Many international releases share the same disc and experience learns that many, many discrepancies remain (incomplete fields, i.e. Audio, Subtitles, ...). It also means that every localization of a release (with an identical Disc ID's) sees efforts multiplied and even lost, in combining profiles for the correct fields. Some of them even remain almost empty.

I would suggest that these profiles that share identical Disc's ID's are merged and kept 'linked' on the server side, for fields that would not change, like Production Year, CoO, Runtime, Video Format, Studios, Features, Audio, Subtitles, Cast, Crew and DISC ID's. Is it possible, and how?

I don't wish to give any priority to this feature request/proposal, I just believe this is a constructive proposal that would only benefit the community in helping keeping DVD Profiler correct and fun.

and how would you handle discs with same disc ids but totally different movies?

Quoting Pro_Trek:

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and how would you handle discs with same disc ids but totally different movies?

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I know this can happen with UPC/EAN but always thought that the DiscID is unique.
Do you have any examples?

Here's a problem I can see with the current rules:

The Matrix Blu-ray US profile: disc ID: 6EDEA3D3A4541617 [THE_MATRIX]
The Matrix Blu-ray Japan profile: disc ID: 6EDEA3D3A4541617 [THE_MATRIX]

When played on a player set to Japanese as prefered language, the menu changes to Japanese and Japanese audio and subs are selectable.
When played on a player set to any other language as prefered language, Japanese audio and subs are not selectable. (except for region-free players with the audio/sub button.

Ken explicitely stated that we cannot enter the Japanese audio & subs in the US profile, but of course can do so in the Japanese profile. In the Japanese profile, some other western languages are not selectable (again, unless you have a region free player) so they can't be shown on that one.

So here we have two identical discs, with identical disc ID's but with different menus and audio/subs options depending on the player. Ken wants us to treat those differently. With that in mind, I think your suggestion would go against the rules.

As a side note, I think your idea is a good one and I would personnally prefer to track all tracks encoded on a disc, but Ken seems to be against it.

Quoting MatrixTom:

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So it gets bashed because you think Disc ID's are not unique? But they are!

Actually not true... I have a few different boxsets... mostly older and/or cheaper sets where 2 or more of the of the child profiles use the same disc ID. Because of this I haven't been able to contribute child profiles for these.... instead having to opt for manual profiles. Granted I haven't seen this lately but they are out there. And if they are out there within a boxset I can't believe they are not out there between separate releases... especially among the dollar dvds that are sold around here (and there is a ton of those!).

I will have to find the sets and check to be 100% sure... but I thought I already updated all my old disc IDs to the new ones long time ago.