BEST Movie-Games--Music-TV Series Organization Software

aman.pitbull

aman.pitbull

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Hello TE'ians I'm in a big fix here, I have a very huge collection of assorted movies, games, Music and TV-Series stored on my hdds, CDs and DvDs like many here on TE. I used to make a list of all the stuff I burnt/downloaded but I just lost an entire 2TB with 1600GB of data including the lists :@ . Now I'll have to make the entire lists again and recover the lost 1600GB from my friends.

Please suggest a good database manager software that can make a list of all the movies, games, Music and TV-Series... stored on different HDDs, CDs and DvDs in a sequential manner. I've numbered all my CDs and DvDs, so the software should be able to detect the content stored in the media and mark it in its database(to save me from the typing madness).

Many people here on TE are already using such soft wares so if you can share your experiences, ideas etc.. that would be really helpful.

Thanks In Advance.
 
It'll take me over 3 weeks to assort all the stuff in EXCEL sheet, I was previously using excel but it's no linger a viable option..

Thanks for your opinion :cool2:.
 
^^

Best option mate. Just create one and upload to net somewhere. You can access it anytime. :)

IMO the issue with database software is lot of info we DONT need. whats the point?
 
I need some of those extra features, excel was a good idea for me but I really don't have time to write all the names. I know about putting it online on G-Docs editing and sharing, but typing all that is a big PIT*.
 
You don't have to type all of it. Use CMD (command line) to do that for you.

Open CMD (Click Start--> Run--> type CMD and press enter). Now navigate to the folder where your files/folders are stored.

For e.g.

D:\>cd Movies

D:\Movies>DIR /?

Have a look at the different switches. You can use the switch /AD if your movies/shows are in individual folders and the switch /B since you don't want the extra information displayed regarding headers etc. You can also use the switch /ON (sort by name) or /OG (group directories first).

So, in short, you can use the following command

D:\Movies> dir /AD /B /ON>list.txt

will write all the folders present inside the directory in the file list.txt that gets created in the same folder. :)

Will barely take you half an hour if your collection is as properly organised as you say. Paste them in an excel file if you want.
 
If you want, there are official applications available. Head over to Collectorz.com to look at the various sequential organizing applications that they sell.

Otherwise a simple Excel sheet is great, just save it to Google Docs.

I use a combination of both. I make a list and save it online, at the same time glorify my collections by adding in all that 'useless' information form the database. ;)
 
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