Just imported in my anime collection, lots of work ahead - Blu-ray Forum

The_Furox · 04-19-2025, 04:32 AM

I just imported my Anime Collection. I used to use the other My Movies app, which was honestly a much more advanced App, but not being an open source database, I found that more and more newer titles were not present when I scanned them in and correcting issues in the database was really annoying.

To avoid any issues, I bought a barcode scanner and did a full rescan of the collection into an excel file to then import vial the bulk UPC uploader.

Blu-ray.com does a much better job at dealing with box sets made up of multiple releases so I wanted to make sure those were all scanned in properly.

Turns out, the import tool really sucks for this exact use-case because it won't tell you which barcodes aren't found, so I had to import everything and then export the list to compare.
Also will need to check for duplicate entries but that's a lower priority.

So.... best as I can tell there are 282 SKUs in my collection that are missing from the database. About 2/3 are DVDs which makes sense as I reckon Australian region Anime DVDs are probably not the most well referenced in the database.

I've also found that there's a lot of titles that just don't have their barcodes recorded which is odd, but hopefully that means I won't need to manually create 200+ titles.

04-19-2025, 04:32 AM	#1
The_Furox Junior Member Top contributor Member since:Aug 2019 4K collection:33 Blu-ray collection:1273 DVD collection:397	Just imported in my anime collection, lots of work ahead I just imported my Anime Collection. I used to use the other My Movies app, which was honestly a much more advanced App, but not being an open source database, I found that more and more newer titles were not present when I scanned them in and correcting issues in the database was really annoying. To avoid any issues, I bought a barcode scanner and did a full rescan of the collection into an excel file to then import vial the bulk UPC uploader. Blu-ray.com does a much better job at dealing with box sets made up of multiple releases so I wanted to make sure those were all scanned in properly. Turns out, the import tool really sucks for this exact use-case because it won't tell you which barcodes aren't found, so I had to import everything and then export the list to compare. Also will need to check for duplicate entries but that's a lower priority. So.... best as I can tell there are 282 SKUs in my collection that are missing from the database. About 2/3 are DVDs which makes sense as I reckon Australian region Anime DVDs are probably not the most well referenced in the database. I've also found that there's a lot of titles that just don't have their barcodes recorded which is odd, but hopefully that means I won't need to manually create 200+ titles.

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