How to organize your JAV collection?
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I've got two folders with titles ready for burning. The capacity is 46.5 for the 50GB Blu-ray. I'll soon be able to test my idea.
lets try it
What a method ,,, genius I will try it it make the collection look more fabulous that using pics in folders[/QUOTE]
@gamal1992 did you try something similar after all?
I have it working a bit better, can search by star and DVD code. Later I'll try adding genre. What you see so far is searching my new CSV file where I've started warehousing to BD50 discs.
JAD_Test02.mkv - 22 MB
https://mega.nz/#!6YFzDBQJ!gEuWoX-4ClaJkFWwu4eEB-zdViK0eUxIgrk4rCWoT9c
This is just an HTA file with VBScript and a CSV backend for the data. One CSS file for formatting the HTML and, of course, the thumbnails. That's it. No downloaded program, just a vision and some stolen time from the important things in life. It has to create two small text files (queryItem.txt and export.txt). Well...doesn't have to, I'm sure, but I was lazy and had it create instead of store in arrays or something. Actually, the export.txt was the only way I could get the CSS to work. What I'm working on now is to have the thumbnail raise up if the disc that title is on is in the disc tray.
JAD.hta - 7KB
style.css - 2KB
jad_s.gif - 2KB
app.ico - 2KB
library.csv - 19KB
The CSV file so far only has 272 SD titles that I"ve offloaded to 9 BD50 discs. You can see briefly in the image hover the BD disc the title is on and other title data. Just what I need, nothing fancy.
Note: The colors in the video look off, it's the screen capture program doing that, in front of you it looks fine.
JAD_Test02.mkv - 22 MB
https://mega.nz/#!6YFzDBQJ!gEuWoX-4ClaJkFWwu4eEB-zdViK0eUxIgrk4rCWoT9c
This is just an HTA file with VBScript and a CSV backend for the data. One CSS file for formatting the HTML and, of course, the thumbnails. That's it. No downloaded program, just a vision and some stolen time from the important things in life. It has to create two small text files (queryItem.txt and export.txt). Well...doesn't have to, I'm sure, but I was lazy and had it create instead of store in arrays or something. Actually, the export.txt was the only way I could get the CSS to work. What I'm working on now is to have the thumbnail raise up if the disc that title is on is in the disc tray.
JAD.hta - 7KB
style.css - 2KB
jad_s.gif - 2KB
app.ico - 2KB
library.csv - 19KB
The CSV file so far only has 272 SD titles that I"ve offloaded to 9 BD50 discs. You can see briefly in the image hover the BD disc the title is on and other title data. Just what I need, nothing fancy.
Note: The colors in the video look off, it's the screen capture program doing that, in front of you it looks fine.
A part of organization is knowing what to keep. I've made a tragic discovery. I did some benchmark testing on some old vids from an HDD I have on the side. I tried how they look in my Gear VR theater. Not too good, I must say. Compared to the 720x404 and higher vids out there, these older ones I have that are 640x360 (and somewhat lower)...OF COURSE look distorted and/or blurry in even medium motion. I was expecting that but hoping against it. That means of the tons I have I will have to decide the ones I truly want to hunt down at higher resolution so they'll look nice in the Theater. What's a boy to do...
I got it working with the thumbnail pop out if the disc is in the tray.
https://mega.nz/#!TdlUEBgT!TlT8psDX5SyOMz-s2ec1WL-vx9QW1UyDOZLZpF6fh0w
28MB
https://mega.nz/#!TdlUEBgT!TlT8psDX5SyOMz-s2ec1WL-vx9QW1UyDOZLZpF6fh0w
28MB
Are you still working on this? It's really nice!I have it working a bit better, can search by star and DVD code. Later I'll try adding genre. What you see so far is searching my new CSV file where I've started warehousing to BD50 discs.
JAD_Test02.mkv - 22 MB
https://mega.nz/#!6YFzDBQJ!gEuWoX-4ClaJkFWwu4eEB-zdViK0eUxIgrk4rCWoT9c
This is just an HTA file with VBScript and a CSV backend for the data. One CSS file for formatting the HTML and, of course, the thumbnails. That's it. No downloaded program, just a vision and some stolen time from the important things in life. It has to create two small text files (queryItem.txt and export.txt). Well...doesn't have to, I'm sure, but I was lazy and had it create instead of store in arrays or something. Actually, the export.txt was the only way I could get the CSS to work. What I'm working on now is to have the thumbnail raise up if the disc that title is on is in the disc tray.
JAD.hta - 7KB
style.css - 2KB
jad_s.gif - 2KB
app.ico - 2KB
library.csv - 19KB
The CSV file so far only has 272 SD titles that I"ve offloaded to 9 BD50 discs. You can see briefly in the image hover the BD disc the title is on and other title data. Just what I need, nothing fancy.
Note: The colors in the video look off, it's the screen capture program doing that, in front of you it looks fine.
@tmas3 actually no, I've been busy with other things. I do, however, continue to feed it, so it is still growing at least in terms of titles it displays (I'm up to 850).
As of now I can search by DVD code, actress name, and disc. By disc I mean if I search by code or actress and hover over a DVD cover I can see what disc it is on. When I search, say, BD025 (the disc label), it displays all the titles on that disc. I'm still looking forward to getting this to work better for me, though.
As of now I can search by DVD code, actress name, and disc. By disc I mean if I search by code or actress and hover over a DVD cover I can see what disc it is on. When I search, say, BD025 (the disc label), it displays all the titles on that disc. I'm still looking forward to getting this to work better for me, though.
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So far I've been just been organizing my video's by studio but I've recently been looking into more graphical solutions. So far I've been using a program called Pornganizer which lets you put in name of stars and then link them to video along with tagging, unfortunately the latest version seems to be broke so I'm going back to V3. Also I've been backing up on multiple harddrives and Bluray data discs.
WinCatalog 2017. Only working solution I found. Catalogs hard drives. Creates thumbnails, then you can search through all drives. I have a mysql database to keep the stuff I like best, but there is too much JAV and porn from all over the world to keep track. It's a real real pain to enter all that info for all. Name, Date created, movie description, etc. Since I don't delete what I have, I have over xxx number of drives. The software allows me to see a list of all my drives ( which I label with a number). So if I want to search for any title, I type in a keyword and I know which drive its on. Unless you have just 300- 400 titles to keep track of. Unfortunately it's not free, but price not bad. I tried burning to Blu-Ray. Way too time consuming, I just buy new 5 TB drives, when on sale. One can go mad, keeping track of JAV.
The way I do it for my collection is by using these 5 essential softwares
1)Ultra Search
One of the fastest file searching software with wildcard capabilities, I put all my finished downloaded files at a directory and then use UltraSearch to delete all misc "advertisement" files that usually come with the download by searching just for the extension (example .mht or .url). I usually add 50+ downloads in my queue and can't be bothered to select just the movie files and photos
2) Bulk Rename Utility
After clearing all the junk files my next step is to name them properly and removing certain texts like [thz.la] or p2p.wowweeelubba.SNIS-404 for 200 folders isn't fun. This is one of the best tool for the job.
One of the most used function by me is to Rename files from foldername automatically, so I only need to rename each movie's folder properly. Also I use a batch file to move all movies that came without a folder into it's own folder according to the files name
3)JavMovieScraper by DoctorD1501
One of THE best data scraper I've used to date, though the creator has gone MIA for at least a year but someone by the name of Wizell has taken over the project.
This java program is able to scrape 99% of JAV movies from sources such as DMM, Javlibrary, Javbus, and also uncensored ones from AVentertainment, Caribbean, Heyzo, 1pondo.
What it does is download Covers and creates a .nfo file with multiple Actress names, english titles, subgenre, year of release so that you can easily search for whichever actress you want a list of, then again the accuracy of this data is strongly depended on the sites it scrapes for, personally I prefer scraping from Javlibrary as the actresses list are mostly accurate and I can always submit a change to that site if I find the data to be inaccurate.
Also to use this tool you must make sure the files are named *CORRECTLY* or you'll get wrong titles scraped
4)DupeGuru
I use this to find any duplicate movies I may have downloaded
5)KODI
Finally what's the point of all that data scraping if you don't have a way to properly 'view' them? Previously known as XBMC, KODI feeds on all the data you've scraped and you can browse all your collection by Year, Actresses, Genre and view all the movies via covers. Very customizable experience
1)Ultra Search
One of the fastest file searching software with wildcard capabilities, I put all my finished downloaded files at a directory and then use UltraSearch to delete all misc "advertisement" files that usually come with the download by searching just for the extension (example .mht or .url). I usually add 50+ downloads in my queue and can't be bothered to select just the movie files and photos
2) Bulk Rename Utility
After clearing all the junk files my next step is to name them properly and removing certain texts like [thz.la] or p2p.wowweeelubba.SNIS-404 for 200 folders isn't fun. This is one of the best tool for the job.
One of the most used function by me is to Rename files from foldername automatically, so I only need to rename each movie's folder properly. Also I use a batch file to move all movies that came without a folder into it's own folder according to the files name
3)JavMovieScraper by DoctorD1501
One of THE best data scraper I've used to date, though the creator has gone MIA for at least a year but someone by the name of Wizell has taken over the project.
This java program is able to scrape 99% of JAV movies from sources such as DMM, Javlibrary, Javbus, and also uncensored ones from AVentertainment, Caribbean, Heyzo, 1pondo.
What it does is download Covers and creates a .nfo file with multiple Actress names, english titles, subgenre, year of release so that you can easily search for whichever actress you want a list of, then again the accuracy of this data is strongly depended on the sites it scrapes for, personally I prefer scraping from Javlibrary as the actresses list are mostly accurate and I can always submit a change to that site if I find the data to be inaccurate.
Also to use this tool you must make sure the files are named *CORRECTLY* or you'll get wrong titles scraped
4)DupeGuru
I use this to find any duplicate movies I may have downloaded
5)KODI
Finally what's the point of all that data scraping if you don't have a way to properly 'view' them? Previously known as XBMC, KODI feeds on all the data you've scraped and you can browse all your collection by Year, Actresses, Genre and view all the movies via covers. Very customizable experience
^^ JavMovieScrapper and Kodi are what i've been using for about 2 weeks now, they work pretty darn good together but it's a pretty slow process
im really interested in using KODI now and i really like it so far but does the .nfo and covers have to be in the same folder as the video file itself? if so, do you personally have each video in its own folder with its respective .nfo and stuff, or do you just use one folder with all of that stuff in there? i feel like having just one folder makes things too cluttered, but i also dont want an individual folder for every single movie. sorry, im new to this and im trying to think how best to organize. ive been wanting to organize all this JAV for a while now but damn i let it get this far and now its overwhelming me
Each movie has it's own folder with respective .nfo and covers
Kodi does not require each title to be a separate folder. Some ppl do it because you may have a whole bunch of support files not just NFO and cover, also subtitles, screen shots even movies split up into scenes.
Whatever scheme of folder/subfolder (even on different drives) structure you want to do, Kodi can pretty much accommodate you. It can especially scan a huge folder (or all your drives) with lots of subfolder levels and hunt for anything that looks like a media file (music, movie, TV episodes) and attempt to put that media file in its own Kodi database (without moving the file) and try to find all meta info to fill in the database (e.g. from .NFO of the same name).
hmm... ive had a further think on it and i think ill do yearly (or even monthly, if im feeling ambitious) subfolders, so as not to have a huge cluttered mess in one folder, and then let Kodi handle the rest. i still want some semblance of organization in my own folders, but of course i dont want to do too much work. date is clear cut so it shouldnt be too hard dumping videos into the right folder.
i also did some light experimenting with scraping, sometimes there are problems. for example, HUNTA-349 on JAVlibrary http://www.javlibrary.com/en/?v=javlikt2rq has the cast listed, but when i scrape it, the actors section is blank. scraping with the amalgated one and scraping with specifically JAVlibrary both give me nothing. i could manually put them in but that would defeat the purpose?
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ive tried other movies, some work, especially ones with just one actress. but i run into some other problems too like HBAD-360, the front cover is messed up. thats more easily fixable than the missing actresses.
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am i doing something wrong or are these hiccups just bound to happen?
anyway im gonna start working on this this weekend.thanks for all the advice so far
Javlibrary isn't the best for scrappig actress names, usually r18 and DMM work best for me, and for the front cover what i did was i went to amalgmation setting, on the specific order section I went to posters section and moved DMM to the bottom of the order(or you could disable it) and boom front cover issue fixed for me
The covers threw me off of this program. My process has better results for that.hmm... ive had a further think on it and i think ill do yearly (or even monthly, if im feeling ambitious) subfolders, so as not to have a huge cluttered mess in one folder, and then let Kodi handle the rest. i still want some semblance of organization in my own folders, but of course i dont want to do too much work. date is clear cut so it shouldnt be too hard dumping videos into the right folder.
i also did some light experimenting with scraping, sometimes there are problems. for example, HUNTA-349 on JAVlibrary http://www.javlibrary.com/en/?v=javlikt2rq has the cast listed, but when i scrape it, the actors section is blank. scraping with the amalgated one and scraping with specifically JAVlibrary both give me nothing. i could manually put them in but that would defeat the purpose?
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ive tried other movies, some work, especially ones with just one actress. but i run into some other problems too like HBAD-360, the front cover is messed up. thats more easily fixable than the missing actresses.
View attachment 1169707
am i doing something wrong or are these hiccups just bound to happen?
anyway im gonna start working on this this weekend.
I don't know all the issues involved but there's a very good explanation for the fail of all HUNTA, AP, SW and many SOD vids.
Officially these are "amateur" vids. Especially for HUNTA and SW vids. Almost all of their performers are full time pros, and even regularly they cast A-class (very almost never S-class) idols in "amateur" vids. So they never list the cast on the cover, put white or black bars to obscure the idol's eyes (yet never mosaics or blurring to the extent that sharp eyed fans can't recognize the idol) and never supply the idol's data to the retailers like DMM. Yes it's all very doublethink. In fact I am pretty sure Hunter, Switch etc force DMM etc to agree not to add idol data to their database/customer interface, so as to keep up the "amateur" doublethink illusion.
The only source of reliably getting the cast data is sougouwiki (which doesn't sell vids directly, while they link to DMM product pages I suspect they don't make a yen out of it) and I guess JAVlibrary also list it sometimes. I don't use Javlib much, I have the impression that they don't reliably put up cast data for all HUNTA and SW vids.
I might understand the logic of scrapper to prioritize DMM and other "official" (i.e. commercial) sources and if they list cast as blank, it's not just missing data, but a positive blank, so it overrides JAVlib's (fan-contributed?) cast data.
So far, I don't mind too much the manual labor of hand-copying Sougouwiki's cast data into my own database (completing the data scrapped from DMM/Javbus). The reason being I collect only a small fraction of "amateur" vids, so it's literally 1-2 minutes of time per week. It's not too hard to write/mod a scrapper to scan Sougouwiki and automates what I do by hand, but so far, I haven't the motivation to do it.
Somewhat OT: I always wonder where Sougouwiki gets their cast data. For certain categories (known full time professional idols and the "major" "amateur" studios), their data is absolutely complete and timely (for HUNTA, which I care most, the data is available several weeks advanced of the vid's release). That leaves me thinking the data is not fan-contributed. It smells like the industry (studios? idol's agencies?) are feeding the data to them, so there's a doublethink doublemarketting strategy: on DMM/Amazon these vids pretends to be amateur, but fans of these pseudo-amateur idols/genres/series have a semi-unofficial site to get timely and accurate updates?
Also I've never seen/heard of Sougouwiki dox true amateurs (students, OL and housewives who just do AV for a very short time for some quick cash). So you also notice some SOD (sometimes HUNTA too) vids with some unidentified performers (or identified only with a (fake) generic first name).