Can this app scan my network share where all my rips are (in seperate folders of course)?  Would like a single application to manage my entire collection, both physical media and digital media.  Of course, my digital collection is starting to outpace my physical collection.

Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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It cannot scan your harddrive for ripped data.

You can enter those as manual profiles though.

OUCH!  That's a lot of work, over three hundred digital titles...  Guess I'm moving on to find another Catalog management SW...

too bad, this one had promise.  But, the industry is moving on as well.  Physical media going by way of the dinosaur, as will DVD Profiler too I suppose...

Quoting mediadogg:

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I have some unreleased tools that I am still perfecting. I'm always looking for test scenarios. But since it will be a plugin, you would have to have a bit of faith and purchase a license for DVD Profiler.

Not necessarily, if you don't have more than 50 profiles the plugins work in unregistered too. So giving it a test-drive before the buy should be possible.

cya, Mithi

$30 isn't a bad number to show commitment.  You do have the nicest physical manager I've seen so far, and the nested design of box sets is quite nice!

I'm going to look around a little more before I shell out the $.  Being completely transparent about it. 

I do feel pretty strongly that directory scanning is a mandatory piece of capability today and not necessarily something that should be after-thought.  iTunes is doing a terrific job of managing my digital titles, but it is wholly separate and apart form my physical inventory.  I don't like that.

Check out how you competition scans storage based media, its a key feature of the app stack. 

I'll be in touch, and totally understand your comments.  Just suggesting that developer commitment and feature set comes before customer commitment and sales

Quoting mediadogg:

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I appreciate and respect your thoughtful response. If you should join our community, I for one, will personally give you all the help that I can. By the way, just to be clear, I am just a member here. I do not represent the Developer (Invelos) in any way. My opinions are my own.

I misunderstood, seing the number of posts you have I just assumed you were THE dev guy or a member of the invelos team. 

Given your commitment to this community, you must have a path back to invelos to offer my sincerest suggestion on this topic.  and again thanks for your responses as well... community commitment helps a lot with these softwares...

will be in touch...

Give it a try, even though it sounds daunting to add 300 titles, it really isn't. You are only adding via the EAN/UPC or if you don't have that then add by title and pick the profile you want. I can assure you once you've done the first few, and DVDProfiler is free for the first 50 as a trial, you'll like what you see and figured out the easy way to do it. Then you'll discover you can change the layout or download various layouts so your display looks even better to you and you'll have cover images, images of the cast and crew (if you grab the headshots db) and all the info about your movies/tv shows right in front of you and you will gain a sudden passion wanting to add the rest of your 300 titles. It becomes addictive :-)

I also have digital copies* of all the movies I own and I can understand your point as i have these on a PCH and have an app/jukebox called Oversight which automatically adds all these into a video wall - but it doesn't have anywhere near the info for each title that DVDProfiler can produce.

And if you decide this is good and you spend the one time fee to register DVDProfiler you can get thing's like mediadogg's LoadDVD which will allow you to browse your collection, select one and play the movie. Just like media players.

Its not going to cost you anything and only a little time to try it and the first few titles added - I bet you love the result.

* Australian law allows for the copy of digital discs for backup/archive purposes - in case anyone in these forums thinks I am doing something illegal. It's just an unfortunate co-incidence that my PCH can see the drives across the network where my archival storage is.

Quoting jessicalennita:

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I think it is not possible to add many digital titles from the specific hardware.I don't have the proper knowledge about all these but acquired some thing from this conversation as am a new member here.Thanks for the useful info.

You drew the wrong conclusion. It is possible.

Quoting rlfromm:

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mediadogg, I just licensed DVD Profiler and I am very interested in trying your drive scanning plug-in or excel tool. How can I get a copy?

I have some proprietary experimental tools. It has been a while since I used them, so I might have to brush the dust off. Send me a PM to get the conversation started. Give me an idea of the volume of data, what format(s) the files are in, etc.

And before we go too far, you should mess around with both "LoadDVD" (plugin) and "My Links" (DVDP feature), since either one or both of these will likely be used to play the media, regardless of how the media information is collected. If you don't like the way they work, then we will waste time going any further.

A real quick thing you can do with LoadDVD is to use the Tools\Filepath\Add  menu to select a file, and it will automatically build the information required in the Notes and Location fileds to play the file.