I said yes, and in just seconds my entire library was viewable on my iPad including the cover photos.
#CONVERT DVDPEDIA TO MAC#
I looked over at DVDpedia on the Mac and it was asking me if it was ok if the iPad slurped up the data. I opened up Pocketpedia, tapped on sync and it told me to look at my Mac. It a universal app for $4 in the App Store and it couldn’t have been a more delightful experience. It’s not just for DVDpedia, it syncs all of the ‘pedia libraries. I’m excited again about DVDpedia because they have an iOS app called Pocketpedia that lets you sync your library to your devices. Like I said early on, I’ve been using DVDpedia forever, but the one problem was that I didn’t have a copy of my DVD library that I could cary around with me. If I spend some time making those collections I could really have some fun!
#CONVERT DVDPEDIA TO MOVIE#
I noticed it said we had one X rated movie – but I think it’s a mistake, it was the 1990 version of Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger so maybe the data isn’t that reliable! Anyway, pretty fun for data nerds.ĭVDpedia supports smart collections, so I created one for just our Star Trek DVDs (23) by simply doing a smart collection by name but you can use any criteria in the database. We’re clean loving people with more PG-13 or PG movies than anything else. We have more movies starring William Shatner than any other actor (again, you’re shocked, right?) Again shockingly 98 of our 274 videos are in the Action & Adventure genre followed by 60 in Comedy. For example, we have more movies directed by Steven Spielberg than anyone else (7). You can even set a due date to get it back, but DVDpedia doesn’t integrate with your calendar yet so don’t expect to get a notification.įor data nerds (you know who you are) you can see statistics on your DVD collection. DVDpedia integrates with your contacts too so it’s easy to look up who you’re loaning it to. We sometimes loan out DVDs, so when we loaned our future son-in-law the movie Planet Earth (the David Attenborough version, NOT the Oprah version), I opened up the record in DVDpedia and simply dragged it into the Borrowed collection in the left sidebar and it queried us on who borrowed it. 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.
#CONVERT DVDPEDIA TO FULL#
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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