We just passed 60% of covers on LDs!

admin · Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 16:27

It only took... 17 years? :-)

But 3 out of 5 is a good ratio to start considering doing more interesting things using the assumption that we have most of the covers.

For ex: all DTS covers or all AC3 covers

Of course it's a little more bandwidth hungry but we are not in 2002 anymore, that should be OK.

Maybe the lists could have the option to be text only/cover only/both?

Julien

saeba · Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 17:07

I think that the titles that got the covers covered (pun intended) are probably the ones people find "interesting" or are the most common/famous.
The ones that don't have any are probably from titles nobody really cares about, or from very rare ones.
So I think it is safe when you say that we have most of the covers.

signofzeta · Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 00:27

I’m honestly pretty impressed but this. That’s a lot of pictures and user participation and tons of admin work.

rein-o · Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 03:01

I know I have a few rare anime that need to be uploaded, I just need the time to get to the discs to take pictures.

admin · Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 03:50

signofzeta wrote:

I’m honestly pretty impressed but this. That’s a lot of pictures and user participation and tons of admin work.

Thank you to our top 20! (I'm removing myself out of gratitude ;-)

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Quote:

Rank Covers Username
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1. 5,659 laserking
2. 2,890 thepenguin
3. 1,998 recobanchou (their YAJ covers, with authorization)
4. 1,719 takou
5. 1,705 cedmagic (most of the CED pics, contacted to ask for better quality, no response)
6. 1,169 philac17 (not here anymore but a big early contributor)
7. 766 laserdiscvault
8. 557 smally_uk
9. 494 samaron
10. 493 kingpin
11. 488 cold_sleeper
12. 472 hennie
13. 472 joe
14. 379 nems
15. 374 ro-disc
16. 370 johnnyracer2k
17. 353 laserdisc_fan
18. 338 hamax
29. 332 tanjun
20. 315 bram.kalkman

Julien

takou · Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 18:37

You're welcome !

Nice listings...

xtempo · Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 19:51

I need to figure out to do better pictures.

firehorse_44 · Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 20:17

Job well done.... over the top !

Hat is off to all the membership who made the time to take and post cover pics !

Cheers

signofzeta · Posted: 14 Oct 2019, 00:50

Dang. I think I’ve only submitted like one. I need to get to work.

takeshi666 · Posted: 14 Oct 2019, 13:52

Can I submit covers for titles that already have them, but in better quality?

admin · Posted: 15 Oct 2019, 03:20

takeshi666 wrote:

Can I submit covers for titles that already have them, but in better quality?

Absolutely yes!

If obi is missing, misplaced, cover is cropped, blurry, too small, etc.
More than welcomed.

I'm writing a quick tutorial on how to use IrFanView on Windows to resize/adjust perspective/enhance colors/edges.

Been using this amazing freeware for 20+ years now.

IrFanView 32/64bit + Plugins

Julien

admin · Posted: 18 Oct 2019, 05:49

admin wrote:

But 3 out of 5 is a good ratio to start considering doing more interesting things using the assumption that we have most of the covers.

One obvious improvement would be to finally turn the notifications (wishlist, transactions) to HTML and have them show the covers along with the message.

Another improvement I've be considering is to generate an email when a user submission is processed (back at that user).

Update -> to tell when a user update has been processed and if it was applied to the original intended items or if a mistake was corrected and it was applied to another one
Submit -> to tell when a user-submitted title has been either validated (and send the link to the new entry) or if it has been deleted (didn't make sense, wrong format, etc.) or if it has been applied to an already existing title

Would that make sense?

Julien

admin · Posted: 22 Oct 2019, 11:15

admin wrote:

I'm writing a quick tutorial on how to use IrFanView on Windows to resize/adjust perspective/enhance colors/edges.

Here it is, feedbacks welcomed!

https://www.lddb.com/help/cover/

Julien

saeba · Posted: 22 Oct 2019, 12:28

Wow, thanks a lot, I actually didn't knew of this software.
I'm redoing my Gundam memorial box covers, will resend them to you once they're done.

cplusplus · Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 17:02

For anyone who does not use Windows, the non-installer 32-bit version of IrFanView works fine in Wine 5 on Linux. I assume the same for macOS Mojave (10.14) and older.

rein-o · Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 18:42

I just sent a bunch of pics but didn't resize them to these parameters, is that still OK or do I need to do that in the future.

firehorse_44 · Posted: 13 Sep 2020, 22:47

Thanks for the tutorial for this non-tech jockey !

Cheers

therussian · Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 23:07

Glad that I have been able to contribute several Japanese releases.

We just passed 60% of covers on LDs!

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