EMDB is a powerful database that makes it easy to keep track of your movie collection.
How easy? To add a movie you simply enter its title, click the Search IMDB button, and EMDB will track down matching movies for you. Choose the right one and it automatically finds and fills in details like the cover art, cast, genre, director, duration and a whole lot more.
You can then customise the entry with a rating, or more specific information about your copy. Like, is it a VHS tape, DVD, Blu-ray disc, something else? Is it a PAL, SECAM or NTSC copy? Which region is it? And the list goes on.
Or, if you're in a hurry, you can just click OK and add this particular movie to your collection. Which is very nicely displayed, with your movie cover art images laid out on a virtual shelf (although you can also opt for a more ordinary text-based list, if you like).
Once you've finished then the database can have several possible applications. You're able to use it to track movies you've loaned to others, for instance. Or to create Wish Lists of movies you like, but just haven't got around to buying yet.
And if you've a particularly impressive collection, then the Export option will allow you to save its details on HTML pages, ready for uploading to a website and sharing with the world.
Verdict:
Compact, easy to use and entirely free, EMDB is one of the best movie management tools around
Changelog
What's new in 5.28 (see changelog for more)?
- Translations: Added the translation for toggling the movie list in TV Mode.
- Database: Fixed an issue with path names containing '\u' as this is a escape character for unicode characters too.
- Scan Harddisk: Added option to scan all sub folders too.
- TV Series: When scanning for (new) episodes in the TV Series Details screen the stored root folder of the series is now used by default.
- User Interface: Made it more clear default print is sorted by number and there is an option to print the current sorting too.
- User Interface: Renamed options page 'Default settings' to 'Intial Values' as this option was not clear for a lot of people.
- TV Series: Fixed manually adding png images for season posters and banner.
- Add Movies: Fixed an issue where movies were added again when relative paths are enabled.
- User Interface: Added description to title bar when filtered on Favorites.
- Random did not always work when filtering, performing a quick search or resetting the view to show all movies.
- Database: Improved re-numbering the entries in the database.
- Database: Added an option to fix duplicate thumbnails.
- Database: Fixed an issue when copy / pasting movies resulting in possible duplicate thumbnails.
- Translations: Updated the Czech, Hebrew, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, German, Arabic and Dutch translations.
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