I just finished reading this post over on binary bonsai. This is the first that I have heard of MediaMan, and now I need to make a decision.
I have been slowly and pain-stakingly designing a piece of software to do just this for my personal use. Do I quit, and use MediaMan? I do not like the fact MediaMan ripped off Delicious Library’s UI; even with Delicious Library not making a Windows version.
The lazy part of me says use MediaMan. My gut is telling me to keep on building.
I’m going to go with my gut, even though it may be years before I finish.
That’s a pretty interesting debate to be facing.
Why are you making it now? To get the experience you’ll gain from going through the process? If so, then certainly keep going. If the answer is simply “so I can have the end product”, then well, you could be putting your effort into creating something new instead.
Not really doing it for the experience. I do this sort of thing for my day job. But I do enjoy doing it. So right now it would be more for the end product with a big helping of stress relief and fun mixed in.
Only issue with building it, is that when I have free time, I prefer to spend it with my little ones. So it takes me longer than I would like ;)
Interesting to read that you are on the road to developing software to catalog media. I have been looking at Mediaman (I am not a programmer) but I hesitate at the price. Nice program though.
Is your program progressing?
Delicious Library was a stolen idea in the first place, saying mediaman stole it is quite funny.
More mac snobbery for the most…
In any case, MediaMan is pretty much useless, its so unstable and buggy it’s a joke that they even ask money for it yet.
I have been looking at both of these to use at my school and while Delicious Library may not have been the first it is EASILY the best available. If you have used either program then you cannot deny that MediaMan copied the UI and functionality from DL. Since DL is not available for Windows I say good for them. Even the person who wrote MediaMan calls DL “amazing” in his forums.