This may have been covered, and I'm really sorry if it has.
I first got DVDpedia when I got my first macbook, and it was great, I added my whole library, tv series & all
I neglected my library after I broke up with my ex in 2010
today I decided to delete it all and start again, and I cannot add half of what I own, there seems to be no support for UK customers at all really, and I'm kinda saddened by that. I have been reading through topics about adding UK ratings, all well and good, but in a piece of software that we pay for, shoudn't that already be done for us? Some of us are not confident on code or tinkering with files.
I would really love if we had a feed from a retail site, as its crazy that so many barcodes are unable to be found. Cover art is different, and there are no special editions seemingly anywhere on current systems. half the time I get spanish or french titles from my dvds.
I'm also really saddened that I bought DVDpedia in 2009, and I'm now being asked to pay again, I find that a little abhorrent when the produce doesn't seem to support my country or my collection.
I may as well forget about logging all the special editions I've bought from HMV, as I know they won't be supported.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong and there's something I'm missing but I can't find anything to the contrary
Adding Titles from the UK
Re: Adding Titles from the UK
The Amazon connection is still there but you have to sign up for it, the programs don't connect to the sites automatically anymore. To sign up, go into the Preferences/Sites, press the 'Amazon Settings' button and follow the steps outlined in the Help files.
If you know of another good UK retailer site that offers an API to developers please share it with us so we can look at adding it to DVDpedia as a search option. Unfortunately most retailers are not interested in sharing their data since they want to sell their products and not their information.
A good alternative to Amazon is Doghouse - DVDpedia's own database built exclusively by and for DVDpedia users from around the world - since it supports search by UPC and includes Blu-Ray information as well. The downside is that the data depends completely on what users have contributed so it might be that a particular DVD/Blu-Ray hasn't been added yet or that only the DVD version (or only the Blu-Ray version) has been uploaded. In those cases you could add the other version and adjust those fields that change or if the movie hasn't been uploaded at all there's always IMDb with their vast database albeit of only movie information, not the physical products so you'll have to do a title/keyword search and some manual adjustments might be necessary. But it's still be a lot faster than entering each movie completely by hand.
The majority of our users are from the US so there is inevitably a bias towards US movie data in Doghouse at this point but as more UK/Australian/Canadian users upload their data and more importantly their UPCs, the search improves for everyone.
We are very proud of Doghouse and how far it has come in its first year. And it wasn't a minute too soon considering all the problems Amazon has caused us in the last few months again...
As for the upgrade - yes, version 5 is a paid upgrade. We have done paid upgrades in the past (version 2 to version 3) and will very likely do so again in the future for a major new version. But it's not a mandatory upgrade, if you'd prefer to stick with version 4 you're welcome to do so for as long as you like. You can download the old version here.
Make sure after you downgrade to version 4.6.8 you delete the data file for version 5 (Database.dvdpd) so that if you ever do decide to update, the program will be forced to do this from your 4.6.8 file. You will find the file in the DVDpedia data folder, located in your Home folder under ~/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia
If you're on Lion or Mountain Lion, it hides the Library folder by default so to go to your DVDpedia data folder you have to use the Finder's 'Go' menu, select 'Go to Folder' and copy paste ~/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia into the window that appears.
If you know of another good UK retailer site that offers an API to developers please share it with us so we can look at adding it to DVDpedia as a search option. Unfortunately most retailers are not interested in sharing their data since they want to sell their products and not their information.
A good alternative to Amazon is Doghouse - DVDpedia's own database built exclusively by and for DVDpedia users from around the world - since it supports search by UPC and includes Blu-Ray information as well. The downside is that the data depends completely on what users have contributed so it might be that a particular DVD/Blu-Ray hasn't been added yet or that only the DVD version (or only the Blu-Ray version) has been uploaded. In those cases you could add the other version and adjust those fields that change or if the movie hasn't been uploaded at all there's always IMDb with their vast database albeit of only movie information, not the physical products so you'll have to do a title/keyword search and some manual adjustments might be necessary. But it's still be a lot faster than entering each movie completely by hand.
The majority of our users are from the US so there is inevitably a bias towards US movie data in Doghouse at this point but as more UK/Australian/Canadian users upload their data and more importantly their UPCs, the search improves for everyone.
We are very proud of Doghouse and how far it has come in its first year. And it wasn't a minute too soon considering all the problems Amazon has caused us in the last few months again...
As for the upgrade - yes, version 5 is a paid upgrade. We have done paid upgrades in the past (version 2 to version 3) and will very likely do so again in the future for a major new version. But it's not a mandatory upgrade, if you'd prefer to stick with version 4 you're welcome to do so for as long as you like. You can download the old version here.
Make sure after you downgrade to version 4.6.8 you delete the data file for version 5 (Database.dvdpd) so that if you ever do decide to update, the program will be forced to do this from your 4.6.8 file. You will find the file in the DVDpedia data folder, located in your Home folder under ~/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia
If you're on Lion or Mountain Lion, it hides the Library folder by default so to go to your DVDpedia data folder you have to use the Finder's 'Go' menu, select 'Go to Folder' and copy paste ~/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia into the window that appears.