![]() ![]() I use it all the time – see previous story about trying to find Planet of the Apes! DVDpedia’s strength for me is being able to find out if I own a DVD or not. Matched together I can show that I’ve got over $5000 worth of media. I think what I’ll do is take photos of my three DVD stands and the cabinet where all the Blu-rays live and put those on Home Inventory, but continue to use DVDpedia for the full inventory. You know I’m a big fan of Home Inventory for inventorying stuff for insurance purposes, but DVDpedia is better as a specialized kind of inventory. Not nearly as fun as scanning the barcode but still pretty darn easy. You can simply type in the barcode number (easy if you have good eyes or good glasses that is) and it will come up with the match straight away. I haven’t found a consistent reason why it fails on some media but if it does fail to find it there’s an easy remedy. When DVDpedia finds a match it finds it really quickly but it doesn’t always work. It’s super fast and it’s actually kind of fun. When it finds the right match, it pre-popluates the entry in your database with the cover art, genre, actors, director, rating and more. With DVDpedia you simply hold the DVD up to your iSight camera on your Mac and DVDpedia scans the barcode and then searches a vast set of databases to find the DVD/Blu-ray you’ve scanned. I’m going to use DVDpedia for all of the examples here.Ĭataloging stuff is fun for the super anal, OCD type but it can be a drag for people who don’t live for this stuff. Or maybe you’ve wasted your life away playing video games, you might be interested in a way to catalog your games, they’ve got Gamepedia. Or perhaps you’re an intellectual and have a giant book collection – Bookpedia. Now let’s say you’re not into movies as much as we are, maybe you have a big CD collection – try CDpedia. If you paid any attention to my post about why Steve and I still buy physical media, you’ll remember that we have 274 DVDs and Blu-ray discs to dig through when we’re looking for a movie to watch. The application is called DVDpedia from. Back in 2009 I told you about a really cool application that I’m still using five years later, so I figure it’s time for a refresher. ![]()
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