Your films.Finally catalogued.
UrDatabase reads the folder your films already live in and builds a catalogue of them — posters, cast, directors, genres and ratings, filled in automatically. Everything stays on your machine, in one SQLite file you can open yourself.
Three builds
One for each kind of machine. If you are not sure which Mac you have, open the menu and choose About This Mac: an Apple silicon machine says Chip Apple M-something, an older one says Processor Intel.
Apple siliconYours
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Intel MacYours
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The first time you open it
These builds are not notarized by Apple, and Windows has not seen them before. Both operating systems will stop you on first launch, and it is better to know why beforehand than to conclude the download is broken.
macOS — nothing happens at all
The macOS builds are ad-hoc signed but not notarized, and that is enough for Gatekeeper to refuse them. Notarizing needs a paid Apple developer account, which this project does not have.
Downloading through a browser attaches a quarantine flag, and on first launch macOS kills the process outright — no dialog, no error, nothing in the interface. The app has not crashed and the download is not corrupt. It looks broken because macOS declined to say anything.
- Unzip the download.
- Run this in Terminal, against the folder that came out of it:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/UrDatabase-*That clears the download flag from that one folder and nothing else.
There is no .app to drag to Applications: the folder
holds an executable called UrDatabase.App. Open that.
This step exists only because notarization does not, so treat it as a gap rather than as how the project is meant to work.
Windows — “Windows protected your PC”
SmartScreen shows this for any program it has not seen many people run before. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
It is a reputation check rather than a virus scan, so it says
nothing about the file except that it is new. If you would rather
check the file itself, every release lists a SHA-256 for each
archive in SHA256SUMS.txt on its
release
page.
What’s new
Full release notes on GitHub →What it actually does
A desktop application, not a service. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it keeps working with the network off — it only reaches out to fetch metadata for a film it has not seen before.
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Scans the folder you already have
Point it at your films and it reads the filenames, works out what each one is and looks the rest up.
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Posters, cast and crew
Artwork, synopses, genres, directors and cast come from TMDB; ratings come from OMDb.
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Browse by genre, year or person
The catalogue is the point. Wander it by whatever you happen to be in the mood for.
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One SQLite file
Your catalogue is a plain database file on your own disk. Copy it, back it up, or query it yourself.