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Quoting DJ Doena:

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if (e.Url.AbsoluteUri.StartsWith("http://akas.imdb.com/"))
            {
                Process.Start(e.Url.AbsoluteUri);
                e.Cancel = true;
            }

The default browser topic was somewhat lost in the soundtrack discussion. I guess this had something to do with it?

It's working locally just fine. 

I just hadn't released a version just for that.

you're unbelievable !!! 

Tried a tough one (Guitar Hero 2, VG) and it works except of course the people with no link. Only minor problem I can see so far is that 'as' (credited as) doesn't work but I don't need a wrong spelled Glenn Danzig anyway.

But couldn't mess around with the soundtracks much yet. I keep getting errors from the imdb all day long. And that's when I'm almost finished - only 100 profiles to go... excluding soundtracks! 

Edit: new error, happens with Deadwood for example (http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0348914/):

"der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt"

Seems to be crew related. Parsing only the cast or cast + soundtrack works, any other crew parsing = error.

At first I thought it's a temporary imdb problem but I start to doubt that.

triple post - uhm - sorry

but I'm finally finished

more than 2500 DVD, BD and VG parsed with CCE2 and 344765 people cached, meaning much more than 100 new people every profile.

Looks like something is wrong? It is! There is quite a high chance that the same person gets multiple imdb IDs. The cast of "The Guild" Season 4 is good example to see what's happening all the time but normally with the crew. It's not a big deal because these are usually completly unknown people but in combination with fake BYs it also boost the number of entrys created in the DVDP.

I'm very happy with my result and I'm not requesting anything anymore but since CCE2 is almost there I wonder if it would be a big step to 'teach' the KnownNames.Txt to 'understand' imdb IDs and force them to a specific fake BY. In that case everybody could easily fix crosslink problems in the own collection without the massive use of fake BYs. It could also be used to force people back into one entry. Something like this:

imdb ID          name parsing                force BY to
nm0004539    Vanessa / / Williams        31963

Thanks you very much again Karsten for the greatest addition to DVDP and the best support imaginable

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Do you mean this for cases where IMDb has not yet recognized a duplicate person but you have?

Yes, that's what adds countless(?) unneccessary entrys in the DVDP. But on the other hand you hardly can ever be sure if a crew member really is the same person or not. Having the same name over and over again as a SFX lighting programmer but always with a different fake BY seems a bit suspicious 

here is an example within the same movie but he would be split up even without Fake BYs:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4537747/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4526793/

At least I'm 99,99% sure that it's the same guy.

Of course it's a very very minor problem, afaik always happening with (to the consumer like me) completly unknown people. I'm not going to spend months to merge these people even if you find a way. I'm very happy with my collection now!

My suggestion was more like an alternative to the whole current fake BY system. Lets say you know that you have two John Doe without a real BY or the same BY. All that would be needed is to add one of them to the KnownNames.txt and assign a BYs like 3001 and let CCE2 handle it in the future to keep them apart from each other. But of course that doesn't work with the name entered to the left field in the .txt file.

This way only errors one knows of in his collection can be fixed automatically by CCE2 but I think it's a whole lot less 'scary' than to add fake BYs to everyone. Plus the data is shareable and it works even for people like the two Vanessa Williams born 1963.

As always I have no idea if it's a very hard thing to programm or if you simply never thought about it like abusing the TXT file to assign completly different names 

And for me this is theoretical. I'm bound to fake BYs. I won't start all over even if somebody paid me  for it It just seemed natural to add fake BYs as an option to the KnownNames.txt

Thanks for you last additions. Sadly I've discovered a small problem with the new automatic name parsing into the first name field - they might easily become to long.

For example The London Oratory School Schola turns into The London Oratory School if pasted into DVDP.

Not a big deal and there already is a workaround using the knownnames.txt with an entry like this:

The London Oratory School/ /Schola

So no fix or anything needed. Just be all aware that long names might be 'changed' when pasted into DVDP and might need an additional entry in the known names.txt

BTW that example isn't that rare. They are credited in the three Peter Jackson LotR movies. I have them in 7 profiles alltogether. Maybe you want to add them into the standard knownnames.txt, Karsten?

too long: The Brian Jonestown Massacre (American Pie, Buffy, Boardwalk Empire, Californication...)

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

That name was already a problem without the new all in the fist name field option. It turned into:

The / City of Prague Philharmon / Orchestra

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2. (green) Changing a person's name via 'Known Names' didn't create a 'credited as' name

Well, that's because Know Names wasn't intended to actually rename people.