Assigning a physical location to each movie

[boristhemoggy]

Hi, I've found antmovie almost perfect for my needs. I have an Access database with 876 dvd's listed, and I simply exported it and imported the list to antmovie. Excellent!!

However there are 2 things I'd like to do, neither of which I'm sure I can.

Firstly, to download all of the information from IMDB would take a prohibitively long time. Is there anyway I can ask it to download the info, without me needing to continually select "Yes" or "OK" for each entry?

Secondly, I keep the discs in folders, of which I have 5. They are categorized in Access as 2-4-C. 3-12-O, 2-32-V, 4-4-A. The number denotes which folder the movie is in and what page it's on, whilst the C stands for a copy of a dvd, the O stands for an original dvd which I bought, while the V stands for a vcd and the A for an avi.
This system helps me identify which folder each movie is in, and what format it is in.
I would love to be able to continue this system in antmovie, but I can't see a way around it. I'm certain other people must use a similar system so, has anyone found a solution to either of these issues? If not are they likely to be added into a future version of antmovie?

PS I can see that medialabel could be used for the folder number, but not the page number, and I have assigned this field to that field in the database at import. Media type could then suffice for C, O, V etc, however these types are all individual fields in Access so four can't go into 1

Thanks in advance

[bad4u]

Firstly, to download all of the information from IMDB would take a prohibitively long time. Is there anyway I can ask it to download the info, without me needing to continually select "Yes" or "OK" for each entry?

When you open scripting window and select IMDB script, you will find some options on the right side of this window. Try setting script option "BatchMode" to 1 or 2 and deselect execution option "Show results window".

PS I can see that medialabel could be used for the folder number, but not the page number, and I have assigned this field to that field in the database at import. Media type could then suffice for C, O, V etc, however these types are all individual fields in Access so four can't go into 1

You could import the individual fields from your database to individual, not used fields in AMC before you run IMDB script (e.g. to MediaFormat, VideoFormat, AudioFormat and Languages), then use scripting to merge these fields to a single field (e.g. MediaLabel) and delete temporary used fields again. It's only few lines of code and quite easy to do (I can post the code if you want to do this, but need to know which fields you use and in which format they should be combined on one field then).

[boristhemoggy]

I've mostly got it now playing around with the database.
Is it possible to change the words "media label" and "source"?
I might be asking too much here but it would be great if it was perfect.

[bad4u]

Is it possible to change the words "media label" and "source"?

No problem, you can change that on the language file. Open english.lng from languages folder with a text editor, look for Frames / [TMovieFrames] section (it's somewhere around line 1000) and change field labels, e.g.

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LSource.Caption=Source:

to whatever you need. You might need to switch AMC to language file "English (for translations)" if it is set to "English (default)" on menu tools->languages to see the effect.

[boristhemoggy]

Fan bloody tastic!!
Thanks loads for your help!