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    Best movie organizing software

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mets3214, Jan 10, 2012.

  1. mets3214

    mets3214 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a small collection of about 50 movies that is constantly growing and I'm looking for a good program to organize them. Any of you use or know of a particular program that can do it well? Thanks
     
    mets3214, Jan 10, 2012
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  2. hakira

    hakira <3 xkcd

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    Never occurred to me to use a program to sort movies, mine are all stuck in a folder creatively named "Movies", sorted by length, name, filetype.
     
    hakira, Jan 10, 2012
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  3. olyteddy

    olyteddy Notebook Deity

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    Depends on what you mean by ' Best movie'. I use Ant Movie Catalog to keep track of all my movies; 'Bad', 'Good', 'Better' and 'Best' are all in it, although I honestly couldn't tell you which one is 'Best'.
     
    olyteddy, Jan 10, 2012
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  4. JTOverath

    JTOverath Notebook Evangelist

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    MyMovies has worked for me, I especially like the Media Center integration and the phone app. I used the camera on my phone to scan the bar codes of all my DVDs.
     
    JTOverath, Jan 11, 2012
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    pengy_666 Notebook Evangelist

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    I use this free software Erics Movie Database

    Looks good and works very well with IMDB for all the info of the films including synopsis etc

    For a small donation you change the name and the graphics from Eric to your name. Not sure if it fits the bill but its great.

    [​IMG]

    :D
     
    pengy_666, Jan 11, 2012
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    ratchetnclank Notebook Deity

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    XBMC by far.

    Love the back row interface for it too.

    XBMC
    [​IMG]
     
    ratchetnclank, Jan 11, 2012
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  7. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Agree.
    XBMC is a beast for my media center needs.
    I keep my movie collection properly named so XBMC will categorize and download cover art for each one.

    Handbrake+DVD=NAS drive of happiness. :D
    Even got the Android remote so i can change movies from my phone.
     
    DEagleson, Jan 11, 2012
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  8. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    I just do it by windows folder tree, but may give something like this a shot.

    I hope its not as daunting as my music collection tagging was.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jan 11, 2012
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    klaus_2011 Notebook Geek

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    I just do it with Microsoft Excel: I've wrote a little macro that loads all movie titles from my HDD into an Excel sheet including all information which is associated to the movie files (length, actors, etc).
     
    klaus_2011, Jan 11, 2012
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  10. pengy_666

    pengy_666 Notebook Evangelist

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    Show off

    ;)
     
    pengy_666, Jan 11, 2012
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    mets3214 Notebook Consultant

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    That XBMC program looks sick!!! I'm gonna try it out tomorrow, thanks!
     
    mets3214, Jan 12, 2012
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    mets3214 Notebook Consultant

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    I didn't like XMBC because it uses a built in player that I didn't like as much as VLC player. I also think it used alot of CPU cause my Z got very hot and loud when I was using it.
     
    mets3214, Jan 17, 2012
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