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Product Description:
fennel DVDManager (aka fsDM) is our next-generation DVD manager (sic) for Mac OS X.
With its clean interface, available in 15 languages, it makes maintaining your DVD library as easy as Macintosh!
With its clean interface, available in 15 languages, it makes maintaining your DVD library as easy as Macintosh!
- Retrieve & Update your DVDs' details through online sites
- or Add & Edit them manually, yet *quickly* (just the core details!)
- Manage their life when lent to friends thanks to your Address Book
- Create box sets+wish list easily, and manage them intuitively
- Export a complete list of your DVD library, etc.
What's new in this version:
Introduction
- More than happy to declare fennel DVDManager 100% freeware... and to present its commercial twin brother: fennel DVDManager Pro!
- Now allows you to filter DVDs by genre.
- Qualified for Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.7.
- (63) Now retrieves more than one author for Amazon entries with multiple authors (i.e. directors, artists, etc.).
- (63) Similarly to our Rate global and contextual menus, the Rate toolbar item now also displays the state of the current selection.
- (62) Retrieve: When searching Amazon websources, no mentions of progress were displayed; this now behaves similarly to DVDFr & IMDb.
- (62) Streamlined our contextual menu by removing the (rather inappropriate) global Add, Filter, and Search options.
- Placeholders for star-styled ratings in the Details pane are now displayed as "little dots" when in Edit modes.
- The Search toolbar item is horizontally-stretchable.
- (62) Plus some minor menu reorganization, with some more refinements in our Dutch, French, German, and Swedish localizations.
- (63) Takes into account the recent changes that occurred on IMDb websources.
- (62) On Leopard, the selected items--and not the clicked item--were the target of any contextual action; from now on, selections should behave like on Tiger.
- Fixed a regression introduced in v1.7.9 in which manipulating completed contacts proposed in the Manage sheet could lead to a crash.
- When submitting changes in an Edit session, some fields (sporting valid values) could have been saved even if some invalid values were reported; it's fixed now, which means that no change is saved until *all* the fields feature some valid values.
- Fixed some issues in our CSV-based Import action where some field mappings weren't respected.
- Revolved an issue in Edit mode in which the red labeling of fields sporting an invalid value wasn't appropriately reverted to black.
- Fixed the situation where, the library sorted in descending order with some box sets expanded, adding a DVD would not end editing the just-created item.
- Corrected some more memory leaks related to our Import action.
- We're aware of missing bits in some languages, and are working on completing them ASAP thanks to our localizers; we'll push newer builds through Software Update as they become available, hopefully in the very near future. Thanks for your understanding in the meantime...
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- A connection to the Internet is highly recommended (fees may apply).
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Nice little app 
- Version: 1.7, 1/1/2008 08:21PM PST
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chronicfathead
ALERT: Amazon-based Web Sources at Risk - Version: 1.6.7 (44), 5/21/2007 04:29PM PST
fennelsoftware
Dear fsDM Users,
Through this alert bulletin, we'd like to let you know that we're now aware of problems re the retrieval of DVD details through Amazon-based Web sources. We'd also like to tell you that we've already started investigating what could be the cause of such an issue, and we'll try to keep you informed of our progress towards solving it. Be assured we'll do our best to get your beloved DVD manager back and running as expected as soon as possible. But we don't ignore the possibility that those Web sources may be temporarily removed from fsDM if a new implementation of those retrieval mechanisms was going to be needed…
We're really sorry for the inconvenience, and we'd like to thank you all for your patience and understanding in the meantime.
— The Team
(Credit goes to Graham E. for reporting this alert to us.)
Through this alert bulletin, we'd like to let you know that we're now aware of problems re the retrieval of DVD details through Amazon-based Web sources. We'd also like to tell you that we've already started investigating what could be the cause of such an issue, and we'll try to keep you informed of our progress towards solving it. Be assured we'll do our best to get your beloved DVD manager back and running as expected as soon as possible. But we don't ignore the possibility that those Web sources may be temporarily removed from fsDM if a new implementation of those retrieval mechanisms was going to be needed…
We're really sorry for the inconvenience, and we'd like to thank you all for your patience and understanding in the meantime.
— The Team
(Credit goes to Graham E. for reporting this alert to us.)
Good product - Version: 1.6.7 (44), 5/20/2007 12:17PM PST
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Lou Zer
For what it is, this product works really well. It searches various on-line listings to prepopulate your entries. It doesn't burden you with too much UI-candy or overblown features.
On the "Like to have" list would be small stuff:
- add to the genre list
- export to text/ipod notes format
- edit the underlying link to IMDB/Amazon.
On the "Like to have" list would be small stuff:
- add to the genre list
- export to text/ipod notes format
- edit the underlying link to IMDB/Amazon.
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- Good product
If you go to the developers site, you can download the lite version, which is UK and US English only, rather than multilingual.
Would love to be able to edit the genre by double clicking the genre field, rather than going to the menu bar.
Search feature is pure mac, works and is fast.
I would also like to be able to edit the filter setting, so I can say whether I have ripped it to my media centre.
Import and export to xml format, same as other DVD cataloging software.
The web export function allows you to create a HTML webpage of all your DVD's that you could send to a friend so they can see what you have got (don't tell the film companies!). I have been annoyed by software that doesn't do this in the past, as it seems an obvious thing you would want to do.
So far so good.