MediaMan
Encyclopedia
MediaMan is a general purpose collection organizer software for establishing a personal database of media collections (DVDs, CDs, books, etc) developed by He Shiming.
Debuted in 2004 as freeware, MediaMan is the first software in its genre to create the concept of general purpose organizer, as people usually have to pay two licenses for a book organizer and a video organizer.
The license of MediaMan is freeware until late 2006 when the author decided to switch to shareware with a price of $39.95 for each license.
Amazon Web Services
(later called E-Commerce Service and Product Advertising API) was used to retrieve product information automatically during the import process in MediaMan, which means it's also a part of the Amazon Associates program. However, the latest version of MediaMan (v3.10 series) no longer uses this API due to the efficiency guidelines introduced in October 2010.
MediaMan is also known as a Windows
alternative to Mac OS X's
Delicious Library
.
Debuted in 2004 as freeware, MediaMan is the first software in its genre to create the concept of general purpose organizer, as people usually have to pay two licenses for a book organizer and a video organizer.
The license of MediaMan is freeware until late 2006 when the author decided to switch to shareware with a price of $39.95 for each license.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...
(later called E-Commerce Service and Product Advertising API) was used to retrieve product information automatically during the import process in MediaMan, which means it's also a part of the Amazon Associates program. However, the latest version of MediaMan (v3.10 series) no longer uses this API due to the efficiency guidelines introduced in October 2010.
MediaMan is also known as a Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
alternative to Mac OS X's
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
Delicious Library
Delicious Library
Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games....
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Product history
| Date | Version | Major features | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004.3 | 0.8 | Initial public release | Freeware |
| 2004.6 | 1.0 | Import from 6 Amazon sites, status tracking | Freeware |
| 2004.8 | 1.5 | 4-style item listing | Freeware |
| 2005.1 | 2.0 | Virtual-Shelf, theme, webcam barcode scanning | Freeware |
| 2005.9 | 2.30 | Enhanced virtual-shelf, theme, performance | Freeware |
| 2006.10 | 2.65 | Switched to SQLite for file format, rewritten GUI | Shareware |
| 2007.8 | 2.70 | Playback of audio/video inside program | Shareware |
| 2008.9 | 3.0 | Complete rewrite to improve experience and performance | Shareware |
| 2010.10 | 3.10 | Complete rewrite to further improve user experience, adopted Chromium style GUI | Shareware |