Have a question. I've noticed at times that it seems a lot of box sets reuse the same disc as the single release but the box set version is packaged slightly different, ie a THINpak vs Keep Case, No UPC on the cover, or the double/triple features where its 2 discs packaged together in one keep case or 1 disc that is dual sided, but the disc ID's still match the single release.

Now, I had asked this before about should a Disc ID profile be created for these or should the UPC profile just be used instead of basically making a seperate copy, and IIRC it was determined ok to create this new profile. However, obviously the Art Work, release date, SRP, case type, and some other details are different. But the Cast\Crew info will all be the same. The problem I see arising is that If I start my profile from the UPC one, make the appropriate changes, any changes to the UPC profile are not also sent to the DISC ID profile even though the disc is the same in both release. So is it really worth creating this secndary profile, or is it better to just keep the UPC profile, make the release type changes locally and lock the profile?

How do other people handle this in their own collections?

Some of the shared movie profile ideas would handle this and allow the changes to get to these variations as well as have more people updating fewer profiles. The one idea I specifically remember that would work very well here is for the DISC related info (features, audio, video, etc) be linked together by that disc ID. Of course all this requires a significant change to the system, and has been brought up before, but I guess I'm just pointing out another benefit to doing it like that.

Right now though I'm wondering if its really worth my time/effort to create these profiles for discs I have and using them in my local or if its better to just use the single release and make the local changes (since I will then benefit from the updates to the profile that is probably more common).

-Agrare

Yes, that would be the case. The thing is, the actual disc in both release would be the same (have the same disc id) so would share a lot of the same information.

I can give some examples of profiles that fit this if you wish.

-Agrare

Quoting skipnet50:

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Not necessary that is the way to do it and it will cause no conflict in the system as ken has set it up.

Skip

Adding the second profile is the way to do it?

I know it won't cause a conflict either way. But it just seems like repeating a lot of work/data entry. And then if corrections are made to the UPC one and that was used as a starting base for the disc id profile, you end up with the wrong data still being present in the disc id profile.

-Agrare

I think there was a feature request to have profiles share data (mostly cast & crew) where the disc ID matched but at the minute it's best we have two separate profiles.