Movie Explorer 1.2
Device: Mac OS
Category: Reference
Price: Free, Version: 1.1 -> 1.2 (iTunes)
Description:Movie Explorer scans all your internal, external and network drives for digital movie files like MKV, M4V and MP4 and saves them in a movie catalog for off line browsing and searching. The app can be used as a convenient starting point for playing your movie files by using the 'Play' and 'Play with' menu commands. The 'Gallery' feature let you enjoy posters, stills and photos of movies, cast and crew members.
FEATURES
• Maps your digital movie files automatically with movie metadata provided by The Movie Database (TMDb).
• Reads technical metadata of your files using the MediaInfo library of MediaArea.
• Shows details like the original title, plot summary, release date, rating but also information about the cast, crew and studio.
• Displays technical details like encoding format, bit rate, video format, resolution, bit depth and audio specifications.
• Shows movie posters, cast photos, crew photos and studio logos of your movie files.
• Shows your movies as thumbnails, grouped by cast members, grouped by crew members, grouped by studios or just as files.
• The 'Get Info' context menu gives you all details of your movies, the cast and crew in a fully internally linked fashion.
• The 'Open Gallery' context menu let you browse through posters, photos and artwork of movies, cast and crew.
• All data is saved locally in a database which makes your digital movie collections very easily searchable.
• You can search on movie title, cast name, crew name (including the movie director), studio name or filename.
• The customizable sidebar enables you to filter your collection on criteria like file location, genres, countries and rating.
• Handy additional filters for Recently added, Stereoscopic, HD Video, HD Audio and Duplicate files.
• You can map manually files to movies to correct missing or incorrect movie metadata.
• Each movie file can be opened with the associated app by double clicking.
• By using the 'Play with' context menu, you can choose manually an app for playing a selected movie.
• Each movie, cast member or crew member can be investigated in more detail in IMDb, utilizing the built-in link feature.
• Let you open homepages of movies, cast and crew members.
• Export movie data on file location level to a CSV file.
SUPPORT
If you need support with this movie catalog app, please visit the support page or mail to support@elemans.nl to get in contact with the developer.
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FEEDBACK
We really like to receive your feedback on Movie Explorer! We are eager to make Movie Explorer the best movie file indexer on the market. This is only possible with your feedback. Please send your comments, ideas, tips, suggestions, complains or compliments to feedback@elemans.nl.
What's New
NEW FEATURES
• The 'Get Info' context menu shows all details about a movie, cast or crew member in a separate Sidekick window.
• The key data in the Sidekick window is clickable and fully linked to all other data in the local database.
• The 'Open Gallery' context menu let you browse through posters, photos and artwork of movies, cast and crew.
• Much requested 'Play with' menu item let you play a movie file with any app capable to handle the selected file type.
• The sidebar has been extended with customizable filters like genre, production countries, rating and more.
IMPROVEMENTS
• Menu item 'Get File Info' in the Files view to open the Finder Info panel.
• Implemented context menu items on nearly everything in the app.
• Prevent computer sleep while indexing movie files.
• Corrected display of incorrect file metadata.
• Improved sorting on movie titles, skipping 'The' and 'A' prefixes.
• Sidebar and Inspector can be hidden.
• Fixed function to export movie data to a CSV file.
• Countless other improvements and tweaks.
Movie Explorer