I would love to see this. I have several re-releases as well as some home made discs I would like the cover to show for.

Quoting Agrare:

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There is often a request/inquiry as to why the online listings image doesn't match that in the desktop image. (I know this is because online only uses the image in the database). The ability to display an alternate image would be a nice feature, even if this was just something made available in the highly anticipated update to the online list.

My thoughts on how this would work is that there would be two new fields, online front cover image location and online back cover image location. Users could then fill this in with a url to an image and when you upload your collection, if this field has a value it uses that value as the source of the image shown instead of the online databases image.

This would eliminate Invelos having to host all the images as people would be responsible for hosting their own alternate image but allow manual profiles, or rerelease images to be displayed in peoples collection

-Agrare

Agrare:

While I understand and appreciate the idea. I would not hold my breath. This would mushroom the amount of hard disk space and the costs to Invelos. This might be something that Ken has planned for Profiler Plu, but I rather doubt it. It simply, while doable, doesn't seem feasible given the cost structure that Ken uses. For example, let me override the Online images with my own...that's 12 GB for ONE user and will probably 13GB by Year's End and 15 next year. If Ken were to do thsi Profiler would have to cost substantially more for the base program or more than I think is the planned cost for Profiler Plus. Essentially what you are asking for two things, a complete Online Backup, PLUS the Online display of that backup. Now most of the backups that are available for off-site backup run $50 per year now add the display "costs", probably another $10. $6.00 per month/$60.00 per year, yes I can do math, before somebody decides to get cutesy, while that isn't terribly expensive, it is moer than I think the target is.

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Exactly. The original post quite clearly stated the alternate images would be hosted elsewhere by users themselves. The only extra "burden" on the Invelos servers would be to host their URL's.

So +1 from me! 

no, i want to be able to display my re-release artwork in my collection without having to
1) acquire a web server
2) get php installed on the web server
3) setup php profiler
4) do all the steps required to update my changes to php profiler

how is a 3rd party online database that incurs extra cost and work to everyone better than a simple field that would allow a big improvement that is frequently asked for (if only indirectly). Telling customers to go elsewhere for enhanced features is not a good business model. Yes, I'd like more improvements to the online (ability to search, better handling of box sets, etc) but this is a simple addition that could be made that would address one of the bigger and more frequently asked for shortcomings

plus, it doesn't have to incur any major costs to you. you can
a) make smaller versions of your images for online
b) only put up images that differ from the ones in Invelos online (can be paired with a)
c) keep yours the way it is and you'd not get any additional costs and the online would work as it does now for you.

-Agrare

Quoting Agrare:

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no, i want to be able to display my re-release artwork in my collection without having to
1) acquire a web server
2) get php installed on the web server
3) setup php profiler
4) do all the steps required to update my changes to php profiler

how is a 3rd party online database that incurs extra cost and work to everyone better than a simple field that would allow a big improvement that is frequently asked for (if only indirectly). Telling customers to go elsewhere for enhanced features is not a good business model. Yes, I'd like more improvements to the online (ability to search, better handling of box sets, etc) but this is a simple addition that could be made that would address one of the bigger and more frequently asked for shortcomings

plus, it doesn't have to incur any major costs to you. you can
a) make smaller versions of your images for online
b) only put up images that differ from the ones in Invelos online (can be paired with a)
c) keep yours the way it is and you'd not get any additional costs and the online would work as it does now for you.

-Agrare

Sounds klike PHP (or a close cousin) to me, Agrare. With PHP you have to a site, with yiour idea you have to have site of some form, you can't simply deal from your computer. Oh, well

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Quoting Unicus69:

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With PHP, you have to pay for a server that can deal with the PHP format.  With Agrare's idea, all you need is an image hosting site.

Don't know about your side of the pond but on this side for the money you pay to get a reasonable amount of webspace (I have 400 megs of images) you get PHP and MySQL without extra charge.

Quoting DJ Doena:

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Don't know about your side of the pond but on this side for the money you pay to get a reasonable amount of webspace (I have 400 megs of images) you get PHP and MySQL without extra charge.

Yea, but you still have to pay.  You can get image hosting, at quite a few sites, for free.  In addition, most ISPs provide free webspace.  You don't get PHP or MySQL, but it is free and you can host quite a few images.

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Quoting DJ Doena:

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Don't know about your side of the pond but on this side for the money you pay to get a reasonable amount of webspace (I have 400 megs of images) you get PHP and MySQL without extra charge.

Yea, but you still have to pay.  You can get image hosting, at quite a few sites, for free.  In addition, most ISPs provide free webspace.  You don't get PHP or MySQL, but it is free and you can host quite a few images.

Very true... I have plenty of space on Comcast.net  but they do not have neither PHP or MySQL. Not to mention some of us are just not comfortable enough with coding to do something like myphpdvdprofiler. So something like what the OP requested would be perfect for someone like me.