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AllMovie disappeared, Allrovi.com appeared!

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minolotus:
Oh no, that is sad. I was so happy after discovering that all the information from the former website are available via the api that I did not read the terms of use.  :'(

I am really stamped at the moment since I preferred the data from allmovie to organize my movies. That worked very well for me. But now I have to import the data from imdb for all my movies, adjust pvdimport and mc views …  >:(

Minolotus (former allmovie.com fan)

rick.ca:
I suppose a small ray of hope is a developer could create something like a plugin for J. River Media Center, and offer that to MC users on a subscription basis. But I found no hint on Rovi's developer site of how they do business with developers. It must be one of those "if you have to ask..." sort of things. This was the main thing I was looking for—just so I might understand the possibilities. It might have explained, for example, why J. River has not shown any interest. It seems obvious providing an automatic download of Rovi meta data for both movies, tv and music would make 95% of their users extremely happy. Most would be understanding/happy if it were only available at additional cost. But for some reason, they haven't done that, or even floated the idea. The answer might be the cost and/or risk is just too much for the small developer.

minolotus:
Even if a developer would make a plugin for MC I am not sure if I would use. I really like MC and use it to search within my database for movies and shows I want to watch next. But I think it is not very handy to edit and input data. PVD is much more better for this. Therefore I use PVD to collect and maintain the data for the movies and MC as a “front end”. A plugin for MC would make this division of work difficult.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Even if a developer would make a plugin for MC I am not sure if I would use.
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I might not either. I was only offering an example I knew would be familiar to you.

That being said, it such a plugin really did automatically supply any and all Rovi meta data for all my media in MC, I don't know why I would not use it. I would still use PVD to view and manage the data, and get information for movies Rovi does not have. And since PVD could easily import MC sidecar data, MC would serve a front end for the Rovi data it would not otherwise have access to.

Ivek23:

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--- Quote ---I wouldn't expect nostra to get around to this anytime soon. Even if he could, there may be further changes coming—assuming Rovi is inclined to respond to the flood of complaints this is likely to generate. There's no point trying to rewrite a script for a site that keeps changing. On the other hand, I suspect there are many of us for whom this is a major problem.

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Hopefully Nostra find a way, how and what to help us However, even for those
for which this is a big problem.

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The more I watch and study the original code page all the more likely seems to me,perhaps, I hope that this wrong, that we will be quiet forever goodbye to all the data from the old AllMovie.com (all as old AllMovie.com definitely will not be back, colt users on their forum to claim back a lot of old AllMovie.com, many users are saying, that on such a site as it is now even more AllRovi.com will not return, AllRovi policy to end users, we feel that they just negligence, If users no longer use their site with movies and other data), as well as always goodbye to all the data from the new AllRovi, because New AllRovi is too complicated to do Nostra had time to convert the existing AllMovie script or possibly for a brand new AllRovi script and I hope I am wrong in this.

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