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How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots!

scifi451 said:
^ Nice that is a good set up. Ya I am able handle my collection so far on just two HDs, a 2TB as the main and then a backup one.
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To be honest it has been a bit of a nightmare to get it to where it is now, however now I've got it set up its pretty sweet.

I started off with WHSv1 using an HP ex495 and that was ok until I started running out of space and started having the odd disk failure - also, I didn't like the headless nature of it when there were problems. Decided then to move to WHS 2011 and built my own machine, however during the move one of my drives that wasn't duplicated died (just had movie rips from my dvd's and I was trying to save on space by not duplicating stuff that I had a physical copy of - lesson definitely learnt) and I had to re-rip quite alot of the dvd's, which I have just finished.
 
scifi451 said:
^ Nice that is a good set up. Ya I am able handle my collection so far on just two HDs, a 2TB as the main and then a backup one.
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Oh, the good old days - just my photo's, home video's and music take up more than that now.

There'll be some on here that say we've replaced physical hoarding with digital hoarding and that's fine by me - I see it as a hobby, which gives my family quite a lot of joy i.e. being able to easily see our photo's and home video's at anytime and instant access to pretty much any movie or tv show (esp. for the kids) when the weather is awful and we just want to vege out.
 
Otago Lad said:
There'll be some on here that say we've replaced physical hoarding with digital hoarding and that's fine by me - I see it as a hobby, which gives my family quite a lot of joy i.e. being able to easily see our photo's and home video's at anytime and instant access to pretty much any movie or tv show (esp. for the kids) when the weather is awful and we just want to vege out.
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Agree on that point it is great to have the option of having all of it instantly available on the Apple TV.

Agree about the hobby part, it is fun to collect movies I like and make them easily accessible. I think most people likely have some hobby that they go at least a little over board with.

Also sorry to hear that you had to re-rip some of your movies that had to have been a pain. I have been trying to be pretty diligent on keeping backups going. I have Carbon Copy Cloner automatically backing up my movies to another HD for me.
 
scifi451 said:
Agree on that point it is great to have the option of having all of it instantly available on the Apple TV.

Agree about the hobby part, it is fun to collect movies I like and make them easily accessible. I think most people likely have some hobby that they go at least a little over board with.

Also sorry to hear that you had to re-rip some of your movies that had to have been a pain. I have been trying to be pretty diligent on keeping backups going. I have Carbon Copy Cloner automatically backing up my movies to another HD for me.
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Totally my fault - was trying to save space by only duplicating photo's, documents and music, but at least I had the physical copies to re-rip. Now that I have way more space (although running out quickly) I sleep far easier at night. I also keep an external copy of photo's, documents and home vids which I backup on a monthly basis so triple coverage.
 
whsbuss said:
Quick question....

I downloaded MetaZ for metadata editing. After I write the data and import into iTunes, I can't see any of the information.
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Try going to the title in iTunes and "Get Info"..then click OK. Your media needs to be "refreshed" so to speak after metadata is updated. That's what I have to do with Identify...which by the way is an absolutely fantastic metadata editor. I've been using it for 5 years now. It takes care of everything including artwork.
 
I prefer Plex. Hands down the best, easiest, and most feature-rich cross-platform media management solution out there. Drop a bunch of movies in a folder, hit refresh, and in seconds the media is automatically sorted and tagged with metadata and HD cover art. I honestly don't know why anyone wastes their time with iTunes. Plus, I can stream to just about any device to anywhere around the world. Crappy network? It will transcode on the fly. Fast network connection? It will bitstream 1080p without a hiccup. 10TB library? Hardly an issue. Sharing media or an entire library between friends? Simple. Plex just flat out works.
 

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Chase R said:
I prefer Plex. Hands down the best, easiest, and most feature-rich cross-platform media management solution out there. Drop a bunch of movies in a folder, hit refresh, and in seconds the media is automatically sorted and tagged with metadata and HD cover art. I honestly don't know why anyone wastes their time with iTunes. Plus, I can stream to just about any device to anywhere around the world. Crappy network? It will transcode on the fly. Fast network connection? It will bitstream 1080p without a hiccup. 10TB library? Hardly an issue. Sharing media or an entire library between friends? Simple. Plex just flat out works.
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plex IS great. but i use iTunes because i prefer an ATV to a roku, and native support is easier for the rest of the household.
 
Chase R said:
I prefer Plex. Hands down the best, easiest, and most feature-rich cross-platform media management solution out there. Drop a bunch of movies in a folder, hit refresh, and in seconds the media is automatically sorted and tagged with metadata and HD cover art. I honestly don't know why anyone wastes their time with iTunes. Plus, I can stream to just about any device to anywhere around the world. Crappy network? It will transcode on the fly. Fast network connection? It will bitstream 1080p without a hiccup. 10TB library? Hardly an issue. Sharing media or an entire library between friends? Simple. Plex just flat out works.
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I've never had a single problem with iTunes. I have an Apple TV, iTunes works perfectly for my needs. It takes maybe ten seconds for me to drop a movie into a metadata fetcher, so the metadata and cover art thing doesn't matter to me — and I'm picky about metadata, so I manually go in and change things around anyway so there's no real time saving. I don't need to stream to any device anywhere around the world, I just need it to stream to my Apple TV, which iTunes does without an issue. Sharing media also isn't a concern for me.

For me, iTunes just flat out works. The only real benefit for Plex over iTunes for my purposes is the skins, because I hate that Apple TV is so fixated on sticking with the outdated Front Row format. But I'm not about to buy a Roku or some other Plex device just because of that when the Apple TV works just fine. Maybe if a jailbreak for aTV3 comes out, then I'd give Plex a try again, but otherwise I'm fine with what I've got.

So now you know why people would "waste" time with iTunes—because it's not really wasting time at all.
 
Anyone help me with a little problem which annoys me -
I add a lot of HD TV shows to iTunes - usually when every episode is HD the HD icon will just be at the top but sometimes it also remains by each episode title - I realise its not that important but a bit annoying when you are OCD about your iTunes library!
 
courtnej said:
Anyone help me with a little problem which annoys me -
I add a lot of HD TV shows to iTunes - usually when every episode is HD the HD icon will just be at the top but sometimes it also remains by each episode title - I realise its not that important but a bit annoying when you are OCD about your iTunes library!
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This happens when 1 or more episodes are HD and 1 or more are not - in this case, the individual episodes that are HD will have the icon next to their title.

If ALL the episodes in the season are HD, the icon goes to the top.
 
MoodyM said:
This happens when 1 or more episodes are HD and 1 or more are not - in this case, the individual episodes that are HD will have the icon next to their title.

If ALL the episodes in the season are HD, the icon goes to the top.
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Yeh but its doing it when ALL the episodes in a season are HD - it does it for some shows and not for others, no idea why
 
aced411 said:
Try going to the title in iTunes and "Get Info"..then click OK. Your media needs to be "refreshed" so to speak after metadata is updated. That's what I have to do with Identify...which by the way is an absolutely fantastic metadata editor. I've been using it for 5 years now. It takes care of everything including artwork.
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If I'm not mistaken, one of the MetaZ preferences is to automatically re-load the changed files in iTunes - that should, in theory, get the changes to show up without any further action, but admittedly I haven't tested that out much.
 
courtnej said:
Yeh but its doing it when ALL the episodes in a season are HD - it does it for some shows and not for others, no idea why
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I'm guessing because the HD flag isn't set properly for some files. Try using Subler to set it
 
Heres my iTunes library

I use a program called Subler. It takes my encoded mp4 file, allows me to search the title. Adds all of the movie info in and supplies the artwork.

Subler, get it... its invaluable for TV shows.. Gets them organized and in order
 

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I'm incredibly anal about my movie organisation. I have SD versions of new films, they get deleted and updated to HD versions, all are in the same format. ALL Metadata is completed including synopsis, genre, actors etc. I use iFlicks to help with this! :)
 
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