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Well, now the rest have been approved, so it's not too bad. But the fact that updates get approved faster than new contributions creates anomalies like this. And it's so unnecessary.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 2813 |
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Sigh!
The profiles that I changed from two movies to one of the movies has been released. The updated boxset parent has also been released. But … the new profiles that were created for the second movies from each of the old two-movies profiles, those have not been released.
Thus, if you accepts the currently released profiles, you lose half of the movies (until those are also released).
How stupid!  | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 2813 |
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The rules are clear that we should not contribute disc level profiles for such discs. Right now I'm profiling the movies included in the Hammer Film Noir box set (089859-055423). It currently does have disc level profiles, and I'm meaning to break those up.
The problem here is that there are disc level extras. Some of them pertain to a specific movie, like commentary, so they should be included in the profile for that movie. But some of them are more general. And if we don't make disc level profiles, where do we add these extras? Do we add them to both movies profiles? | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 2813 |
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| I don't think we should include "additional" anything, so No. | Posted: Topic Replies: 4, Topic Views: 3424 |
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It looks like drag-and-drop works in the Edit Tags window. So if you create Continent tags you might be able to drag the Country tags there and thus make them child tags. You might want to create a small test database to try this out on, to see if it works the way you want it to.
I see that Marty beat me to this. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 3464 |
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DvdpScheduler 2.6.7
The timing of the backup didn't work as intended, instead it reported that the backup took less than a second. Wishful thinking.
Not a big problem unless you had configured another task to run after the backup, in which case DvdpScheduler would not wait for the backup to finish before trying to run that task. | Posted: Topic Replies: 30, Topic Views: 29416 |
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Could be a firewall issue. Make sure port 32847 (or whatever) is allowed.
And as for support, yes it seems that community support is all we have. | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 5511 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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To make sure I understand, when used with DoubleDips, the benefit to the user is that they are not required to manage an XML export?
No, I only use HTTPJolie here for selecting profiles in DVD Profiler when the user double-clicks a row. I contemplated reading the data directly via HTTPJolie, but decided that it would be too slow. So, limited use here, but I find HTTPJolie immensely useful in other applications. It opens up so many possibilities. | Posted: Topic Replies: 9, Topic Views: 12268 |
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If you're wondering about the statistics, the reason that DoubleDip profiles is more than DoubleDipped titles is that some titles have been "dipped" more than once (like "20 Million Miles to Earth" in the illustration). 653 double dips? Yikes!  Maybe I should spend more time culling my collection, and less time developing software than no one but me seems to be interested in ... 
PS the printing subsystem is supposed to be able to print in color. It doesn't. At least not for me. I blame Syncfusion. Not that I consider it a great loss in this case. And I guess I can't complain too much since I don't have to pay Syncfusion for using their datagrid. | Posted: Topic Replies: 9, Topic Views: 12268 |
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DoubleDips 2.0
Version 1 had a nasty bug, and lacked some features that I thought it needed, so I rewrote it from scratch. It doesn't look much different at first glance, but it is faster and better, and it has printing facility.
If you're looking to get rid of some DVDs that you have upgraded to Blu-ray (or Blu-ray to 4K, or whatever), then this will help.
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Quoting Magmadrag:
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We all know that stuff we would like to own in our collection and never can understand why they are not released. Imo the problem since the streaming era began is that they simply produce too much fort TV and all the streamers. And mostly they got no idea if any collectors would buy. Sometimes they try, but if the first few seasons are sold too less, they quit releasing.
Yes, this is quite frustrating. One of my favorite shows back in the day was Fame. It was wildly popular, yet only two of six seasons were ever released on DVD, and it's not streaming anywhere (afaik).  | Posted: Topic Replies: 11, Topic Views: 9386 |
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It sounds to me like a "glass half full or glass half empty" situation. Sure, it would be nice if people did a complete audit of their discs before contributing, but I still think that something is better than nothing. As long as people don't knowingly submit incorrect data, I'm fine. Not everyone is interested in spending hours creating profiles. I wouldn't call it lazy.
As regards original title for TV shows, the rules don't really specify what it should be. While I personally agree with you that it should be just the name of the show, there have been many discussions about it, and it seems that there are reasons (valid or not) to include season info. However, the rules do say "In cases where the title is the original title, leave the Original Title field blank", so those who don't accept just the name of the show should probably leave the original title field empty. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 6177 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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Interesting. I will take a look at WebView2. If it solves the issues I had building CLTBoss, I will jump on it, because that would make the tool run at least 10 times faster.
That would be awesome! Fingers crossed! | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 25252 |
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Guess what! I found more things to do to BirthYearCheck!
First of all, I replaced CEFSharp with WebView2. Among other things this means a much smaller download, and BirthYearCheck can now be run on both 32 bit and 64 bit machines. Anyone still running 32 bit Windows?
I also implemented AutoItX fully, so now the program will find DVD Profiler without having to know Profiler's main window title. And I styled the program a bit, but it's much less obvious here than in ProfilerMissing. Just trying to put a little bit of personal touch on my programs.
The search function in WebView2 is a bit different than in CefSharp, so please read the help file.
There are a couple of minor fixes as well.
BirthYearCheck 4.8
Refresh your browser if you still see the old version.
PS. If you already have BirthYearCheck installed, you might consider cleaning out that folder before copying in the new version, so you get rid of all the no longer needed CefSharp gunk. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 25252 |
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Just updated to iPadOS 17.01 and iOS 17.01. DVD Profiler still seems to be working OK except for the black text on a black background in the search box of the Showcase tab on my iPad. Annoying, but not a major problem. I think we are good for another year.
If anyone notices anything else please report it here.
Thanks nanoron! Good to know. I haven't updated my iPad yet, but I will now! | Posted: Topic Replies: 20, Topic Views: 10301 |
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PprofilerMissing 2.3
I found a better way to identify DVD Profiler's main window than using the window title, so now this program works with any translated DVD Profiler without specifying the window title. A very minor improvement for most of you.
I also took the time to style the program:
And I added some very small fixes to the interface. So not any really important changes. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 20326 |
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