Apparently, this has been rejected before, but my feeling is the rules only support disc level profiles, not season level (unless the season has its own UPC, of course). This doesn't fall under the rule about not removing the data from television box sets, because this particular disc is not entered as a box set, nor would it be reasonable to do so.

From the rules: "In rare cases where multiple Complete TV Series are packaged together, the Box-set rules can be applied, treating each series like a single film - applying the above rules for it’s individual profile."

So yes, one profile (using the disc ID of the first disc) for each season in the set, is allowed.

That note says when multiple complete series are packaged together. In this case, there is only one series: Alias. That rule would apply if we had something like "The complete Buffy and Angel." I am not aware of any sets like this.

There may be a linguistic issue here. In the US, a show is a series and one year of a show is a season. I understand that in Europe, years can be called series. This rule was definitely written with the US terminology in mind, though, otherwise multiple series packaged together wouldn't be rare at all.

Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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There may be a linguistic issue here. In the US, a show is a series and one year of a show is a season. I understand that in Europe, years can be called series. This rule was definitely written with the US terminology in mind, though, otherwise multiple series packaged together wouldn't be rare at all.

At the time the rules were written, it was fairly rare to see multiple seasons of a series packaged together.  What we have here is a rule that needs to be changed because it is, now, quite common.

Quoting T!M:

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From the rules: "In rare cases where multiple Complete TV Series are packaged together, the Box-set rules can be applied, treating each series like a single film - applying the above rules for it’s individual profile."

So yes, one profile (using the disc ID of the first disc) for each season in the set, is allowed.

Excaltly... sadly if there's a conflict at the moment it has to be "first come, first served" as both options are permitted by the Rules. Hopefully one day we'll be able to do both

Quoting Addicted2DVD

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When I see this I just upload the rest of the discs in the set and change the first disc locally

Same here except when I see a series of disc level profiles I chaneg the first one to a season level profile locally! Each to their own... and as I say, one day hopefully it will be possible to have an additional flag so the Disc ID can be used for Season AND disc level profiles so we can all be happy.

Quoting TheMadMartian

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What we have here is a rule that needs to be changed...

Well I agree... but (I suspect) unlike yourself I'd like it changed so it says "should" not "can" so it's done by Season level NOT Disc level because that's the way I prefer 

Wheres the option "Neither"? Having child profiles or season based profiles is made optional, so this would contradict with the handling of TV erie profiles one way or the other. The program should be changed.

Quoting dee1959jay:

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I disagree that having season-based profiles is made optional. The contribution rules for TV series start by saying:

"TV Series on DVD come in 2 separate types:

Complete Series/Season sets

Anthologies of Episodes that do not form a complete series or season."

And then they proceed to specify how to profile such sets. Nowhere does it say that profiling them is optional. Unlike disc-level profiles, where the rules explicitly state - and I quote - that this is "not required".

The phrase in the rules that T!M quoted governs the relationship between a multi-season profile and what comes below (it says it can be set up as a box-set type of relationship), but it does not in and by itself make the creation of season-level profiles optional.

I think the reason for that is (that you disagree) you dont realise that people that have child profiles ALSO have a parent profile (In this case the parent is just one step higher in the hierarchy), just one with less info (which we, the child profiles users strip locally to satisfy the needs of the single profile users). So either way the parent exists.

Also, it never says to create the season profiles by disc ID. It only says this for individual discs. Presumably, this rule is only talking about cases where the individual season sets are packaged together, UPC and all.