Gosh, there are a lot of feature requests.  I have gone through many of them and will keep going but here's what would be useful to me.

1.  Ability to disable plugins from outside the application or a configuration program seperate from the main program.  I have had plugins give me grief and it would be helpful to manage them without crashing.

2.  Import of cover images in definable formats.  If I have HD and LD covers, I should be able to import and manage them both.

3.  Ability to import any/all data.  I would like to be able to import data, for example, in the same format that I can export XML.  I would like to be able to import from text file or CSV, etc.  If  you have many, many titles editing them one at a time is extremely laborous and should be able to be automated.  The UPC import plugin is useful but you still have to touch every single title if you have more data than can be downloaded.  The bulk edit plugin does not support drag and drop or multi-cell update/paste.

4.  Ability to add trailers/links to trailers.  Even if the tralier is pulled from a DVD or is of my own creation/locally.

5.  Ability to download from other sources than IMDB.

6.  Ability to mass skip all non-downloadable content.   When I update images or profiles I should not have click the 'OK' button for every single error.  When data is not available it stops, prompts interactively and does not continue until the prompt is cleared.  It would be nice to have the option to supress errors and then maybe have a result log to explain (actually explain, not check internet connection) skipped content.

7.  I should be able to update profiles or images by criteria or delta from the last update.  Although I understand that I can create a filter, if I want to update a subset or a more manageable group I should be able to define it and update it without having to filter and unselect since unselecting is completely unintelligent.

8.  Ability to mass or definitively select in the collection list.  I would like to be able to [SHIFT] select or [CTRL] select in the collection menu to flag, group or define.

9.  Own more than one copy of a title.  I know others have asked but it's my two cents.  If I have more than one of a title, and I choose to loan it, I can still own and even lend, another.

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Gosh, there are a lot of feature requests.  I have gone through many of them and will keep going but here's what would be useful to me.

1.  Ability to disable plugins from outside the application or a configuration program seperate from the main program.  I have had plugins give me grief and it would be helpful to manage them without crashing.

2.  Import of cover images in definable formats.  If I have HD and LD covers, I should be able to import and manage them both.

3.  Ability to import any/all data.  I would like to be able to import data, for example, in the same format that I can export XML.  I would like to be able to import from text file or CSV, etc.  If  you have many, many titles editing them one at a time is extremely laborous and should be able to be automated.  The UPC import plugin is useful but you still have to touch every single title if you have more data than can be downloaded.  The bulk edit plugin does not support drag and drop or multi-cell update/paste.

4.  Ability to add trailers/links to trailers.  Even if the tralier is pulled from a DVD or is of my own creation/locally.

5.  Ability to download from other sources than IMDB.

6.  Ability to mass skip all non-downloadable content.   When I update images or profiles I should not have click the 'OK' button for every single error.  When data is not available it stops, prompts interactively and does not continue until the prompt is cleared.  It would be nice to have the option to supress errors and then maybe have a result log to explain (actually explain, not check internet connection) skipped content.

7.  I should be able to update profiles or images by criteria or delta from the last update.  Although I understand that I can create a filter, if I want to update a subset or a more manageable group I should be able to define it and update it without having to filter and unselect since unselecting is completely unintelligent.

8.  Ability to mass or definitively select in the collection list.  I would like to be able to [SHIFT] select or [CTRL] select in the collection menu to flag, group or define.

9.  [b]Own more than one copy of a title.  I know others have asked but it's my two cents.  If I have more than one of a title, and I choose to loan it, I can still own and even lend, another.[/b]

This can be done through phpProfiler, I believe. You are describing a business (video rental), of course a store should have more than one copy. This program is designed for such work, it is designed to be a personal library management program.  I understand your desire to use profile to operate a loan operation, it is cheap, but that is not its purpose and as i am sure you are aware programs designed for business purposes are a lot more expensive...justifiably so.

For more on this read the I'm Not Blockbuster in my signature

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If you want to show two copies of a title - you could always just add something into the edition field along the lines of "Two copies".

Its the low tech solution..

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1.  Ability to disable plugins from outside the application or a configuration program seperate from the main program.  I have had plugins give me grief and it would be helpful to manage them without crashing.

You can disable plugins from the outside when you unregister the plugin's DLL.

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3.  Ability to import any/all data.  I would like to be able to import data, for example, in the same format that I can export XML.  I would like to be able to import from text file or CSV, etc.  If  you have many, many titles editing them one at a time is extremely laborous and should be able to be automated.

I think that would bring more problems with it than one can imagine.

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The bulk edit plugin does not support drag and drop or multi-cell update/paste.

Sounds like a feature request for the bulk edit plugin.

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5.  Ability to download from other sources than IMDB.

Do you mean linking/searching in other sources? We cannot download from IMDb, which is a good thing.

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7.  I should be able to update profiles or images by criteria or delta from the last update.  Although I understand that I can create a filter, if I want to update a subset or a more manageable group I should be able to define it and update it without having to filter and unselect since unselecting is completely unintelligent.

I don't understand this. You are always updating deltas. From "Online->Refresh Updated Profiles From Invelos" you get all profiles displayed which have updates available and you did not update yet. With right-click->"Select None" you can deselect all first and then select only those you want update now. The rest will remain in the list for the next time. I highly recommend to preview and select changes beforehand and not blindly updating the profiles!

I hope you are not refering to me. I feel like I have accidentally offended you when responding to the original poster. Or do you mean the remarks of the original poster?

Edit: After your edit it seems more like you are refering to the original poster. 

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Gosh, there are a lot of feature requests.  I have gone through many of them and will keep going but here's what would be useful to me.

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9.  [b]Own more than one copy of a title.  I know others have asked but it's my two cents.  If I have more than one of a title, and I choose to loan it, I can still own and even lend, another.[/b]

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You are describing a business (video rental), of course a store should have more than one copy. This program is designed for such work, it is designed to be a personal library management program.  I understand your desire to use profile to operate a loan operation, it is cheap, but that is not its purpose and as i am sure you are aware programs designed for business purposes are a lot more expensive...justifiably so.

For more on this read the I'm Not Blockbuster in my signature

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Skip, why do you think that anyone who owns more than one copy of something is running a business?

Many of us have had someone give us a copy of a DVD that we already have in our collection, I can think of no good reason why I should not be able to enter both copies into DVDProfiler.

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Call it a very healthy dose of skepticism.

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Wow, that seems like a whole lot of disappointment and hate for what I thought was trying to assist in the evolution of the product.  I certainly wasn't trying to bash anyone or the product; I like it so I use it.

So, no I am not a rental company or store; I just like movies.  Some people like cars and spend all their money on that, does that mean they only own one car?  In the past I bought a movie and got it as a gift; I am not going to throw it away just because I already bought it.

To mediadogg, your plug in is great and that was by no means trashing it.  I was under the supposition that many plugins were stop gaps to what isn't yet in the release of the program.  I would hope they'd incorporate your hard effort as an intrinsic function of the application.  But from my pedestrian perspective, since I want to update many titles individually that had a commonality, and I wanted to paste a block of data back to the app for posting.  Perhaps I am not using your plugin correctly but that doesn't mean I don't think including that type of functionality in a future release wouldn't be helpful to someone who buys the program.  I liked the fact that I could output my data in an XML format that the app understands; I was just surprised I couldn't import the same file back.

I also understand that there are many work-arounds and a lot of people have put a lot of effort and intelligence into this.  My point to all of these is that as the application improves there should be fewer work arounds.

Hey, if you don't like my ideas don't use them.  I paid for the app because I thought it was worth it and it's certainly heads and shoulders above the apps that I have home grown to manage my dvds.

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Wow, that seems like a whole lot of disappointment and hate for what I thought was trying to assist in the evolution of the product.  I certainly wasn't trying to bash anyone or the product; I like it so I use it.

So, no I am not a rental company or store; I just like movies.  Some people like cars and spend all their money on that, does that mean they only own one car?  In the past I bought a movie and got it as a gift; I am not going to throw it away just because I already bought it.

To mediadogg, your plug in is great and that was by no means trashing it.  I was under the supposition that many plugins were stop gaps to what isn't yet in the release of the program.  I would hope they'd incorporate your hard effort as an intrinsic function of the application.  But from my pedestrian perspective, since I want to update many titles individually that had a commonality, and I wanted to paste a block of data back to the app for posting.  Perhaps I am not using your plugin correctly but that doesn't mean I don't think including that type of functionality in a future release wouldn't be helpful to someone who buys the program.  I liked the fact that I could output my data in an XML format that the app understands; I was just surprised I couldn't import the same file back.

I also understand that there are many work-arounds and a lot of people have put a lot of effort and intelligence into this.  My point to all of these is that as the application improves there should be fewer work arounds.

Hey, if you don't like my ideas don't use them.  I paid for the app because I thought it was worth it and it's certainly heads and shoulders above the apps that I have home grown to manage my dvds.

Let me try and explain this one to you nets, and don't take it wrong. This isn't likely to EVER be possible within the program. There are many people who want to be able to Just post whatever data they have in whatever form they have it and from whatever source, including perhaps the single most inaccurate database there is; IMDb. We are DVDProfiler and we have Rules to how things are done and not done, and how you are to enter the data, including an absolute prohibition against using any outside database sources such as IMDB, TCMDb, pick your poison. You are absolutely correct about the amount of time that has been expended, to build a database of 300,000+ titles and to siimply allow someone to do a mass import of inaccurate data and undo hours and hours and hours of work would be simply silly. Think about it, IMDb has been created and iyt has its fans despite its gross inaccuracies, besides the illegality involved in using a third party Dbs data, since IMDb or whatever database you might wish to discuss, has already been created if all we are going to do is clone it then there would be absolutely no need for profiler we could all simply use IMDb. Welcome to our little asylum and by all means contribute whatever you wish but follow the Rules.

Pleas also remember that when you speak of things such as commonality and such, they are usually commonalities to you. But our Online database must serve 500,0000+ users, not simply you, therefore the rules must be followed for Contributions, the places for the things to which you are likely referring to belong only in your local database, which BTW when you upload it, all users who wish to look at it, will see the data in YOUR form.

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