Mark,

    I believe you have doubled the value of your plugin... rouge birthyears are one of my number one pet peaves yet somehow they always wind up in my collection... i suspect due to headshot imports and possibly the online db... i don't fully trust it to pass things through properly. this allows me to check for them periodically and remove.

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The initial BY list, or reloading from Invelos, does not include John Barry (1935)

Presumably because he is listed as John Barry (1935 - 1979) in the thread...

And I agree with Muckl on the wording. I have difficulty reading it the way you see it.

Great addition though! 

Same thing with Kevin Smith 1963

Quoting Mark Harrison:

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If they're listed in a non-standard format in the Birth Year thread, you can add them manually to the list...

How can I do that? 
I've got a Lars Hanson with a birthyear of 1886 appearing in Flesh & the Devil, but I also see that name in the cast of The Notorious Bettie Page.  The latter was filmed in 2006, but the Lars Hason that appeared in the Flesh & the Devil died April 6, 1965 so I doubt he is the same person but I cannot really find much on whomever this newer person is.

Quoting Mark Harrison:

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If they're listed in a non-standard format in the Birth Year thread, you can add them manually to the list.  If there are a lot of them, I might be able to put in something to program around them.  But it's always going to be a tough process.  The better approach would be to clean the few entries in that thread I pull the data from.

Aren't you using a regular expression to retrieve the years? In that case you could just replace the closing bracket after the digits with something like that: (\)|-|\s-)

Quoting Muckl:

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Quoting Mark Harrison:

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If they're listed in a non-standard format in the Birth Year thread, you can add them manually to the list.  If there are a lot of them, I might be able to put in something to program around them.  But it's always going to be a tough process.  The better approach would be to clean the few entries in that thread I pull the data from.

Aren't you using a regular expression to retrieve the years? In that case you could just replace the closing bracket after the digits with something like that: (\)|-|\s-)

Yes I am using regular expressions to read the data.  So if I see someone listed as John Barry (1935 - 1979), is that the date of birth & death?  If so, I should be able to make a fairly small change to pull the birth year out in those cases.

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Quoting MtnMike:

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Quoting Mark Harrison:

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If they're listed in a non-standard format in the Birth Year thread, you can add them manually to the list...

How can I do that?

Open the Options window.  Go to the tab furthest to the right called Accepted Birth Years.  There you can right-click to load the data.

Once the data is loaded, just scroll to the bottom of the list and you should see a blank row.  There you can enter whatever name & birth year you want and add as many as you want.  But they'll be overwritten if you reload that data.

Thanks! I'd checked the Options, just never tried scrolling far enough over to the right.
It's a shame that reloading will remove my manual additions though - perhaps in a future version, you could include a way for user additions to be retained optionally?

When checking for bad commentary data, I came up with an error.
For example. the UK Blu-Ray of Batman has commentary ticked in features, and has an commentary audio track on place 9.
Still this shows up when running the query.

Quoting Muckl:

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But one question: if "Ignore Accepted Birth Years" is checked, I get 265 rows – if not, I get only 152 rows. Shouldn't it be the other way round? 

Fixed with new wording.

Quoting Muckl:

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Yes, if there are two years inside the brackets, the first one is the BY and the second one is the year of death (sometimes separated with "-", sometimes with " - ").

Fixed to read birth years that have death years listed.

Quoting MtnMike:

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It's a shame that reloading will remove my manual additions though - perhaps in a future version, you could include a way for user additions to be retained optionally?

Fixed with new options to overwrite or merge.

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When checking for bad commentary data, I came up with an error.
For example. the UK Blu-Ray of Batman has commentary ticked in features, and has an commentary audio track on place 9.
Still this shows up when running the query.

Missed this one. We used to only be allowed 8 audio tracks I think.  That's all the plugin is built to handle at this point.  I'll get to this one later.

Go to the website to see the release notes and grab the latest version.