DVDpedia: Supporting Boxed Set DVDs

[blerp]

I've searched for this requested before creating this topic, and did not find it, so hopefully I'm not repeating a request here.

So, I seem to buy plenty of boxed set DVDs, such as:

• Adventures of Indiana Jones - 4 discs
  Star Trek - The Original Crew Movie Collection - 6 discs
  Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection - 7 discs
  Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Megaset - 14 discs
  Tenchi Universe - The Complete Boxed Set - 8 discs
  Stanley Kubrick Collection - 9 discs
  etc... (lots more)

Now I purchase these boxed sets as single entities, and Amazon.com sells them that way. And some of the sets are, shall we say, more cohesive than others in terms of selection. And sometimes the only way to buy the movies is as a boxed set, like the original Star Wars Trilogy. However, I want to track the details for each dvd/movie separately from each other, kind of like how IMDB manages it's data. Plus, I can and do lend out the movies separately from each other.

Fennel DVDManager does a decent job of managing boxed sets, and I suggest checking it out. (DVDManager's philosophy is keep the number of details slim, thus targeting a different audience than yours...) It seems to pull from the Amazon.com lookups the number of discs, and create placeholders in a subtree from the main record for them. The details are pretty slim from Amazon on the individual disks, but I'd rather have the place to put the info in manually than having to try and jam 9 completely different movies into one entry. Now I don't endorse DVDManager as the way to handle this, just as a guideline. The "Get More Info" button on the Advanced tab should probably apply to only the individual discs or something.


Thanks for creating a great product!

[Conor]

Thank you for the feedback. Box sets is something we have thought about, and hope to add in future releases.

[blerp]

Cool! Thank you for the quick response!

Until such a feature is added, could other people tell me how they cope with this issue? I'm looking for a good strategy in the interim.

[apeach]

The capability to handle box sets is the one missing element of DVDpedia. A good, creative implementation of a way to handle box sets is at the top of my wishlist.

[edimnetz]

Hi,

I have the same Problem with box sets - kind off why I don't like them. It's just hard to cataloge them.

Anyway, here's what I do:
Workin with the example of my "Mission Impossible Box". I just added the box twice to my collection. Once for each movie.
This way you will have the same picture of the box for both movies. And to differentiate between those two I just name them something like "Mission Impossible I (Box Set)".

So again: they appear under each other in your DVD list. With the same box set picture, and just a different title. But you can still tell that it's a box set.

This works for me.

[Mac-Tom]

Hi,

I just purchased DVDpedia and it´s great.

The only Problem is to handle these BOX sets and I would like it very much to have a solution for it. It should be possible to add every DVD you want under a BOX category and of course also each movie from the BOX should appear in the Libary.

At the moment I handle it like that:
I add all movies of each BOX and then I add the itself also and store it in a separate category. This solution just doesn´t work for example with the StarWars Trilogy because the included movies are not available.

CU, Tom

[Conor]

You can download the information for the separate movies straight from imdb instead of Amazon, as they just have an entry for the Star Wars Trilogy as one. But IMDB will give you the information for each movie. Just change the search locale to IMDB before searching.

[kuzelnik]

My vote for bumping this feature up to the top of the list . .

[Atomitanz]

me too

I have several box sets. I would like to see this feature soon

Atomitanz

[Conor]

The reason this change is slow in coming is that is one of the harder ones to do. It means a change to the core of DVDpedia not an addition. It means I have to change the main table to an outline view; and this table in the code of DVDpedia is the big daddy of everybody. It handles most requests, as it handles the data and lets other functions know what is selected and what is going on. So replacing it is a big task.

[kuzelnik]

So stop wasting time and get to it!

From the way you explained it, it sounds like the longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to do...is that right?

[Conor]

It's already embedded in there, it will be as complicated today as next month.

[Salieri]

Hi! I'm a relatively new user of DVDpedia. I've registered the product after trying every other DVD Librarian I could find.
I am glad to read about that you are working on to implement box sets, a feature which I'm really missing in DVDpedia.

[kuzelnik]

Maybe this will be included in the BIG, FANTASTIC, GREAT update that's going to happen when you switch to Universal Binary?

[fossicker]

Just putting in my vote for the Boxset feature.
It's the feature I would like the most.