My Movie Library is an application that can help you keep your movie collection organized. You may store both artistic movies and personal videos filmed with your own camera.
Adding new movies to database is an easy thing to do, thanks to the welcoming interface which provides large buttons placed at hand.
There is a smart function which allows you to look for artistic movies in IMDB. The same function brings the movie together with its details (actors, director, year, rating, genre, duration), cover photo, and information related to media support (DVD, BlueRay, or HDD). In case these informations are not available, you can edit them by yourself.
As far as I'm concerned, the Rent Out function is very useful, because it reminds you whom the movie was borrowed to. Changing the movies' sequence in the displayed list seems an easy thing to do. With a simple click of the mouse you can sort them out according to different criteria: year, genre, name, rating, or actors. This facility helps you instantly find out the movie you are looking for.
I recommend Automatic Backup option to be checked when editing your movie database. The Import and Export seemed difficult to me. I encountered some errors with reference to movies' array after executing the actions mentioned above.
To sum it all up, the program is nice. It doesn't have useless functions. I only would have preferred to provide more skins and the possibility to select CD from media supported types. Except these two remarks, along with some errors encountered after importing the database, I consider that My Movie Library is worth trying, as it has a big advantage - it is free.
Pros
- Free tool
- Fast search
- Nice interface
Cons
- CD support is not available to select as media type
- Errors occur after importing database
I would have been happy to pay the developer a nominal fee to see if the program continues to improve and develop. I have downloaded (and paid for) a number of programs that I don't like as much as My Movie Library.
That's the problem. I recall this developer always asking for a small donation but as it is usually the case, most users never do (as well as I) because we just want it always for free. Comments are almost always positive for free software but as soon as one of them becomes "paid" or adds ads, then the same people of all of a sudden give the application a negative review.
Have tried many of the pay for programs and none of them are as simple and informative as this, and it even looks better.
You can retrieve the info from IMDB as usual. When you have entered all the new titles you can highlight one from the main list and click on the IMDB button at the top of the page. That will take you to the IMDB page of the title you selected. There you can view photos from the title and the cover photos for the title that were released. Some are good and some are bad. When you find the photo you want for the title image, click on it to make it as large as it will go, then right click and select save photo as, use the .jpg format and name the photo and tell it where to save the photo. Then you can add it to the title in your database by selecting to change the photo, browse and select the photo you just downloaded. Most of the time this will work. If it doesn't you can always scan the cover from the title you purchased, save it as a .jpg, resize it in some sort of photo editor, and use that photo.