- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: May 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 79,028
- Downloads last week: 17
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 31 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on October 02, 2009
MediaMan provides users with an innovative way to manage all their books, movies, and music. While the program does an excellent job of performing its primary function, its special feature was another story.
We were able to breeze through the program's drab listing of its commands because the program is laid out with a simple click-and-drag interface that felt natural from the start. Populating our media collection was surprisingly fun, since we only had to enter an item's name, bar code, or keyword for its image, title, year, and production information to be automatically downloaded from the Web. We've tested other programs that require users to do this manually, so we really liked the time and energy saved. Books, movies, and music were automatically placed into a category-based file tree that we could edit and search. Unfortunately, its features weren't this smooth. Its description promised an online price-monitoring tool (PAT), but we couldn't locate it. Whether it is a design flaw of making the item hard to locate or it simply doesn't exist in this program, we were frustrated. But even without the PAT, we were still impressed by the ease of managing our media collection with this tool.
MediaMan comes with a 30-day trial. While it doesn't live up to all its promises, the programs functionality was surprising and accurate and we still recommend it.
Publisher's description
From He Shiming :MediaMan is an easy-to-use all-in-one media catalog manager software, dedicated for collectors to establish a personal database and organize the collections of books, CDs, DVDs, software and game titles. MediaMan comes with Price and Availability Tracker (PAT), a free service that allows you to keep tracking of current prices and availability status of products on Amazon.com. It is designed to enhance your online shopping experience. It can be used to track unreleased DVDs, CDs and books. Additionally, you may use it to track high-priced consumer electronics and be the first one to know when the price drops. And you don't have to log on to Amazon.com using your browser, all these are done automatically.
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Version: MediaMan 3.0 build 1034
"Waste of money and frustration"
Pros: Database with which you can keep CDs, books and DVDs in one database, at an ok price.
Cons: Very poor technical support, will not address multiple comments on same issues by users. Upgrade from commercial v.2.7 to v.3.0 was a new program, messed up the database w/o downgrade option. Upgrades are questionable, you do not know what to expect.
Summary: When you buy a program with certain features and a life long warranty of use, you expect to be able to use it. I bought version 2.7. The developer changed the features in version 3 and literally issued a new program. There were multiple complaints b... read more >>
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