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<blockquote data-quote="borgster" data-source="post: 1046183" data-attributes="member: 144758"><p>Probably the most difficult thing to grasp is the interface and the fact the interface is broken in to two separate programs with some of the options carrying over from myfilms set up and AMCU and some not carrying over. This is especially confusing when it comes to the handling of Cover images, Fan art, and a few other similar things. Because of the way the interfaces are divided it becomes confusing and easy to miss a setting or to accidentally undo something that you set up previously the way you wanted it.</p><p></p><p>The single biggest improvement to make the program use easier would be an interface overhaul. </p><p>For example use MyFilms setup to set the base directories and everything not related to importing and updating.</p><p>Put all the import and updating setup options in AMCU. </p><p>In general to ease the user experience with the GUI's as much information as possible should be kept on the same tab as long as they are related to each other. One of the confusing aspects is that there are options for the art import and update process currently in I think 4 different tabs (I'm working off of memory here while I'm on break from work so that may not be totally accurate).</p><p></p><p>It would also help if on each tab all related items to a single process should probably be grouped together as much as possible. Granted some processes are related to multiple processes but in those cases they should usually be grouped together on the same tab at least rather than having to jump between multiple tabs and programs to change one aspect. I think this should be doable due to how the programs interact with each other anyways, it's mostly just a changes to the GUI interface, probably about 90%, and not so much on the programming side.</p><p></p><p>I can't comment on the grabber options that open in a third program as I haven't fiddled with that much, but 90% of users probably don't need to do so anyways.</p><p></p><p>One feature that would be kind of nice is a default in the update script, and probably on the import script as well, to where a user can set it to read from an NFO file if one exists and if an NFO doesn't exist then to look it up on the internet (or possibly just import the file straight in to the catalog without anything except the Metadata from the file..</p><p> </p><p>Another feature that would be nice, and this may exist but I haven't found it yet, is the ability to manually edit the catalog entries. </p><p></p><p>I'm sure I can think of more, but my break is over and time to return to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="borgster, post: 1046183, member: 144758"] Probably the most difficult thing to grasp is the interface and the fact the interface is broken in to two separate programs with some of the options carrying over from myfilms set up and AMCU and some not carrying over. This is especially confusing when it comes to the handling of Cover images, Fan art, and a few other similar things. Because of the way the interfaces are divided it becomes confusing and easy to miss a setting or to accidentally undo something that you set up previously the way you wanted it. The single biggest improvement to make the program use easier would be an interface overhaul. For example use MyFilms setup to set the base directories and everything not related to importing and updating. Put all the import and updating setup options in AMCU. In general to ease the user experience with the GUI's as much information as possible should be kept on the same tab as long as they are related to each other. One of the confusing aspects is that there are options for the art import and update process currently in I think 4 different tabs (I'm working off of memory here while I'm on break from work so that may not be totally accurate). It would also help if on each tab all related items to a single process should probably be grouped together as much as possible. Granted some processes are related to multiple processes but in those cases they should usually be grouped together on the same tab at least rather than having to jump between multiple tabs and programs to change one aspect. I think this should be doable due to how the programs interact with each other anyways, it's mostly just a changes to the GUI interface, probably about 90%, and not so much on the programming side. I can't comment on the grabber options that open in a third program as I haven't fiddled with that much, but 90% of users probably don't need to do so anyways. One feature that would be kind of nice is a default in the update script, and probably on the import script as well, to where a user can set it to read from an NFO file if one exists and if an NFO doesn't exist then to look it up on the internet (or possibly just import the file straight in to the catalog without anything except the Metadata from the file.. Another feature that would be nice, and this may exist but I haven't found it yet, is the ability to manually edit the catalog entries. I'm sure I can think of more, but my break is over and time to return to work. [/QUOTE]
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