Hi,
I am a brand new user of AMC, and can not find any posts in the forums, or see from using the program for about half an hour...
I want to use AMC for organising my collection of different TV series. This presents some problems, as AMC does not seem to support the necessary fields.
For example: Doctor Who. There is the 'doctor', then the season, then the episode number, and finally the episode name. AMC supports the other information, such as DVD or codec, framerate (but no region for DVD's).
Another: Star Trek. It needs to be categorised by the "story" (eg: Voyager, Deep Space 9, etc), the episode number, and the name. Season would be nice, but not that relevant for star trek.
And to bore you to tears: Catweasle only has the season, episode number and episode name.
Perhaps I am alone in collecting TV series, but I think it would be a really useful addition to be able to group these together, and have AMC display the relevant information in a sensible manner.
eg:
+ Doctor Who
- William Hartnell (1st doctor)
- Patrick Troughton (2nd doctor)
+Jon Pertwee (3rd doctor)
- Season 4
+Season 5
- Episode 1 : Tomb of the Cybermen
- Episode 2 : ...
- ...
Everything is grouped under "Doctor Who"
Cascading expandable branches for the 'doctor', season, and finally episode.
Thoughts?
Am I alone in this quest?
MM
PS: The spacing is not being reproduced in this post, but the cascade is meant to look like an 'explorer' cascade.
AMC for TV series?
Hi,
Latest "big" changes in AMC were made few years ago, before the recent "hype" around series. This explains the lack of proper series support.
Another reason for not having added such support in the program: it is originally made to have a list of the movies that you have. If you wish a list of your series, usually the only info needed is that you have full seasons or even full series. For these, one entry in the list may be enough. The details of episodes is a separate thing.
Anyway, it is still possible to handle episodes as separate movies but group them in series: if you use one of the fields like "Media Label" to indicate the series name, and the title entry for the episode (in the forum "S1E04 Title" or "1.04 Title" for example), by using the "Group by" feature from the Tools menu you can achieve a 2-level structure (not as detailed as your suggestion then).
Eventually for complicated series list like Star Trek you can make one catalog per series. Or just make one group by "story" (to re-use the term from your example).
Latest "big" changes in AMC were made few years ago, before the recent "hype" around series. This explains the lack of proper series support.
Another reason for not having added such support in the program: it is originally made to have a list of the movies that you have. If you wish a list of your series, usually the only info needed is that you have full seasons or even full series. For these, one entry in the list may be enough. The details of episodes is a separate thing.
Anyway, it is still possible to handle episodes as separate movies but group them in series: if you use one of the fields like "Media Label" to indicate the series name, and the title entry for the episode (in the forum "S1E04 Title" or "1.04 Title" for example), by using the "Group by" feature from the Tools menu you can achieve a 2-level structure (not as detailed as your suggestion then).
Eventually for complicated series list like Star Trek you can make one catalog per series. Or just make one group by "story" (to re-use the term from your example).
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MustardMan
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Thanks for your prompt reply, and explanation of the basis of AMC. I will look closer at your suggestion of how the current AMC can be used to handle series & episodes.
Are there any plans in the pipe for making AMC able to handle series natively?
And on that subject (although it is way beyond my level of programming "expertise") is it something that could be called an easy mod, or is it a major change?
Thanks,
MM
Are there any plans in the pipe for making AMC able to handle series natively?
And on that subject (although it is way beyond my level of programming "expertise") is it something that could be called an easy mod, or is it a major change?
Thanks,
MM
There is no plan for that at short or mid term, as there are already loads of things that I should add, and for which I already do not have time.
It is not especially difficult to implement that in the main movie list, but lots of things in the program may require changes (and for some I do not even know how to handle that), like scripts, export, etc.
It is not especially difficult to implement that in the main movie list, but lots of things in the program may require changes (and for some I do not even know how to handle that), like scripts, export, etc.
How about just adding support for user-definable fields? I know it is easier said than done, but simple list of name-value typeless (string) attributes would do wonders. For example, it would make it possible to have multiple funcional URLs in HTML version (e.g. IMDb, AMG, RottenTomatoes, Wikipedia (on movie, novel it was based upon...), Official Site...).antp wrote:There is no plan for that at short or mid term, as there are already loads of things that I should add, and for which I already do not have time.
It is not especially difficult to implement that in the main movie list, but lots of things in the program may require changes (and for some I do not even know how to handle that), like scripts, export, etc.
I was thinking about organizing series data within confines of the current program myself. A catalog per series is a good idea, with a master catalog listing just complete series. Then, in HTML export (I am playing with excellent Bergware template - highly recommended!) I would make the URL field in master catalog point to per-series catalogs. Per-series catalogs would have episode titles prefixed by season and episode number, and, in the cases like Star Trek or Law&Order, "subseries".
A lot of work, though....
Cheers!
Bonzi
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AoF-Neptune
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It s just what i did myself to create autorun for ripped series and burned on DVD.bonzi wrote: A catalog per series is a good idea, with a master catalog listing just complete series. Then, in HTML export (I am playing with excellent Bergware template - highly recommended!) I would make the URL field in master catalog point to per-series catalogs. Per-series catalogs would have episode titles prefixed by season and episode number, and, in the cases like Star Trek or Law&Order, "subseries".
A lot of work, though....
Cheers!
Bonzi
Added one record in master catalog for whole season.
Then created new catalog only for one season, exported it with html template, modified it with FrontPage, then burnt it. Much more convenient to have whole season on 1* DVD double layer than on the 6 original disks for that example. And i ll never break my originals this way.
For those asking for custom fields, i think there is probably fields YOU dont use in AMC. So you can rename those fields like you want by editing languages files.
Check this topic for more info.
viewtopic.php?t=3367
Values to modify have a name like
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LDate.Caption=Date :
LDescription.Caption=Description :Tip : If you enter &, the character just after & will be used as shortcut
If you want to display & on screen, youll have to double it
Example : LMediaType.Caption=Number && Media type :