I’m brand new to CLZ Movies as of today and I’m trying to figure it out.
My main goal is that I want to add discs and be able to find my movies which have a Commentaries, Deleted Scenes, etc. This data doesn’t appear to be stored in the CORE Database (as far as I can tell) and many Back Covers (which provide this information) don’t exist in CORE either. Even if it did, it’d require OCR on the images to make it searchable and I don’t think CLZ Movies supports searching within images. (I am very thankful that I can add my own Back Covers though and I’ve been looking online for a collection of those so I don’t have to take pictures of them myself).
I’m not using any of the supplied Pre-fill items and don’t plan to. So, my strategy to support items like these “disc extras” is to create (pre-fill) Tags for each of the following:
Commentary
Bloopers
Extras (Interviews, BTS, Making Of)
Deleted Scenes
to help me track these.
When I scan a barcode to add a disc, the pre-fill options will show me those four tags. I’ll just Delete the Tags that don’t apply to the current disc before saving it to the DB.
It appears that these Tags are indeed searchable.
This is a bit clunky but seems to work (at least on the two discs that I’ve imported so far).
Is this a reasonable strategy or am I overlooking something? Is this strategy not good for a large collection (5000 discs or so)?
@875629
Lots of good info on DVD/BD extras can be found here. https://www.dvdcompare.net/ Often what’s on the back cover is vague, missing or even incorrect.
Also you can find better/missing front & back covers on Amazon as well as https://www.blu-ray.com/ with a simple bar code search.
I would recommend to use the “Extras” field for this.
Perhaps using “pre-fill” is not the way for you here. Extras are different per each single movie you add, and pre-fill is meant to quickly set a field (like owner for instance) for all movies you add in one go (say if you scan 10 movie barcodes, you’d set the owner-field to be you, always.
Please understand that you do not have to use pre-fill. You can always later, in your list of movies, tap on a movie, tap Edit, and edit any of the fields there as well.
Could you explain what you find “clunky” about it? Perhaps I can think of a better way.
Thanks. I realize the back cover is a poor option and I’d prefer using a searchable field. I’m been on Blu-Ray.com before but I never heard of DVDCompare.net. Thanks for that information, I’ll check it out
I figured Pre-fill would not be the intended place to do this but I’m only interested in storing the titles of the discs, the cast & crew, the special features, and cover art. I figured using pre-fill would be the faster way to get that entered.
I typically limit my purchasing to discs that only have special features and rarely buy a disc that doesn’t include a commentary (which typically limits my purchasing to less than 20 discs per year). Most of my purchases seem to be Criterion or Kino Lorber since most of those do have commentaries. Some Arrow. Some Shout.
I tried using the Extras as you mentioned but that field, unlike Tags, doesn’t appear to be searchable unless I’m doing something wrong. I assume that’s by Design but I suppose it could be a software defect ( or user error on my part ). That’s why I chose Tags even though Extras made more sense to me.
The search wouldn’t search “extras”, no, but I would recommend in your main screen to tap on FOLDERS top left, then tap EXTRAS to group your movies on extras. Would that help?
(it comes with its own search box as well)