peter101 asks:
I am looking for a software to…
- help me organize my movies by genre or
- help me quick find info about a movie (right click or when I have open the program) or
- list my movies in the application by date of air of the movie or genre or I don’t know director.
My brother ask me today to give him a movie of specific genre and I spent 15 minutes searching to finally tell him I got nothing.
8 Answers -
Anonymous
August 21, 2011Well you will need a movie cataloger
Jeffery Fabish
August 21, 2011I assume these movies reside on your hard drive. If I were in your position, I would simply take a day off and go through the movies myself. Create a folder called “movies” and then create your genre folders, “action”, “comedy”, etc. In a subsidiary folder than that, you can create another folder listing its date of air, “2007″, “2008″, etc.
So when your done you could have something like “Movies/Action/2011/”. This would give you great flexibility, since if you’re not interested in the genre, you can simply search the airdate. Modern operating systems include a search feature. I can at least personally verify that explorer (Windows) and nautilus (Linux) do.
Inside the actual movie folder (Movies/Action/2011/<Movie Name>) you can create a textfile with information about that movie, perhaps from IMBD. The point of this being – Making your search even easier. Again, when you search for “<actor’s name>” it should give you a list of text files with that actors name in it, then you can go to which one you want.
FIDELIS
August 21, 2011Hello, have you tried the following?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ant-movie-catalog-opensource-movie-organizer-entire-video-collection/
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/
Aibek
August 22, 20114 Open Source Collection Manager Apps
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-open-source-collection-manager-apps/
(excerpt from the post: Griffith (Windows, Linux) is fairly similar to Alexandria, although it’s designed specifically for movies)
in case you don’t mind organizing movies online, check out following article.
5 Ways to Catalog Your Movies Online
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-catalog-your-movies-online/
and a couple of more apps,
Movie Monkey: Organize Movie Files On Your Desktop
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/movie-monkey-organize-movie-files/
Ant Movie Catalog – An Open-Source Movie Organizer For Your Video Collection
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ant-movie-catalog-opensource-movie-organizer-entire-video-collection/
James Bruce
August 23, 2011If you’re talking about video files on your hard drive, PLEX (http://plexapp.com) is the best media manager I’ve used in terms of meta data gathering and management (by title, actor, year, genre etc). The server app works on both Windows or OSX, but the client is only avaialble for apple devices.
For physical DVDs, Delicious Library 2 for OSX (http://www.delicious-monster.com/) is fantastic – just point the barcode at your isight camera and it’ll fetch all the data and covers from Amazon etc – it also has a checkout system so you can manage which friends are borrowing which DVD. It’s originally designed for books, but has the same functionality for DVDs too.
peter101
September 5, 2011thank you all for you recommendations
ok i check like 20 programs and i think i am going to use more than one
my comments about other peoples who may have this problem
this is only if you are interested for a desktop application
if
you have a lot of movies the programs that can add more than one movie
at the same time are (moviemonkey, Movie Collector and Movie Label)
moviemonkey is not so advance but it gets the job done
Movie Collector short movies by names and present nice the info about the movie
Movie
Label short them by the image and the name under it and it also present
nice the info about the movie (oh it have some kind of recommendation
system )
other good programs that you can put one movie at the time
All My Movies short by image and it also present info about the video
Eric’s
Movie Database short movies by image, present some info about the video
and you can search more than one genre at the same time (not sure if
you can import others programs list, on others you can)
on Ant Movie Catalog you must enter the name of the movie and have no connection to the video but it has the best search tool
Eax
Movie Catalog and Personal Video Database were good too but they
couldn’t auto put the info about the movie so their outsides for me
thx again makeuseof
Peter,
thank you so much for the thorough update, this is great stuff!
September 5, 2011thx now i only use two programs
Movie Collector – has the most information about the movie and it has more functions than any other movie orginizer
and
all my movies - which provide the most informations about the file itself like the size, video and audio bittrate, frame rate, resolution and it also add screenshot of the video as soon as you add it
and you can add to both many movies by just scanning the folder of your choice and they both input info about the movie by just looking at the title
January 24, 2012Aibek
October 13, 2011thanks for the input
Smirnoff
January 23, 2012+1 for All My Movies. Using it for several years and happy