Can you not use the " Disc ID" method for each individual DVD in the set? or are they all on one DVD?

OK, so enter the complete collection as a (parent) box set using the EAN, then each DVD as a child by the "add Inserted Disc" method. This generates a "Disc ID" for the current DVD in your drive, which replaces the EAN, and gives you a seperate profile for each DVD, which is linked to the parent.

However this does not work if there are more than one movie (assuming we're talking non-TV stuff here) on the same DVD. In this case you can use episode dividers, or generate manual IDs as you have done, bearing in mind that they must not be contibuted.

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I can only find one lopehole, if you should use "000000000000" as code it is accepted, but I imagine that this can be risky.  I have only tested this once.  What happens if you use this more then once?

Once you got the first profile in your local DB (using your "fake EAN" of 000000000000), then DVDP won't let you add another using the same fake EAN - it's tells you that you've already got one!

Interestingly, the are two entries in the online DB for 0000000000000 (13 digits!)

I overlooked that, dvd's that it can also be meant for dvd's not being sold separately, although you are not always informed, buying a dvd through Ebay for instance. 

I have read the contribution rules, I would like/love to add separate subprofiles in this new program by disc-id when there isn't an EAN code available on the box, but I can't find it in this program.  You must have a DVD-ROM and it should able to select it while adding DVD's.  I can see that I am only able to add by EAN number and to search by title when available.  You always seems to be able to add by EAN.  I also have been looking for a way to duplicate the mother profile internally as to make separate baby profiles for each disc, but at the moment I don't see it.  If I have tried the 000000000000 EAN once it was only as a test, being frustated not being able to add a dvd without EAN number in the new system.

Make sure, in Tools>Options, that your DVD-ROM drive is set in DVD Profiler so it can find the DVD.

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I overlooked that, dvd's that it can also be meant for dvd's not being sold separately, although you are not always informed, buying a dvd through Ebay for instance. 

I have read the contribution rules, I would like/love to add separate subprofiles in this new program by disc-id when there isn't an EAN code available on the box, but I can't find it in this program.  You must have a DVD-ROM and it should able to select it while adding DVD's.  I can see that I am only able to add by EAN number and to search by title when available.  You always seems to be able to add by EAN.  I also have been looking for a way to duplicate the mother profile internally as to make separate baby profiles for each disc, but at the moment I don't see it.  If I have tried the 000000000000 EAN once it was only as a test, being frustated not being able to add a dvd without EAN number in the new system.

While not necessarily true, the mention of buying through EBay, does raise the immediate red flag of potential piracy which would not be acceptable for Contribution by ANY means. Unfortunately a LOT of pirates do business through EBay and snag many an unsuspectig customer into buying something that "Gee, I want that" and it is not available anywhere else...and the customer never says to himself why can't I buy it anyplace else. Buy with caution.

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That's interesting, I don't have this option to add by disc-id.  I only have 3 options: adding by EAN, adding by title and forthcoming releases and my DVD-ROM is added in tools-options.  I am working in a Dutch frame.  I can't imagine that there is a general difference concerning the locality.  I am working with the latest version, is there something that I am missing here?

Do you have 'anydvd' running, if so add by disk-id is disabled because 'anydvd' changes the disk-id.

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I'm still puzzled as to adding discs from boxsets.

I am trying to put in Alien Quadrilogy (R2). The boxset itself goes in fine - enter the EAN, and it's recognised. Then I try to add the component discs. I put in the Alien disc - not recognised. v3 won't let me create a new profile based on the disc ID, and of course the individual disc does not have its own EAN. What now?

As the individual discs in the Quadrilogy boxset are not individually packaged (i.e. the boxset is like a big digipak), is there just supposed to be one profile for it?


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If it helps you to dissect the two uses of the term Boxset, the Case type refers to the physical case, while the Other Boxset deals with Content not packaging.

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