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Authored by: virga42macuser on Nov 16, '04 04:00:01PM

Does anyone have a fear that you will pay out $39.95 for a product that might not be supported a year from now. Then you are stuck with an inventory system that you can't update. (i.e. that the developers go on to bigger an better things and don't release updates and then amazon.com changes the terms and conditions of their services for applications like DL).



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Delicious Library - Catalog CDs, DVDs, books... Nice if it WORKED
Authored by: ibroughton on Nov 16, '04 04:06:58PM

I've tried this today, and it is useless! It won't scan in anything. OK, I thought, maybe UK barcodes are totally different in America (as I'm UK based, but I thought they had added some international support) So I tried a DVD I'd had imported from the US, still no joy, I tried a DVD I'd had imported from Australia, nothing, not even an attempt to scan the barcode. I tried submitting a bug report saying that this won't work with my firewire webcam (everything else that iSight supports works with my webcam without any additional drivers), the bug report box forced me to use one of my secondary mail accounts I have registered in Entourage (I couldn't change it) and when I clicked on submit, the whole thing just closed. If this software worked (and you'd think that they'd have done some testing before releasing it to the paying public) then I might give it a go, but as it stands, it's 0 out of 10 and a waste of hard drive space.

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Delicious Library - Catalog CDs, DVDs, books... Nice if it WORKED
Authored by: robg on Nov 16, '04 04:27:53PM

Sorry it didn't work for you; I had very good results here. Using an iSight, I could literally scan about an item a second; just flash it in front of the iSight, hear the beep, grab the next item...

I believe UPCs are supposed to be universal, but DL doesn't have very strong support for anything beyond the US Amazon yet (though they're adding other countries, as I understand it)...

-rob.



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Delicious Library - Catalog CDs, DVDs, books... Nice if it WORKED
Authored by: greed on Nov 16, '04 05:44:04PM

UPC codes are US-centric. Most of the rest of the world uses EAN codes. The US is currently trying to cope with switching to EAN (or making UPC longer, one of the two), but there's a lot of griping. (I'm in Canada, so we have a nice mix of both UPC and EAN.)

A neutered :Cue:Cat handles EANs just fine. But the :Cue:Cats are frustrating to use compared to real CCD or laser scanners, especially on shiny things, like DVD and CD cases. You have to hold the wand just right... and there's no feedback from the :Cue:Cat, so you have to wait for the program to go beep... so bulk scanning is right out.



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Delicious Library - Catalog CDs, DVDs, books... Nice if it WORKED
Authored by: mschmid on Nov 17, '04 10:02:53AM

If you use the latest version of DL you can switch to amazon uk and then it should recognize the barcode. it is not working if you set the preference to automatic. found this out while scanning uk, us and german barcodes.
hope it helps

sometimes it needs a while to recognize the videocamera. it helps to switch on the camera before opening the programme.

cheers



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Delicious Library - Catalog CDs, DVDs, books...
Authored by: virga42macuser on Nov 17, '04 08:44:11AM
To follow up...

I tried DL demo last night and found the scanning worked well with my FireWire camera.

I found that the application chugs along, I am concerned about performance if I were to decide to catalog hundreds of books and hundreds of CDs, dozens of DVDs, etc.

I was disappointed that a fair number of CDs weren't identified. This emphasized how amazon-centric this product is and how dependent it is on the products they sell. I'm concerned about books and CDs that have been remastered or reprinted and whose UPC doesn't match amazon's DB. The value of this program is its input and identification, the scanning is perfect but no good if it fails to identify your media.

Perhaps if an attempt fails it should prompt you to take a snap shot of the cover of the book or CD so that you can remember what item failed and go back afterward to enter the information manually (perhaps dragging and dropping from amazon).

I believe this product is overpriced. A version that integrates with iTunes, your .Mac homepage, the Library of Congress, All Music Guide, and possibly others would be worth $40.

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