tinpanalley
Golden Member
For years, I've kept several programs and documentaries on discs to save them for rewatching later. Because burning to disc media (today, BD-R) means one genre can span over several discs and the disc surfaces can be inadequate for writing all its contents, and also because I want a simpler way of finding something years later, I took to using excel workbooks to list very simply every program, documentary series, film and its three digit disc number in an adjacent column. Very, very, very simple.
Ex: Column 1: [Name of Program] | Column 2: [UK Documentaries - 002]
It used to not be a problem a few years ago, there were 2 or 3 history doc discs, 2 or 3 food show discs, etc etc but as time's passed it has become an ordeal finding that ONE disc with that program I want to show someone.
So, yeah, my excel system works. But can anyone think of something that might be a bit nicer to look at without any additional bells and whistles? A simple but customisable database program of sorts that can do this? I don't even need it to extract metadata from the internet in fact I'd rather it didn't, other than maybe a production date. (Not that it would find any of these BBC docs anyway. No media player software I've ever used can ever find my programs.)
Thank you!!
Ex: Column 1: [Name of Program] | Column 2: [UK Documentaries - 002]
It used to not be a problem a few years ago, there were 2 or 3 history doc discs, 2 or 3 food show discs, etc etc but as time's passed it has become an ordeal finding that ONE disc with that program I want to show someone.
So, yeah, my excel system works. But can anyone think of something that might be a bit nicer to look at without any additional bells and whistles? A simple but customisable database program of sorts that can do this? I don't even need it to extract metadata from the internet in fact I'd rather it didn't, other than maybe a production date. (Not that it would find any of these BBC docs anyway. No media player software I've ever used can ever find my programs.)
Thank you!!
