My Movies to open up back-end systems

It looks like Brian Binnerup at My Movies is planning to open up their back end services to other Movie clients such as DVD Library in Windows Media Center or other applications like Media Portal. This is a change from the current model and means that other applications can take advantage of the rich data that has been built up with My Movies without having to use the My Movies client. It’s an interesting idea and I guess it could mean there will be more Movie clients coming and could help getting more movie data into the library.

Checkout the forum post for more details

We would like to invite other developers or companies to be able to base their front-ends on the My Movies back-end, which means that their users will be able to benefit from all My Movies’ back-end features, such as:
– The "Collection Managment" program, with advanced data editing capabilities.
– The "Online Collection" option, giving users the option to display their collection to friends.
– The "Folder Monitoring" option, that is able to automatically index titles stored on harddrives.
Special packages of My Movies will be made available to third parties interested in these options, where the My Movies front-end is no longer part of the package, and where configuration for My Movies front-end is not available. These packages will also be redistributeable, unlike the current My Movies packages.

The "Free of Charge Option"
The free of charge option is made available to all non-commercial products, or products based on volunteer donations and is based on the same terms that usage of My Movies is today. Users gain points by either contributing or donating to the My Movies project – these points then gives users access to additional features, or extends default enabled features – as always no features limiting the basic usage will require points. Using this option, My Movies pays for all traffic costs and maintenance costs the users gives, but at the same time benefits from the users contributions to our service.

The "Commercial Option"
The commercial option provides companies with commercial products the option to supply the My Movies back-end products as a company branded option, where users are not restricted by any limitations on contribution or donation points, and where the companies instead pay a small fee for each title the user adds to their colllection.

 

Thanks for the tip off Ryan 🙂