Quoting Srehtims:

Quote:
A number of times I see a film I would like to have, but it is enter by disc id, but I can't find its parent.
For child profiles (profiles entered by disc id) in the Online Data Base I would like a link back to parent profile (UPC/EAN).

The problem with that is many child profiles belong to multiple parents. Box Sets are reissued with different UPC's, yet the Disc ID's contained within remain the same.

Also many Blu-ray/DVD Combos have multiple releases, so the DVD childs often belongs to multiple parent profiles.

I see where you ate coking from, srethims. My question, not for you, is how hard might this be to implement. I wish I was more familiar with what ken, uses, it could be very difficult to implement.

Well, you already have a copy of the WHOLE database locally: just browse the "Add to collection..."-> "Add by title". That said, it probably is only the columns you see that you have locally. What would be needed is some additional structure to map to the 'parents' (beware of the 1:n relationship of disk ID to multiple EANs). Also, as I do not think the majority of all profiles have multiple 'parents', I guess it should be doable. Preferably, such a structure would also point to parents of a parent if needed.
Anyone who has Achim's conversion to MS Access tool operational and could play with it and try out whether this extra structure would be unwieldy large or doable? (my thinking: multiple hits on the same title within a locality gives an indication, though probably inflated a bit if different disks were used).

You have to distinguish between the online global database (OGDb) and your local personal database (LPDb) / online personal database (OPDb).

In the OGDb there are many profiles that have the same child profiles assigned. Takes this for example:

My Favourite Show: Season 1 - fancy digipak with booklet and fotos.

Contains six DiscIds as children.

My Favourite Show: Season 1 - simple keep case with no extras.

Contains the same six DiscIds as children.

My Favourite Show: The Complete Series

Contains 30 DiscIds as children of which six are the same as above.


In the LPDb you can have every DiscId = ProfileId only once and it can only be assigned to one parent.

If you have first bought Season 1 and later The Complete Series you have to use manual profiles for one of them.

But the OGDb can have many profiles with the same children.

I believe the program is intelligent enough to recognise that a profile is already used locally and does not offer to add it again when you add the parent profile.

I first ran into that problem when I bought my first complete box set (Babylon 5, all seasons, all movies). The set was great but the discs were exactly the same as the single seasons.

So I use manual profiles for the older ones and the DiscId for the box set discs:

http://doena-soft.de/phpdvdprofiler_en/index.php?lastmedia=M129.5
http://doena-soft.de/phpdvdprofiler_en/index.php?lastmedia=IF45C27814F509D7C.5

Add on top of that that the complete box set had no barcodes for the seasons, so people started using the Season X: Disc 1 Id as season identifier.

So even when you only have the single season + disc profiles you suddenly got

Babylon 5: Season 1
+ Babylon 5: Season 1
+ Babylon 5: Season 1: Disc 2
+ Babylon 5: Season 1: Disc 3
+ Babylon 5: Season 1: Disc 4
+ Babylon 5: Season 1: Disc 5
+ Babylon 5: Season 1: Disc 6

I've since then made it a habit to lock my season disc profiles completely right from the start. I even unset the "Download from Invelos" checkbox when adding the discs.

Oh, I forgot to mention that when I make contribution of a child profile I always add at the top of the contribution note the following:
Child profile for "Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Complete Third Season", UPC: 883929215065;
form the parent profile.
example from today's contribution.
I wish some of the rest of you would be so eleemosynary, Please.

Quoting Srehtims:

Quote:
Oh, I forgot to mention that when I make contribution of a child profile I always add at the top of the contribution note the following:
Child profile for "Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Complete Third Season", UPC: 883929215065;
form the parent profile.
example from today's contribution.
I wish some of the rest of you would be so eleemosynary, Please.

But how would you do this if the same child is attached to another parent later? As stated before same childrens can be part of several boxsets.

Quoting Mithi:

Quote:
Quoting Kulju:

Quote:
But how would you do this if the same child is attached to another parent later?

"Also Child to 12345678900" as a comment on a valid profile-update?

There is no need to contribute child if you add it to another boxset.