File and Media management week.

This week(end mostly) has been spent finalising some Media management options for all the DVDs and Game disks that I have scattered throughout the house and trying to organise the files in my PVR a little better.

First of all, the media. A while ago Amyo put me onto the Delicious Library. It's a great application for storing all your media from books to dvds.

Catalog, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, and video games with Delicious Library.

Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight®, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world.

One of the best features is the ability to add all your titles to digital shelves so they are easy to find. The borrowing engine is very powerful yet surprisingly easy to use with reminders when your items have been out for an extended time.

So far I've managed to catalog 4 of the 10 shelves of DVDs and most of the games which equates to about 212 DVD titles. Unfortunately the system I was coming from wasn't supported in the import function so the update of purchase specifics is making the process a little longer.

The second project on the go is a Media manager for the Topfield PVR. The PVR itself is great but one of it's weaknesses is file management. I have a spare PC at the moment (since Ness upgraded to Photoshop Elements in her iPhoto library) that can be used to integrate. The issue is finding the right tool, there are a few around the front runner is ToppyPC. I did some testing last night and think it will be the tool of choice, now all i need to do is find a EPG to run with.