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Delicious Library 2 will track your media and your tools


Scott Stevenson has taken another look at a program I am pretty much drooling over at this point-- Delicious Library 2. Earlier, he walked us through the overview of all the items in your library, and this time, he goes a little more in depth on what the app can tell you about each item that you own.

First off, everything is Quicklook-capable and can be viewed in CoverFlow, which is awesome. You can thumb through your books just with a few keystrokes. You can share your library via .Mac and Bonjour, which means while using Wi-Fi at Barnes and Noble, you can actually get book recommendations from anyone else on the network with you.

Finally, Scott reveals a strange but interesting new feature. Apparently, in its pre-release incarnation, you can also track tools. That's right-- the screenshot above is not Photoshopped (not by us, at least). Scott even suggests there might be other possessions to track, but we'll have to wait for the official release to see just what the Delicious team have cooked up.

Scott Stevenson has taken another look at a program I am pretty much drooling over at this point-- Delicious Library 2. Earlier, he walked...
 

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Ben Smith

How about the ability to print barcodes to label your home DVD's or ones were the original case is missing?

December 02 2007 at 12:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Craft

I just want to know when its coming out. Gimme gimme gimme!

November 23 2007 at 1:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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*shrugs* sure, it's an app without a real purpose, but it looks great and is one of the best "show-off" apps for my MBP. I would imagine you'll be able to insert hardware into the library as well, such as computers and consoles. Hopefully they'll bring in comic books as well, though it makes my head hurt thinking about scanning them all in.

November 22 2007 at 3:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Grodesh

I for one find this software extemely useful. I just need a program to track all my stuff I can lend to people. Delicious Library happens to make it easy and the presentation is beautiful.

November 22 2007 at 10:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Arch

@some loudmouth:"If you don't get Delicious Library--a beautiful, intuitive, easy-to-use product that doesn't necessarily fill an urgent need--do you really get the Mac? At all? I don't think so."

What the hell drugs are you on, boy? Seriously. Take the rhetoric and hyperbole down a few notches, mmkay?

November 22 2007 at 3:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LD

I used DL when I got my first make. I see the usefulness of a cataloging software. I have a large DVD collection and that's my primary (well, only) purpose for such a software.

People raved about DL. I used it for a day or two and thought it was decent, so I purchased. That was a mistake. I should have realized that the lack of customer support they showed during my two day trial would have extended after the purchase. I bought it, thinking I would get better support after I had a license. Nope.

I never could do many of the things that were simple with DVDPedia. DL2 might fix some of those blatant deficiencies, but it's too little too late.

I already switched to a better program, DVDPedia. And it was cheaper than paying the upgrade to DL2. If you charge a premium for your product it has to be better and has to have better customer support. DL has neither.

Though it's certainly flashier, it's more difficult to use. I find the Pedia interface better overall simply because it seems more intuitive and has more function.

Apple has a pretty interface, but it's form AND function. DL is form, not function. Apple only adds eye candy after they have a solid foundation. CoverFlow wasn't in Tiger or iTunes originally. Now that the platform is stable, they've added it to make it flashier. DL1 missed that point entirely. They had a somewhat useful, somewhat crippled, bloated backend and slapped a gorgeous frontend on it. Unfortunately, that's like polishing a turd.

I am no programmer and I had a custom HTML export template working in under 5 minutes with DVDPedia. I NEVER could do that with DL1. I hear I can with DL2, but I imagine it will be painfully difficult.

November 21 2007 at 6:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NanoFrog

I just made the dl of booxer and it scans my Italian movie titles, sort of. rather cluttered but have not tweaked the layout settings and so forth. Delicious does not scan movies or books from italy. Booxer, mentioned above, seems ok to me. While not as elegant as delicious it seems pretty suitable for this sort of work. NaboFrog

November 21 2007 at 4:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve Denton

Let's face it; people who use Delicious Library like making lists for the sake of making lists.

November 21 2007 at 3:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NanoFrog

I am an American geekobeing living in Italy. I like Delicious Library but it does not support any European products, at least the earlier version. I have tried it out on my dvd and book collection and it returns no data at all. I hae that it is for USA mareted products only. I thought the barcode system was the same in europe as america? Like ISBN numbers for books use the same modality but are issued by each country...anyway sure wish there were plugins or something for Italy. It is a gigantic BUMMER. TH

November 21 2007 at 2:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Enjuto

Useless, waste of time and money. Please add some functionality to the image, it's just sparkling effects.

November 21 2007 at 12:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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