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Other simple databases for collectors' films and music CD's

JohnDB — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:16:24 +0000

I use and value Filmotech - I use it to keep an inventory of my movies. Input is fast and it is simple to use, with links to many international information sources on films, although I have yet to write a report script. Other collection database movie app's are more complicated because they do more e.g. ripping or other collection types. I am looking for a free or inexpensive, fast, Windows, simple CD music equivalent of Filmotech. Here again many apps do more than I want e.g. buying and selling and so are more complicated. Of course there is discogs, which is fairly simple to use for just keeping an inventory. Possibly there is Koingo's Librarian Pro 8. Again I want simplicity, input to be fast, and an international set of information sources, as well as coverage of different types of music. Any suggestions?

Webpublishing

Nagra — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:07:24 +0000

Hi Filmotech and Greetings to everyone here,

I successfully uploaded my filmlist to my existing website. So far so good.

But then I was wondering, if it is possible, to have the film-database "inside my wordpress-theme", with the theme-menue and everything. Right now, I have my filmlist on a seperated, external page that does not has the look of the other pages.

Am I missing something in the configuration, or is this the only way, to have a filmlist published?

Regards
Jo

File Names

LordP — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0000

When I import the movies on my hard drive, the names appear as still having 1080p, 720p, Documentary, etc. This makes searching for information very difficult. Is there a way of ignoring some words, mass editing some words, either during importing or after importing?

For example, I have this: 2040 2019 Documentary -- when I search TMDB, the entire NAME is 2040 2019 Documentary, and I have to delete everyting after 2040, and then add the year below '2040' - this is very time-consuming.

Filmotech on Surface Pro X

schweg — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:27:50 +0000

I have been using and enjoying Filotech for 5 years. I have a Surface Pro X that runs Windows 11 on ARM (Snapdragon procesor) MySQL has a Windows 11 version. Anyone have suggestions how to get the program to run on this machine? Thanks, Tom

Suggestions for Filmotech

Roy Racing — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:24:08 +0000

Hi Filmotech and other movie enthusiasts!

Sofar I am happy with your catalogue program, but I do have 2 wishes. I know it might not be possible or maybe just very much work but I can always suggest.

1. I would like to be able to make a "Wish list". And if I buy them I can easily switch them from the wishlist to "All my movies"

2. A colomn with "Last seen"

Ofcourse there are a lot of other options that would be nice but I understand that it is expensive or impossible:
Auto sync between phone and computer
Editing list (and send that from phone to computer
Adding movies by scanning the barcode

And I am sure other users could think of even more great options...

Statistics

Mishmash — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:39:18 +0000

Why is it that for 'Year' and 'Genre' most of the statistic percentages fall into the 'Other' category? The Year input is always the same 4 digit format throughout my catalog. Thanks

HTML Tags: App to Website

NeonJack — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:28:24 +0000

Hi! I notice that I can add HTML tags like to entries in the app (for example, in the "Features" field), but when I publish to a website, those are stripped out. Is there a fix for that?

SERIOUS PROBLEM

Petrotech70 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:20:20 +0000

Please someone help me with this problem: an exception of class runtimeexception was not handled. the application must shut down

I cannot more open my Filmotech and I haven't backup.

I wrote already with contact form but anyone answer me.

Thanks.

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Statistics - Show total combined minutes for all films in DB

Gwampz — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:36:53 +0000

Been using Filmotech now for about a year and finding it very useful in many respects but would like to know is there any way to show total combined minutes for all films listed in DB. I have looked at the statistics page specifically 'Runtime' and where I appreciate it shows breakdown of average movie duration it does not show combined minutes for all movies in the DB. It would be a nice addition to have under statistics page to show combined minutes / duration of all listed movies as one figure. As a workaround for now I currently export all my movies into a CSV file and use Excel to show total combined minutes from 'Runtime' column.

Is there an existing way to display total minutes already available within the program that I may be missing, if not, could this be a future item to add to the program under the stats page at some point?

Thank you for your time

How to change sort without articles.

Densyl93 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:15:09 +0000

Most movies starting with "The" should not be sorted by "The" so checking the sort without articles is good. But there are movies that start with "A" that SHOULD be sorted by "A" but are not because they are considered an article. Examples: A Bug's Life, A Christmas Story, A Monster Calls. Is there a way to make it so these are sorted correctly?