Movie Explorer Pro 4+
The ultimate movie catalog app
Ron Elemans
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- $22.99
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Description
Movie Explorer Pro is by far the most comfortable way to catalog and explore your digital movie files and discs. Once your collection has been indexed, a world of new possibilities opens. Browse through the wonderful movie thumbnails views. Enjoy original poster art work and high res movie stills. Mark movies as watched, add others to the Watchlist. Add your own smart filters to the sidebar, based on simple or complex criteria. And so much more!
Get started quickly
• Add movie and TV show files by indexing your local drives and network shares
• Add Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD and DVD discs by scanning barcodes, using the built-in FaceTime camera
• Or simply add your discs by using an external USB barcode scanner
• Scanning and validation of barcodes can be done in batch modus, for maximum efficiency
• TV show files and discs are also fully supported
Track what you’re watching
• Mark movies and episodes as watched, or unwatched
• Use global filters to show only unwatched, watched or Watchlist items
• Rate and review movies and episodes, and filter on your own ratings
• Add movies and episodes to the Watchlist for easy access
• Automatically update the Watchlist when you set an episode to Watched
• Sync Watched, Paused and Watchlist status with Trakt.tv
Find and play what you like
• Find movies using the search box, or one of the many sidebar filters
• Search for an actor or director and find all other movies you own with this actor or director
• Play movies using the default media player
• Or use any other media player, using the ‘Play with’ feature
Explore for more
• The special Info view shows you all movie metadata, actors and more in a separate window
• Enjoy original poster art work and high res movie stills using the Gallery view feature
• Open directly the related IMDb page for a movie, show, actor or crew member
• Files view shows you important details like video format, bit rate, audio channels and much more
Highly customisable interface
• Hide the filters you don’t like in the sidebar, add Queries and Lists you want
• Add handy filters for Ultra HD Video, Spatial Audio, Duplicate Discs and more
• Adjustable movie thumbnail size and data sorting
• Display TMDb rating, your personal rating or no rating at all
• Option to let the sidebar show the number of unwatched movies for each filter
• Optionally display TV show and season banners in the TV Shows view
Define your own filters and lists
• Add your own custom filters to the sidebar, using Queries
• With a Query, you can interactively define your own selection, using multiple criteria
• Use Lists to make your own collections of movies, shows, actors, directors and more
• Queries and Lists can be separately exported to PDF, HTML and CSV
Share your collection
• Export your complete collection, or a selection, to beautifully designed PDF or HTML files
• The generated HTML files are publishable on your website, without the need to modify anything
• Or export your technical collection data to a CSV file, compatible with Excel and Numbers
• Share individual movies to Mail, Messages, Notes and any other supported standard share option
• Lend Blu-rays and DVD to friends, and keep track of what you've lent out, and to whom
State of the art
• 100% native macOS app using standard interaction controls
• Runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs
• Touch Bar support for all main views
• Full Dark Mode and Accent color support
• Keyboard friendly navigation and interaction
• Reads technical metadata of your files using the MediaInfo library of MediaArea
• Technical metadata includes Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HDR10+
• Uses movie metadata provided by TMDb
Support and feedback
If you need support with this app, please visit the online documentation and support pages, or mail to support@betamagic.nl to get in contact with the developer. Please send your comments, ideas, tips, suggestions, complains or compliments to feedback@betamagic.nl. Thank you!
What’s New
Version 2.6.3
• Fixed a crash when the app wants to display an error message after scanning a disc.
• Fixed a crash caused by indexing subtitle files with an unexpected filename length.
• Fixed a crash when running an invalid Query.
• Query editor now checks for invalid string values for numeric parameters before saving a Query.
• Disc validation dialog now clearly indicates missing season data for TV show discs.
• New optional column “Path” in Files view, which can be added via context menu of the column headers.
Ratings and Reviews
Poor Support, But Better Late Than Never.
I wrote the original review after being frustrated with what I precieved as a lack of understanding to address the issue I was having. Although I am disappointed at the time it took to finally resolve the issue, it was resolved.
While I really like the layout and function of the product, the lack of a real tutorial or manual documentation is fustrating. You would think that detailed documentation would reduce customer service requests? When I contacted support, they were prompt with the reply, but completely missed the question. When I replied, I included multiple screenshots to show the issue, but they continued to give the same answer, which was not a solution to the issue. I have been using and programing computers for 30 years so I hope to keep banging and pounding to find a solution, because customer support is no help. And for what its worth, I paid for the Pro Version.
Developer Response ,
It seems that you have missed or haven’t fully read our last messages from us. These messages are different from our initial responses, and they explain the most likely cause of the issue you have with the app, based on your last screenshots, and they also include a simple fix. We even commented all your screenshots separately.
We hate to have dissatisfied customers, and we are always willing to do everything we can to solve issues with the app. Therefore, your review and especially the title really hurts. So please, read our last messages, and re-contact us so we can solve the issue, even if you think our latest analysis is still wrong.
Thank you!
Has Been Awesome This Far
So far as I am just starting to use this app it has been simply awesome to use. It has so very much information about the movies and TV shows that I catalog into it. The covers looks great on the screen. I have been in need of such program and is extremely happy that I found this one. Having well over 3,000 movies and a good number of TV shows which includes a few classic cartoons, I don't know how I could have made it so far without having this app. Now if I could only find this for Windows to use on my Dell Notebook as well. Easy five stars.
Not what I was hoping for
I have well over 100,000 TV episodes that I have converted from thousand of DVDs that had bought over the years. I was very happy with iTunes and my ability to use it as a cataloging system. After ripping the DVDs, the episode were tagged and included arranged by seaon. Life was good. As we know, that was all changed. I went in search of an app that would take my fully tagged episodes and pull them into a cataloging system that would present them in a very user friendly manner. I though Movie Explorer Pro would do that. I was wrong. In order to pull from iTunes, I had to have purchased the episode from iTunes. Strike One. Tagged and completely labeled shows are not scanned so to incorporate all the information already embedded in the file. Strike Two. Whatever Database is searched to provide the information does a cursory search and pulls the first thing it comes to. For some reason it labeled many of my shows as animé -- which is odd since I don't have a single episode in that genre. Strike Three. So, it's struck out for me. It was a waste of $25. I will not be using this app.
Developer Response ,
Please contact support@betamagic.nl, so we can help to fix this. Using incorrect settings may easily lead to the drama described by you.
App Privacy
The developer, Ron Elemans, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Ron Elemans
- Size
- 41.2 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15.7 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Betamagic
- Price
- $22.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.