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raldo:
I'm now in the process of adding several new movies to PVD.

This process is very slow because PVD mixes information gathering with user interaction.

My suggestion is to store ambiguities to be resolved while a large list of movies is processed. Then a dialog is presented where ambiguities are resolved.

After all ambiguities are resolved by the user, PVD uploads/scans info from the net...

(This goes for both movie metadata and posters)

rick.ca:
Much the same functionality already exists in the form of Silent mode. When adding a large number of movies (i.e., any number where you really don't want it to be interactive), turn on Silent mode. Then turn it off, and run the same operation on the movies that did not update. Since all of these will require some kind of interaction, the fact that information will be downloaded again will make no practical difference to the process. Once an ambiguity is resolved, there's no reason not to download the information—while the user goes on to the next ambiguity. Besides, ambiguities are often resolved by a "best guess," in which case it's necessary to see the results immediately.

raldo:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on July 17, 2009, 08:25:46 pm ---Much the same functionality already exists in the form of Silent mode.

--- End quote ---
I don't see how silent mode solves the particular challenge of separating user interaction from downloading.

It does for a subset of files, but the rest of the files need to be resolved in the manner I described in my original post...

rick.ca:
You don't see, or you disagree? I think my original response was perfectly clear. ???

raldo:
I'm just saying that silent mode doesn't solve the problem of separating user interaction from datamining (other than for the small subset of file/poster lookups that return only one result).

After one run of silent mode, I still have to do a rerun without silent mode. For each item that is looked up, it takes a long time between each dialog popup, which I find awkward...

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