Manage your collection of games in Beyond Media
May 9th, 2006 at 11:57 am by Brett
Recently, I was honored with the request to write about one of my favorite plug-ins for Beyond Media. Having influenced several of the major plug-ins, and coding nearly a half-dozen of them, picking a favorite among them is certainly not an easy task. So, after some consideration I decided I would highlight the Game Library Plug-in. Any avid game player will quickly realize that the Game Library is the ultimate tool for organizing any game collection.
The Game Library Plug-in for Beyond Media
The key component of the Game Library is the simplified setup. Installation is a simple download, and setting up the library is as easy as drag and drop. The games are automatically imported. The cover art is automatically downloaded. The searchable data fields (from genre to year released) are automatically populated. Actually, the ability to search for games is the true time saver. You can filter titles, first by system, and later by genres, years released, publishers, or even keyword descriptions. Want to find all PC Games installed on your system that were released by Activision? It is easy with the filters.
Details for Half-Life in the Game Library plug-in
While it is true that the Game Library comes preconfigured for a dozen or so emulator systems, my favorite hidden gem is the ability to organize PC games. To do this is easy. First, enable the “PC Games� system and drop a short-cut link with the name of the game (ie: Half-Life 2.lnk) in the selected “PC Games� folder. Let the system import and download the data, and your good to go!
I’ll close this never-ending blog entry with a brief bio about myself for the new folks. I first heard of SnapStream several years ago when it was a lonely web interface; with the release of PVS v3.0 (Beyond TV) I finally ditched my TiVO and fully adopted their software. I have held official roles as technical support, forum moderator, beta tester, product advisor, and SSDN Administrator. Currently, I have limited time to actively participate in forums (or even watch TV), but occasionally I check-in to see how my favorite company is doing. And yes, I do plan to continue to developing this and other plug-ins, just not today.
Now for the obligatory legal terms: Remember play safe, and responsible. Requesting or linking to ROMs is strictly prohibited, and frowned upon, on the SnapStream Forums.
– Brett Flury, Guest Blogger and SnapStream Enthusiast Extraordinaire (Brett on the forums)
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May 9th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Why do you bother promoting Beyond Media when it’s so out of date and lacking in many area? Right now, only the wonderful plugins are keeping BM alive. And you see to ignore the best of them: DVD Library. If it weren’t for that plugin, BM would be uninstalled.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:02 am
here here, this is a sad article to read. It’s glorifying a product that is ancient, has plenty of bugs (standard Video module consistently locks up my system after the video is finished), and has not been updated in a very, very long time. It’s stagnating. It’s great that BTV continues to prosper. But it seems Snapstream released Beyond Media as a one-time shot to steal some money from folks in order to put that revenue into Beyond TV.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I can not believe that Snapstream can even promote this product when they know its a dead end product. There has been no development other than user plugins for more than a year. It may some day become an integrated product with BTV but that appears more and more to be just an unfullfilled promise.
Its time to crap or get of the pot Snapstream. No one cares about BM unless it is integrated with BTV and even then it needs a major overhaul. The competition has long since surpassed BTV/BM
August 13th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Which competitors has surpassed BTV/BM, cause if you are thinking about Windows Media Center, you guys are way behind what your talking about. I tried myself almost every Media available to watch TV and BTV/BM was the onlyone that covers everything and thanks to plugins like this is way better than any other Media Center program.