- #DATACROW CHANGE DEFAULT MOVIE DATABASE SOFTWARE#
- #DATACROW CHANGE DEFAULT MOVIE DATABASE TV#
- #DATACROW CHANGE DEFAULT MOVIE DATABASE WINDOWS#
(Though if anyone stumbles across this and knows of software that will retrieve info from IMDB correctly as well as have the ability to launch the video file from the hard drive, I'd love to know what it is.) Thanks! Suggesting that I try TheMovieDB somehow sparked my mind to poke around and find the right options where I'd missed them before.
I had tried it months before but somehow ended up with a weird list that was nothing more than a list of the file names and URLs to where they were on my hard drive - not very useful! (And it definitely wasn't a movie collection type, so I don't know what I ended up doing to get it, lol.) Playing around with the field views made it possible to sort the way I wanted.
#DATACROW CHANGE DEFAULT MOVIE DATABASE TV#
Tellico, on the other hand, doesn't have a visible option for links, but there's a way to create your own fields (and assign one to be a URL), and you're right, the data retrieval does work once you switch it to TheMovieDB as you said (the only area it fails is in mini-series, which I think of as long films but which TheMovieDB must consider TV and therefore doesn't have in its system). I've used Java for things but it's not the most stable on my system and tends to suck up more CPU than it should so I'm wary of testing it too, lol. I run Mint 18.1 Mate 64-bit if that helps.ĭataCrow I had stumbled across, but it looked like it didn't have a method for launching video files on one's hard drive - at least, I didn't see it in any of the screenshots I looked at. Have I missed a program that can do both? Let me know if you know any.
I really want to be able to select a film and launch it, that was half the point of the collection program - and there's no way I have the time to enter everything manually all over again (GCStar supposedly can import existing databases but EMDB's database isn't stored in a file GCStar recognizes for import so that won't work, and it couldn't get info from anywhere that I tried).
#DATACROW CHANGE DEFAULT MOVIE DATABASE WINDOWS#
Mostly the first is the problem - nearly all the collection managers I could find ceased being worked on two or more years ago, and IMDB seems to have changed things since then so none of the previous interface methods (the old API?) work anymore.Ī) use a Windows program which pulls the data from IMDB correctly but doesn't let me launch files ORī) use a native Linux program which I have to type all the data in manually but I can launch files easily they have no way to store the file location on the hard drive and/or launch the films they don't pull the data from IMDB (or anywhere, for that matter) - typing everything in gets old quickly I've poked at several Linux equivalents (GCStar I've actually played with), and they all seem to fail one or more of those three things, mainly these two: So I've kind of been without a good one for a while, and finally decided to try to look again. I even used it for a while on Mint with Wine, but somewhere in upgrading from Mint 13 to 18.1 (or updating EMDB itself, I'm not sure which) it started having trouble with displaying/using the database properly, and I had to move it to a virtual machine, which works for the first two features I listed but doesn't have a way to tell the Linux system to launch any of the files. It worked great the three features I particularly loved were the ability to import data from IMDB, the ability to sort all the films by file length (so if I had just 80 minutes to watch a film, I could find one that would fit in the timeframe), and the ability to store info on files stored on the hard drive by first linking them and then providing a button to launch them. On Windows years ago, I used to use EMDB.
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