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buah:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on March 03, 2010, 01:03:27 am ---It's impossible to determine the quality of a poster from a thumbnail.
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Integrated browser preview window, again, would be the most efficient solution?

rick.ca:
Well, I'm certainly not going to disagree with that brilliant idea. ;)

But that was suggested with one-at-a-time item selection (poster, or whatever) in mind. It probably can't fully replace the current means of selection (there may not always be a search results page to display), and it's clearly not the most efficient solution for bulk downloads. For that, the ability to specify parameters (e.g., number of images and size) allowing a poster plugin it run effectively in silent mode would be the most efficient solution. Where that fails, the most efficient second step (other than using an alternate plugin) would normally be a manual search using a browser (I normally use Web searches for this). This avoids wasting time tinkering with a plugin which is likely to fail again (e.g., if none of the top 3 posters were acceptable, checking the next 3 is likely a waste of time).

zapras:
Silent mode isn't work for adding posters. I have about 600 movies to add. What should i do?

mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
If you're patient (like a saint...I'm busy busy this week), I'll see if I can cobble something together.

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SkinnyV:
I agree about it taking time. I just started transferring my movie collector database to PVD and decided to stop messing around trying to import all the cover from my old database (since there is really no automatic way to do it) and just imported the movie list so I could start fresh (some of my cover were bad quality). Before, if I wanted to do that on MC, I would have to go through all my movies but it would import the cover and movie info all at the same time and then it was done. I was stunned after going trough my 450 movies and getting the cover added to realize I needed to go trough all of that again to import the information as a separate process! I then redid it again to import from IMDB only to realized that it was only importing the IMDB url and not the info! Now I need to start again to get the info from allmymovie... I'm really not sure if I want to start over again clicking and selecting for 2 hours when it's all set up on movie collector, I thought I was doing a good thing switching over but now I don't know. Maybe there's something I'm missing but I can't see how people could have needed to stay hour in front of their computer clicking hundred of time per minute to add their movie...

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