Brian Binnerup’s My Movies application for Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server has provided the framework to catalogue thousands of user’s movie libraries over the past few years. The application helps you maintain and manage your movie collection, whether it’s on DVD or Blu-ray disc or digitally stored on PC or home server, with automatically downloaded metadata and artwork from My Movies’ extensive collection of over 250,000 titles. On Windows Media Center, you can browse through and play your movies, view cast details, and play trailers via remote control in your living room. The Windows Home Server add-in automatically identifies movie folders in your home server’s video libraries, adding high quality meta-data to to the titles which is viewable in a number of Media Center applications. Used in conjunction, they’re a compelling combination for any movie fan.
Of course, everyone needs a mobile app nowadays, and the latest device to be supported in the My Movies family is the iPhone. This week, mobile apps for both Android and iPhone were released in free (limited to 100 movies) and Pro (unlimited) form. Today, we’ll take a look at the iPhone release, and walkthrough how you can manage your movies on the move.
Features
My Movies for iPhone can be used as a standalone app for cataloguing your movie library, or in conjunction with your existing library data stored on Windows Home Server or Windows Media center. Features include:
- Add titles to your library by barcode or title search
- Synchronise data between mobile and other My Movies clients
- Allow friends and family to view your library data online
- Add titles to different groups (Owned, Wished, Rented)
- Sort titles by title, year or collection number.
- Filter titles by type, genre or group.
- Search your collection by title.
- View movie details, including synopsis and full cast list.
- View full screen front cover.
- Keep collection synchronized between different clients or phones.
Installation
Head over to the iPhone App Store on your device, and search for My Movies. The Pro version of the product costs £2.99.
Once installed, login with your My Movies account details, and the app will find your profile and movie collection from the My Movies server.
My Movies for iPhone works best when used in conjunction with My Movies Collection Manager on your PC. My Movies Collection Manager allows you to download and edit the metadata associated with your movie collection, and then synchronise it with an online server. With your collection available online, it can then be viewed using a web browser, and importantly, can then be synchronized with your iPhone.
Here’s the Bourne Supremacy as seen in My Movies Collection Manager. The same metadata will be synchronised with your iPhone, as shown below.
