Does anyone else use an online database to keep track of your steelbook collection?

[Star Wars Fan]

Not sure if I'm posting this in the correct sub-forum but does anyone else use an online database to keep track of your physical media and steelbook collection?

I use bd.com. Are there any better ones? It seems very comprehensive but there's still a couple of steelbooks that I own that are not listed there and I've tried a couple of times to add them to the database but I can't seem to ever get them on the database.. haha

 

[Noodles]

So you're telling me that the "Trak.Tv" and "h t t p s : / / b l u r a y - d i s c . d e" are also "bogus"?
Can I somehow know what are the actual links?

Nah, those should be good! I'll PM you

 

[Space Cadet]

I don't use web based options 'cause one fine day it might be hacked and all gone. Plus if my connection is down I still want to be able to access my database. Plus if I wanna delete everything I wanna know that I really do delete everything, not that something is still lingering in some servers. And so on ...

 

[Real Steel]

How exactly one use this bd.com, cause when I get to the address, this is what I see:
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In Apple App Store, the app is called My Movies.

 

[Lone Crusader]

I use the Movie Collector software and CATVids software. Both are movie dB software, I can't decide which one I like better so I use both. Although CATVids is no longer being updated but it is still being supported by the developer for exiting licenses.

 

[Wreck]

So you're telling me that the "Trak.Tv" and "h t t p s : / / b l u r a y - d i s c . d e" are also "bogus"?
Can I somehow know what are the actual links?

BD stands for blu-ray disc .... and BD or BR is often blu-ray.com

 

[Mylah76]

Spreadsheet on everything I buy, so it's also what I own. CDs, Steelbooks, Amaray's, books, ...

 

[MCU-Smithsonian]

I found that Microsoft Access is fantastic and you can customise it for your own needs without being tied to something with a lot of information you'll never need or use. It took a few weeks to get used to the basics having used Excel but it is an evolving process and customise it to whatever you want.

 

[Felix_ro]

I found that Microsoft Access is fantastic and you can customise it for your own needs without being tied to something with a lot of information you'll never need or use. It took a few weeks to get used to the basics having used Excel but it is an evolving process and customise it to whatever you want.

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Yeah, MS Access is indeed a good tool to have a fairly big (yet small and not suitable for be used in a company and concurrent connections to it).
Still, there are few BIG limitations using Access:
- need a MS Access license
- need an Windows PC
-need to be fairly good to make your own DB and „app”
- also, as far as I know (not saying what I know is definitely), Access is „defunct” even for Microsoft, since I believe is no longer developed/maintained

We all were looking here for a more „easy and generally accessible” way to keep tracking of our collections, usually we're hopping for something that allow us to use either a computer (Win or Mac) and a mobile device (phone, tablet, etc., no matter if were iOS or Android), and/or all of them together.

By now, I can say I use the blu-ray.com website and their app (on iOS in my case) named My Movies (pretty old but still working, especially for scanning barcodes to enter EXACT items into own `DB`.
Sure thing, this is in no way secured or private, therefore...

If you indeed managed to create that „app” in Access for you, it is great for you, glad for you, yet is definitely not something anyone can really use it.

 

[MCU-Smithsonian]

Yeah, MS Access is indeed a good tool to have a fairly big (yet small and not suitable for be used in a company and concurrent connections to it).
Still, there are few BIG limitations using Access:
- need a MS Access license
- need an Windows PC
-need to be fairly good to make your own DB and „app”
- also, as far as I know (not saying what I know is definitely), Access is „defunct” even for Microsoft, since I believe is no longer developed/maintained

We all were looking here for a more „easy and generally accessible” way to keep tracking of our collections, usually we're hopping for something that allow us to use either a computer (Win or Mac) and a mobile device (phone, tablet, etc., no matter if were iOS or Android), and/or all of them together.

By now, I can say I use the blu-ray.com website and their app (on iOS in my case) named My Movies (pretty old but still working, especially for scanning barcodes to enter EXACT items into own `DB`.
Sure thing, this is in no way secured or private, therefore...

If you indeed managed to create that „app” in Access for you, it is great for you, glad for you, yet is definitely not something anyone can really use it.

Completely agree, the instant access and availability of the DBs from a mobile app store is fantastic. The trend is on mobiles and ease of use.

I've always been in IT and as per most people, have my own laptop or PC so it made sense for me to develop something to suit my needs and collect the information about the media in general as I found the mobile apps a tad restrictive.

As you said, if they work for most then no worries.

Appreciate the reply.