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Hyomil:
First, I should mention there's the IMDb Plot Keywords alphabetizer Greasemonkey script that can be used until alphabetization is implemented in PVD. (PVD just downloads keywords as they occur on IMDb, which is the order in which they were added.)
--- Quote ---I prefer Allmovie "Keywords" and "Tones", ...
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I downloaded your script and decided to dump Tones and Moods into Genres and Themes into Categories to append to IMDb data; this way I can look at all the movies in my database by clicking on the Tone/Mood/Theme names to get a sense of them, unlike with custom fields. Looks promising; I'll see what how it goes.
--- Quote ---Agreed, but again, I don't believe the data (especially the correlation to specific scenes) exists. If one were serious about this sort of thing, I think the way to do it would be to collect movie scripts (also easier said than done). Since PVD doesn't do search summaries or show where hits are within a field, they would best be saved outside the database. There, a Windows or other search tool could be used and the hits associated to the movies via the file names (i.e., the scripts would be named something like [Title] ([Year]) Script.doc). I'm doing this now with subtitles (because they're readily available for all movies), but, of course, they include only dialog—and not even who spoke the words. They do, however, include time codes which would allow the exact spot in the movie to be found.
So here's another wacky feature suggestion: Find the given search term in the subtitle files located beside the currently displayed movies. Launch the screenshot maker and grab X shots from the time interval from the end of the previous dialog to the start of the next. Tag the screenshots (another new feature) with "[hh:mm:ss] [search term]" and save them in their respective movie records.
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:o Never imagined such a thing. I might use it, but it sounds very difficult.
--- Quote --- Jinni also looks very interesting. I wish there was a way to upload movies and ratings to sites like this.
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According to Likeminds, sites like IMDb actively try to prevent people from uploading their movie ratings in order to keep people from creating multiple accounts and changing the average rating of a movie by rating it multiple times. Jinni says they're working on a way to upload your ratings. We'll see. Jinni does at least take title requests here and if you look at the past requests, they really are adding them to their database.
Many sites like Criticker, Listal, and Flixster have requests for this on their forums. It takes a tremendous amount of time to upload 2000 ratings, so I usually just do my 5-star rated films. I've yet to pick a 'go-to' site, but Criticker doesn't support TV series, doesn't have covers, and only a has a single microscopic image for each movie. Listal I'm liking for its extensive database, social features, and it not only has screenshots but lets you upload your own and covers too. You can even set which of the available covers you want to use as your default. I'm very tired of going to IMDb and not even seeing a poster for a title due to IMDb charging to add them. Also, if a movie isn't in their database, just input the IMDb URL and its added instantly. No need to request it or fill out a form like with Criticker. Even better, there's a RSS feed for every page on the site, rather than a few general ones. I like Flixster's ability for each movie for users to make their own 'Other movies similar to...' lists and for other users to give a thumbs up or down for these. Anime-Planet is similar, but they both count up votes and make users actually write out exactly how the 2 movies are similar (although voting on keywords/tones might be sufficient in most cases).
--- Quote --- I use Web search to integrate PVD with sites like this (I haven't yet figured out how to do so for Jinni).
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Web search doesn't work for Jinni probably because the site uses Flash for the search box. I submitted it for Firefox's Web Search Pro addon; once its validated, you may be able to copy the javascript link from that and convert it for PVD.
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---I might use it, but it sounds very difficult.
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Difficult for nostra, maybe, but not for users. And that's good—we need to spice-up his TODO list so he doesn't get bored. ;D
--- Quote ---I submitted it for Firefox's Web Search Pro addon...
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I did too. Although it occurred to me it was not really a request for validation, it was a request to create a new search. Hopefully, he knows how to do that, and we'll learn something from the result.
Hyomil:
IMDb Plot Keywords alphabetizer has been updated to be faster but also a feature has been added to enable you to enter the IMDb Plot Keywords that you care about into an array in the script so that those keywords will always be highlighted when you're on an IMDb Plot Keywords page. See here for how to do it.
--- Quote ---I submitted it for Firefox's Web Search Pro addon...
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...but he wasn't able to get Jinni's search box to work with it. Darn that Flash! Jinni does say adding a search plugin for browsers is on their product roadmap. You can vote to give it priority if you like on their GetSatisfaction page.
One other update, Listal now supports importing movies and ratings from the Vote History page of My Movies on IMDb here. I just imported 800 movies in an instant and it got almost all of them except some ratings on individual episodes of TV shows, which it informs you that it didn't import. They also support importing from Delicious Library and DVDprofiler. Maybe next they'll support importing tags like PVD. Tags on their site can be used as a way to help browse through other users' collections--one of the ways you can filter their movie list is by tag. You can see all the tags that that user has assigned to movies and filter so that you only see the movies that they've given a certain tag.
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---One other update, Listal now supports importing movies and ratings from the Vote History page of My Movies on IMDb here. I just imported 800 movies in an instant...
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Thanks—cool site! I did the same (coincidentally, 801 items), and it really was just an instant. I wonder if it can be updated by just uploading the same list again. I wonder if nostra can be persuaded to move up My Movies integration on his TODO list. ;)
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