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Sorry. I tried to avoid confusion with the video. The subplugins folder should be "on the same layer as Plugins" with the dll inside the folder. Let me recompile the API plugin and restrict it to 32 bit CPU and see if that helps. It will be version 1.5.
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Downloaded and installed.... but I won't have time to test before tomorrow. I am VERY excited as the video showed so much... so be so kind and be patient for my response.

Thankx ;-)

No problem. Thanks for your attention.
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I am kid of speechless.... for me that's a wonderful and exciting start of the day! Wow!

So far I only got two questions, maybe missing in your explanation or I didn't understand: Is there created a new dummy profile whenever the tool is started to create 0-BYs? So e. g. 5 starts, 5 dummys?

All the possibilities of this tool look extraordinary great! But I am not able to understand, why the newly created cast & crew got headshots? Do you copy any actor/crew completely, only letting the BY field free? It is not bad but confusing: We have the same thing for several names in the Headshots Masterdatabase, where a name with BY has the same foto as without. And as this simply can't be the same person, leeting the headshot free would make more sence.

All in all I am not able to find the right words how thankful I am! And I am excited to "play" with that! Wow!

I think I understand your point. But it seems to me that giving you the picture that is available gives you the chance to verify whether it is in fact the correct person. But if when you play with the program, you still feel the same way, or get another idea (multiple pictures?), I will try to make changes.

Refreshing the grids is manual. It is done whenever you run the menus, not on startup. You can choose to keep the old dummy profiles or not. Up to you. My feeling was that in this early stage, we need to keep stuff around for debugging purposes in case something goes wrong when I am updating the program. You can compare before and after and report to me that something got broken.
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Ok, here is the unfinished code that I'm sure still have plenty of bugs. It does write stuff to the database, so of course you absolutely have backups in place.

Everything is here.

(1) First install DVDPFauxAPI 1.4
(2) Then create folder "SubPlugins" right next to the "Plugins" folder in the DVD Profiler execution path
(3) Copy CCCreator.dll into the SubPlugins folder

Start DVD Profiler and you should see messages saying that the sub plugin was found and loaded. Then run the menu Tools>Create Cast and Crew

Yeah, I know the menu name is backwards. Anyway have fun and keep me posted on bugs and desired changes and new features.
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Thanks to you both. Makes my day. I slept late this morning, so I will prepare the uploads soon.

And Magmadrag as I have said before, I sometimes don't understand all the nuances of the credits metadata collection. So I might not be able to answer all your questions. I will mostly make changes to the program and do what you tell me makes sense. But, as I am just getting started on my day, let me read your questions again and give you the best answers a bit later, and also I will post links to the (unfinished) software.
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Well, I'm impressed! 
I'll have to digest this for a while, but I'll be PMing you with some ”How did you do that” questions.

You are welcome to have the code. And coming from you, that is one whale of a compliment!
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Finally got something done.

Cast and Crew Creator Preview

Is it worth your time to try it out? Do I need to add / change something before you try it?
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I finally have something kind of stable. I just don't know whether it is useful for anything. There are still some ideas I have, and there is no documentation yet.

But before i spend a lot more time on it, I will make a video (tomorrow) and walk through it to give you an idea. If I am on the right track, I will continue, and if you want this preliminary version, you can have it.

If I missed the mark and it is possible to fix, then I will need your guidance. On the other hand, if I have totally blown it, I will just add it to the pile of glossy but useless plugin doorstops I have on my hard drive. 
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Nice one Nexus! A bunch of us learned something.
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At the rate you are going, most of the goodies in my tool might be useless by the time I am done, but I'll plod along anyway.
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Okay, to both of you:

Thanks for all the work and the time you invest in my project

And: Sorry if I come up with new wishes/requests. They're mostly caused by (bad) experiences with existing data or with the lack of functions on profiler itself. Sorry!

It's only the thought: When I am done correcting all the data, I try to avoid that any new profiles could deliver incorrect data, destroying the work of months

Well everything in this forum is a team effort. And we asked for your ideas.
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I have been working on CCCreator since the start of this discussion. It is a lot of work because I am not smart and i have a lot of family things on my plate. I will be releasing a preview video soon. I am also happy to work with Gunnar to move some of my plugin internals to HTTPJolie in case he wants to make a "supertool" that blends both concepts into his tool.
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I started down the path on my subplugin CCCreator, and it has been fun, but I wonder if too much overlap with BY Check. If I get it done, I will gladly retrofit any of the guts into HTTPJolie if you want to consolidate the UI into your tool.
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And the hits keep on coming!
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Nice update.
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Yes. Don't do anything until somebody who knows how, comes along and gives exact instructions. I am travelling and I don't want to risk making a mistake in my instructions.
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Well, so far the RecordScanner app has failed to identify only a couple of the 300 or so albums I have done so far. So, no need to scan convers (other than a 2 sec cellphone scan to power the search) or do any typing. I usually have multiple cover images to pick from the Discogs library, and all the metadata comes over. Most of the folk, rock, jazz, blues, and R&B - i.e., non-classical albums are found directly on Spotify. No need even for digitizing, since the source material is identical.

In the case of classical, I very often get close cousins to my albums, but at this stage of my life, I am happy to just be able to listen to my favorites and recall my life and times when I first discovered that music and was listening to it more frequently.

My main goal is to sell as much of my collection as possible to get a few more retirement dollars to spend on golden years activities. 
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Good stuff.
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I also recently joined the party. Cleaned up and adjusted my Dual turntable and fitted a new cartridge. Volume was low, but my receiver had a setting to compensate. Next step was to prioritize my 600 disc collection for transfer to digital, using Audacity.

Then I discovered "RecordScanner" app for my iPhone. Amazing. It can scan by barcode, label ID, or cover image, or search by keyword or Discogs ID. So far, after about 400 discs, there has been only a couple I could not find.

It is the Profiler for analog media (Vinyl / Cassette). You get a mobile database and a website, and a Discogs estimate of the value of each disc and collection as a whole. Items are put onto shelves by category. Really cool app.

Bonus, there is a button in the app that links to playing the closest match on Spotify. Most albums that have been commercially digitized come up readily. Best for popular non-classical. For classical, you often get a close match to the track contents, albeit with different artists / album. Still super fun. I haven't touched the turntable since. What a trip back in time I have been having, listening to Spotify as I scan and catalog my collection.

See it here:

My Collection
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I can ensure you, as long as there is data in the dummy profile, it doesn't matter if it is owned, ordered or wishlist. There are a few profiles in my wishlist, and even they are part of the update process.

This way I'd like to say that for the program it doesn't matter where the cast & crew is to find in a profile. As soon as they are anywhere without a BY, they became part of the ACTORS/CREW files.

Not sure if this thought could be integrated in THIS tool or needs another one: You remember a few posts before I had the death date issue. Well, there's the same one with birthyears: I found actors with a BY listed in movies which were produced several years before they were born. But I think this check might need another tool, as I got no logically idea how this issue has any connection to the problem I started this thread for.

Not importand but anyhow confusing and funny: To find out if the actors listed in the profiles are the ones with the right BY, I have to check a lot at the IMDB. And today I reached an actress, allready passed away in 1998, and they list several movies "in planning" up to 2026. I can't imagine that she has been kind of mummified and now only plays dead corpse.

That's funny! 

Anyway, don't worry about what the original purpose, etc. I can make the tool do whatever I want. So, what check are you talking about for the hypothetical other tool? I already have in mind a cross reference that includes a column for both birth and death years.
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Good news:

I think I solved the performance issue, without voiding the results.

My database is 1400 profiles. That resulted in over 47,000 unique credits. The dummy profile contains about 60 cast and 40 crew. The whole process took under 5 minutes.

Of course we will all be validating the results as soon as I get something that you can use. I will be working on that for the next few days. As I mentioned before, if you have any specific ideas other than those already presented, speak up, and I will try to get the easiest things done in the first release.

I'm not totally sure, but having the dummy profiles in the Wishlist might not result in the database being permanently updated. I need to do some more testing. It would make sense, as Wishlist profiles are not yet owned.
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Well, as long as they are the ones with accepted/released Birthyears I think that's neccessary. Or what do we have the BYs for, if nobody cares about their use?

You didn't create BYs. Somebody else who cared about their use, did. And other people maintain a website supporting accepted ones. Get a grip on yourself.
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Does this mean you don't cere if the data in your collection is correct? That's a shock!

Look don't try to start analyzing or judging me. Do your thing and I'll do mine. Of course I care whether the data is correct. Why do you think I have 20 years of plugin programming to help people who worry about the data.
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If you would like to enhance your "imagination" how much profiles have to be corrected because of wronlgy used birthyears, just check all your profiles with any "version of "John Moore".

I'd like to say that I had to correct about 70 % of them (most times wrongly used the 1966 insted of the 1968 one).

I will  take a look for education. But I am depending on you for the imagination. I have mostly no clue about this stuff. Writing code and solving problems for people is a hobby and I enjoy it. But I really don't care much about the actual problem in most cases. Of course I need to understand it, but the passion is not there.
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Not sure if I should post this here or create a new thread as this could be a new tool - if even possible.

The difficulty for the possibiliy is that we don't list the death dates anywhere. If available, Luigi lists them, but if not.....

And I got to this as I had to find out that "Peter Cook (1937 - 1995)" is credited in several profiles as an actor after his death (e. g. "Terra Nova")

So if we would have any list of death dates a tool would be interesting to check out cast & crew, if they are credited after their death. That's only possible for "archive footage". The only chance to question if the credits could be correct is "Production Year - 90 > Birthyear".

It's only a thought (for a future far far away^^) but another way to find out probably wrongly used cast & crew


Second recognition about this: Sometimes it's funny - because it can't be real - to have an actor, BY 1950+ credited in a movie before his birth. Another fact to be checked.... manually work is horrible. When I am done tonight, the BY-list is done for actors up to letter C - and I'd like to say that I had to change/correct more than 100 profiles....

What is in my mind is a tool that has the dummy profile entries, the full set of local cast/crew, the common names, and accepted birth years with the ability to interact and make changes to the database.

What functions could you imagine to be on the context menu (right click) when you select an item from one of those lists? I know it will be easier once you get the tool to play with, but in case you already thought of something.
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