EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text or complete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface. EMDB is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and doesn’t need a .NET framework or any other external libraries. And best of all… it’s free! EMDB is available in several languages. English, Dutch, Danish, German, Italian, Portugese, Slovak and Spanish translations are available. New in Version 0.29 :
- Development environment - Moved to Visual Studio 2005 + statically linked MFC 8.0 Library + full Unicode support.
- New genres - Added Biography genre (’The World’s fastest Indian’) and on many requests Adult genre.
- Saving strategy - Database is now saved after every new added or changed movie.
- Layout - Increased space for plot outline on many requests. Changed the layout of the main window and the Add Movie dialog.
- Alternative titles - Added alternative title (International English title, Alternative spelling and DVD title are imported from IMDB).
- Search - Search on title now also searches in the alternative titles.
- Resizing - Better resizing and positioning of controls in the main window on startup.
- HTML export - Removed non-web allowed characters from thumbnail filenames in HTML export. Added new tags to HTML template: #LOANED#, #MEDIUM#, #SOURCE#, #AUDIO#, #ALTERNATIVE_TITLE#, #LANGUAGES# and #EXTRAS#. Generated HTML code is now better (but not yet fully) W3C compliant.
- Visualisation - Show Hour glass cursor when sorting columns to indicate time consuming operation in progress.
- Import IMDB - Fixed a crash when importing a movie from IMDB were no director is specified (’Festen’).
- Swap - Added a swap function to swap two movies (e.g. swap their numbering).
- Import csv - Fixed some csv import issues.
- Bug fixes - Fixed a crash when double-clicking a header (eg. ‘Popular Titles’) in the IMDB multiple results selection dialog.
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