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DESCRIPTION
Vidalin... Designed specifically for use with Apple TV, Vidalin allows you to add titles, descriptions, actors, movie poster art, ratings, etc. to your favorite movies or TV shows. Like Lostify and MetaX, Vidalin acts as a front-end to the excellent AtomicParsley tagging engine which does all of the file loading and saving in the background.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.1:
- Added ability to automatically retrieve movie information and artwork via 'Lookup' button.
- Added ability to add, edit or remove items in the Genres popup menu.
- Genre text field now autocompletes using information from the Genre popup menu.
- Added ability to drop multiple video files onto Vidalin's icon in the Finder.
- Fixed a few mildly annoying bugs here and there.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| Vidalin User Reviews (6 posts) | Write A Review |
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 | Nov 3 2009 |
BRYAN HUTSON Lol... yep I'm not exactly a premier icon designer. If anyone would like to donate an icon for Vidalin, I'll include it in the upcoming version 2.0 release. Thanks, Bryan. (Vidalin Developer) (Version 1.1) | |
 | Sep 13 2009 |
BRYAN HUTSON [From Developer, Bryan Hutson] Vidalin 1.1 is fully compatible with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.1). I've tested Vidalin 1.1 extensively with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.1) with no known problems. Please ensure your Snow Leopard version is at least 10.6.1, as I've had at least one user contact me with intermittent problems on 10.6.0 that seem to have gone away with Apple's 10.6.1 update. Thanks, Bryan (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Jul 21 2009 |
HEYMBIT I've tried MetaX, Lostify, Parsley is Atomically Delicious, Subler, Tagger, and every other program available to tag iTunes Movie files. While I appreciate apps that have an incredible UI, I do focus mostly on performance and the tags that can be written. To this end, I've been forced to use multiple apps, as some apps can set an HD-SD tag, some apps can gather data from sites like TagChimp, basically a lot of great apps can do a lot of great things but no one app can do everything. Then I stumbled upon Vidalin. It had the power of MetaX, at faster speeds, with a better design. I now use Vidalin instead of MetaX. While MetaX can get TagChimp data, Vidalin can do this and Yahoo Movies, for better data results, as more is better. Vidalin also keeps everything in one window, which as a power user I find just incredible. I can tag 20 files at once, and switching between multiple windows per file is a bit of a pain after a while. While Vidalin doesn't currently do everything the other apps do, it does a lot that any user will find incredible. But what's best is that it does this while keeping a slick UI, and applies tags faster than I've seen any other program. But what's best about Vidalin is that it is being worked on, updated, improved. Programs like Lostify and MetaX haven't seen updates in months, even years. By the time Vidalin hits 2.0, it will have surpassed any and all other programs. Hell, by the time it hits 1.2 it will probably do that. I was a MetaX user, now I'm a Vidalin user. I gave Features and Value a 4 out of 5 because, like I said, it still can't do some things that other apps do (such as set a cnID number). However, it's clear that Vidalin is constantly improving, and I believe slight flaws like what was just said are soon to be a thing of the past. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Jul 14 2009 |
Y-GUY I was a bit skeptical at first, I've used MetaX before and it did okay. The problem there was often I was flooded with to many possible listings, however Vidalin only gave me one for each movie I tagged - and it was the right one. Nice not having to figure out which one was correct. Also MetaX often didn't place the poster art correctly and it wouldn't show up. I've tried this several times with Vidalin and the poster art worked correctly each time. I've only found one movie that it didn't find the poster art for, the rest all works fine. Vidalin worked like it was supposed to, no problems. It's a keeper. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Jul 15 2009 |
ANONYMOUS Thanks for the great review! I'm in the process of refining the poster art section of Vidalin to be more robust in that area. Right now it should (hopefully) retrieve around 90% of all poster art, depending on the year the movie was made. I'm working to see if I can increase that percentage if at all possible. (Version 1.1) | |
 | Feb 3 2009 |
PERFECTA Vidalin does exactly what it says it does. The user interface is what you'd expect from a a top shelf Mac application. It edits only the information needed for a clean Apple TV presentationnothing more, nothing less. The only small hurdle to get over (at least in my situation) is re-importing the movie into iTunes (if it was already imported). That's it! (Version 1.0) | |
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 | Nov 10 2008 |
STEPHENR Is there any reason this app is Intel only? There are a lot of people (myself included) using PPC macs to run an itunes "server". (Version 1.0) | |
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 | Nov 10 2008 |
BRYAN HUTSON Intel only? Oops... my bad. I just uploaded a Universal Binary (11/10/2008 10:50 pm CST). I haven't tested on PPC, so let me know if there are any hiccups. Thanks, Bryan. (Version 1.0) | |
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