Hello all. I know that there hasn’t been an update to torrent-fu in a while, here’s why:

It came to my attention that the current barcode lookup provider would be shutting the app down soon (meaning all barcode lookups will return ” “), so I have been spending a lot of time collecting barcodes and compiling a database here so that there will be no need for 3rd party lookups,  terms,  and excess data. The database is a simple UPC/EAN lookup with only keyword info (like title) from products. I will be releasing an update soon that hooks in to this new database and would like to ask anyone who scans a barcode and gets the message that a product was not found to submit a title (directly through torrent-fu) of what it is so that the community as a whole can help each other out by expanding the database. I have found some files on line that have large numbers of CDs/DVDs and their respective barcodes that I am integrating to my data, so hopefully a lot of what you scan will be found. The new data has worked far better on my dvd collection so far

I am working hard to finish the RSS features for adding new sites to the search. If I can I will add them in the release, if not, it will come shortly after.

I’d like input on letting you (the community) enter product names for barcodes that aren’t found. Do you think that is a good feature? Would you yourself use it? Let me know in the comments.

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