Sorting and Searching

Sorting and Searching

• Order your movie lists any way you like using the Sort Order screen.
• Save your sort order definitions and activate them directly using the Sort Order menu on the toolbar.
• Use the Quick Search box to search your entire database for the occurrence of a particular text.
• Save your filters and activate them directly using the Filter menu on the toolbar (PRO edition only).
• Or build advanced filters with the Filter screen, using brackets, AND, OR, NOT, equal, not equal, greater than, less
  than, "contains" and wildcards (PRO edition only).

Wish List functionality

Wish List functionality

• Quickly check your Wish List using tabs at the bottom of the main screen: All / Collection / Wish List.
• Add movies to your Wish List right from the Add Movies Automatically screen.
• Right click a movie to "Move to Wish List" / "Move to Collection".

Web Feature

• Website Links, movie files and extra images
  • Add links to websites, e.g. to IMDb, to the official movie site, etc...
  • Add links to movie files and start your movie player directly in Movie Collector
  • Add cover images
  • Add related other images, photos, etc...
  • Use the Links Tab page to add movie files by dragging and dropping

Feature's

• Cast and Crew
  • Actors and the Characters they play
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Writer
  • etc...

• Personal information
  • Purchase information: Date, Store, etc...
  • Your rating
  • Location
  • Owner
  • etc...
  
  
• Support for TV Series
  • List all episodes: Title, Running Time, Plot & First Airdate.
  • Use the multi-disc support to specify which episodes are on which disc.
  • Download episode titles from the Collectorz.com database.

• Support for Box Sets
  • Use the Box Set feature to create Box Sets containing multiple movies
  • Enter all Box Set details in the Box Set screen, including Front and Back cover images.

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• Browse your DVD & Blu-Ray Disc inventory, ordered by Title, by Release Year, etc...
• View your lists in a columnar List View or in the cool Cover Images View.
• Group your movies in folder, e.g. by Genre, Director, Actor, Format, etc...
  Or scroll through your movie database as one big list.

• Add movies to your DVD database in 3 easy steps!

  
• Step 1. Enter the movie title
  Movie Collector will now search our online movie database for movies that match the entered title.
• Step 2. Select your movie from the Search Results
  Movie Collector will display a list of movies and their DVD editions. Just select the DVD edition you own. You can use the Preview panel to make sure it is the right one.
• Step 3. Click Add to add the movie to your database
  Movie Collector will now connect to our online movie database to download all movie information (genre, studio,
  release year, cast, crew, etc...) and all DVD details (cover images, subtitles, audio tracks, features, etc...).

• Or catalog DVDs by scanning their barcode

  
• Scanning barcodes is the fastest way to catalog DVDs.
• No need to enter the titles of the movies and no need to select your specific edition, the search results will automatically return the exact DVD edition that you own.

Tip: try the Opticon laser scanner or the simple Cuecat scanner.

Add/Link Movie Files by scanning folders

• Scan your folders for movie files.
• Add the found movies to your database in batch, using either the file name or folder name as the movie title, with the movie files automatically added under Links.
• Then use Update Movies Automatically to download movie information (like cast, crew, plot & cover image) from the Collectorz.com online database.
• Or, link the found movies to existing entries in your database.
• Use the Play button in the Details View, or Play button on the toolbar, to start the movie in your favorite movie player.

The Collectorz.com Movie database

• Movie Collector gets its movie data and cover images from our own Collectorz.com Movie database.
• Users of the program help build and maintain the database by submitting data and images to us using Movie Collector's Submit feature. At the moment, the database contains data for over 130 thousand movies and over 180 thousand DVD editions.
• Check out the daily updates and the "most popular" lists at Movie Collector Connect.

Available Fields

Main movie details Title Release Date Running Time Genre Studio IMDb Number Audience Rating Format (DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, VHS, etc.) Barcode (UPC or EAN)	DVD properties Subtitles Audio Tracks Screen Ratios Region Edition Layers Special Features etc.
Collection Status Use the Collection Status field to indicate whether an movie is actually in your possession, on your Wishlist, On Order, For Sale. Use the In Collection Status filter menu to quickly show your wishlist, your "on order" items, etc...