Jasoon 9 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 How do you have you main movie collections organised? I have ~1000 films in my movie folder and trawling thru them is starting to be a pain.... Just wondering how others have there's organised.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoon 9 Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Anyone?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 i think that's the best and most common way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 The only thing I separate out are my concert DVD/BD rips. I don't want them showing up with the rest of my movies because, although they are "movies" as far as MB is concerned, they aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanbuff 840 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 My filesystem organisation is split into 'HD Movies' and 'SD Movies' folders. While, using MB2, I have different views for: New Releases (sorted by Date Added) Movies A-Z (sort alphabetically) Movies by Genre HD Movies This is the easiest way I find to organise them in a fashion that allows be to narrow down into smaller groups. Collection is a little over 2250. I can't currently do the same with MB3 and MB Classic, so I'm holding off for now. However been using the MB Server since its public release and find it's data filtering system to be fantastic (if the client supports it) Movies by Genre is a good way to start at least, assuming you have tidy metadata. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1977 67 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 How do you have you main movie collections organised? I have ~1000 films in my movie folder and trawling thru them is starting to be a pain.... Just wondering how others have there's organised.... Assume you have them in individual folders? If not, would definitely encourage you to do so as it will otherwise prevent you from adding all the fancy posters et al that MBC can create for you. Besides that, it shouldn't be a pain as you should never even scroll through your movie folder. That's what MBS/MBT are for. With them, you can filter, sort, slice&dice in whatever way you want. I have more than 4,000 movies and never even look at the actual movie folders... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Exactly. Slicing and dicing with data is much more powerful than with folders. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Wow, terrible compression artifacts. We need to fix that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heckler 147 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I have 2 folders HD and SD movies, which are a combination of movies and boxsets. But like the OP, with over 800 movies in a single MB folder... Finding something to watch can be a pain, I can spend ages scrolling through for something to catch my eye. I do have all unwatched movies at the start of the folder, everything else is alphabetically of course. But as I replace SD movies with HD versions... pretty soon that SD folder will become redundant and I'll have over 1000 films in a single folder. I make use of Movies by Genre which helps narrow choices down depending on my mood... But things like the action genre still have some 500 or so movies in them. I used to have a 'Movies by actor' folder too... but that got silly with an IBN folder of around 15000 actors. Starting to think about putting some films into a collection/boxset... Like Kevin Smith and Tarantino films, I've got all of the Jack Ryan movies that I can put in one too. I keep all 12 Star Treks in a single folder as well as all Superman movies. But as OP said... it's a struggle to pick something to watch, and scrolling can actually cause the program to crash if you go to fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Wow, terrible compression artifacts. We need to fix that. Until Abo figures out what is causing it, if you resize your screen shots to 700px wide, this doesn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoon 9 Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 Thanks for the info guys All my movies are in there own folder ive turned on the genre folder so that gives the other half a bit more of a fighting chance when she's looking for a movie lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspdend 174 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 I have 2 folders HD and SD movies, which are a combination of movies and boxsets. But like the OP, with over 800 movies in a single MB folder... Finding something to watch can be a pain, I can spend ages scrolling through for something to catch my eye. I do have all unwatched movies at the start of the folder, everything else is alphabetically of course. But as I replace SD movies with HD versions... pretty soon that SD folder will become redundant and I'll have over 1000 films in a single folder. I make use of Movies by Genre which helps narrow choices down depending on my mood... But things like the action genre still have some 500 or so movies in them. I used to have a 'Movies by actor' folder too... but that got silly with an IBN folder of around 15000 actors. Starting to think about putting some films into a collection/boxset... Like Kevin Smith and Tarantino films, I've got all of the Jack Ryan movies that I can put in one too. I keep all 12 Star Treks in a single folder as well as all Superman movies. But as OP said... it's a struggle to pick something to watch, and scrolling can actually cause the program to crash if you go to fast. I'm with Heckler - I have a movies SD and a movies HD folder and all boxsets live in those folders as well - total approx 2400 movies. They all live on my UnRAID server and the only times I access them directly is to replace an SD movie with an HD equivalent or to move movie or two into a boxset folder. Generally we watch movies either by selecting the date of release or by the genre or by the favourites option...I have certain genres I have added to ease selection, such as Star Trek, Harry Potter, Classics, Vampire etc overall, I've found that the WAF is high doing it this way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1977 67 Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 Exactly. Slicing and dicing with data is much more powerful than with folders. I like how you had split it. How did you create a group for "Sunday funnies"? Is this some sort of smart playlist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikuf 663 Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 I like how you had split it. How did you create a group for "Sunday funnies"? Is this some sort of smart playlist? They are all created by mbt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1977 67 Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 MBS or MBT? Can I create one of these manually, where i include all comedy movies since 2008? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 MBT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1977 67 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Any chance to create these in MBS rather than MBT? This way, all my clients would be able to choose from the same playlists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 we've talked about that sort of thing, but it hasn't gotten done yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenH 16 Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 (edited) I have Genre Folders: Action Drama Comedy SciFi Sport Animation New Releases New stuff goes into New Releases for about a couple of months until the household (4 PC's) have had opportunity to view, then the Movie gets moved in to a Genre-specific folder. This makes browsing in MB easier, faster and back-ups simpler. And avoids having to plough thru 1,000 movies to find something you may be interested in watching. Do similar for TV Series. Edited October 29, 2013 by WarrenH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyatic 5 Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Exactly. Slicing and dicing with data is much more powerful than with folders. What is this screenshot from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcw07 347 Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 What is this screenshot from? MB Theater, which is still in a closed beta/alpha state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpttango30 4 Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 I have a 4 drive set up. C: Main drive OS only. F: Movies --- Movies ------ Movie folders G: Media --- MMA --- Movie Rips --- Music --- Music Videos --- Newly Encoded --- TV --- Unsorted Media --- Vuze Downloads I: TV --- TV -----Show Folders I have vuze download to the vuze download folder then once it is complete it moves the files to the unsorted media folder. From there once seeding is stopped I used Media Center Master to move tv and movie files to their proper destination. NOTE: I had to split my TV between 2 hard drives as I was down to 500gb on the main TV drive. C is 500gb all others are 3tb WD Green Drives. I split the TV between to keep reliability up. My System specs are AMD A-8 3870k CPU 16gb Ram Asus motherboard Asus Blue ray drive 1 500gb HDD 3 3tb WD green drives 2 800 slient fans coolermaster slient 120mm CPU fan Soon I am adding a video card of a EVGA GeForce GTX 650 2gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithhunter55 0 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 (edited) Just got my 3TB harddrive(black friday Presale) the other day. I had been a bit annoyed that not all my movies fit on one drive. I had been trying to do any movie that has a sequel went on to a alternate drive but the break down did not work enough to get the one off movies under 2TB. So now They have all been recombine to just 2 folders. Movies and Movie Collections, within movie collections I have the folders tagged as Series or Various. For example Superman, Spiderman, Batman films are listed as various given they all have reboots series ect. I haven't figured out what do do with my tv shows and anime yet, for right now they are both on another drive. Here is the breakdown of my drive right now. Blue=MP4, Green=AVI, Red=MKV and the one yellow is the only .AVI. I restarted my entire collection of years just because I was tired of running in to old postage stamp sized avi files. Most of these are 1080P. Edited November 11, 2013 by mithhunter55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashMoney 94 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I've got 4 hard drives on the go, with various media spread over the 4 in 6 partitions. But basically I have Movie folders, Music folders and TV Shows folders, all numbered and put where space allows; as a disk fills up and I don't find anything to delete, another disk is added. Disk 1 has the Windows partition, then a second Media1 partition that has Movies1, TV Shows1, Music1, Photos. Disk 2 has a single partition with Movies2, TV Shows2. And so on and so forth. I really should invest in a large disk or two, but to be honest, with MediaBrowser adding everything to the correct libraries, the only time I look at them as folders is when I'm running low on space. I keep my movies in individual folders, and keep boxsets in the root movie folder along with the single movie folders. Media1 - Movies1 -- Avatar -- Iron Man Collection [boxset] - TV Shows1 -- Castle (2009) --- Season1 Media2 - Movies2 -- 300 -- Rocky Collection [boxset] - TV Shows2 -- Continuum --- Season1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaxPower 4 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Right now i just have a big TV / Music / Movies folders, and use the in built searching and seperation (Genre/studio etc) Its working for now, dont know when ill have to change as my movie collection is pretty small (just around 300 or so) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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