News History
August 31'st 2010 - My Movies for iPad Sneak Peak
You can now see a sneak peak and have some questions answered for the upcoming My Movies for iPad product here.
August 9'th 2010 - My Movies for iPhone Pro Available
It is a pleasure to be able to announce My Movies for iPhone Pro now being ready for sale on the App Store. The application adds a huge list of features from the Light version, and does not have a limitation on titles. You can read all the details about the application by clicking here.
August 4'th 2010 - New team member
Rasmus Johansen have joined the My Movies team as a software developer. Rasmus primary focus will be My Movies for Windows Home Server, and he will be helping with the port of the product to the upcoming Windows Home Server version codename 'Vail'.
Being a long term user of My Movies, and having worked on freelance projects for My Movies, Rasmus have a good knowledge about our product suite, and is expected to become a very important part of the future development of our products.
You will perhaps meet Rasmus on our forum with the username "johansen". We hope that you will welcome Rasmus and accept the fact that it will be a while before he will be able to answer the most technical support topics.
August 1'st 2010 - My Movies for iPhone Pro
The My Movies for iPhone Pro application was originally promised to be released on August 1'st, where My Movies for iPhone Light would be limited to 100 titles except for users with 2500 points or more. Due to different difficulties with an external library and changes in Apple terms, the release have been delayed, and is for the second time still waiting for review by Apple.
To ensure that no users gets in problems with the 100 title limitation without the option to upgrade to Pro because of it not being available, we have made a change on our API to trick the software to temporary think that all users have 2500 points or more. This means that we will push the 100 title limitation date to August 15'th, or even later should the application not be available by that date.
The application was originally put in the review queue on the 14'th of July, but was unfortunately rejected by Apple, because of change of guidelines since iOS4. My Movies have licensed barcode scanning technology from RedLaser, as RedLaser have the fastest and most reliable barcode scanning technology, and is the only one available that supports 3G phones. RedLaser have used an undocumented "UIGetScreenImage" function in the iPhone SDK, which Apple officially allowed usage of in late 2009, with the note that "future release of iPhone OS may provide a public API equivalent of this functionality. At such time, all applications using UIGetScreenImage() will be required to adopt the public API."
This future release was then iOS4, and without noticing RedLaser, Apple from the release day of iOS4 started to reject all applications using RedLaser technology, due to the UIGetScreenImage usage, without giving RedLaser and their customers a period to change their source code. This kind of strange behavior from Apple affected us as well, as we have had to wait for RedLaser to provide an updated API, which they did on Thursday the 29'th of July.
The change to our application was uploaded to Apple on Friday the 30'th of July, and is now again waiting for review. We are confident that the application will be approved this time, however we do not have a date of availability - we know however that it typically takes 7-10 days to review applications.
The worst thing about Apples behavior in this relation is that all applications containing barcode scanning will now be rejected until changed to not use the "UIGetScreenImage" function, which can only be used on iOS4. This basically means that all applications containing barcode scanning, no matter which library it uses will be forced to upgrade the application to iOS4; they cannot create a simple bug fix release if they wanted to stay on earlier versions such as 3.2. My Movies for iPhone Pro uses some functionalities in iOS4, and would therefore be released as an iOS4 application despite this - it will however affect a future update to My Movies for iPhone Light where we plan to include a free barcode scanning library, which again forces us to upgrade My Movies for iPhone Light to iOS4.
We hope for your understanding in this situation, and I can ensure you that we are just as eager to get My Movies for iPhone Pro released as I know many of you are.
July 23'rd 2010 - GD3 Music Meta Data
High quality music meta-data from GD3 is now included as a default part of My Movies for Windows Home Server. Music meta-data from GD3 have until now been available exclusively to our registered installers, but is as of today automatically available on all installations of My Movies for Windows Home Server version 1.5.0.2 or later.
GD3 have a huge database of more than 1.5 million CD's with great detail, including high resolution cover art.
The license is automatically obtained by the software from our servers, and it is therefore not needed to upgrade your software if you are already running version 1.5.0.2 or later.
June 4'th 2010 - My Movies 3.14 Pre Release 1
My Movies 3.14 Pre Release 1 is now available on the download page. This release fixes a few minor issues, and is mainly a release for users of the Dune player index, as well as a preparating for My Movies for iPhone Pro.
There is some preparation in the code for future support for an SQL Server Compact database, which means that there are some larger changes in the back-end system. If this gives any problems, please create a support ticket in the forums.
February 15'th 2010 - License violations
Our product licensing terms prohibits professionals from using the products without being part of our installer program and purchasing a license key for the product. Unfortunately, many professionals choose to ignore this fact, which harms the business for the installers who correctly purchases the licenses, and it harms the development of the My Movies project.
The unlicensed systems can be identified using the "About" page in Windows Media Center, which lists the license as a "Personal Edition". If you have purchased a PC with My Movies preinstalled as such "Personal Edition", or if you see such license used on a professional product in a computer store, on an electronics show or similar, we ask that you send us a tip on contact@mymovies.dk including the company name and contact information, and preferably a photo of the product showing the "About" page.
For each confirmed incident, we will reward you with 2,500 points for your My Movies account for your help.
January 20'th 2010 - My Movies XBMC Scraper 1.2
The My Movies Scraper for XBMC have been updated to version 1.2. The update includes the option to choose between movie data or disc data, as well as a new option to force loading of a specific tile by entering the barcode in an NFO file. Additional details is available on our My Movies for XBMC Scraper page here.
December 25'th 2009 - My Movies for WHS 1.51 and Movies 3.11
My Movies for Windows Home Server 1.51 have been released to include the issues fixes to common files in My Movies for Windows Media Center 3.1x.
One of the changes in My Movies 3.10 created an unfortunate side affect meaning that Blu-ray's could no longer be copied to folders. My Movies 3.11 have been released to correct this issue.
December 21'st 2009 - My Movies 3.10
My Movies 3.10 is now available for download. The release brings two new views, one "Cover Strip" that is created to match the look and feel of Media Center's own Movie Library, and a "Cover Row/Cover Row and Details", which lists covers in one row, with or without details. The cover row view can be configured as a flat style, or as a cover flow look.
The release also brings a new "Intro and Trailers" feature, allowing playback of one or more locally stored intros or trailers before the actual movie playback.
Third, is a new "Cover Style" functionality, which gives additional cover looks, and can be customised by the user. Included with the release is a "Plastic" look.
You can see some additional details of the 3.10 release here.
December 20'th 2009 - The Digital Lifestyle Awards
My Movies nominated as "Best media management application". Vote here if you think My Movies deserves to win this.
December 8'th 2009 - Server Downtime
There have today been a three hour downtime period on our services. The servers have been moved to a new location for better future scalability options. Some technical difficulties caused the process to take longer than expected. We are sorry for the trouble it have caused.
November 17'th 2009 - Trials Reset
Per request, we have reset trials created prior to My Movies 3, meaning trials created prior to 22'nd of October 2009. This means that users who previously have created a trial to evaluate our products prior to this date now is able to create another trial, to be able to evaluate all functions in My Movies 3.
November 9'th 2009 - My Movies 3.03 and My Movies for WHS 1.50 Build 9
My Movies for Windows Media Center and My Movies Collection Management 3.03 is now available. This release is a quick fix of an image playback problem introduced with 3.02. Since My Movies 3.03 updates the internal database, My Movies for WHS 1.50 Build 9 is also released to match the same database version, and the same is My Movies 2.58 for My Movies 2 users.
November 6'th 2009 - My Movies 3.02 and My Movies for WHS 1.50 Build 8
My Movies for Windows Media Center and My Movies Collection Management 3.02 is now available. This release fixes and changes a few issues found in 3.01, and re-adds a few functionalites that some users were missing from My Movies 2, such as the ability to remove a title from within the Media Center interface, as well as the ability to mark or unmark a title as watched.
My Movies for Windows Home Server 1.50 Build 8 has been made available at the same time, since My Movies for WHS and My Movies for WMC share some components for folder monitoring, as some changes were made that affects both software packages.
October 22'nd 2009 - My Movies 3
My Movies 3 is now available with a fully redesigned Media Center interface, for Windows Vista Media Center and Windows 7 Media Center.
My Movies 3 is built with focus on reliability, stability and speed. My Movies 3 will easily handle collections up to 5,000 titles, or even larger.
The default functionality in My Movies 3 is free as it was in My Movies 2, and as in My Movies 2, some advanced features require a certain amount of points to be unlocked.
You can either purchase points, or contribute data to our service to receive points.
