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Hi all,

it seems, my 1.5 TB NAS drive gets messy, I got there music, movies, tv shows and so on. Do you got some program, which organize everything into folders ? Which one is good ? I am running on this hdd OPTWARE (mybookworld), so it should compatible with this...

any ideas ?

I don't, in a sense. I build "dvd-size" folders, numbered consecutively from 0000 on up. Each directory holds 4.3 gigs of movies, or as close as I can get to it.

NOW...each time I build a new folder, the films stored in it get the folder number. So, if "black swan" went into 0178 (the next one in line, that is), it would have number 178 as its ID number.

How do I keep track? Simple, each time I complete a folder, its contents are added as line items to a text file...

0177 Harry Potter and the Serious Boil....
0178 Black Swan
0178 Green Chicken
0178 Forgetting Sarah Cellulite
0179 (the next folder after 178 gets filled up)
etc...etc...etc...

Now, I do burn these and each disk gets physically numbered with a felt marker and the titles are written on the disk as well. Oh..and the disks are simply stored in numerical order plastic dual sleeves in wire tubs. Most compact way of keeping discs I have found yet.

It ain't pretty, but it is quick and dirty and accurate.


And, before you ask, I do keep that master text file uptodate and synchronized right across all my drives and lan. Losing that index would be a total disaster so I store multiple copies. I even mail them to my various webmail accounts.

I dont use any optical media anymore, nor CD, DVD or BlueRay.

I download movies and I have them in one folder. In that folder I got around 1000 other folders (movies, music, appz), so some organization would be useful, the best would be running some program, and it will put this into right folders...

but it seems it would be quite difficult to set it up in optware, so I will continue to use old chaos system

Well, whatever suits you...
But don't you worry about the consequences of a mechanical failure of your hard drive? Or do you use backup array or something similar?

I dont backup these data. I am living with knowledge, one life is not enough to watch all those movies. So sometimes it is better when disk is gone, because I dont have heart to delete those data.

everything is on internet anyway and in near future everything will be on demand.

I keep the once that are really important to me like "A walk to remember, Taken, Legally Blonde, If only". Which actually means I don't keep them. I usually delete them after watching. My Drive is only capable of 160 GB.

I used to have everything together but long ago I started organizing stuff and now I'm much better for it.

For TV Series it's easy:

http://cl.ly/8IK0

All series follow the "Series Name/Series Name 1x/Series Name 1x01 Episode Title"
Where "1x" is the season, "1x01" is the season and episode and subtitles are stored with the same name and the language before the extension.

For Movies I've used several methods, but have settled on this:

http://cl.ly/8Idd

Since everyone at home goes to the movies server I have settled on greater genre classifications, with the movies inside. Three special folders are not by genre:
-TEMP: Recently downloaded movies.
-SUB: Movies with subtitles, but not organized into any genre.
-UNSUB: Sabe as above, without subs.

ES is for spanish movies (in spanish, too), "Animacion" are animated movies. Quick library for my daughter to reach into , "Other" contains mostly DVD Documentaries or machinima. Nobody goes in there but me

The most important thing was to do a split at the top between movies and TV Series:

http://cl.ly/8JHP (the top two items)

I then created elsewhere several "OLDTV" folders, which contains canceled/ended series I will watch eventually (I'm currently making my way through Star Trek, for example). I don't keep them with the "normal" TV series because they're not watched as frequently and would only use up space in that server. They're not even shared through the network, but reside in my Time Machine disk.

All of this I access through SMBA in my DVR mediacenter, in the iPhone/iPad through Plex and on the mac with Plex.

I don't use any special tool for organizing. I just put things where they should be. Since I clean up all names (I *hate* having the original release names or RAR files, they're incredibly hostile to non-technical users like my mother, my wife or my daughter) it's not a big effort to put things in their places.

The only tool I do use, because I'm too lazy, is "TVRenamer", a Perl script that pulls info from epguides and renames the files. I helped with the modification to the program so it could rename subtitle files with language before the extension. I'm in the process of replacing this script with new functionality in SolEol.

http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/coding/file_renamer

Thanks to all this, Plex and XBMC-Based mediacenters are in paradise when cataloguing:

Movies: http://cl.ly/8Im6
TV Series: http://cl.ly/8JvQ
Old TV Series: http://cl.ly/8IdG

My Movie folders are a mess.I didn't find a good way to organize these files

My Movie folders are a mess.I didn't find a good way to organize these files

Oh, my. This message is old

I use a main category and then one folder per movie, properly named. Unreleased beta of soleol does it all for me

MeD's Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. Info is automatically retrieved from IMDb and tv.com. Technical info can also be retrieved from media files like AVI, OGM, MPEG and DVD (ifo). It's written in Java and should therefore run on most desktop systems supporting Java.

MeD's Movie Manager is a free software distributed under the GPLv2 or later license, you may download binaries and source code for no cost at all.

Eduo, when you will release your beta of SolEol ?

Eduo, when you will release your beta of SolEol ?

At this rate, it'll take as long as it took to get TV Series support

No, seriously. I re-wrote it from scratch a month ago, so I'm currently cleaning up the major functionality. I've been able to shave so much time of the scanning and parsing of files and XMLRPC responses that it's been worth it.

Movie File organization is a skeleton, right now, but when released even the CLI should be able to handle it.