• 0 Posts
  • 3 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 1st, 2023

help-circle

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.catoData HoarderHow to Catalog a Blu-Ray collection?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    Keep in mind that optical discs burned through a consumer grade drive will ultimately degrade over time (faster if exposed to heat and/or sunlight) and you’ll need to periodically check the data integrity of these discs, on top of keeping a backup somewhere else in case there is data loss due to degradation.

    Honestly, you’re better off buying more storage and have a good backup system than to waste money on BD-R discs which will end being most costly and more work per GB.

    If you still plan going that route, you could use a prefix / letter to indicate which type of media it is (ie: MOV for movie, TV for series), a single letter for the main genre (ie: A for action, C for comedy, etc) and use a unique number to identify each disc. If it’s a TV show or a trilogy, etc, you could add a suffix (ie: .01, .02, etc) so that you can regroup and find them all.

    Personally I use the imdb ID (ie: tt1190634) in the filename, as that will be easy to find no matter the language used.