I'm fairly new to using movienizer but i think i like what i've seen so far. I think it's a quality application, seems well written (good smooth UI, doesn't really crash), love that it's portable, and it's awesome that it's free (even free from ads). Here are some small things i was thinking would be nice:

(fyi, using movienizer 2.2)

I see that there is a count when you first launch the screen, but it would be nice if you could get a count of the filtered results and/or the reports. (i think another post suggested something like this as well).

I don't think it would be too hard to "freeze" the results of a filter (perhaps not a good way to say it). What i'm trying to say is, what if i want to view all of my movies that i've put in as "wanted", in the divx format, and VHS. So i select the filter for "wanted", tell it to keep the results then select divx format, and it just adds the one's that aren't already there and so on... kinda like a union query

I was also thinking it would be nice to be able to not a filter, so using the example above, you get this somewhat complicated filter, then you just hit one menu option and everything from the not query shows up.

How about being able to filter in a report? Maybe i missed it, but i couldn't figure out how to do that. I think the report feature is pretty cool, well done, but kind of limited in it's use. Maybe even something as simple as using the main screen to filter what you're looking at, then just hitting a button to make a report from your current filter results.

Mainly for helping people just getting their movie collection cataloged for the first time, but I think the batch adding process could use a little improvement to give better user experience. Say I add 20 movies, it takes 10 seconds to look up the title, then 30 download all the information. As it is, you have to babysit the whole process until you have gone 13 minutes (20movs*40s)selecting each movie. What if you just did all the title lookups first, queued them and move on to the next title search, therefore you only have to babysit for 3 minutes (10s*20movs) while selecting titles and when done, process all the movies at one time, so the user can do something else for the 10 minutes while it's downloading everything from the internet.

Those i think would be relatively simple changes, the next two may take a lot more work depending on how the program is written:

When browsing/filtering movies, I've run into the case where it would be helpful to be able to select multiple movies at the same time. Maybe deleting a bunch, or trying to change a custom field for the 20 moves i just added via batch.

Alright, here's the biggie...
An API for accessing the database from other platforms/applications. I've seen requests for XBMC (i'm in that boat) and different portable devices, which could be a hassle trying to create plugins for each new thing that's out there. What if you guys provided an API for other developers to access the movie database. In its simplest form it would basically turn the app into a sqlite server. More advanced you can provide functions that most apps trying to access the database would probably use. I understand that that would turn the app into a server of sorts, maybe not what you're going for, but i think it will help resolve a lot of requests at once. Anybody then could create a python script for XBMC to access the content, create a website that accesses the data, convert their movienizer db to use in another movie organizer (not that anyone would want to do that), or anything you can think of. I also think it would also limit the requests from users trying to export into some specific format, because what they really want is to access the live data through a different medium. If you do go that route, maybe a command line option to set the app to run in a no UI server mode too. Would that be allowed due to copywright stuff?


All that said... I myself am a programmer, I'm just about to finish my computer science degree from drexel (2 more weeks baby). If you guys are looking for help on the project, I'm willing to get involved. I'm not promising anything right now, but let me know and we can talk.

I just read a post requesting pretty much the same thing I did about the batch adding. The response was to search IMDB seperately to get the exact titles, then batch upload. I think that is an OK solution, but I still think it would be nice to just use movienizer act as your search engine then add them all in one tool.

I would really like to see movienizer have a server mode. if you combine that with relative file paths of the movies so that clients could play the movies from a file share you would have an awesome media center alternative. I'd like to have relative file paths just so I could move my collection somewhere else on my computer without having to add everything again.