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My Collection

Posted Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 5:00 am by Android Tapp 24 Comments

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This program allow you to managing a collection of Movies, Games, Books, and CD’s and who you loan them out to. New items can be scanned in, entered manually, or entered through a CSV import process. Users can maintain custom categories and export their collection for import into other applications.

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Features:

My Collection Android App’s main feature allows you to store, manage and keep track of your collection of Movies, Games, Books, and CD’s.  There are several ways to input your items; manually typing, Import a CSV file, or scan items with the help of the Bar Code Scanner Android App checking products in Amazon.com.

With several ways to input your items, you can manage categories associated with the 5 main tabs: Books, CD’s, Games, Movies, and Loans.

Loan is a great feature to allow you to track who you loaned your items to. Gripe Alert: though convenient, you can only select people in your Contacts List to Loan to. But on the other hand, shouldn’t you have the person you’re loaning to in your contacts already? It would be nice to be able to add new.

My Collection Books

My Collection Movies

My Collection Loan to Contacts

My Collection Main Menu

My Collection Search Results

My Collection Edit

My Collection Categories

My Collection Bar Code Searching

My Collection Preferences

Usefulness:

My Collection Android App is useful in keeping a track on your Movies, Games, Books, and CD’s… especially if you loan them out often.

Ease of Use:

My Collection Android App is pretty easy to use, add, edit and search for items.

Frequently Used:

Frequency of use is dependant on how organized you are… or want to be.

Interface:

The user interface is simple, easy and optimized for thumb/finger navigation.

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(3.9 out of 5)

Should you Download My Collection? Yes, get organized! Check out our interview with My Collection Android App Creator Timothy DeWees.

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24 Responses to “My Collection”

1. Jeff Harb says:

   February 10, 2009 at 11:53 am

   This rocks!

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2. Lady Di says:

   July 15, 2009 at 7:54 pm

   I’m going to think on this one. Looks kinda nifty. Thank you for the review.

   Reply
3. Hmm says:

   August 31, 2009 at 10:23 pm

   Can it be used to keep track of stuff you WANT? I have a Movie list.html, Book list.html, Music list.html which are things that people have recommended to me or whatever, in case I’m in the video store or see a bunch of used books for sale.

   Reply
4. Wil says:

   November 9, 2009 at 10:47 am

   Needs an updated version for 2.0 and Droid owners. Kept force closing on me. I really want this app. Look forward to an updated version.

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   • Android Tapp says:

     November 9, 2009 at 11:37 am

     Crud… I’ll contact the developer to see if/when an update will be available

     Reply
5. tomi2gun says:

   November 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm

   I would really like this app.. i have an extensive DVD collection and this would be a great way to keep track of what I have and what I don’t…
   Any update as to when this is going to be available on the Droid?

   Reply
6. Mark Parker says:

   November 20, 2009 at 8:51 am

   My Collection disappeared from the marketplace. Anyone know what happened to it? Sounded most useful, the author’s interview related the same use case we have, tracking the media to avoid duplicate purchases.

   Reply
7. Rufty says:

   November 22, 2009 at 4:28 pm

   I would also love to get the app. Don’t give up on android, with the Droid out there, demand for your product should really pick up! Please, do a Droid 2.0 version. I currently use Collectorz Movie on my desktop and this would be a great interface for my phone. Thanks, Russ

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8. cody b says:

   November 22, 2009 at 11:42 pm

   I too am looking for a program like this, and can’t find it anymore it seems? I’d love to be able to find this again!

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9. csaba says:

   December 2, 2009 at 9:56 pm

   I am also looking for this application, and I can’t find it in the Android Market. Any info/help would be appreciated!
   Best regards,
   Csaba

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   • Android Tapp says:

     December 2, 2009 at 10:08 pm

     Hi all, I spoke to the developer and he said he’ll be working on an updated release shortly!

     Reply
     • Russ says:

       December 3, 2009 at 1:17 pm

       Android Tapp, Thanks for checking. Will be looking forward to updated app!

       Reply
10. Chris H. says:

    December 6, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    I understand that an update may be in the offing, but why pull the app from the market? I had to get my phone replaced and now I can’t install it, but I had gobs of data in there…

    Reply
11. Paul B says:

    December 20, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    I’ve bought the app, however I STILL cannot get the app to import my CSV file. Based on the fact the author uses export.csv as the output file, I presumed (since there’s no documentation) that the input file on the SD card would be IMPORT.CSV… anyway, ANY help here would me much appreciated.

    thanks, Paul

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    • Paul B says:

      December 20, 2009 at 7:05 pm

      Oh, and i’m using a verizon eris with android 1.16 software and 1.5 firmware.

      tks/pab

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      • Paul B says:

        January 31, 2010 at 9:47 am

        I figured out the export/import process… more to come.

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12. chrisdooley says:

    January 1, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    I have been using DVD Profiler on my PC. Is there a way to transfer my collection over? I don’t really want to sit down and scan them all if there is an easier way.

    Thanks

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    • chrisdooley says:

      January 1, 2010 at 6:18 pm

      Sorry, using a Motorola Droid.

      Reply
      • Paul B says:

        February 1, 2010 at 4:27 pm

        Exporting of the database is the ENTIRE database, in alphabetic order 1,2, a-z, etc regardless of the tab from which it resides. The nice thing about the exported database is that if you lose your database, or uninstall and reinstall the application, you can point to the export.csv file in /sdcard/my_collection/export.csv and import it – which becomes your new ENTIRE db.

        The author said,… “Unfortunately, the CSV File format had to change because of the new columns. There are now seven columns:
        Title,Rating,Category,Status,Type,Rank,UPC”

        What’s not noted is that there are 2 other columns which need to be in the IMPORT record for the IMPORT to work: RECORD_TYPE (my name for it) and RELEASE_DATE (yyyy-dd-mm format).

        So, the import record in the .csv file has the fields Title, Rating, Category, Status, RECORD_TYPE, Type, Rank, UPC, RELEASE_DATE.

        The term RELEASE_DATE is the date the movie was released by the studio, or when the book was published, etc.

        If you don’t know the UPC code, or RELEASE_DATE, you need a blank field (e.g. “”).

        The term Status refers to New, Old, Loaned, etc; in my interpretation of all of this, I auto-filled the Status field with “New” since they’re all New to my database.

        The term RECORD_TYPE refers to BOOK, CD, GAME, MOVIE, and MUST contain one of the these data types, else the record will NOT import (since the program wouldn’t know how to present it under a TAB.

        The IMPORT record looks like this (e.g. movie)…
        “movie title”,”PG-13″,”Sci-Fi”,”New”,”Movie”,”DVD”,3,” “,” ”

        Title, Rating, Category, Status, RECORD_TYPE, Type, Rank (1-5), UPC (empty), RELEASE_DATE (empty).

        If you have all of your .csv records in this format, it’ll load just fine. Note in my example I left UPC and RELEASE_DATE blank – the columns must be there, and a blank entry works fine.

        Apparently, the IMPORT.csv file, can be anywhere on the SDCARD; for simplicity I put mine in the my_collection directory, since that’s where the program stores the export file and the database (you can also name the import file whatever you want, I just chose IMPORT.CSV).

        Now, for the process… I have an HTC (Verizon) Eris, firmware 1.5, O/S 1.6. After launching the app, tap the MENU icon, tap the MORE icon, and tap the IMPORT icon. At this point, on my Eris, the system displays the /SDCARD directories. Using the trackball, I scrolled down to MY_COLLECTION and selected it (on mine by pressing the trackball). The system then displays the contents of that directory. Using the trackball, I selected the file I previously named as IMPORT.CSV… the program then gave me a notice box that the import was in progress. After it’s done, it takes you back to the primary app screen.

        AND THAT’s IT! (yeah, sounds like a mess, but only took a little while – and certainly LESS time than re-entering all my data.

        So, have fun… I now have my CD and MOVIE database with me all the time (handy when we’re in a store and wife says: Do we own that movie?)…

        Finally and MOST IMPORTANT, if what I’ve shared here doesn’t work for you, please contact the app author – I’m just another app owner who figured this out for my database.
        Paul

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13. Mike says:

    January 14, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    Keeps force closing. Why?

    On an HTC Hero. Firmware 1.5.

    Reply
14. Paul B says:

    January 31, 2010 at 10:51 am

    Here’s what I’ve learned in my research for the import process…
    The author said, “Unfortunately, the CSV File format had to change because of the new columns. There are now seven columns:
    Title,Rating,Category,Status,Type,Rank,UPC”

    What’s not noted is that there are 2 other columns which need to be in the IMPORT record for the IMPORT to work: RECORD_TYPE (my name for it) and RELEASE_DATE (yyyy-mm-dd format).

    So, the import record in the .csv file has the fields Title, Rating, Category, Status, RECORD_TYPE, Type, Rank, UPC, RELEASE_DATE.
    The term RELEASE_DATE is the date the movie was released by the studio, or when the book was published, etc.

    If you don’t know the UPC code, or RELEASE_DATE, you need a blank field (e.g. “”).

    The term Status refers to New, Old, Loaned, etc; in my interpretation of all of this, I auto-filled the Status field with “New” since they’re all New to my database.

    The term RECORD_TYPE refers to BOOK, CD, GAME, MOVIE, and MUST contain one of the these data types, else the record will NOT import (since the program wouldn’t know how to present it under a TAB.

    The IMPORT record looks like this (e.g. movie)…
    “movie title”,”PG-13″,”Sci-Fi”,”New”,”Movie”,”DVD”,3,” “,” ”
    Title, Rating, Category, Status, RECORD_TYPE, Type, Rank (1-5), UPC (empty), RELEASE_DATE (empty).

    If you have all of your .csv records in this format, it’ll load just fine. Note in my example I left UPC and RELEASE_DATE blank – the columns must be there, and a blank entry works fine.

    Apparently, the IMPORT.csv file, can be anywhere on the SDCARD; for simplicity I put mine in the my_collection directory, since that’s where the program stores the export file and the database (you can also name the import file whatever you want, I just chose IMPORT.CSV).

    Now, for the process… I have an HTC (Verizon) Eris, firmware 1.5, O/S 1.6. After launching the app, tap the MENU icon, tap the MORE icon, and tap the IMPORT icon. At this point, on my Eris, the system displays the /SDCARD directories. Using the trackball, I scrolled down to MY_COLLECTION and selected it (on mine by pressing the trackball). The system then displays the contents of that directory. Using the trackball, I selected the file I previously named as IMPORT.CSV… the program then gave me a notice box that the import was in progress. After it’s done, it takes you back to the primary app screen.
    AND THAT’s IT! (yeah, sounds like a mess, but only took a little while – and certainly LESS time than re-entering all my data.

    So, have fun… I now have my CD and MOVIE database with me all the time (handy when we’re in a store and wife says: Do we own that movie?)…

    Finally and MOST IMPORTANT, if what I’ve learned here doesn’t work for you, please contact the app author – I’m just another app owner who figured this out for my database.

    Paul

    Reply
15. blotto says:

    April 8, 2010 at 4:35 am

    a interface or direct link to imdb for stored movies would be great. some less commercial movies are not recognized.

    thank you for the explanation of the import functionality.

    Reply
16. ed says:

    June 15, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    After inserting over 900 dvds it forced closed and now forces closed everytime I went into movies. I went to settings and removed other tabs ,now it force closes immediately. Is my entire catalog lost?

    Reply

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