Delicious Library Gambler's Sale enters fourth and final week

Sale's over - we hit our number today and changed back at midnight. Thanks for playing!

Version 2 is going to handle thousands and thousands of items very well. Version 1 can get bit clunky when you get over 1,000, it's true.

Since that's, you know, $20,000-30,000 in music or DVDs, I think that's a pretty freaking big collection, honestly.

-Wil

Will this keep track of DVDs in a changer? I need to be able to know what dvds are in what slots on my changer. Right now, I use excel :(

I've been interested in Delicious Library for a while and this sale perked my interest. It seems like they wanted to get all of the people on the fence to break down and buy, which they apparently did. They hopefully will offer new versions at a discount to renewers.

I agree with Christopher (post 11) -- DL is slow and unsuited for anything but the tiniest of collections (and in that case, why bother?) The Pedias are fantastic. I have over 1,000 DVDs in DVDpedia and the speed is excellent (and that's on a 3 1/2-year old iMac G4).

Plus, the Pedia interface is MUCH better. Not as "cute" as DL, but infinitely more flexible, and so much like iTunes that it requires almost no conscious thought to do all kinds of great things like smart collections. Plus, the development cycle and tech support on the Pedias is fast, and outstanding--just check the forums for the 1- or 2- day responses.

(No, I'm not associated with the makers in any way, I just love the programs!)

Bought for $20, thanks for the heads up as i was unaware of the sale, and always thought $40 was way too much.

Makes me want an iSight now. Roll on new Macbook.

As for the upgrade costs, they said in the comments on the latest post on their blog that they have not worked out upgrade costs yet, and not to worry about that at the moment.

So i guess it depends how much we all moan, and what real extra feature there are.

Oh, and in the Drunkenblog interview, they stated it's designed to cope with about 2000 items, so if you have 3000 i'm not supprised it's slow.

To those people who complained about the scanning performance -- I don't know whether you are using an Intel Mac with an external iSight (so, basically Mac Mini owners) but there is an issue with the focussing on those setups.

If you run it under Rosetta the scanning is much improved. It's only a short-term workaround, but maybe it'll help someone out like it did me.

I bought mine last week for $25. Excellent software. I reccomend it.

Unfortunately while it looks great, Delicious Library is the most unusable application I have ever encountered on any platform. The UI is painfully slow and it takes ages to start or even to quit the application (this on a G5 with 1.5GB of RAM) with our library of ~3000 books/cds/movies. Exporting your data to HTML requires a third party application (which usually try to mimic the UI of the application) or heavy scripting.

I decided to chalk it up to experience and invest in the various Pedias instead (http://www.bruji.com/index.html). They also support iSight scanning and are lightning fast. They also have many HTML export options and support developing your own export templates.

To No. 8: The answer's here:

http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2004/12/version-107.html

"1.1 will be a free upgrade, as well any "." release, while 2.0 (and 3.0, and 4.0...) will require $$$."

So, no - it's a great app though. I guess v2 will probably come out in January or April, at the time of one of the big Mac Expos.

Yeah, I'm waiting for v2. Too long of a wait.