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I've only just come across this program & have just started to try it out. So far it seems to be just what I was looking for. This is my first posting.

I notice that every entry has it's own unique number as it's entered. I would like to be able to number my disks as well with the same number for ease of filing. I have several disks that contain more than one video on them. Is there some way that the one disk shares the same disk number of another entry?

Where does one usually enter details about the films genre, under category?

For multiple movies on one disc, I use the "media label" field to put the number of the first movie of the disc. Then when I use Tools -> Group by -> Media Label, I see the movies grouped by disc (you also have to changes few things in the Preferences window so movies that are alone on their disc do not get a group, and are not put in a common group either).

About the genre, yes, it is category (word was maybe not very well chosen).

If category is intended be used as genre can perhaps the name of both this and other categories could be renamed for more customizable uses or would this conflict with scripts? For instance if I were interested in say a films music composer could I rename some other fields like source as music?

What do you mean by "both this and other categories"?
You can change field names by editing the translation files.

As I understand your reply I should be able to change labels on the program interface from reading 'category' to 'genre' if I edit them in the language files using notepad etc.

I'm willing to give this a go but since I haven't done anything like this before I'm not sure just where to start. I did look under programs files & found lots of different languages listed (which I assume you can safely delete the one that you will never use). Then I clicked on languages & found 2 different English files but I could not find any way to open them up or edit them. Please advise.

You can open English.lng in notepad and modify all the text that are after the "=" signs on each line.
To use that translation, in the program you have to select "English for translations" as languages, instead of the "English (default)" which corresponds to the internal English texts.

Coming back to multiple videos on one disk/cassette:
Is there any drawback in using the "discs/files" counter (bottom right) for numbering multiple videos on one disk instead of using the "media label" field (assuming that one has no video spreading over multiple discs)

Greets, Filbert

You use that for what you want, but the counter is more for a movie on multiple discs (just as an info displayed), and the media label is for multiples movies on the same disc (to allow to group by media, or mark as loaned all the movies on the same media).

Thanx... :-)