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how do I get details for my movies that were imported via text file?
I tried to import 255 Movies from a tab delimited text file that has the Movie title and release date. None of these movies have any information applied to them other than the Title and the year and I can't figure out how get it to download the rest of the information for the movie. So, how do I get details for all these movies that were imported via text file?
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Inappropriate?Per company responses to a few similar questions, this doesn't appear to be possible. Delicious Library assumes that either you are able to import ASINs for all your titles or are willing to add your library one title at a time; there is no way to import a simple list of titles and have Delicious Library do title lookups on Amazon for all of them.
This is very frustrating to me, because it is the *only* thing keeping me from buying Delicious Library. I don't have a list of ASINs for all my movies and books, and it seems unlikely that most people would. I also don't have time to sit down and enter 1000+ titles one by one.
I can't understand why this is so difficult when other programs like DVDpedia do it quite well. Obviously you will never get 100% accurate results on title searches, but isn't it better to manually correct the minority of titles that come back with incorrect data than to have to enter each of (sometimes hundreds or thousands of) your titles one at a time?
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Update to my comment above: Terry posted a workaround that might solve this problem. I missed it until now because it was posted about two months after the initial response, and I had stopped following the question by that time. See the topmost Best Answer to this question.
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Inappropriate?Well, the workaround is cumbersome, but it works. Might want to give it a try, Dustin.
As for me, I like a lot of things about Delicious Library, but I'm very suspicious of software that loses features from one version to the next. And being able to import a list of titles and get usable data from them is a pretty major feature for me. What if Delicious Library 3 removes some other feature that people rely on?
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?To quote Terry's answer:
What you can do is import your text list of titles into Delicious Library 1. For reasons I can't explain, our importer was a little more robust in the first version, and you could import just the title and have it do a search.
Download Version 1 here (it has a free trial, so you won't have to buy anything): http://www.delicious-monster.com/down...
Then import your text file of titles. Once they're in, you'll have to go through and identify which edition of each book it is that you want in your library. Once you identify the editions, the details will be loaded from Amazon, and the items will then have ASINs attached to them.
Once they have ASINs, you can migrate them to Version 2. When you first launch Delicious Library 2, it should migrate your version 1 data into version 2 automatically.
Since you need it to re-scan for that Version 1 library and then import all those items, here's what you do:
- Close Delicious Library 2.
- In your home folder, find and delete the "Library" > "Application Support" > "Delicious Library 2" folder.
- Relaunch version 2. It should import the data from version 1 on its own.
I know this solution is a little less than ideal, but it should work if you really want to get those items into Delicious Library 2 without re-scanning them.
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Inappropriate?Now what happens if all you have is Snow Leopard? Delicious 1 doesn't work on SL.
I have a database, vcddb (http://vcddb.konni.com/) of all my movies with no ISBN, UPCs, etc, but Titles, Directors, and more (vcddb uses imdb for its movie info).
I want to use Delicious 2, but I cannot import 1700+ movies one-by-one. I'd quit cataloging my stuff before I do that. I can easily export my MySQL datbase of movies to a tab-delimited text file, and import them into Delicious 2, but I can't get any of the Amazon details, which is the main appeal of Delicious in the first place. -
Inappropriate?Joe Roback- Delicious Library 1 does work with Snow Leopard-- you just have to make sure you are running DL1.7 (otherwise it can't perform lookups, on any operating system). DL1 is able to import items by title also.
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