MovieCataloger
Movie Cataloger is a cataloging and organizing software developed for personal use only. It helps user to maintain their movie collection efficiently and in an organized way. It is capable to scan and search recursively the desired folders, drives for movies and adds them to catalog. It is capable of retrieving movie’s name and other important meta data like, language, runtime, quality etc from the file. It has the ability to directly fetch movie data from the internet movie database (IMDb). Users can see their collection of their movies in a single window despite having their actual files located across various drives and folders. Users can mark those movies which they have watched. They can also give a rating for a movie. The data fetched will help users to know more about that particular movie, by showing its poster, IMDb rating, genre, year of release, plot summary, etc like details. It can fetch the data for multiple movies from IMDB at once, and users can update movie details of individual movie as well. Users can play or copy movies, find their location on the drive and can search for a particular movies in the Catalog. Users can view movies category wise in the catalog, can view pie chart showing analysis of their collection.
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System Requirements
- Any 64-bit Windows OS
- Java Runtime Environment 64-bit 1.8 or higher
Instructions to import project in Eclipse
- Download the repo, extract it.
- Create a New Java Project in Eclipse.
- Right Click your project and select Import, then under General choose File System, and then browse and select the extracted folder
- In Package Explorer expand your project and then expand res folder, select all JAR files and add them to Build Path.
- Right Click your Project and go to configure build path and select Libraries tab and add Class Folder and select lib folder in project.
- Run project by MainWindow.java
Instructions to install the latest build.
- Download the setup and follow on screen instructions.
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Do not install it in C Drive, there it will not going to work properly.
Instructions for first time users
- Run the program, and select Scan Folders first, then select Set Folders and set your folders which contains movies ,not tutorials or tv series.
- Then select Add Movies and wait.
- Connect to internet and select batch update and choose Update selected and wait.
- Then select Update by Filtering movie name.
- Now update rest of the movies individually, and explore the software now. Your Catalog is ready.
- For any help checkout the help menu.
Things that needs to be done in future
- Speed up the updation of movies from IMDB in batch update.
- Make it cross platform compatible.
- Import/export database and files.
- Write JUnit files for unit testing all methods.
- Improve documentation, add more comments wherever it is required.
- Find new bugs and fix them.
- Imrove design, imporve button names, etc.