Macworld Expo: Delicious Monster's Wil Shipley

Yeah I tried DL a while back. Nice and pretty, but bogs down like hell. Becoming useless after your catalog gets bigger. I too don't understand why the DM devs get so much praise on this site.

Shipley knows how to market. Apparently Pedias (spelling) doesn't. It's as simple as that. I hate sucking up to people too, but marketing is another word for it. If you don't want to do it yourself, hire booth babes to draw attention to your product.

Another thing is to give sites like this 5 free copies which they can have a contest and give away. The dollar value of the advertising this way is FAR greater than the cost of the software.

Do creative things to get yourself noticed and places like this will enjoy showcasing your product. Hide in a dark cave and you might be fun guys but nobody will care.

No discount for upgrades though I see..

I dont know what you guys are crying about. I scanned over 250 dvds with my iSight using DL and it recognized every single one of them.

And if you can't afford it, get a better job. Or maybe look on the internet for a discount code, if you can figure out how to use Google.

I posted about the 'pedias in September, when PocketPedia came out. I like those apps quite a bit, although for day-to-day cataloging I personally use Readerware (talk about functionality trumping UI -- it's probably the ugliest application on my Mac).

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/28/pocketpedia-takes-your-media-collections-onto-your-iphone/

This post, however, is about a company (DM) that's exhibiting at Macworld; Bruji is not at the show. LD's obnoxious and obscene comment aside, if there are other media catalog vendors at Macworld Expo you'd like us to track down, please raise a hand.

I used to use the 'Pedias but i changed over to Delicious Library a year or so ago and have no complaints at all. A minor hiccup with the MobileMe integration was quickly patched once the problem was successfully recreated. The scanning works perfectly which was more than could be said for the 'Pedia apps which after a particular update suddenly couldn't focus on bar-codes using my iSight camera. Typing in hundreds of bar-codes manually isn't fun.
I guess a lot of it is down to personal taste. I like to see everything nice and neat and the same applies to my music collection in iTunes. When you have an operating system that's as graphical as OSX where's the harm in harnessing that look and feel?
I know from personal experience that certain clients aren't interested in such things and would be quite happy with every field on one screen and no pictures to get in the way or waste space ("why should i have to look up at the screen"). If that's how you feel, get something else otherwise be quiet.

Another vote for the Pedias. I've never understood the TUAW fascination with this silly app. Cutesy wooden bookshelves, utterly incapable of handling large collections. I have over 1500 DVDs in DVDpedia and it's as fast as when I had 100. The interface is as clean and as customizable as iTunes used to be a few versions back. Plus it's updated every month or two, the programmers are in communication nearly daily on the forums, and bug fixes occur literally overnight in some cases. Yet Shipley is seen as some kind of programming god for marketing his overpriced, cutesy, unscalable program, which gets updated less often than OS X at this point.

I like the Pedias more. Ok, they don't have that fancy but useless bookshelf view, but who cares. They are faster and more useful for large collections. Oh and barcode scanning works perfectly.

Shipley --

We are still waiting for you to bring back the 3 column view to DL2.

That's right we are everywhere.

Muahahaha!

Was it me or was it fun just talking to the booth girls enough be interested in DM