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Why don't you make a manual ID for each movie on a DVD disc and hang that as a child profile in the main profile. All you have to do is download the available title from the online use the clone plugin and presto your done each disc has its separate movie profile.

If I understand you correctly, that is pretty much what I am doing: Making the disc look like a "collection", but the ID isn't set correctly (I think!).

It should be easier. That is the "why" of my request.

the disc-id is mainly for local recognition of the main profile, if you put the dvd in your computer drive the main profile should pop-up with the children in it. I think this is the easiest it can get. The movies have no ID on the disc. So at this time there is no way to recognise the media content on the dvd, as far as i know of.

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I nibbled his toes simply because ALL he has done is complain, insult the program and made VERY clear that he has not even begun exploring it yet. I did not say dividers is the perfect answer, it is not and there is no perfect answer it is what we have right NOW. Who knows we may see some form of change as we go forward in 3.5 Beta testing.

I just grew weary of his persistent complaining and found his first post in this thread to be arrogant beyond belief. He is beginning to simply sound like a troll. I have seen nothing really new in any of comments the last...NOTHING.

Skip

I didn't see any of the attitude you described in his posting.  What he's  bringing up is a known limitation of the software that many of us have identified in the past that should be addressed.  I agree with everything he initially said with the exception of collecting scene level data.  That's one step too far IMO. 

Nor should anything he is asking for particularly difficult to do programatically.  It wouldn't be UI intensive and it would be limited in scope. 

If you're happy with the way it is, that's cool.  DVDProfiler is a great app and it will continue to improve.  This is a logical step to make it more useful and would give us a lot of "bang for the buck" in terms of benefit vs. programming time.

If you disagree with what he's asking for, then by all means share your opinion.  But making it about personality doesn't contribute anything IMO and simply creates noise.  Not answers.  And let's face it Skip, you're not always user friendly.  But that doesn't make you wrong.  :-)

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You not knowing about dividers 8><

Did I say that I didn't know about dividers?

This response is way late in the game, but since the post was directed at me I thought I should respond:

Your reply to Skip when he mentioned dividers was "Please tell me about these." That response led me to believe you hadn't before heard of them. Why else would you ask him to tell you about them?

As for everything else that's been said in this thread, I tend to agree with both sides.

Yes, the important part of a new request should be the request itself and not the requestor. But also yes, the language used when making a request goes a long way towards how the community will perceive the request. Fair or not, that's just the way it is.

Yes, it would be good to be able to track individual movies on multi-movie discs. Yes, there are acceptable workarounds while Ken solves this problem.

KM

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Your reply to Skip when he mentioned dividers was "Please tell me about these." That response led me to believe you hadn't before heard of them.

An incorrect assumption. Assume nothing! 

I simply wanted to get it on the record, so to speak, how dividers supposedly solved the problem. Which I could then refute -- which I think I did.

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There are many posts by this user in this forum which are certainly due to lack of experience 8><

Name two, please. In this forum.

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I must agree with Skip and tmb016 and a few others about the attitude expressed by the original poster.  Yes, he has made some valid suggestions.  But many of his suggestions show that he isn't all that familiar about the existing capabilities of the program yet.  Until you know the program you can't know it even needs to be "fixed."

I know it's a personal quirk of mine, but frankly I resent someone who has only used this program for a few days -- and can't possibly have become fully familiar with everything that can be done with it as is -- making dozens of suggestions about ways to "improve" it.  It reminds me of the person who joins a club and then immediately begins to talk about ways to change it.

Since when has 14 Feature Requests become "dozens"?
If I'm going too fast for you guys, I guess I'll have to slow down, eh? 

(And I resent that "can't possibly" crack.)

Try the chill pill !

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I simply wanted to get it on the record, so to speak, how dividers supposedly solved the problem. Which I could then refute -- which I think I did.

Great. So now you're wasting people's time with questions to which you already know the answer. 

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Name two, please. In this forum.

Sure: Turning off the Splash screen and creating duplicate profiles.

Both of these can be accomplished already without any new features being coded.

KM