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Delicious Library 2.0 is now shipping

by Dave Caolo May 26th 2008 at 11:45PM

The beta period is over and Delicious Library 2.0 is officially ready to go (we took an early look at version 2 back in March). If you're unfamiliar, Delicious Library is the beautiful personal media database (that's the fancy way of saying "it keeps track of your stuff") that's as fun as it is useful. Use your Mac's iSight camera to scan the UPC on a book, DVD, software, games, etc. and watch it appear on your "shelf." From there, you can track who you've loaned it to, publish your library to the web and a whole lot more.

Version 2.0 includes more than 100 changes, including
  • One-click web publishing
  • Speedier graphics
  • iTunes integration
  • Three-click selling
There's plenty more, of course, and you can read the rest here. Delicious Library 2.0 requires Mac OS 10.5 and a single license will cost you $40US.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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Timothy G. Cook

Like several others I have been a user of DL 1.*** for several years and when I try to upgrade for the $20.00 price I get an error message saying that someone else has already upgraded using my existing DL 1.*** license and to contact DL via email if I am truly the user authorized to use the first license number. I emailed them twice a week ago and have not heard anything back. What is going on?

June 08 2008 at 9:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LukeChairWalker

I just bought DL2 thinking it would read my iTunes data. DL2 is set to subscribe to my iTunes lybrary (via Preferences) and I'm running 10.5.3 but my iTunes data does not appear in DL2. Is there someone here with the same problem?

May 28 2008 at 10:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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LD

Lots of people...if it's on an external drive.

May 29 2008 at 1:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jon Freed

Did anyone come up with a solution of iTunes integration if it resides on an external drive yet?

June 10 2008 at 4:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yakov Chodosh

I use Books. http://books.aetherial.net/wordpress/ It's free! Why does TUAW always cover these expensive programs and short-shrift the free alternatives? (Like Qumana rather than MarsEdit!)

May 28 2008 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Yakov Chodosh

by the way, I find it (Books) extremely useful. I have a large collection of books and I keep them organized by Library of Congress number. I realize that's OCD behavoir but it's how I like to stay organized.

Also, I live most of the year away from my main collection of books (my collection resides in Pittsburgh but I go to school in New York) and a couple of times last year I bought books in New York that I already owned in Pittsburgh. I won't do that anymore!

May 28 2008 at 6:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tuta

What about the pros/cons of having everything in one place versus the pedia separate approach?

May 28 2008 at 8:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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split.second

I'm pretty disappointed with this release. It seems very rushed, as if they got to a certain point and said "you know what, I'm fed up with this. Let's just release a stable version and be done with it". That to me would fit with the very sudden beta and then subsequent full release.

In particular, what happened to the floating information window? Big deal if they got rid of the side info bar. The bottom info bar is much worse. And the cool flaming deletion animation? Not there. Instead we get a 1990-esque exploding item. Weak. Weak sauce

May 28 2008 at 2:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jo jo the dancer

wayyyy overhyped!

the itunes icons look like schmeg, it barely creeps along a little faster than DL1, why is there "cinematographer" and no "director", the info screen at the bottom is huge and ruins the shelf screen, sort by creator is the default. not happy with it, don't understand all the lavish praise either. feels like a beta

May 27 2008 at 11:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nobody important

I bought DL1 during the period when you were supposed to get DL2 for free when it came out, but my DL1 license key is not accepted in DL2. Was I supposed to get an email with my new key?

May 27 2008 at 7:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Branden Russell

I have the same problem. I've been emailing and calling since DL 2's release and have received no response and can't use the new version to scan anything!

June 05 2008 at 5:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nobody important

Can anyone figure out how to get the total value of your library? This seems like an obvious feature, but I can't figure out how to access it.

May 27 2008 at 7:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ClownX

So, just now, weirdest thing happened with DL2. I was trying it out again (I couldn't get the other one to scan anything), and I scan Rock Band. It says, "Rock Band, Electronic Arts". Then, in a voice (sounded like Bad News), it said, "Run for the hills. Run for your lives", and if you know, that's in Rock Band. Anyone else get that one?

May 27 2008 at 6:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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bangler

Don't know about this one, haven't tried DL2 yet and don't have Rock Band, but there were a lot of easter eggs like this in DL1. Star Wars, Stephen Hawking, don't remember what else...

May 27 2008 at 8:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
frank d

So how does the library weight / size compare between v1 and v2. Does it still generate n copies of every cover at incremental thumbnail sizes? And thus turn a 500 item collection a 500 MB DL library?


May 27 2008 at 2:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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mibu

I have 350 books in DL.

In version 1.6, this lead to a library folder with 5.308 objects and 111.8 MB.

In version 2, this leads to a library folder with two objects and 26,4 MB.

That's a huge advantage and well worth the update!


May 27 2008 at 6:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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