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So-- do you Boxset your Individual titles?? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | I use virtual boxsets. Used to MUCH more before we had custom collections. Now I sort things that way instead. But I still do a little.
I've setup boxsets for HD (with two children virtual sets for HD DVD and Blu-ray), TV stuff (again with multiple child virtual sets to further group each show), Hitchcock, Documentaries (broken down again by things like Space, Animals, Music, etc.), James Bond, Star Trek (movies), and so on.
I still use them extensively in my TV collection. That way I can look at my list and see 24, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, etc. Makes it easier to find the show without worrying about seeing all the seasons. It's great when someone wants to know what you have to watch. It's neat and clean. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection. | | | | Last edited: by Mark Harrison |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't bother with virtual box sets. If I see a need to group titles I'll tweak the sort field to get the order I want. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
I use virtual boxsets. Used to MUCH more before we had custom collections. Now I sort things that way instead. But I still do a little.
I've setup boxsets for HD (with two children virtual sets for HD DVD and Blu-ray), TV stuff (again with multiple child virtual sets to further group each show), Hitchcock, Documentaries (broken down again by things like Space, Animals, Music, etc.), James Bond, Star Trek (movies), and so on.
I still use them extensively in my TV collection. That way I can look at my list and see 24, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, etc. Makes it easier to find the show without worrying about seeing all the seasons. It's great when someone wants to know what you have to watch. It's neat and clean. Finally a man of my taste .. and charm .. Thanks Mark .. !!  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | For those looking to boxset your TV series using virtual sets, check out the "Virtual Covers" link in my sig which is dedicated to just that. |
|  | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
For those looking to boxset your TV series using virtual sets, check out the "Virtual Covers" link in my sig which is dedicated to just that. I've been waiting for you to mention this since the topic was created. I have never actually used anything from the site, but I have looked through it and have been impressed with a lot of that I have seen. I even considered submitting a few myself. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Blair: Quote:
I have never actually used anything from the site, but I have looked through it and have been impressed with a lot of that I have seen. I even considered submitting a few myself. Feel free, pretty much all of the content was user submitted. It hasn't seen much in new images over the past couple years however. I recently upgraded to a new version of the Gallery software so if you do, let me know and we'll see what we can do with it. |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Virtual Box Sets, heading for all my TV series with more than one season.
And "Bond". | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | I use Profiler as a catalog of my collection.
I find box sets often hide films from me. I store my DVD/Blu-ray collection alphabetically. I like using the title of the film (or TV show), but use the title of the boxset if I need to do so. There are very few cases where I sort a piece of the collection out of alphabetical order. One such case is "More Silly Symphonies" is next to "Silly Symphonies" instead of in the Ms where it belongs. But when I look for certain films, they are in box sets... finding a film starring Alec Guiness might be under its title or might be in the Alec Guiness boxset. Other actors have boxsets as well (Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, etc.), but so do directors (Michael Powell, Hitchcock, Boetticher, etc.) and genres (science fiction, horror, animation, etc.). So some Hitchcock films are sorted by their titles, others are in boxsets by Hitchcock, thus harder to find.
So the collection is as alphabetical as I can make it. I sort the collection in the Profiler by production date, so all DVDs/Blu-rays containing material from the 19th century come before 20th century stuff. Silent-era DVDs/Blu-rays come before sound-era ones. So I use the filters to find the films I want, and in the Profiler, I find "The Tall T" in the Budd Boetticher set.
Given that, why would I create artificial boxsets? | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
Cliff | | | | Last edited: by VibroCount |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | In addition to adding "virtual" boxsets for TV series and other "collections" I have set up "boxset" tags, one for TV and one for movies. This way if I want to see all of my movies in alphabetic order, without the boxset parent at all, I simply use tags to eliminate the display of movie boxsets. Once you "eliminate" the parent boxset using tags, the child profiles simply sort with everything else alphabetically. | | | | Hal |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | yeah .. but ... your numerical listing is now OUT of whack...  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
| | Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,850 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
I have set up "boxset" tags, one for TV and one for movies. This way if I want to see all of my movies in alphabetic order, without the boxset parent at all, I simply use tags to eliminate the display of movie boxsets. I've been doing this for quite a while as well. It makes it very easy to filter out things that are only containers. --------------- |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just have one tag "TV". I set it for my TV series, movies have it blank. I can toggle between the two or combined with just the one tag. |
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