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Title: EMDB
Author/Publisher: Official Website
Ease of use: Not Rated
Latest Version: 0.87 (details)
OS Support: Windows XP Windows Vista
License: Freeware
Date Added: Sep 1, 2007
Last Updated: Sep 27, 2009
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Version 0.87
  • Release Date: Sep 27, 2009
  • Export: Exporting Certification failed.
  • General: When deleting a movie with renumbering sometimes the list got messed up (database was fine though).
  • User Interface: Main Window columns were reset when changing Export column options.
  • Export / Print: Added AKA as possible Export / Print columns.
  • User Interface: Added TV-Series Filter.
  • HTML Export: Alternative HTML Export location. Because of access problems of the Program Files folder on Vista and Windows 7 you can now choose your own target folder. Default is the User folder.
  • Database: Alternative database location. It is now possible to select a custom location for your database to be able to share a single database over a network.
  • Update IMDB: Take year into account to prevent multiple results.
  • Add / Edit Movie: Thumbnails were not saved when using Next / Previous button.
  • Add / Edit Movie: Check for duplicates when using Add and Continue was not performed.
  • Add movies from HDD: skip already added ones (based on path and filename)
  • Translations: Added Serbian translation.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Chinese translations.
  • System: When no network connection available two error messages were shown.
Version 0.86
  • Release Date: Aug 1, 2009
  • IMDB import: Fixed incorrect country specific title for `fake movie title `, `promotional abbreviation ` and `working title `.
  • FreeCovers.net cover import: Added (still experimental) import for full DVD inserts.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Added option to update only the cover from IMDB, DVD Empire or FreeCovers.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Last used folder for browsing Harddisk is now remembered.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Cancel in browse harddisk now cancels instead of still performing the browsing.
  • Translations: Added Chinese translation.
  • Browse HD: Fixed sometimes extensions were included in IMDB lookup causing incorrect results.
  • Startup: Check for updates now uses the emdb.tk redirector instead of the direct link.
  • Export / Print: Added Certification as possible column.
  • Export / Print: Order of columns is now freely configurable.
  • IMDB Import: Multiple Languages are now retrieved correctly.
  • IMDB Update All: Languages are now retrieved if option is checked.
Version 0.85
  • Release Date: Jul 22, 2009
  • DVDEmpire cover import: Fixed import of titles containing '&'
  • DVDEmpire cover import: Fixed import of titles starting with 'The' (e.g. 'The Missing' which is listed on DVDEmpire as 'Missing, The').
  • DVDEmpire cover import: Improved the best match algorithm.
  • Add Movie: Checking for duplicate entries is now based on IMDB number and if this is not present the combination of Title and Year.
  • DVDEmpire cover import: sometimes the downloaded covers were not resized correctly.
  • IMDB Update All: thumbnails were not updated from DVDEmpire even though the option was checked.
Version 0.84
  • Release Date: Jul 15, 2009
  • IMDB Import: Added new default cover art download from DVDEmpire.com.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed a rare hang during import.
  • User Interface: Added a filter for Owned movies.
  • General: Fixed some memory leaks.
Version 0.83
  • Release Date: Jul 10, 2009
  • IMDB Import: Fixed importing of Cast and Rating due to (again) changes in the IMDB web layout.
  • IMDB Import: Added option to first use actors which have a picture to filter less important cast as the order sometimes seems random.
  • IMDB Import: Made IMDB import more configurable.
  • IMDB Import: Added option to add movies based on IMDB number instead of title.
  • System: Better handling of missing internet connection at startup.
  • User Interface: Added search option for Country.
Version 0.82
  • Release Date: Jul 1, 2009
  • Options: Fixed a problem in the configuration file which caused the import IMDB thumbnail option not to be remembered correctly.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of Director and Cast of TV Series.
  • User Interface: Added search options for several Year queries and Certification.
Version 0.81
  • Release Date: Jun 27, 2009
  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of Director, Cast and Certification due to changes in the IMDB web layout.
  • General: Fixed some memory Leaks.
  • IMDB Import: Added (voice) for voice only contributions (like Animation)
  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.
  • HTML Export: fixed series were not listed in the A-Z sections.
  • HTML Export: fixed navigation from a movie page to the main page got broken.
  • Import from HDD: fixed import and added parsing of all subfolders.
  • General: Added *.ogg support (in Browse HDD and lauch from location field).
  • HTML Export: Added Subtitles and Location properties to the individual movie pages.
  • HTML Export: Don't show default cover if no cover available in list of Latest Additions.
  • Options: Backup frequency was not remembered correctly.
Version 0.80
  • Release Date: Apr 4, 2009
  • IMDB import: fixed handling of special characters due to a change in the IMDB HTML code.
  • IMDB import: IMDB update in the Edit Movie dialog removed the custom genres and languages.
  • IMDB update all movies: Fixed update hung when no mouse activity.
  • User Interface: fixed filtering: Show All was not working when Show Wish list was selected previously.
  • Translations: Updated the Finnish and Slovak translations.
Version 0.79
  • Release Date: Mar 24, 2009
  • System: fixed long startup time.
  • User Interface: fixed custom genres and languages were not visible in the Add / Edit Movie dialog.
  • User Interface: fixed Add / Edit Movie dialog was always above all windows of other applications.
Version 0.78
  • Release Date: Mar 23, 2009
  • User Interface: fixed Add/Edit dialog was cut off at the bottom when using larger scale fonts (not the default 96 DPI) in Windows Display settings.
Version 0.77
  • Release Date: Mar 21, 2009
  • Thumbnails: fixed saving of thumbnails sometimes went wrong when movie title contained invalid characters (%?/\|"<>*:).
  • HTML Export: Fixed swapping of the links to [Others] and [0..9].
  • HTML Export: Fixed TV Series (surrounded by double quotes e.g. "Lost") were not added to the [A]-[Other] sections.
  • HTML Export: Individual movie pages are now put in a separate folder.
  • User Interface: Added support for NetBook resolution (1024 x 600) on MANY requests.
  • Translations: Fixed default proxy server and port were not translated.
  • Translations: Updated the Dutch, German and Turkish translations.
Version 0.76
  • Release Date: Mar 9, 2009
  • User Interface: Added Filter option to show Seen, Not Seen, Wish List, Loaned, Search Results or All movies.
  • IMDB update: the update overwrote manually added thumbnails.
  • Options: Removing all data in the options dialog caused a crash when returning to the main window.
  • Search: Added Comments and Location to the fields the global search uses.
  • User Interface: fixed sorting of the Codec column in the main window.
  • Customized version: Short names did not fully overlap the default title.
  • User Interface: The Director column is now sorted on the Last names.
  • User Interface: Fixed sorting at startup was not always on the previous sorted column (if this option was enabled).
Version 0.75
  • Release Date: Feb 27, 2009
  • User Interface: Added Codecs as possible column for the list in the main window.
  • Donation: fixed selection other amounts and currencies.
  • User Interface: Added IMDB number as possible field to import, export, print and HTML generation.
  • User Interface: Added support for more movie types to launch via the location field.
  • User Interface: Fixed hitting the Return key closed the application. Return now opens the Edit/view window of the selected movie.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed incorrect result when selecting an entry from multiple results when one or more videogames (VG) were filtered out.
  • IMDB Import: Added option to show or hide alternative names in the multiple results dialog.
  • IMDB Update: Custom genres were overwritten during an IMDB update for all movies.
  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.
  • Translations: Fixed several untranslatable items and missing items in the English template.
  • Translations: Fixed possible crash when initial language was set to the language of the OS and this being Non-English.
  • HTML Export: made the html export output w3c compliant.
  • Movie Properties: Added Whish list and Own properties.
Version 0.74
  • Release Date: Jan 14, 2009
  • User Interface: The Show All functionality (to show the whole list after performing a Search) got broken in the previous version.
Version 0.73
  • Release Date: Jan 13, 2009
  • IMDB Import: Fixed initial selection was on second title in multiple result dialog.
  • IMDB Import: Removed Video Games from titles in multiple result dialog.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed special HTML characters (e.g. "á") were sometimes not converted to normal characters.
  • HTML Export: Fixed HTML pages with special characters were not saved correctly (e.g. Czech characters like 'ě' and 'ž').
  • Customized Version: Fixed some characters were cut of incorrectly at the bottom of the header (e.g. lowercase 'g' and 'j').
  • User Interface: List was not updated when a single movie was edited.
  • Add Movie Dialog: Added a button to browse a folder on your hard drive for movies (*.avi;*.mkv) to be added.
  • Translations: Language is set to the Windows UI Language at first startup.
  • User Interface: Selection was lost when changing the UI Language.
  • User Interface: Translation of Movie details were not updated when changing the UI Language.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish and Finnish translations.
Version 0.72
  • Release Date: Dec 18, 2008
  • IMDB Import: Fixed some movies were not shown in multiple result dialog.
  • Import csv: Default subtitle language was not applied.
  • User Interface: Movie info was not refreshed after editing a single movie.
  • Add / Edit Movie: Image was always rotated if needed when copied from the clipboard whether the option was enabled or not.
Version 0.71
  • Release Date: Dec 4, 2008
  • User Interface: Made the IMDb logo behave like a real button.
  • Movie Properties: Added *.wmv as possible type for stored movies.
  • User Interface: Initially disable / hide buttons which should not be used when no movie is selected.
  • Add Edit Dialog: Last movie was not stored correctly when using Next or Previous buttons in Edit mode.
  • Database: Added Auto backup feature.
  • IMDB Import All: Excisting genres were cleared when import of genres was not enabled.
  • IMDB Import All: Added feature to only update new (not having an IMDB number yet) movies.
  • Translations: Updated the Turkish translation.
  • User Interface: Added a List-Only mode.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed movies with special characters (e.g. !&'") in the query string were not found.
Version 0.70
  • Release Date: Nov 20, 2008
  • Movie Properties: Added a Comments field.
  • Movie Properties: Added the possibility to define 2 custom languages.
  • User Interface: Moved the IMDB link of the current movie from the toolbar to the movie properties and indicating it with an IMDB logo.
  • Online Help: Added (preliminary) Online Help.
  • Sorting: Improved the speed of sorting on the primary column 'Nr'.
  • Database: Fixed Media and Source types LaserDisc and D-Theater were not saved.
Version 0.69
  • Release Date: Oct 30, 2008
  • Search: Fixed a (rare) problem were sometimes too much titles were found.
  • Search: Increased the available space for the translation of the "Exact Match" checkbox on the Cast tab.
  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed the number of available actors not being updated when the selection was changed in the Edit Cast dialog.
  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed incorrect displayed index of new movie to add (was one too low).
  • IMDB import: Changed the query string to give better results when searching for a title which is not the original one (aka, also known as).
  • Movie Properties: Added DVD (*.IFO) as possible type for movies stored on your hard disk.
Version 0.68
  • Release Date: Sep 28, 2008
  • Add/Edit Dialog: Fixed Previous/Next buttons corrupted some info.
Version 0.66
  • Release Date: Sep 19, 2008
  • IMDB import: Fixed reporting when no matches found on an IMDB query.
  • IMDB import: Fixed rating not being imported due to web layout changes.
  • HTML Export: Added index ("#INDEX#") as possible tag to the HTML export.
  • Backup: Added default extension (*.dat) to creating and restoring a database backup.
  • User Interface: Sorting the list (by clicking a column header) now keeps the original selection and position.
  • IMDB Update all movies: Fixed update stops on empty entry or no matches found.
  • Translations: Updated the Danish, Turkish and Slovakian translations.
Version 0.65
  • Release Date: Aug 5, 2008
  • IMDB import: Fixed IMDB import due to changes of their website layout.
Version 0.64
  • Release Date: Aug 2, 2008
  • Add Movie: fixed items not being saved when using Add and Continue.
  • Movie Properties: Added Region and System movie properties.
  • Translations: Added Turkish translation.
  • User Interface: Added animated startup screen.
Version 0.63
  • Release Date: Jun 12, 2008
  • Language properties: Fixed saving of Korean, Thai, Hindi, Turkish and Polish.
  • Movie Properties: Added D-Theater (D-VHS) and Lasterdisc to the possible Source and Media properties.
  • Cover Thumbnails: Fixed changing the title of a Series resulted in loosing the thumbnail.
  • User interface: Fixed Minimize and Restore changing the column width.
  • CSV Import: Added a preview to be able to select the columns more easily.
  • CSV Import: Added possiblility to skip a header.
  • CSV Import: Added more column types to import.
  • HTML Export: Added an option to select or leave out the latest additions and/or the list of all movies.
  • HTML Export: Added an option to choose ascending or descending order of the list of all movies.
  • Translations: Added Russian translation. Add Movies: Fixed problem with Add and Continue not saving all movies.
  • User interface: Added *.m3u as link in the Location field (to join movies consisting of multiple files).
Version 0.62
  • Release Date: May 9, 2008
  • Thumbnails: Fixed a problem were thumbnails from TV Series were not displayed due to the new thumbnail algorithm of the previous version.
Version 0.61
  • Release Date: May 4, 2008
  • Search: Fixed crash when searching if movies were deleted with fixed numbering.
  • IMDB import: Added feature to retrieve Country specific titles instead of the default (international) titles.
  • Loan feature: Fixed automatic selection of next movie loaned by the same person when a movie is returned.
  • Movie Properties: Fixed incorrect initial translation of Movie Features.
  • Movie Properties: Added Subtitle language(s) property.
  • Movie Properties: Added Color/BW property.
  • Thumbnails: Use Name instead of IMDB number as thumbnail filename for series to be able to specify different thumbnails for each season.
  • IMDB Import: Added detection of TV Series.
  • User Interface: Added setting of colors for property labels in the main window and text color of the selection bar.
  • Movie Properties: Added browse function to select media stored on local harddisk including starting it from the main window (by clicking on the location which changes to a link if applicable)
  • IMDB Import: Fixed Plot import which got broken by changes of the IMDB page layout.
  • Custimization: Customized versions will not show the PayPal dialog after updating to a newer version.
Version 0.60
  • Release Date: Mar 8, 2008
  • Search: Fixed searching of actors when a name from the list was selected: only exact matches should than be found.
  • IMDB import: Fixed a bug when the number of actors to be imported is higher as the number of actors listed. Sometimes an invalid actor was added.
  • IMDB import: The spoken language of the movie is now also imported.
  • Options: Sometimes the Custom Genres were cleared.
  • Movie Properties: Added 2.35:1 and 1.85:1 as possible aspect ratios.
  • Delete: Fixed a problem where deleting a movie with the option "keep current numbering" checked the Certifications and thumbnails could get mixed up sometimes.
  • Sorting: Fixed an issue were titles starting with double quotes (e.g. TV series) were not sorted on their actual title (without the quotes).
Version 0.59
  • Release Date: Feb 16, 2008
  • Translations: Updated the Danish translation.
  • HTML Export: Fixed a bug were changed thumbnails were not updated in an existing HTML export.
  • HTML Export: Thumbnails of the latest additions are now rescaled taking the aspect ration into account.
  • HTML Export: Added Others to the A til Z and 0..9 groups of movies to also list movies with language specific starting characters (like the Danish 欠? Ƭ ؠand ũ.
  • IMDB Update: Fixed every single movie update tries to connect to the internet, even if the first one failed.
  • Printing: Fixed printing "Current selection and sort order" when no selection was made. All movies in the current sort order are now printed in this case.
  • Printing: Fixed printing of loaned movies.
  • Printing: Added a header and a footer to the printouts.
  • Printing: Added left margins to the printouts. For the time being the margin is fixed to 5 characters.
  • Prefix Correction: Fixed a bug when a movie title was changed due to a prefix the thumbnail name was not changed along (if no IMDB number was available which is the prefered thumbnail name).
  • Installation: Fixed aproblem were installing a font could go wrong.
Version 0.58
  • Release Date: Feb 5, 2008
  • Translations: Updated the German, Danish and Slovak translations.
  • Internet access: Finally completely fixed crash when the internet is being accessed (check for updates / retrieve data from IMDB) without being online.
  • Printing: Fixed printing of the current selection and sort order.
  • Search: Fixed search on actors.
  • Windows Vista: Fixed UAC (User Account Control) problem resulting in new added movies not being saved, settings not being remembered, etc. From now on you can run EMDB on Vista logged in as a User or an Administrator, without the need to "Run As Administrator" and with UAC either enabled or disabled.
  • HTML Export: Added #LOCATION#, #VERSION#, #LOANED# and #SEEN# tags.
  • HTML Export: Updated the Default template: added an all movies list to the main page, added some properties to the individual movies pages and more.
  • Movie Properties: Added "Collector's Edition" to the version property.
  • Thumbnails: Fixed problem were movies without IMDB number and with an & in the title, the thumbnails were not shown in the main window.
  • Customization: Fixed a rare uppercase problem preventing EMDB to change it's title.
Version 0.57
  • Release Date: Dec 4, 2007
  • Development environment: Moved to Visual Studio 2008 / MFC 9.0.
  • Internet access: Fixed crash when the internet is being accessed (check for updates / retrieve data from IMDB) without being online.
  • Backup: Fixed cover thumbnails were not copied during manual backup.
  • Search: Added global text search (searches in titles, actors, directors and descriptions).
  • Search: previous search text for titles and global search are now remembered.
  • Search: Last used tab in Search dialog is now remembered.
  • Movie Properties: Removed DivX/XviD from the possible Media as they are no media.
  • Loan Tracking: When returning a movie, the next one loaned by that person is now selected.
  • IMDB import: Fixed distortion in the multiple result overview due to changes in the imdb web layout.
Version 0.56
  • Release Date: Nov 19, 2007
  • Database: Made reading of the database robust against some invalid values.
  • Translations: Added a Polish translation.
  • Movie Properties: Added Polish as language property.
  • User Interface: Changed default thumbnail.
Version 0.55
  • Release Date: Nov 16, 2007
  • Translations: Updated the Japanese translation.
  • Database: Fixed reading of database with reserved (empty) entries to keep the numbering intact when deleting movies.
  • Customized naming: The customized naming got broken (fixed in version 0.54).
  • Local configuration file: The recently introduced local configuration file replacing the registry could cause problems in some cases: settings were restored to their defaults (fixed in version 0.53).
Version 0.54
  • Release Date: Nov 12, 2007
  • Also the customized naming got broken. Version 0.54 fixes this.
  • The recently introduced local configuration file replacing the registry could cause problems in some cases: settings were restored to their defaults. Version 0.53 fixes this.
  • IMDB Import: For movies with multiple directors none was imported. Now the first one is used ("A Bugs Life").
  • IMDB Import: For movies with general prefix ("The", "A") the prefix is moved to the end optionally to make the sorting of titles more usefull. "A Bugs Life" is renamed to "Bugs Life, A". Added a tab to the option dialog to enable this feature and to customize the prefixes taken into account. You can also update all movies already in the database.
  • Translations: Updated the Slovakian translation.
  • Translations: You can now use the '|' character as a new line indicator.
  • User Interface: Made the space for the loan date in the main window a bit larger.
  • Manual Backup: Manual backups (and restores) now include both the database and the thumbnail images.
  • Database: Fixed (incorrect) reported damaged database when only directors and/or actors but no movies are present.
  • Database: Changed the automatic backup mechanism: EMDB now automatically keeps a Last Known Good Database to prevent data loss when something happens to your database. You can still (and should) create manual backups though.
  • Database: Added a check on version numbers. You shouldn't (and can't anymore) use a newer database with an older version of EMDB.
  • Application: EMDB is now fully portable: all settings are stored in a local configuration file (emdb.cfg) instead of the Windows registry. Your current settings are read from the registry and stored in the configuration file.
  • Movie Properties: Added Turkish as language property.
  • Movie Properties: Fixed Media types HardDisk/BluRay and HD-DVD were not saved.
Version 0.51
  • Release Date: Oct 24, 2007
Version 0.50
  • Release Date: Oct 22, 2007
  • Translations: Updated the Portuguese translation.
  • Import CSV: Fixed version was always set to UNRATED.
  • Printing: Fixed wrong column headers (previous fix only fixed the column headers for Export.
  • Backup: Fixed manual backup caused original database to be cleared.
  • Backup: Changed way to select file when creating or restoring manual backup.
  • IMDB import / Check for updates: Improved error handling when no connection to the internet could be made.
  • Add Dialog: Fixed infinitive loop when deleting values of Number of Discs and Duration.
  • Add Dialog: Allow Number of Discs to be 0 (in case of storage on Hard Disk).
  • Movie Properties: Added Thai and Hindi as language properties.
Version 0.49
  • Release Date: Oct 10, 2007
  • Printing / Export: Fixed wrong column headers.
  • Import CSV: Changed the user interface of the columns to import. fixed several bugs in importing. Made the whole importing more robust.
  • HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails of last added movies were not shown.
  • HTML Export: Fixed default thumbnail was not always shown.
  • Export / Printing: Added 'Medium' to the possible print and export columns.
  • User Interface: Fixed media were never translated.
Version 0.48
  • Release Date: Sep 17, 2007
  • HTML Export: Take customized name into account.
  • Movie Properties: Added Film-Noir ("The Maltese Falcon") which is (allthough rarely) used on IMDB to the Genres.
  • User Interface: Sound properies are now shown in order of quality.
  • User Interface: Order of the columns in the main window can now be changed.
  • User Interface: Changed font of the main list to the Windows Icons font which is better readable.
  • CSV Import: When importing movies, the default movie properties are now applied.
  • Options: Certification was not updated during IMDB update all movies.
  • IMDB Import: Fixed import of Actors which was broken due to changes in the IMDB web layout.
  • Translations: Updates the Japanese and Danish translations.
  • Translations: Added English language file as base for new translations.
Version 0.47
  • Release Date: Sep 1, 2007
  • HTML Export: Fixed thumbnails when old (name of the movie instead of IMDB number) or mixed thumbnail naming was still being used.
  • HTML Export: Added default thumbnail when no thumbnail was added to a movie yet.
  • Printing: Fixed a bug when printing a movie with no director specified.
  • User Interface: Added possibility to define your own "no cover available" thumbnail.
  • Database: Made the reading of corrupted databases (from realy old versions of EMDB) much more robust. Even more data can now be recovered!
  • Options: Made checking for new version at startup optional.
  • User Interface: Fixed sorting on search results.
  • Add Dialog: Fixed last Source in the pulldown menu not being translated.
  • Printing: Fixed a bug in the page headers of the print output.
  • Printing: Fixed a bug in printing the rating.
  • Options: Added icons to the different entries of the options page.
  • Movie properties: Added HD DVD / BluRay Disc / Digital TV / Satelite sources.
  • Movie properties: Added Hard Disk as media.
  • Loan tracking: Added Loan date.
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