OK, while I will never switch from Movie Collector for my main local cataloguing, I am switching the online one from DVDAF to DVDSpot. The database is clean and I love the statistics and flexibility that it has over DVDAF, and I was able to import most of my 2100+ discs from Movie Collector in just over an hour or so. DVDAF is great for a quick listing of your discs, but it's almost a little too simple.

What are different sites that will IMPORT DVD Profiler data? I have over 200 titles and don't want to enter them manually. Does DVDSpot do this? Something I REALLY like about DVD Profiler is that it has a notes section that can be searched. So I would be keeping DVD Profiler, but if I can easily import into others, it'd be great to have multiple profilers.

Movie Collector (collectorz.com) will import Profiler titles. I use it and love it. I think it offers the most features of any of them.

I'm not sure what you mean. Stretch the browser window that pops up and you get no wrapped text. Just copy the text and paste into Microsoft Word.

Wow, I remember reading these threads long ago before I registered and nobody ever mentioned Movie Collector except for a person or two who was always ignored.

I've used it since 99 and have always liked it better than any online one where you could either lose everything one day or you need to access it but internet problems won't let you.

The one thing I hated was when they took allmovieguide off the list of places to get info from since I buy old vhs movies and they always had better info than the other places.

Yes, you can export and then import your titles to DVDSpot. Just export the titles to a CSV file and then import them on DVDSpot.

I tried exporting to a CSV file (and I opened it... it has only the title), and DVD Spot says it's not a recognizable file type. Tried saving as text and uploading... same thing. Sigh. It's like this:

Title
Title1
Title2
Title3

etc.

I think the file needs to be a ".txt" file, so just rename your ".csv" file to .txt and it should work.

I did that. The website states it can be both .csv and text, so I tried .csv and then text, no dice.

I exported as .csv from DVDprofiler and saw the same error.
I just renamed the file from xxxxx.csv to xxxxx.txt and it loaded fine.
I can't remember, I may have done a global replace to remove the " marks, but I think it worked w/o doing that.

Odd as I just exported my DVD Profiler to a csv file, title only, and imported it without any issues (the " were automatically ignored on DVDSpot).

Perhaps the issue is the amount of titles one is trying to import? Try keeping it to a 100 or so at a time.

If it's a .csv file, Excel should open it fine, unless you have over 65,000 lines of data. I've been thinking about making my own Excel-based DVD cataloging tool. I'll post it if I ever finish it.

cheers,

-the Jesus

I am having the same trouble as gator deb. It says for csv" use title and/or upc First"
My csv doesn't have a upc column...

If I go to DVD Profiler, export using csv and only the title and then import that file into DVDSpot it works for me. The only thing I can see being a problem is that it seems to be buggy with a lot of titles so I would recommend limiting it to under 100 at a time. If that doesn't work, try 75 titles until it does as there doesn't appear to be another reason why the above shouldn't work. The only thing I can think of is the amount of titles.

I've tried CSV. I've tried text. I've tried 30 entries. I've tried stripping the " "s. I've tried leaving the " " s. I've tried with "Title" in the first line, with the first DVD itself in the first line. I still get for everything:

Your uploaded collection file was not a recognized file type. Please ensure it is saved as a CSV file.

Try posting at the DVDSpot forums then as it would need to be something addressed by the site creator. Something is wonky.

RE: DVDSpot.

The issue regarding importing resulting in a not recognized file type should be fixed now. Apparently it had something to do with the mime type of the file being imported (I have no idea what that means).

One needs to limit the importing of titles to 50 or under at a time due to an issue that is attempting to be resolved. Here is the info from Croy, the site creator..

Hmmm...I just imported my 2000+ titles a few days ago, and I had no problems importing my UPC's at 200 a shot. Then again I was using .txt files from the Movie Collector export tool.

The 50 limit is just temporary while he works out that bug according to the quote.

Bob, I'm interested in hearing about this. Any info would be great.

All the best,

- AB

Any good ones for cd's, something like dvdspot but for cds?

any help appreciated.

Just to give my vote I"m a PC owner. The MAC program looks great...MAC has some cool things and I plan to eventually get one. For video editing and graphics they just can't be beat.

Right now I use www.dvdspot.com and it works great.

I can browse my list from anywhere. The worked the other days when I was at Best Buy. I wasn't quite sure if I already had a movie. I asked if I could check my list on the internet and a guy let me. Problem solved.

I suggest looking at an internet based program for that very fact. Plus you can export your list to excel and it work great being uploaded to a PDA. Then you can really check your list anywhere.

Collectorz has a music collector

is that web based?, sorry to clarify I'm looking for a web based cd inventory program.

Every program I've seen has an option to export as .html, so having one that is internet based shouldn't be a major factor.

You can export your lists to HTML to post on your own website, but no, it's not a web-based system like DVDProfiler & DVDSpot. It does pull info (cast, specs, covers, etc.) down from websites into your database though.

Does anyone know how to export UPCs from DVDProfiler? Finally got DVDspot to work but I'm not about to start selecting within the multiple editions of each title all over again.

abanytime,
You need 2 programs:

Palm OS viewer: iSilo 4.32
Windows OS Converter iSiloX 4.32

1) Download and install the viewer onto your palm
2) Download and install the converter onto your PC. This will also add the "iSiloX Clipper..." to your Internet Explorer tools menu.
3) Goto www.intervocative.com and view your collection online as you normally would
4) Enter "http://www.intervocative.com/onlinecollections/dvd/InBlue/List.aspx" into the address bar and hit enter. This will bring up only the list frame for your collection. You can't go directly to this page without bringing up your full collection first.
5) In the Internet Explorer Tools menu, select "iSiloX Clipper...".
6) First time around it will ask which user to use if you have multiple Palm user accounts setup, and what device to you have to tailor the settings.
7) Enter a title, I use "DVDCollectionList".
8) Ensure "Include Images" is selected if you want the images.
9) Set "Flow links to a maximum depth of: " to 1. This will ensure that all you individual DVD page links are converter.
10) Click on Properties.
11) Click on the “Destination” tab.
12) The default destination is the internal memory of the user’s device selected in step 6. If you want to store the file on an external card, click “HotSync”, select the user, and select “External Memory card”, click “OK”. I have about 700 DVDs in my list and the file ends up being ~70MB so I store it on an external card. Be sure to remove the default internal one.
13) Click on "Links" tab.
14) Double check "Maximum Link Depth" is set to 1, and uncheck "Follow off-site links".
15) Click OK.
16) Click Convert to start converting. Mine takes about a minutes.

When done it will have created a file that will be uploaded to your Palm next time you sync. Once synced you can access the file using iSilo on you Palm. You will see the DVD collection list exactly as it appeared on the list frame only webpage. Clicking on a title will bring up the individual DVD's page, with all the same details as on the website, including the front and back images. You will also be able to view your owned, ordered, wishlist. You can search the list specific words.

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4...listcq2.th.jpghttp://img355.imageshack.us/img355/7...infoxm2.th.jpghttp://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5...magekr3.th.jpg

Everyone is scaring me with the rumor of DVDPROFILER going away.

I really like my DVDPRO more than DVDSpot and DVDAF. How accurate are these rumors about DVDPRO's demise?

Not that I'm aware of but it isn't as tedious or time consuming as you might think. The editions are linked so it is easy to quickly see which one you might own in cases there may be a couple to choose from.

Thanks, BobSolo! This sounds awesome and I can't wait to try it.

I look forward to your images when you get a chance.

- AB

Here's a way of doing it, I'm sure there is an easier way, but:

1) Go to www.intervocative.com and view your collection online as you normally would.
2) Right click on the background of "list" frame and select view source.
3) About halfway down the source begins a long string starting with <b>&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD id=</b>... This is the source for the links to the individual DVDs and each is identified by the UPC as the id. Copy that whole string all the way down to the end which should be <b>&lt;/TABLE&gt;</b>
4) Paste this into Microsoft Word.
5) Search & Replace the following (be sure you have "use wildcards" selected:
i) Replace: <b>&lt;TR&gt;*U=</b> With: <b>U=</b>
ii) Replace: <b>" target*U=</b> With: <b>U=</b>
iii) Replace: <b>U=</b> With: Manual Line Break (select under the "Special" dropdown) You could do this for the previous step if you want.
6) You should be left with a single column of all your UPCs. You may have to clean up the 1st and last ones (I had some text leftover) but that's easy.

Hope this helps.

No problem.

It really looks clean on the Palm, unlike a lot of other html converters or adobe acrobat converter. I'll upload some picture tonight. iSiloX is free and iSilo for the palm is only $20 which is well worth it considering how well it converts html. I haven't tried it with the other online tracking sites, but I'm sure it will work. The nice thing about DVDprofilers online page is it is clean and contained, meaning there are no links to ads, or outside pages.

Images are up on my original post. They aren't too clear, but you should get the idea.

i use microsoft exel (old school).
what i do is type the name of the dvd
ex.
Reba-the complete 1st season

then i put a photo of the front cover art beside it.
it works for me & i didn't care for dvd spot or profiler cause they dont have all the dvd in the world listed on their & its just a pain.
i don't want to be spending more time cataloging my dvds than actually watching them.

Can Delicious Library work without an Internet connection, once it's downloaded the cover art and DVD information from Amazon or whereever it gets such things, or does it always connect to the net every time it starts up? Does it have a means of mass uploading collections from any of DVDAf, DVDProfiler, etc? If not, can it use text or csv files to mass upload UPCs?

Well, I haven't done a lot with the program yet, but I turned off my internet connection, and it started up fine. Obviously it's gonna try and check Amazon for cover art, but I'm pretty sure it's not an absolute must. It does have import capability, both from a file and from other apps, but I'm not sure what the file format has to be or what other apps it works with. Best to Google "Delicious Library" and find the homepage to read more about it.

That's OK with me, but I was more interested in whether it checks Amazon every time it needs to display cover art or other Amazon information, or whether it downloads once and you don't need a 'net connection thereafter.

Apparently the information for each item is downloaded once and stored somewhere. That's not to say it downloads Amazon's entire archive of information, but you won't get blank covers when you're not connected to the internet. You don't really ever need to download anything, since you can manually enter details and import cover art from your hard drive, but if you're just entering a UPC code, the program will look to Amazon or some other site unless you've set it to be manual-only, which I believe is an option.

Any Collectorz.com users here who have used the export to HTML feature? I'm trying to set this up so I can display my collection. I've created webpages in the past, but I'm not sure how to get this to work. I just used my internet provider's free webpage offer so I can have a site to export to, but as far as doing that in the collectorz program, I can't seem to get things working.

Can anyone give a step by step procedure?