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How would something like this (movie based credits) handle something like 2 (or more) movies (or TV Shows for that matter) on a single side of a disc?

TV-Shows wouldn't be that much of a problem, they would be treated exactly like they are now.

Problems might arise for multi feature movie DVDs. I admit I didn't really think of those.
What I'd like to see though is the capability to attach more than one set of credits to a disc. Comparable to the already existing child profiles. But instead of Disc-IDs one could use the title to separate the children.
EDIT: Depending on how far the programmer is willing to implement this, this might even solve the problem with several cuts of one movie on one disc.

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he needed to balance the accurate info wanted by the most anal of users with the ease of use for the average user.

And he should stick with that principle. Of course we should realize that "the average user" is not the one painstakingly copying cast and crew verbatim, one by one, from the films credits. The number of users who actually consistently do that is a lot closer to "12" than to "the average user". So yes, there should be a balance between what "the most anal of users" want and what "the average user" wants - as long as we keep in mind what those needs are, exactly.

As far as I can tell, the average user is this one, for example: simply downloading two profiles with the same actor in them and not understanding why they don't automatically link together. That's what the average user want: to download profiles for the films that he owns, and expecting that if he clicks on a name, that it brings up the person's other credits in his database - without having to make a ton of corrections first.

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DVD Profiler must walk a fine line between enough accuracy to keep one side of the aisle happy while maintaining ease of use and entry to keep the other, generally somewhat silent and large majority happy.  My development experience is not trivial, and I've been forced to design systems where one person's concept of accuracy has driven the project into the ground, completely unusable to the end users.  I don't plan to make that mistake here.

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I would like to also go with film based credits rather than DVD based credits (so we don't have to duplicate effort for all the different localities and releases).  I know there are few exceptions where credits differ based on locality, but benefits would outweigh the downsides.  If there is a simple way to make exceptions, even better.

That would indeed help enormously, but I don't think that was intended for this upgrade, or is it?

I wouldn't think so anyway... As in the OP Ken said...

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Any replacement system must support the base functionality of the current system, and must maintain the linking work that has already been put into our database.
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... but I am not a programmer so not sure if it would fit in with his requirements or not.

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So as long as it can be kept simple and straight-forward... and not mandatory

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Yes... I believe that is what the end non-contributing user wants... but even Ken said that he also has to think of ease of use for contributors as well.

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Not sure what that has to do with anything I said.

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From there you could take it a step further and use a Sounds Like algorithm to find similar names. They're fairly simple to implement.
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Yes... I believe that is what the end non-contributing user wants... but even Ken said that he also has to think of ease of use for contributors as well.