1. Does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive barcode/UPC hand-held scanner to quickly enter the UPC info?
  2. Also any consideration to adding the ability to use a hand-held scanner to physically inventory a DVD collection and match it to their DVD Profiler collection?  I'm thinking interactive scanning the DVD directly into the program and getting a report on any unscanned/missing DVDs.

I'd be interested in other's thoughts on this concept.

Quoting 8ballMax:

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I believe there is already plugin available that will allow one to physically inventory a DVD collection.

Quoting tlevel:

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You can also try the UPC Filter plugin (download here). It will allow you to flag all the barcodes you scan in. You can then do a "Invert Flags" to see which ones you didn't scan. It also has the option to create a txt file of all the UPC's that you scanned but it didn't find in your collection.

This method works very well. I do it once a year and it takes me about a day to run through the whole collection. (Granted, I also open every case/box to check that all the discs are there).

The UPC-Import-PlugIn is still available at Goodguys Website, found it via Donwloads -> PlugIns 

cya, Mithi

Ps good answer, but not this question.    I shouldn't post before my first coffee.

Quoting Johan1FS:

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Quoting Mithi:

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The UPC-Import-PlugIn is still available at Goodguys Website, found it via Donwloads -> PlugIns 

Hmmm, yes, that one is there indeed.  But we are actually looking for the UPC Filter plug-in that creates a dockable window to filter the collection based on UPC. (It works almost like the Alt-F10 function, but on steroids.)

The UPC Filter was developed by user tlevel. Perhaps you can PM him and ask him where to download it.

Quoting 8ballMax:

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The UPC Filter was developed by user tlevel. Perhaps you can PM him and ask him where to download it.

It is hosted on my site. You can get it from here.