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almostsatisfied replied on March 06, 2009 01:23 to the question "how do I get details for my movies that were imported via text file?" in Delicious Monster:

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?

A comment on the question "how do I get details for my movies that were imported via text file?" in Delicious Monster:

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.

I'm going to give this a try later today. I'll post back here if I am successful. – almostsatisfied, on March 05, 2009 21:06

almostsatisfied replied on March 05, 2009 17:25 to the question "how do I get details for my movies that were imported via text file?" in Delicious Monster:

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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almostsatisfied replied on March 05, 2009 16:55 to the question "TOTAL SCAM" in Thinking Code Software Inc.:

I have to agree. We've waited far too long, and Allan's last post to this board was a month ago. I paid for Dejumble, and Thinking Code refuses to issue a refund. It's starting to look very much like a scam.

I hope Allan is prepared to get a job somewhere outside the indie software business, because I have no doubt that wherever the name Allan Phillips turns up in the Mac software community, there will be people eager to warn the unwary not to waste their money or time.

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almostsatisfied replied on December 07, 2008 23:44 to the idea "Request: Recurring Tasks" in Thinking Code Software Inc.:

Thanks Allan. Recurring tasks was the last missing piece for me, and I bought Dejumble today based on your confirmation that it is coming. Looking forward to 2.0!

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almostsatisfied replied on December 02, 2008 06:55 to the question "Importing titles and linking to amazon" in Delicious Monster:

I would really like to see this happen, too. In fact, this is the only thing keeping me from buying Delicious Library 2, which I otherwise love. I have a large list of my books in a text file, with (unfortunately) no ASINs or other details, and I just don't have time to scan or manually add them all.

Why doesn't Delicious Library offer an option to take the first Amazon result for each title, perhaps with a one-time warning to the user that this won't always result in perfect matches? Bookpedia does this exactly--you can import a list of titles, have them all pulled from Amazon in a single step, then manually correct just the ones where the first match wasn't the right book.

I think most users who want this feature would be willing to accept a percentage of false positives in exchange for having the majority of their titles filled in without manual entry or scanning. I definitely would, and I'd buy Delicious Library in a heartbeat if it did this.

I hope you'll reconsider. I'll be watching your update announcements.