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| I'm vegan so I like all animals.... except sheep, ants, wasps and people; and those caterpillars that eat box hedges. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 665 |
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I sometimes wonder if the ability to clone profiles to generate new profiles is more trouble than it's worth. If the first profile for a film is poor (which is quite frequently true, especially for older profiles), then the problems get duplicated again and again each time it's used and not checked - and I can understand why someone wouldn't check, as the source profile has already been approved, which gives a false sense of security. If individuals haven't been connected to many films, it really messes up the Common Name process too.
I'm just finishing an update to a profile for a film that was originally populated by a clone from an existing profile, yet nearly all the crew and cast (and there're a lot) are wrong. Most of the cast errors are with roles that don't match the onscreen credits or were just randomly missing; whilst the roles for crew are even more bizarre, such as a load of people listed as producers who aren't actually credited on-screen for anything, but on IMDb are credited as associate producers. I think quite a few of the Common Names are probably wrong for many people as a result of the cloning too; all those accented letters!
I'd probably have been better starting from scratch using the awesome Cast & Crew Edit to get me to a decent starting point. I all but gave up cloning profiles for new profiles when I realised how common this sort of thing is; it's just easier/quicker to do them from scratch, unless you can find an existing profile created/updated by someone you feel will have done an accurate job.
Okay, I've had my little bedtime rant now.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 2075 |
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You read my post, then went back in time and posted yours? How childish.
Funny enough, now I've read it again I remember reading it before. Clearly old age has finally caught up with me. Or maybe I was always this stupid, I can't remember. | Posted: Topic Replies: 2, Topic Views: 886 |
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According to several articles, including this one, Network Distributing seems to have ceased trading. For anyone with an interest in older British TV, this is a very sad loss.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 2, Topic Views: 886 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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I also recently joined the party. Cleaned up and adjusted my Dual turntable and fitted a new cartridge. Volume was low, but my receiver had a setting to compensate. Next step was to prioritize my 600 disc collection for transfer to digital, using Audacity.
Then I discovered "RecordScanner" app for my iPhone. Amazing. It can scan by barcode, label ID, or cover image, or search by keyword or Discogs ID. So far, after about 400 discs, there has been only a couple I could not find.
It is the Profiler for analog media (Vinyl / Cassette). You get a mobile database and a website, and a Discogs estimate of the value of each disc and collection as a whole. Items are put onto shelves by category. Really cool app.
Bonus, there is a button in the app that links to playing the closest match on Spotify. Most albums that have been commercially digitized come up readily. Best for popular non-classical. For classical, you often get a close match to the track contents, albeit with different artists / album. Still super fun. I haven't touched the turntable since. What a trip back in time I have been having, listening to Spotify as I scan and catalog my collection.
See it here:
My Collection
Another comrade returns to the true way! Good luck with digitising everything. It took me some 20 years to digitise all my CDs and vinyl; recording, cleaning up the recordings, editing, converting, tagging, getting sleeve images... Weirdly I just started this month on my cassettes, the last things I have left to do.
I don't know RecordScanner, will have to have a look see at it. My music collection is all on Discogs. If anyone thinks the contribution rules here are complicated, check out Discogs!
I'm not a Spotify fan, not sure quite why, but it just doesn't really give me what I want. I mostly either listen to my own collection on shuffle, or a few Internet radio stations. Same with Amazon music, I just find it frustrating and musically constricting; it's the worst thing Amazon has, and that's coming from someone who's been fully absorbed into the Amazon ecosystem; Fire, Kindle, Prime, buying digital films and music. | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 1699 |
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Quoting scotthm:
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I had occasion to replace my vintage stylus recently too. When I pulled my old Sony PS-X600 turntable out of storage a few months ago all it would produce was static. I replaced the stylus on my Shure V15 Type V-MR cartridge and now it sounds wonderful again.
I bought these new around forty years ago, but they'd been in storage for almost twenty years. I decided it was time to put an end to that.
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Yay, another believer returns to the fold.  But "in storage"?!  "Twenty years"?! I can't recall ever being that cruel to my turntable, although I admit that many years ago it did spend a year under a bed; (along with my entire collection of cacti (and other succulents) in cardboard boxes and thus entirely deprived of light and water - some I still have to this day as most managed to survive the ordeal and now live in comparative paradise on my living room window sill)! Old turntables are great, because they can still genuinely compete with modern ones; as a person who's recently become eligible for a UK Senior Railcard, I appreciate that.
With the resurgence of vinyl over the past few years, I've recently made the effort to get my turntable looking and working as it should again. I'm now wondering if I need to get my old VHS recorder out and restore it to its pride of place in the cabinet by the TV - the space is still there, although a small Blu-ray player I use for CDs is presently squatting it; at the moment the VHS machine is languishing on the floor under my computer, on the off-chance I might want to digitise a VHS tape. It lost its home as it never really got on with my current TV, it would either give me the picture or the sound, but never both at the same time - SCART to HDMI via my amp seems to involve some sort of 'new physics' presently beyond human understanding.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 1699 |
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Just fitted a new stylus to my turntable. It's like going from DVD to Blu-ray! I'm even tempted to say it's like going from VHS to UHD Blu-ray. 
(For the geeks, it's a 54 year old Thornes TD150 Mk 2 turntable, with the original tone arm and original Shure M75E Type 2 cartridge. It was my father's originally; still have the receipt and paperwork for it, although it's probably out of warranty now.) | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 1699 |
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I'm currently watching "The Addams Family" Season 2 as my comedy and "Haven" Season 2 as my drama.
I always like to be watching just one comedy and one drama at a time, although I did make an exception for Star Trek Picard recently. | Posted: Topic Replies: 79, Topic Views: 16218 |
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Same here too in the UK, where of course today we're all wearing bowler hats, eating chips, drinking tea, travelling around in red double decker-buses and waving Union Flags. 
And it's raining of course. | Posted: Topic Replies: 8, Topic Views: 2420 |
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Quoting GreyHulk:
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That's what I feared. It's in the database, credited as "Stephanie Barnes", but I wasn't sure if it was correct. Looks like the common name might be going the other way since 2018. That may make it hard to determine a common name again, unless we're counting each season of something seperately(?), or until something else enters the database.
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If it's of interest, I just had a look at my own Blindspot box set (that I've not watched yet) and randomly checked an episode from each of seasons 3-5, and STEPHANIE BARNES is credited for make-up for all the three episodes I looked at.
I have the UK release of this (5051892229012) which isn't in the online database yet. I have no idea when I'll get around to watching it or auditing it though. Could well be years!
If it's any consolation, my box set would only be a single entry into the database, as the seasons aren't packaged separately. (And disc level profiles are the spawn of the devil!) Can't say for all the other releases though. | Posted: Topic Replies: 10, Topic Views: 7706 |
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Quoting GreyHulk:
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Blindspot has her credited in 52 episodes, allegedly. Season 3 onwards.
If it's of interest, I just had a look at my own Blindspot box set (that I've not watched yet) and randomly checked an episode from each of seasons 3-5, and STEPHANIE BARNES is credited for make-up for all the three episodes I looked at.
I have the UK release of this (5051892229012) which isn't in the online database yet. I have no idea when I'll get around to watching it or auditing it though. Could well be years! | Posted: Topic Replies: 10, Topic Views: 7706 |
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Peppermint
Steven Morrow
Sound Mixer
Taken from the version on Amazon Prime; I don't have it on physical media
The Purge
Steve Morrow
Production Sound Mixer
This credit is within the Additional Photography unit ones, so probably not valid | Posted: Topic Replies: 50, Topic Views: 20491 |
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Don't think he's credited in any way for anything we track for any season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
(From my own audit of the whole series I did last year.) | Posted: Topic Replies: 50, Topic Views: 20491 |
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At the very least I should tag each profile a second time, the tag calling out the original aspect
Thanks. I do that as well, on top of the tags shown earlier 
Do you get invited to many parties?
That is just so awesome. | Posted: Topic Replies: 16, Topic Views: 6149 |
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In 2005 I paid £159.96 for Xena: Warrior Princess - The Complete TV Series (DVD) in a nice collector's pack that's like a big book. Haven't got around to watching that yet. 
This one?
I just checked and I about paid the same but at least I watched them all. 
Yep, that's it.
I will watch it eventually, I've just got a bit of a backlog to get through. | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 7158 |
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Thanks people, I'm starting to feel a bit more normal now.
In 2005 I paid £159.96 for Xena: Warrior Princess - The Complete TV Series (DVD) in a nice collector's pack that's like a big book. Haven't got around to watching that yet.
Also in 2005 I bought Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete DVD Collection for £134.99. (This one I did finally watch last year. Need to submit that sometime; it took forever to profile.)
I'm pretty sure I've probably spent over £50 on a single disc once or twice, but many films in my database don't have a price with them, as I got them before I started using DVD Profiler and a lot of the places where I got them online have now gone out of business, so I've no way to look up the information now.
There was a lovely Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga - Collector's Edition Complete Box Set that came out (last year I think), but I've only just got over the therapy I required after seeing the price; I think it was over £400.
I remember considering The Skywalker Saga on 4K, but in the end I went for normal Blu-ray instead.
*Special Note: Anything Star Trek related is ALWAYS good value, regardless of the price. | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 7158 |
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I paid $100+ for the Dawn of the Dead 4K set last year.
Is that just one disc? | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 7158 |
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| I know it's beyond sad replying to your own posts but financial panic over. For my Stargate SG-1: The Complete Series on DVD (yes, my recent purchase was a double-dip and to add insult to injury my DVD set is still unopened, so I never even used it), ziffit.com will give me 10p, yes an entire ten of our British pennies. | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 7158 |
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I've seen quite a few posts around these parts about how cheaply things can be bought in various places at various times, such as the entire back catalogue of, eh, everything, for $1 from Dollar Tree, (provided you don't mind them all sharing the same barcode; the Pound Shop in the UK just can't compete)!
What I don't remember seeing is anyone admitting to the most expensive disc etc they've ever bought. Having just had my annual Black Friday blowout and cashed in all the vouchers etc I've collected over the past year, I've realised that a lot of physical media seems to have gone up - a lot. I rarely used to spend over £20 on any Blu-ray or DVD disc, but this year there seemed to be quite a few. I'm not sure what the most I've ever spent on a single disc is (I'll have to investigate that further), but buying Stargate SG-1: The Compete Series on Blu-ray, on import, was a sobering experience; (and it will be sobering as I can't afford to buy any beer now!)! It cost £186.71 from Amazon, including import fees. That's definitely the most I've ever spent on a single purchase. (And no one please tell me it's now only £171.93, I already know. Or that it's only $1 from Dollar Tree, but shares a barcode with Dude Where's My Car?)
Anyone else got any confessions to make? Don't be (too) ashamed, we're all tared with the same brush here. You won't be ridiculed too much for your financial indiscretion. | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 7158 |
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We're back again!
We're up and down more than Star Trek movies. | Posted: Topic Replies: 234, Topic Views: 40332 |
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Quoting bigdaddyhorse:
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I seem to be in the minority here, but always thought we were supposed to keep credits as close as possible to what is on the screen. I know I have done the 2 as one person each, credited as both.
Minor issue though, just keep contributing either way.
I have to say this was my view too, but it seems to be in the minority here. I also have to say that it does mean that when using the desktop version of Profiler, the Credited As entry appears in the 'box' where you can toggle between cast and crew, which I don't think is especially useful. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 2261 |
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Good day good people.
I can't ever remember this being discussed before, (but please feel free to put in a link or comment below if it has and you can find it or remember anything about it).
Sometimes in the on-screen credits, two people are entered as one line; e.g. Producer: Abigail & Zack Smith.
How do we contribute these? At present, the way this is done seems a bit haphazard.
(I'm assuming here it's not made more complicated by either of them having a different Common Name.)
Thanks. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 2261 |
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Quoting SpikyCactus:
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The Starving Games
DAVID KHALIL NAMI
Special Effects Coordinator
End credits (not under a company heading)
Ah, just saw this is already here now. Duh. | Posted: Topic Replies: 23, Topic Views: 17968 |