| Registered: December 3, 2008 |  Posts: 186 |
| | Posted: | | | | First off.. Merry Christmas to all!
I am one of those user who actually have literally hundreds of DVDs (all original).. heck, some collect stamps.. me it is movies :-)
Question: What is it wrong with submitting the imprints of the disc we own into the database? I am asking this because I have submitted one title on which I used those disc IDs (2 discs in that set). For people who own a very large amount of disk (1774 disc - I know that is a fraction compare to some of the other hardcore collector in here).. but still, the only way I have to account for my collection (yup, I do loan them to friends) is to track them by the disc ID (which I have barcoded using the disc ID). When conducting the inventory, those are the only way to do it efficiently since those are 'unique'. A typical UPC on a box set is good thing, but if you lent part of a serie (lets say 4 discs out of 8), those ID are crucial. (Oh yes, for insurance purposes, you have no idea how this can be useful!!)
This is intended as a discussion, not to impose my way.. far from it! I am trying to understand what is wrong in submitting those disc ID....
Have a stress free day! | | | | E |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | The beauty of this program is that you can enter the disk IDs...locally. For the online, disk IDs are typically used for box set children that have no separate UPCs. If what you're contributing is not a box set according to the rules, don't add the IDs as box set pointers to the parent profile.
There's nothing wrong with adding the IDs into the online per se, the problem is that you are attempting to create a box set parent where no box set exists by Profiler's definition. Instead of doing us a favor, you're actually creating a minor mess. Best just to keep it local.
I too measure my collection in the "hundreds" and my local organization for my own purposes is just that...local. | | | | Last edited: by mdnitoil |
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| Registered: December 3, 2008 | | Posts: 186 |
| | Posted: | | | | No problemo.. as you know .. inserting one disc at a time (ouf of the 1.7k LOL) in the DVD drive to extract the disc ID# and the Region Coding takes a lot of time (because some packaging are indicating, for example, Region1 while in fact it can be more 'regions'). I thought of sharing that work with the database, not to mess it up!! I thank you for having explain that 'child' creation issue... These will be bury in my 'local' database  Thanks again! | | | | E |
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