Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 09:06:08 CST 2014
I am an avid collector of DVD movies. The current count is about 1000. I found a free utility called Ant Movie Catalog which has proved invaluable. You type in either the title or the bar code number and then hit F6 and it reaches out to the net (depending on your settings, it might go to IMDB or DVDEmpire or whatever) and searches for said title, and upon success, grabs all the relevant data: producer, director, stars, synopsis and even an image of the DVD cover). As a result of this program, I have a printed catalog of all my DVDs, and make them available for loan to my friends at two local food banks. For want of a better term, I call this service "Arthur's Lending Library". The rules are simple: you may request up to five movies, which I write down and deliver the following week. You must return them the next week, else you cannot borrow more. Upon delivery, I write down a list of your borrows and you sign and date it. This service is enormously appreciated, and with the occasional exception, usually associated with the use of crack, fastidiously obeyed. I digress. It also happens that I have a collection of LP records that numbers into the thousands. I would love to find a program which performs the audio equivalent of AMC: I would type in the name of the recording and it would reach out to the net and return the list of tracks, the players, and perhaps also an image of the album cover. Do you know of such a program? -- Arthur