[wgill]

Hi,

I would like to know if DL2 will have Australian lookup support. There is a huge fan base for Delicious Library in Australia, however, us Aussies find it tedious and annoying to constantly look up Amazons information for when we manual scan.

There are a couple of programs out there for the mac that are similar to Delicious Library that "DO" support us Australian bar coding and information, however, we would like to "SEE" Delicious incorporate this into DL2... please ;-)

cheers
wil

[Delicious Monster]

The short answer is: no, but

That is to say: no, but we have added the extensibility necessary for some enterprising Aussie to add support, much as Morbus Iff is doing for comics.

[agentsarah6]

I'm with wgill. I haven't bought a version of DL yet but, mucking about with a demo version, I must say hearing "lookup failed" all the time can get very annoying. In fact lack of support for Australian/New Zealand barcodes is one of the reasons why I haven't bought a copy of DL yet. I've resorted to using DVDManager for all of my DVDs and Facebook's Visual Bookshelf for all of my books. That shouldn't have to be so.

As I see it...If I can't use the "ease of use" features within the application that others are able to use straight out of the box, without a guarantee that someone will come up with a plug-in allow me to use those features for my locality, then why should I bother A$45 for this?

[Delicious Monster]

You're right. If you're from Australia, and you're looking for a way to catalog your DVDs, there's no reason to buy Delicious Library. For books and such, which are not happened by regional barcodes, Delicious Library and Australia get along just fine. For DVDs, though? Nope.

At least, until some Australian web guy wants to hack up a plugin. Why has that not happened yet? Do Australians not know how to code?

(I'm just kidding, but seriously, some Aussie scripter out there should contact me.)

[agentsarah6]

I'd love to help with something like that but, alas, I'm not a programmer. I think another problem that would be encountered would be with finding a suitable database of Australian barcodes. I don't know what online store you could use as there is, to my knowledge, no central UPC database for Australian products.

[rahook]

Originally Posted by Delicious Monster 

At least, until some Australian web guy wants to hack up a plugin. Why has that not happened yet? Do Australians not know how to code?

(I'm just kidding, but seriously, some Aussie scripter out there should contact me.)

Contacted...

[CaptainHaddock]

Maybe there'll be an Australian Amazon by the time DL2 is out.

[agentsarah6]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock 

Maybe there'll be an Australian Amazon by the time DL2 is out.

I seriously doubt that. I'd love there to be an Australian Amazon, as there should be, but I daresay we'll be waiting a long time for that. We've already waited years for it.

[MDNZ]

rahook is this still on your radar? Should we expect support for R4 lookups when DL2 is released?

[pingudownunder]

Originally Posted by agentsarah6 

I'd love to help with something like that but, alas, I'm not a programmer. I think another problem that would be encountered would be with finding a suitable database of Australian barcodes. I don't know what online store you could use as there is, to my knowledge, no central UPC database for Australian products.

My current workaround is to Google the UPC code (right-click/search with Google) and then cut-and-paste the title from the results into the Amazon search. Not pretty (or accurate) but good enough for now.

Not sure of A&R/Dymocks/Fishpond provide lookup services?

[micheal david]

Alas, I'm not a programmer. But I'd love to help with something like that but, I think another problem that would be encountered would be with finding a suitable database.