVD), if I put the VIDEO_TS.IFO file in the file information, the XMM "play movie" functionality works.

What would be another great addition to cataloging DVD rips (and probably much harder, if even possible) is support for removable volumes. I use a Dual SATA dock, so instead of "H Drive", say, to play, if XMM doesn't find the file, it could say something like "Please connect volume DVD Movies 4" or something like that. I use the "Location" Field for storing the volume name, but volume could be its own field.

Just a wish list thing - I already love the software!

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is it possible to scan a folder and automatically (after a confirmation dialog) delete the entry if the movie isn't present any longer?

background: if a movie is so bad, that i didn't want it anymore i delete it ;)

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i would like to have the option, that all german special characters like ö,ä,ü and ß (and the corosponding large letters Ö,Ä and Ü) are automatically are replaced with ae for ä, oe for ö, ue for ü and ss for ß.

background: the media brwoser plugin for the windows media center doesn't like these characters.

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Could be done by a similar function like "Change word in all fields" in "Multiple Changes"... for those who need it.

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quote:Originally posted by JDommi

Could be done by a similar function like "Change word in all fields" in "Multiple Changes"... for those who need it.



is this function already beeing integrated? i can't find it! :(

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No, it was only a thought of how Alessio could build it in ;)

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Thank you for suggestion guys.

I will try to make an automatic function when you export data for media browser.

Alessio
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quote:Originally posted by Alessio Viti

Thank you for suggestion guys.

I will try to make an automatic function when you export data for media browser.

Alessio



Hi,

thanks a lot Alessio!
one little bug: large letters with special characters are replaced with small letters. for example:

Überfall is replaced with ueberfall. it has to be Ueberfall :)

One suggestion for the media plugin: The backround cover is only loaded correct, if the film-titles are the original ones. for example:

title: Jagd auf Roter Oktober -> no backround cover
title: Hunt for Red October, The -> backround cover

Can you "simply" replace the field titel with original title for export?

best regards,
ulli
Edited by - Ulli on 13 Sep 2009 19:36:18

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This is my short list of wishes of futures to Add to eXtreme Movie Library:

- Massive movie folders rename - now it is possible to rename movie files but It will be nice to rename folders of movies where they are kept. You could also add option to set creation date of movie folder to date when movie was published (I had to write this kind of tool for myself but it could be nice to have it in your app)

- It would be nice to split appearance of person in actor card to categories - for example actor/director/writer...

- Sometimes there is missing info about bitrate when importing from mkv (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) - This is a bug but I don't want to write separate thread

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Extend the function "Search your harddisk for movies" with an option "Recognize and import folders with DVD-files".
I.e. folders with the files "VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.BUP, VIDEO_TS.IFO, VTS_xx_x.VOB could be handled as well as by the function "Add original DVD"

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Hi,

About DVD, I am working on a new function to import Ripped DVD, so XMM will read the folders name to extract the movie title...

Thank you,

Ale
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Hi,

I've been using EMM for a few days now and it's almost perfect for me.
If i had to humbly make some suggestions i would say:

-Add customisation to shelves view, like being able to display the "media type" icon on every cover so that i know which ones are DVDs, divx, HD(mkvs) and may be have to possibility to choose whant i want to see on or under each cover, like release date, or language, or seen or unseen. I know it's already available in the html board on the right side but it would be really convinient to have the infos we want under each cover for example.

-Let's say right now i have 300 movies on C: and each one in a separat folder and i want or i have to move all these movies to D: it means that i have to manually change the letter for each file and it would take a very very long time. However what about improving the scanning process and make it so that if i move all my 300 files to D: the scanning process could say: "scanning process had detected that 300 files are missing on C:" "Do you want scanning process to scan for other drives to find the missing files?" so i would enter "Yes" and ask it to go and look on D: and it would find all the missing files and would link them to each of my movie list as it was before i moved my files in the first place.

-What about the possibility of saving for each movie, all the movie information like "title, genre, year, seen..." in the same movie folder? I know it's already possible to save covers so why not save all informations then? you know just in case you lose or corrupt your database, you know that you just have to rescann your harddrive and in a few minutes you'll have your database just as before.


I'm sorry if these ideas are impossible or have already been told, but i just wanted to add my contribution as i bought emm a few days ago and it's may be the first software that i buy and i don't regret it!!!!!

Anyway keep up the great work Alessio. :)

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Hi,

I must improve very much the Shelves view, right now is not so useful. I have in mind to start to work on it soon.

About the Movie Files: your ideas are great (export info in the same folder of movies to be able to read it again later).

In case you change the drive letter at this time there is a thing you can do (make a backup first!)
There is a function called "File Manager", where you can specify the change of the folder where your movies are store.

If you have move ALL your movies, you can also Select it all from main grid, then right-click -> multiple changes at once-> Replace a word in file.

Here the word to be replaced must be "c:\" and the new word "d:\"

Alessio
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I didn't realise i could use "replace word in file" that way, it will be very usefull to me thanks a lot!

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Special Filters "Duplicate Movies"

This filter found non duplicate movies as well:

Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" from 2001 is not a duplicate of Franklin J. Schaffner's "Planet of the Apes" from 1968.

This function should use the field "year" as well as "movie title" for comparison

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Special Filters "Duplicate Movies"

This filter found non duplicate movies as well:

Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" from 2001 is not a duplicate of Franklin J. Schaffner's "Planet of the Apes" from 1968.

This function should use the field "year" as well as "movie title" for comparison



I would even include the director (title + year + director), as it's possible to find two movies with the same title and the same year.

Marcelino

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Hi:

A suggestion about actors HTML card. Now all the movies of the actor present in database appear ordered by MovieID. Would it be possible that they were ordered by year?

Marcelino

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I have some wishes
When I import data from IMDB (complete) and xMM can't work out which movie to choose then I choose it manually, this is an arduous process when you have 1500 movies. Eventually when I have finished selecting the correct movies from IMDB xMM starts downloading the data. Sometimes xMM crashes or the computer hangs and I have to go throiugh and select all the correct movies from IMDB again. Please make it so that xMM saves all the selections in a file until it has finished downloading all the data from IMDB so this info is not lost.
Another wish is to be able to import movie data from another xMM database. When a friend gives me 200 movies he could give me a copy of his complete database and xMM could import the data just for the movies he has given me from his xMM database, it would be a lot faster than importing from IMDB.

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Hi,

Good suggestion, I will try to take a look.

Alessio
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quote:Originally posted by Chris_W_65


Another wish is to be able to import movie data from another xMM database. When a friend gives me 200 movies he could give me a copy of his complete database and xMM could import the data just for the movies he has given me from his xMM database, it would be a lot faster than importing from IMDB.



Hi:

I think XMM already has a function to do this, but I never used it: Database Utility -> Exchange Movies.

Marcelino

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quote:Originally posted by marcehl

quote:Originally posted by Chris_W_65


Another wish is to be able to import movie data from another xMM database. When a friend gives me 200 movies he could give me a copy of his complete database and xMM could import the data just for the movies he has given me from his xMM database, it would be a lot faster than importing from IMDB.



Hi:

I think XMM already has a function to do this, but I never used it: Database Utility -> Exchange Movies.

Marcelino


Hi,

I have been using XMM for a relative short period and so far I am really impressed with all possibilities/features it has
When I was searching for a possibility to exchange information between XMM databases I read the above and would like to add my wish to that of Chris_W_65. In my situation I have one main XMM database where I store all my movies with all the information I can find. Now I have two fysical NAS devices over which I have divided a large part of my movies fysically. I found I can let XMM search on those devices for the movies available and have those stored in a seperate database. What I can not do is copy the available movie information from my main XMM database to the, for now, two other databases. Exchanging movies could work if there was an option to have it first look for similar titles and have the available information put into the second database WITHOUT creating a new record as it is doing right now.
I could create an empty database but than I would have to generate some list of movies from each of my NAS devices and pick those by hand from the main movie database which would be just as tedious as getting the information again from IMDB etc..
The reason to have seperate databases is so I can use the information from the NAS devices for XBMC on one spot and the new Xtreamer MNT on another spot.
I hope this is a bit readable/understandable

Cheers,
Howard

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quote:Originally posted by marcehl

A suggestion about actors HTML card. Now all the movies of the actor present in database appear ordered by MovieID. Would it be possible that they were ordered by year?



Hi Alessio:

Thank you for implement the "year" ordering. I was trying to add the year next to the title in actor.htm card, and I tried the tags _MOVIE_YEAR_ and _MOVIE_ACTOR_YEAR_, but it does not work... Is it possible to add the year in actor card? Something like this:

TITLE (YEAR)
PLOT

Marcelino

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OK, I will do this in the next release.

Thank you!

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Hi,

is it possible, to copy the content of the label "Media Label" to the end of the label "Title". I'm using XMM with Media Browser and would like the information on which disk is the movie.

best regards,
ulli

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Hello And thank you for the the great software!!!

In the "File Scanner" form ("Search your HD for movies)
can you add a filter option?
like dont count files less then 50MB
or... dont count file if the name include the word "sample"...

Thank YOU

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Dear Friends,

Very new on the forum and I am not sure if I am writing at the correct session

I Wish - Desire

Lunch the selves view directly from the deskotp (This can be done already) and the program will lunch the database I previously marked as default for the opening

In other words:
Assign a default database you desire from the begining to lunch every time you open the XMM Shelves view

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Dear friends.
I might did not used the correct field for my problem.
Although please consider my suggestion or tell me at least where to write the issue
Nevertheless thank you for your good eforts

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Last opened db is always the default one. To specify Ale has to add a new option to settings. When he has a little more time he will surely add it to XMM ;)

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Dear Dommi,

Thank you for your interest to my thoughts
The case is that when i start EXMM instead of launching the database I created and last opened begins with the example database
So I always have to switch between example and mine database.

Your thoughts to the above will be highly apreciated

Thanks again for your good work

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I change often between the example db for testing purposes and my normal one - but XMM always opens on next start the last that was opened. Can it be that your own db is not on one of your local hdds?
Otherwise I don't have any idea why the example db is always opened on startup on your pc...

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Dear Dommi,

Thanks again for your interest
No. The database I created (named her George .dtb) is based on my local HD's
The problem still remains so I suppose I have to wait Alesio's new features
Thanks again

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Hallo,

today it is possible the informations of a movie to export at .nfo.
It is fine when the export possible at .jpg. Also you show the infos on Multimediaplayers.

Sorry for my bad english.

Greetings Rainer

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Hi,

It seems logical to me that, when viewing an actor's card, their picture would display in the Picture View panel like movie posters do. If not Picture View, then maybe a separate FanArt panel?

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Hi Alesio,

Can you incorporate Picture View into Quick Edit View as separate tab?

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Hi
Just downloaded the Software today, imported all Movies, and uploaded it to my iPhone!
Great! Thanks for this Powerful tool!

In the Export Section there is a "cooming soon" feature: HTML Templates Export Manager.
When can we download the update?

What exatly will it offer? Can we easily design our own Templates? :D
Would be very nice for a noob like me

Thanks for Answers!
Edited by - Justin on 06 Feb 2010 22:47:09

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Hi

I want to re-wish for a feature I originally asked for in this thread 2 years ago on 01 Jan 2008!!

The option to make the MD5 hash window not stay on top of all other windows. When I import many movies at once I like to go and do something else while it is scanning the files, but this makes it difficult.

Maybe not pop it up in its own window, but make it part of the File Scanner window?


I also have a new feature to ask about. Can the File Scanner look for file MD5 hashes in NFO files? Maybe the NFO files would need to contain a file size that matches as well, as an added check the file is the same.

If my friend gives me a bunch of movies he has already hashed, this will save time when I import them.

Thanks.
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Hi,
I'd like to have some new feature:

under manager scripts: order by quality column (stars) and selectable more row at once (to delete useless scripts, like porno, low quality and in other languages)
add some options to import video files from hd. Especially I'd like to have two fields where is possible to specify the characters after and before to search the film title.
i.e. Australia [1080p ITA DTS ENG AAC Sub]
the title of the film to be used in the search/update scripts is before the character "[". To make it more general, you can consider also who writes something before the title:
ie. (Director, ecc) Australia [1080p ITA DTS ENG AAC Sub]
so in the option fields you can specify that the title is after the character ")" and before "[".
I don't think that it is to difficult to implement, and it would gave a better experience using this software.



If it's not clear what I meant please ask explanations.
thank you

Giacomo

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I have some ideas for the cover manager tool.
1. It should operate with key strokes.
Pressing Del for deleting and not needing to use the mouse. Using the arrows to navigate to the next Photo.
2.A larger View of the Photo where one can quickly navigate with the keyboard.
And beeing able to select more than one photo to delete

Or can I just delete the photos in the Database without corrupting it?

3. An being in the cover manager, I would like some buttons to navigate to the next movie in the database.

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hi to all...

one suggestion might be an easier internet database upload with sql search function by category or director or genre etc. i'm new to xmm and still learning to export functions but seems like a bit tricky. any suggestions also welcome here.

thnx ale.

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DLNA integration with PS3 through PS3 media server is my dream :D

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