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I have about 650 movies each in their own named folder. Is there any movie cataloging software that can automatically import my movies into the program based on the folder title? I just don't want to manually enter all 650.


I also want the ability to easily email my list of movies to someone from the program


thanks!


PS. i've researched and know about MyMovies, DVD Profiler, etc but none of them seem to have a folder import/feature that i am looking for
 

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I have about 650 movies each in their own named folder. Is there any movie cataloging software that can automatically import my movies into the program based on the folder title? I just don't want to manually enter all 650.


I also want the ability to easily email my list of movies to someone from the program


thanks!


PS. i've researched and know about MyMovies, DVD Profiler, etc but none of them seem to have a folder import/feature that i am looking for

Most if not all cataloguing software are made to work with disk not rip.


What you can do is search for one that can import from a text file or an excel spreadsheet


You can then dump your directory listing in a text file ( c:\\dir c: >dir.txt for exemple). You can then edit this file so only the name of your movie is left and then import this in a spreadsheet or directly in the program if they give you this option.
 

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I don't know of a program that can offer the ability to e-mail a list for you, but Media Browser over 7MC does a great job of playing rips in folder for me. Each movie has a named folder that contains the _TS folders. The only issue I've ever had is that if the name isn't quite right, then it won't parse the meta-data, but there are several programs around to help with that.
 

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I don't know of a program that can offer the ability to e-mail a list for you, but Media Browser over 7MC does a great job of playing rips in folder for me. Each movie has a named folder that contains the _TS folders. The only issue I've ever had is that if the name isn't quite right, then it won't parse the meta-data, but there are several programs around to help with that.

He didn't ask for a program to watch is movie on it but one to catalog his collection. Media Browser is a frontend addons for MC not a cataloging program.

All My Movie does import from CSV files and Excel spreadsheet.


So does this one:

EAX MC
 

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Sounds like a job for a perl script with then using the csv features of MC or similar to import the data. Actually with "All My Movies" you just need a list of movie titles, one per line, in a text file to import them.


You can use any scripting language you want. I personally like perl since it is available on Windows, OS X, Unix, and Linux...


Something like the following would work:


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#!/usr/local/bin/perl


# Change the following two lines to the path/locations that you want

my $movies_location = "C:\\path\ o\\movies\\directory\\";

my $output_file = "C:\\Users\\my_username\\Desktop\\movielist.txt";


# Opens the output file to start writing to it or exits on error

open(OUT, ">$output_file") || die "Could not open output file: $output_file :$!";


# Checks that the $movies_location is a directory

if (-d $movies_location) {

# Opens the $movies_location directory or exits on error

opendir(DIR, $movies_location) || die "Cannout open directory: $movies_location : $!";

}

else {

die "Error not a directory: $movies_location";

}

# Reads all files/folders from the $movies_location into an array

my @files_in_dir = readdir(DIR);

# Closes the directory

closedir(DIR);


# Loops over all files in the movie directory and prints them to

# the output file, one per line

foreach my $movie (@files_in_dir) {

chomp($movie);

print OUT "$movie\

";

}


# Closes the output file

close(OUT);


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thanks, you guys are awesome!


checking out All my Movie


Fallen Kell: ha, that's impressive. no idea what it does, but it looks darn cool
 
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