| Path/Filename (Browse) - This
field allows you to browse to and select a .txt file that contains a list of movie titles, file names or UPC numbers.
The file names must include the drive letter and path. The .txt file must contain at least 2 lines of data.
The first one or two lines allow you to specify a media type and location
for your movies. If you do not specify a location
for the movies, the location field for each movie will be blank.
If you do not specify a media type, for movie files, the media
type will be the movie's file extension and for movie titles, the media type will be blank.
If you are adding
movies by their UPC number, then you MUST have ::UPC media
type where media type is either DVD or VHS. Be sure
to specify the correct media type because it is used
as part of the search key at Amazon.com.
If you want all the movie files to have the same location, on the first or second
line of the text file add :location where location
will be added to the location field for each movie. If
you want some movies to have a different location, each movie
can have a location specified for it by appending |location|
to the end of the movie file name, title name or UPC number. The |location|
will take precedence over the :location if one was
added.
If you want all the movie titles to have the same media type or all the movie files to have the same media type
other than their file extension, then on either the first or
second line (depending whether you added :location ),
add ::media type where media type will
be added to the media field for each movie.
When adding a movie with a media type that is not already
defined in the Media Types list on the Tools -> Options -> Miscellaneous screen,
the media type will automatically be added to the list for you.
All blank lines, lines containing the text 'Path/Names' or 'Sub
Total', lines with a path but without a file extension and
lines with a file extension not defined in the Options screen
will all be skipped. So be sure all the file extensions you
want to add are defined in the Options -> Miscellaneous screen -> Movie File Extensions:.
Example of .txt file with movie files
:Maxtor External
::DivX
H:\DVD\ELF [PG].avi
H:\DVD\Favorites\Shrek[PG].avi|Maxtor External - My Favorites|
In the above example, Elf would be added to the movie database
with the location of 'Maxtor External' and the media type
of 'DivX'. If DivX was not already defined in the Media Types
list, it would automatically be added. Shrek would be
added to the movie database with the location of 'Maxtor
External - My Favorites' and the media type of 'DivX'. If
we had left out the ::DivX from the .txt file, both movies
would have had the media type of avi.
Example of .txt file with movie titles:
::DVD
Vanilla Sky|71|
What Women Want
In the above example, Vanilla Sky would be added to the
movie database with the location of '71' and the media type
of 'DVD'. What Women Want would be added to the
movie database with no location and the media type
of 'DVD'. If we had added :Family Room to the first or second
line of .txt file, the only thing that would change is that
What Women Want would now have the location of 'Family Room'.
Example 3 of .txt file with UPC numbers:
:: UPC DVD
:Right Bookshelf
084296404193
085391440024|Left Bookshelf
In the above example, the first UPC number would be added
as A Dog Of Flanders with the location of 'Right Bookshelf'
and media type of DVD. The second UPC number would be added
as Black Beauty with the location of 'Left Bookshelf' and
media type of DVD. The blank line above the first UPC number
is just skipped.
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