It also includes a proprietary recommendation engine that can suggest new books, movies, music, and video games based on your current library. However, these problems are likely more Amazon’sįault than Delicious Monster’s, and it’s not difficult to make corrections when the automated lookup fails in some way.ĭelicious Library isn’t just a dumb container for your media. I scanned my Blu-ray disc of “The Matrix” and I had to manually set it as a movie - Delicious Library thought it was a video game. Sometimes Delicious Library gets confused about what type of media something is. I was surprised to find “Scion’s Lady,” “Outside the Dog Museum,” “The Flood (Halo #2),” and “Ringworld” in my book collection, as I don’t own them! I can only assume that this is due to UPCs being reused over time. Even worse, it gets some items wrong - particularly books. Some of my scanned items turned up blank - as either generic cardboard or white boxes. While Delicious Scanner is great, the data pulled up from Amazon isn’t always right. In a well-lit room, I can plow through a stack of movies in seconds. Once it’s paired with your Mac, it’s one of the fastest iPhone barcode scanners I’ve used. While Delicious Scanner has yet to be updated for iOS 7, it still works perfectly. But my favorite is the free Delicious Scanner iOS app, which uses the camera on your iPhone or iPad to scan and store barcodes, then send them to Delicious Library on your Mac over Wi-Fi. There are a number of ways to add items: manually by laboriously typing the product name and metadata, searching within Amazon, dropping an Amazon URL on the app, or scanning with a Bluetooth barcode scanner. Monster’s efforts here are both functional and whimsical. Frankly, I love skeuomorphism when done well, and Delicious You even get to choose the kind of wood for your shelves from among twenty varieties, and you can cycle through them with a keyboard shortcut (Command-left arrow or Command-right arrow). And those photo-realistic cases rotate as you move your mouse cursor over them. Add a Playstation 3 game, and you get not just cover art, but cover art that’s placed inside a replica of a Playstation 3 game case. In fact, since Delicious Library uses Amazon to look up product information, you can add just about any kind of commercially available item to your collection.ĭelicious Library 3 is unapologetically skeuomorphic. Until we can sit down for a few years to scan, rip, and replace everything with digital copies, Delicious Monster’s Delicious Library 3 ($25) can help manage our physical collections.įor those unfamiliar with Delicious Library, you add the various media you own - books, albums, movies, and video games - and it displays digital likenesses on its virtual wooden shelves. #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Venturaĭespite all the talk about digital media, most of us still have shelves full of old-fashioned paper books, CDs, DVD movies, Blu-ray discs - even vinyl records and VHS tapes.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials. #1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.
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