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This makes me wonder if regular expressions would be useful and practical.

That way, Director is not [a-zA-Z]*

or even

Director does not contain [a-z]

would do this.

Of course, there would be simpler methods of doing what manjom wants, but regular expressions would offer more flexibility.

I am using Bookpedia on my imported database of around 4000 books. I wanted to mark the books I am planning to give away. I did two things. In the Custom 3 option, I called the column "Sale or giveaway", and simply inserted Y for items I plan to give away. Also, I set the location for such...

It has happened to me with a few items. But my database was imported, and I suspect some peciuiarity of that. It wasn't necessary to delete any items in order to get them to go into the correct place. I just edited the Author field, re-entering the name. Sorry I can't be more precise. And the databa...

Yes, and working fine.

Probably needs, as I suggested earlier, a warning of some kind, or an undo, just to be sure one doesn't add the tracks from one CD into the data from another one.

Or is your plugin clever enough to refuse to do that?

It was me being careless. I had expected the new version to be in the same place as the old one, whereas in fact it is elsewhere. So I had gone to the Extras site rather than clicking on the link you gave. I've got it now.

Later. The plugin shows as being version 1.0, created 29th April, so I would guess you had not posted the update at the time I downloaded.

Perhaps the new version of the plugin has not been added yet. Or perhaps the new version did not replace the old one that I already had.. At any rate, I downloaded and installed the plugin, quit and restarted CDPedia, clicked on a CD with no track info, used the plugin to get tthe info. The result w...

Conor wrote: It did take around 20 minutes, but keeping our users happy is part of the service.

Now that's what I call BRILLIANT!!

(It seems worth shouting about such helpful responses.)

Thanks for the help. From what you say, the best thing looks likely to be to fix the titles now by the method you suggest, and then leave getting the additional info until version 4. I've been creating a new database with all the books (nearly 300) I own that had not been in my previous catalogue. V...

More out of curiosity than anything else, why is it that an ordinary search comes up with Next and Previous buttons, so that one can review the choices before deciding which one to add, whereas the gearbox gives a drawer? You must have had a good reason for this, as Next and Previous seems to me mor...

I am still unsure if I am doing something wrong, or if it's the way the Pedias currently work. I can, as you say, pop out the little drawer which shows a number of results. But as soon as I choose an item it gets added, there is no option to view the information first and then add it. I think you sa...

Later. And, in fact, your suggested procedure does not work entirely satisfactorily. I had originally added "Legend" by Clannad using its bar code 5099207301220. It gets found, genre World and Folk, with no track listing. If, instead, I insert the CD, use iTunes to get the track listing fr...

Yes, I can see that will work. I still think a plugin (or have I got the right name for the object) might be useful. The point is that entering the bar code (manually or otherwise) works 90% of the time to get ALL the details, including track listing, and is far faster than going via iTunes, CDDB, a...

I've run into quite a few cases (around 10% of my CDs) of CDs where I can get lots of information from an Amazon search, but there is no track listing in Amazon. On the other hand, using the iTunes plugin, I can get an entry with the track listing but missing much of the info that the Amazon search ...

I have a very large database of books (over 4000) that I created in AppleWorks, and imported ok into BookPedia. Probem is that the way I designed the database isn't brilliant, and I would like to update everything, to include more information better organised. One issue is that, because my old datab...