Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 09:10:10 CST 2014
Sounds like a smart phone app in the making to me. You might make a tidy sum -- I'd love to hear where this goes! Susan H. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >