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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | Is this a common practice?
"Plus I only assign collection numbers to things that were purchased (a boxset gets a number, child profiles don't)." |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Originally, I assigned a Collection ID to every watchable profile - ie: Discs got an ID number but box sets did not. I've since reversed that. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | I broke my collection down to disc level to keep track of my many series discs watchings.
First I started out with buyable items. Then I broke it down to movies (not their box sets) and seasons. But since there are complete series boxes, season boxes, half-season boxes, multi-disc boxes and TV show specials I unified my numbering simply by going to disc level numbering.
My movies are in a differen number range than season discs, though (1-10,000 for movies; 10,001-20,000 for TV show discs). | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | I use child profiles but don't give them a collection number. This includes box sets with movies and tv shows. I use the childs to show when I watched them and to track the special features. If it's a tv show, I'll submit both the parent profile with all the info, plus break it down for the childs...figure it's easy enough doing both...copy and paste most of the time for the parent info. | | | | Lori |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't know how to answer your poll. I only assign collection numbers to 'features'. That means for film box sets, each film profile gets a number, but the parent does not. For TV sets...because I consider the entire season as a single feature with multiple parts...the parent gets a number, but the child profiles do not. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 868 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
I don't know how to answer your poll. I only assign collection numbers to 'features'. That means for film box sets, each film profile gets a number, but the parent does not. For TV sets...because I consider the entire season as a single feature with multiple parts...the parent gets a number, but the child profiles do not. That's the way i do it as well, although i also assign a number to a Bonus feature (like Ben Hur 1925, or The Volunteer packaged with the 49th paralel Criterion Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
I don't know how to answer your poll. I only assign collection numbers to 'features'. That means for film box sets, each film profile gets a number, but the parent does not. For TV sets...because I consider the entire season as a single feature with multiple parts...the parent gets a number, but the child profiles do not. In my case I give each film in a film box set a number but have always given the children or of tv box sets a number. I guess the easiest way to explain is and disc except bonus features...maybe I need to rethink this. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | just curious how does everyone handle the newer blu/dvd combos, two profiles with two collection numbers or two profiles with one collection number? |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,879 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used to not download the child profiles for the TV sets, and not number the movies in box sets, but I didn't like that set up eventually and changed it. The old way it was that each 'bought' item got a number.
Number wise I now do my numbers like Unicus - the TV parent gets the number, but not the children, but with movie sets, the children get the numbers and not the parents. I am very pleased with how this has turned out ... except ...
What is going to throw me off - and I haven't started to audit this part of my collection yet - is anime. I have boxes of anime television shows that where individual discs were bought separately. You get the first disc with the box and then buy the rest of the box separately. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with these. Grrr.
I mean, I definitely want to profile the children. I just don't know what I'm going to do with the numbers. Especially since I have anime series that don't have boxes ... Double grrr. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mike: I am not exactly sure what the question is or why. BUT as I have said niow for years, I ALWAYS use children for Televison Shows. The reason to me seems to obvious, I simply can't imagine trying to plow through 40 plus discs of the Lucy Show to find data on a particular eopisode. I'll even give you a MUCH worse example. Assuming that Paramount remains on it's present course with Gunsmoke, two volume per season for near TWENTY years worth of shows...what a nightmare, Gunsmoke remains one of the longest running TV series in history.  All the data in the parent or even duplicated in the parent makes absolutey no rational sense to me and never has. I treat my TV series exactly as I treat any other boxset, meaning the parent gets very little data to speak of. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well Skip, the data on the profiles isn't the point of this poll but the collection number. But in your regard, I'm the same way concerning the data on big collections. I just bought the entire Stargate SG:1 boxset and ended up removing the cat/crew from it and adding the individual separately sold season sets. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
Well Skip, the data on the profiles isn't the point of this poll but the collection number. Actually I am not quite sure what the poll refers to. Sure the quoted statement in the OP refers to collection numbers, but one of the poll options specifically mentions contributions which has nothing to do with collection numbers. And the topic name asks for child profiles in general. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Also don't know what to vote for...  I use child profiles for Box Sets and TV Series. Box Sets parents are almost empty, as it's just the package. The numbering is with the child profiles. TV Series child profiles are mainly there so I can have better Watched data. The Cast & Crew as well as the collection number stays with the parent. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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