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Filter (or anything else) for duplicate movies

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Melmoth:
Hi again,

since I have some movies in different versions (e.g. theatrical, directors cut, BD, ...) I thought about a nice way to display multiple versions of one and the same movie like filtering for example. Actually - and because I have just forgotten to do this before importing all my movies - I want to add something like "DC" or "Theatrical Version" to the title without scrolling down the alpabetical list and identfy every duplicate that way.

Another very cool way would be to have a series like entry for the movie and sub-entries for the versions (although I think filtering or something like that could be easier to implement).

Furthermore, movie series could be arranged that way...

Thanks for replies or (especially) considering this Idea!

buah:
Please, consider using "strategy" I've been using: using field "Features" for desired purpose (see first two pictures in addition) and/or custom made fields (see other two pictures). Sorting entries by name and applying advanced search criteria you could have mentioned results.

Also, you could think about field "Release" for such a purpose.

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Melmoth:
Thanks for your suggestion, buah. That's actually what I had in mind with a slightly altered strategy. I wanted to use the title field and simply add a prefix for the versions (DC, CUT, TVrec, ...) because I still fear - as far as I got the routines of pvd - that pvd may treat my duplicates as redundant entries some day if I accidently checked the "remove duplicates" while cleaning.

The remaining problem for me still is that I'm crying over spilt milk because I already have imported hundreds of movies with all my different version movies among them without any distinguishing entries... What I had in mind was a feature to list all duplicate movies to avoid scrolling down the list for duplicates...

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---I wanted to use the title field and simply add a prefix for the versions...
--- End quote ---

I think it would be better to add them as a suffix—so they don't affect sorting. At the same time, add the title alone (i.e., so it's the same for all versions) to a custom field (or use the otherwise unused release field). You can then group on that field to get what you're looking for.

buah:
... and don't forget to uncheck option for overwriting Title field in whatever online import plugin you use.

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