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Delicious Library Gambler's Sale enters fourth and final week
You'd better get out those credit cards boys and girls, as the Delicious Monster Gambler's Sale has entered its fourth and final week. For those not familiar with this type of sale: Delicious Monster set aside a secret number of Delicious Library licenses and put the app on a four week sale. Each week, they drop the price by $5. Herein lies the catch: the sale ends when either four weeks are up, or the secret number of licenses is sold - whichever is first.
This is the fourth and final week of the sale, and Delicious Library has hit $20. I just purchased my own copy, but only Delicious Monster knows how long you can keep waiting to taking advantage of a killer sale on a killer app.
Thanks RP
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
fcodc :: Exploding Barrels said 10:02PM on 7-17-2006
Delicious Library really is a great app for anyone with a large media collection. If anyone's interested in reading up on it, I did a review on it just last week:
http://www.explodingbarrels.net/2006/07/09/software-review-delicious-library-mac/
Now that it's priced at $20 for a limited time, it's perfect.
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narco said 10:45PM on 7-17-2006
Can it keep track of my LPs?
Fishes,
narco.
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Bruce Anderson said 10:47PM on 7-17-2006
Got mine for $20. I just wish the barcode scanning worked better. I want to buy the bluetooth scanner, but I don't have the scratch for it just now. I've been waiting for this to show up on MacZot, and had no idea it was on sale from DM themselves. Thanks, David!
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David Chartier said 11:18PM on 7-17-2006
#3: I ran into quirks with the barcode scanning myself, but found that if you play with how far/close you hold the DVDs, it can dramatically increase speed and accuracy. At first I had to make pass after pass, whether fast or slow.
Generally speaking, it works best for me when I hold an item close enough so that the barcode fits within the top and bottom-most bars, but your mileage may vary.
Hope this helps!
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Silver said 11:26PM on 7-17-2006
I'd be a terrible gambler: I got nervous and jumped in a few days ago at $25. Heh. Scanning with the built-in iSight on my iMac was a breeze. Some items were a no-go and I had to search for them manually, but otherwise I was able to get my entire CD/DVD/GameCube collection scanned in no time at all.
Now bring on v 2 already, Delicious!
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billy said 11:59PM on 7-17-2006
Thanks for the heads up, just purchased my license!
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Joe said 12:58AM on 7-18-2006
Ok, you made me buy it. I didn't want it, didn't need it, and didn't have the money for it, but I bought it anyhow. I hope you're proud of yourself, TUAW, for making me do it! {However, it is a really cool app, so I just had to have it. Thanks for the post.}
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Eric said 1:34AM on 7-18-2006
I probably don't need this program, but I have been watching the price drop over the last few weeks and I figured that I may as well buy it.
there is something enjoyable about adding things to your library and looking over your collection...
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MikeCP said 2:07AM on 7-18-2006
I will buy this IF the upgrade to 2.0 is free...
and i can't seem to find the answer to this question anywhere. Anyone have any clues?
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Tan The Man said 2:07AM on 7-18-2006
Yeah, I'm waiting for v2. Too long of a wait.
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Christopher Huang said 4:26AM on 7-18-2006
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.
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Christopher Caldwell said 7:07AM on 7-18-2006
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.
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Josh Kaplan said 8:22AM on 7-18-2006
I bought mine last week for $25. Excellent software. I reccomend it.
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Dan said 9:08AM on 7-18-2006
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.
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Cris said 9:14AM on 7-18-2006
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.
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Scott H said 9:24AM on 7-18-2006
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!)
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Dave said 11:06AM on 7-18-2006
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.
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Rob said 3:57PM on 7-18-2006
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 :(
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William Shipley said 6:49AM on 7-19-2006
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
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