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Registered: June 2, 2008 | Posts: 39 |
| Posted: | | | | I purchased DVD Profiler for a friend for Xmas, and he bought a bar code scanner to add his collection easier. He means business lol. Anyone else buy a bar code scanner to add their collection? | | | Never judge a movie by its sequel or remake |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,217 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting cronosmantas: Quote: Anyone else buy a bar code scanner to add their collection? ~2 decades ago I bought a declawed CueCat for $5, but I haven't used it in ages. I enter the 1-2 BDs I still buy per year per hand without a problem. If I ever have the need for bulk-scanning again I'd use a smartphone-app that can save the scanned UPCs in a text list. | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki | | | Last edited: by Mithi |
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,917 |
| Posted: | | | | I've got a CueCat too but ended up quicker to just type them in since I know ten-key. |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,742 |
| Posted: | | | | Yeah I've been owning one for over a decade now, makes the occasional mass buy or inventory much easier. Video would have been even more efficient if I hadn't needed my left hand to hold the phone camera. | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,633 |
| Posted: | | | | I have a barcode scanner which I purchase long ago, but I don't use it much since most of my buys are a few at a time. It ends up being easier to just input the UPCs for a few titles manually. However, it's quite useful if you adding a large collection from scratch. |
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Registered: January 11, 2022 | Posts: 1 |
| Posted: | | | | I pretty much discovered DVD Profiler just recently and wanted to get a barcode scanner to save so much time when doing future scans. Just did a rescan of my entire collection today since the CSV file didn't organize my collection correctly and it felt so much easier rather than just typing the numbers |
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Registered: November 22, 2008 | Posts: 24 |
| Posted: | | | | Hello, i never used a scanner to entering my movies to my collection, now i would renew my coll, and i have an i-phone 12 mini, what app do i use and how do i proceed? thx! | | | i just love movies. |
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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,458 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting maddox: Quote: Hello, i never used a scanner to entering my movies to my collection, now i would renew my coll, and i have an i-phone 12 mini, what app do i use and how do i proceed? thx! Did you notice the answer and video a couple of posts back? I suggest search your APP store for the software that was recommended. | | | Thanks for your support. Free Plugins available here. Advanced plugins available here. Hey, new product!!! BDPFrog. | | | Last edited: by mediadogg |
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Registered: November 22, 2008 | Posts: 24 |
| Posted: | | | | sorry Mediadogg, i mist it! i have search in the app-store, but nothing seems to work for me (i mean, in relation with Invelos-my desk-top!) maybe because my phone is i-phone and pc is win 11? | | | i just love movies. |
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Registered: November 22, 2008 | Posts: 24 |
| Posted: | | | | I think i am a bit like Roger Murtaugh: i'm to old for this shiitake mushroom!!! :-) But i've got a respond from Scotthm, tink i just my try that! goodnight everybody! | | | i just love movies. |
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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,458 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting maddox: Quote: I think i am a bit like Roger Murtaugh: i'm to old for this shiitake mushroom!!! :-) But i've got a respond from Scotthm, tink i just my try that! goodnight everybody! Good luck. Maybe post what works for you so that we all learn about it! | | | Thanks for your support. Free Plugins available here. Advanced plugins available here. Hey, new product!!! BDPFrog. |
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Registered: November 22, 2008 | Posts: 24 |
| Posted: | | | | . | | | i just love movies. | | | Last edited: by maddox |
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Registered: November 22, 2008 | Posts: 24 |
| Posted: | | | | I got me a hand barcodescanner, USB Plug & Play, easy to add movies now! Thx! Quoting maddox: Quote: . | | | i just love movies. |
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Registered: July 25, 2007 | Posts: 3 |
| Posted: | | | | It never occurred to me that I could scan DVD bar codes and use them with DVD Profiler! I've already got a bar code scanner! Unfortunately, it isn't working for me with DVD Profiler. I think I know why but I want to see if someone here has a suggestion about it.
I collect comics as well as DVDs & I bought a bar code scanner at the same time that I bought Comicbase to manage my comics. The bar code scanner has worked great for scanning comics in for years, so it certainly works, but it's not working when I try to scan DVD bar codes. It doesn't seem to recognize that the DVD bar codes ARE bar codes.
I'm guessing that that's due to the way I set up this scanner a long time ago. Programming the scanner involved using the scanner to scan various barcodes to set up its features. I wasn't told to scan all of the bar codes so I only scanned the ones suggested.
One thing unusual about comic (& other magazine bar codes) is that the comic doesn't get a new bar code every month. It adds an extra 4 characters or something like that to the end, to identify which instance of the comic or magazine this is. I certainly scanned a barcode during setup that allowed the scanner to recognize the extra characters in these comic bar codes.
So, my question after all of this is whether I need to use a different bar code set to read DVD bar codes than I do comic bar codes? Does anyone know if these sets of codes are mutually exclusive or if the scanner can hold more than 1 set of codes at a time? I buy a LOT more comics these days that I do DVDs so I don't want to do anything to mess up the comic scanning. If I can only use the scanner for 1 type of item then I'll stick with comics.
Thanks for any suggestions you might have!
Thanks, GWGuen |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,432 |
| Posted: | | | | Assuming you purchased the scanner from Comicbase they have a setup page for their scanners. Look in the appropriate users guide for UPC-A setup. | | | Registered: February 10, 2002 |
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Registered: November 22, 2008 | Posts: 24 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm guessing that that's due to the way I set up this scanner a long time ago. Programming the scanner involved using the scanner to scan various barcodes to set up its features. I wasn't told to scan all of the bar codes so I only scanned the ones suggested. With the scanner there was a page with barcodes (language, azerty/querty....) that i needed to scan, at first it didn't work, then i scanned them all, and finally it worked (don't ask why or how i did it! ) Good Luck | | | i just love movies. |
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