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Cataloging Apps

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What is everyone using to keep track of their music/video libraries?

Have Delicious Library 2, although I haven't kept it up to date lately, and think I still have the DL iOS app that got pulled from the store.

I'm looking for something that is multi-OS, really don't want to be stuck in a single OS.

Android and iOS capable - so you can hand a guest a tablet and allow them to browse through your library and syncs with it's own Desktop app.

Preferably OS X and Windows versions, although, reckon I could live with one or the other.

And has the ability for you to input / keep track of where your stuff is located, whether a physical library, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.

Something other than a spreadsheet - while not multi-OS, perhaps something like Bento would do it???
 
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What about Plex? I used it prior to having everything set up through iTunes. You can connect to it remotely, make changes to the info and it can be used one every platform.
 
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That's an idea...

Hadn't considered using one of the media server apps (gave up on all of those, incl'g Plex) as just a cataloging app.

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Nope, no way to just add a movie, far as I can see, that's not sitting on your drive.
 
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Here's one that has come aways since the last time I looked at it, probably 3-4 yrs ago - Movie Collector.

Let's you assign an Edition Format and permits you to add formats to the database and an icon to represent the format.

Here's list view with HD DVD, B-R, Vudu, Amazon, B-R, DVD, mp4 (just picked the VLC icon for testing)

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And here it is when viewing an individual item so you can see where you have that item:

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