About that one DVD that you didn't find a translation for: it should be in your inventory, translated, now. The system automatically goes and looks for data it doesn't have in inventory, and adds it.

We get our DVD data from AMG (All Media Guide). It is as complete a source as we could find, but it is not perfect. That's why we built automatic seeking behavior into the system.

Whenever our online databases do not contain an item, we flag the barcode for further processing. This allows much faster syncing of data, but it also means some items are missed. A user has two choices: the one you noted, which is to enter the data by hand. The non-obvious one is to wait 24 hours and see if our data mining routines can find the barcode. If the barcode is discovered, we add the information to our system and re-point your inventory to the new record.

We chose this approach because of the number of sources we search: World-Cat, Amazon, Z39.50 sites like the Library of Congress and others. Some of them, like Amazon, restrict the number of searches that a single site can perform or the timing of searches. Amazon is an excellent source for newer items, but for older albums or out-of-print books it isn't as useful.

David