Hello,

I'm new to DVD Profiler.  I have hundreds of movies in AVI format that I'd like to create a database for.  Is there a feature or some kind of way I can do some sort of bulk search / import so I don't have to manually add each movie?

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Hello,

I'm new to DVD Profiler.  I have hundreds of movies in AVI format that I'd like to create a database for.  Is there a feature or some kind of way I can do some sort of bulk search / import so I don't have to manually add each movie?

Welcome.

You can add mutiple movies (profiles) using either the UPC Import or BulkEdit plugins. The advantage of BulkEdit, is that it can load personal information, such as the paths to your avi files also, automatically. You just have to decide which of two or three popular methods of referencing avi from within Profiler.

LoadDVD - a plugin that uses the Notes, Location and Slot fields (see LoadDVD and BulkEdit in the Plugins Forum)
HTML sections - displays links that you can click on (see Layouts Forum)

If you decide to use BulkEdit, after you purchase a Profiler license, come over to the BulkEdit thread, and I will give you ideas for how to import your data from a text file.

My HTPC is quite happy with DVD Profiler. It looks great on the big screen and my HD files, DVDs, Blu-Rays and HD discs are all comfortably loaded, and with LoadDVD, I can click on an icon and they will play (well not quite all of them. The BD and HD discs are in a carousel that spins and hands them to me for manual insertion in my player.)

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Quoting mediadogg:

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You can add mutiple movies (profiles) using either the UPC Import or BulkEdit plugins.

If I were you, I'd stick with the BulkEdit addin. 

The UPC Import addin requires that you have the UPC/EAN for each title you want to enter. 

Ok. Note that BulkEdit also requires the exactly same valid UPC/EAN, so that the officiial non-personal profile info comes from Invelos, and should not overlay any profiles you already have in your database. If the UPC is blank, a manual profile is created in numeric sequence starting from what you already have in the database.

Edit: Updating this so as to not add yet another post, and leaving the "last word" to others.

- Orginal poster just wanted to know if it could be done. Answer is yes, and in fact it is quite simple. Not being in favor of it doesn't make it hard.
- Original poster only mentioned his avi collection (hundreds) of movies, and did not propose converting his or any other user's DVD collection to avi.
- In terms of disk space (if the poster can handle it, why do we care anyway ...), many thousands of avi files, can be easily manged on any modern PC. 1000 x 500mb avi fle only = 500GB, about $60 or less today.
- @kdh1949: I agree, totally with your thoughts, and with a little scripting, he actually would not need to tyoe that much.

Quoting mediadogg:

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Ok. Note that BulkEdit also requires the exactly same valid UPC/EAN, so that the officiial non-personal profile info comes from Invelos, and should not overlay any profiles you already have in your database. If the UPC is blank, a manual profile is created in numeric sequence starting from what you already have in the database.

But at least if he wanted to enter all his AVI files as manual profiles he could do so using BulkEdit.  It wouldn't be an elegant solution -- and he'd still have to manually key most of his data, but it would be possible. There's no way he could do it with UPC Import -- at least that I am aware of.

LOL, Astra, even 20 Drives is way too many, I just don't see it as a viable solution, unless you have a small collection.

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