Quoting cronosmantas:

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Anyone else buy a bar code scanner to add their collection?

~2 decades ago I bought a declawed CueCat for $5, but I haven't used it in ages. I enter the 1-2 BDs I still buy per year per hand without a problem.
If I ever have the need for bulk-scanning again I'd use a smartphone-app that can save the scanned UPCs in a text list.

Yeah I've been owning one for over a decade now, makes the occasional mass buy or inventory much easier.

Video would have been even more efficient if I hadn't needed my left hand to hold the phone camera. 

I pretty much discovered DVD Profiler just recently and wanted to get a barcode scanner to save so much time when doing future scans. Just did a rescan of my entire collection today since the CSV file didn't organize my collection correctly and it felt so much easier rather than just typing the numbers

Quoting maddox:

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Hello,
i never used a scanner to entering my movies to my collection,
now i would renew my coll, and i have an i-phone 12 mini, what app do i use and how do i proceed?
thx!

Did you  notice the answer and video a couple of posts back? I suggest search your APP store for the software that was recommended.

I think i am a bit like Roger Murtaugh: i'm to old for this shiitake mushroom!!! :-)
But i've got a respond from Scotthm, tink i just my try that!
goodnight everybody!

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It never occurred to me that I could scan DVD bar codes and use them with DVD Profiler!  I've already got a bar code scanner!  Unfortunately, it isn't working for me with DVD Profiler.  I think I know why but I want to see if someone here has a suggestion about it.

I collect comics as well as DVDs & I bought a bar code scanner at the same time that I bought Comicbase to manage my comics.  The bar code scanner has worked great for scanning comics in for years, so it certainly works, but it's not working when I try to scan DVD bar codes.  It doesn't seem to recognize that the DVD bar codes ARE bar codes.

I'm guessing that that's due to the way I set up this scanner a long time ago.  Programming the scanner involved using the scanner to scan various barcodes to set up its features.  I wasn't told to scan all of the bar codes so I only scanned the ones suggested.

One thing unusual about comic (& other magazine bar codes) is that the comic doesn't get a new bar code every month.  It adds an extra 4 characters or something like that to the end, to identify which instance of the comic or magazine this is.  I certainly scanned a barcode during setup that allowed the scanner to recognize the extra characters in these comic bar codes.

So, my question after all of this is whether I need to use a different bar code set to read DVD bar codes than I do comic bar codes?  Does anyone know if these sets of codes are mutually exclusive or if the scanner can hold more than 1 set of codes at a time?  I buy a LOT more comics these days that I do DVDs so I don't want to do anything to mess up the comic scanning.  If I can only use the scanner for 1 type of item then I'll stick with comics.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have!

Thanks,
GWGuen

I'm guessing that that's due to the way I set up this scanner a long time ago.  Programming the scanner involved using the scanner to scan various barcodes to set up its features.  I wasn't told to scan all of the bar codes so I only scanned the ones suggested.

With the scanner there was a page with barcodes (language, azerty/querty....) that i needed to scan, at first it didn't work, then i scanned them all, and finally it worked (don't ask why or how i did it!  )
Good Luck