Organize the DVD Library in Vista Media Center

In Windows XP MCE 2005 the DVD library could be organized in user specified
folders, e.g. enabling separate folders for self-made DVDs, another for
children's movies, yet another containing music DVDs, aso. (I'm referring to
DVDs stored on one or more hard drives, network folders, etc.)

I just started using the Windows Media Center in Vista Ultimate, and am
disappointed to see that all my DVD movies are displayed in a single view in
the DVD library. This is really inconvenient, since I have a large number of
movies on my computer.

So... is there a way to organize the movies in the Vista Media Center's DVD
library into different categories that can be displayed separately (like
separate folders)?

dOinK

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Wed Aug 20 14:00:14 PDT 2008

I have searched several forums, but no answer how to solve this. It is really
a shame that there isn't something to sort them...
The only thing that is more ore less acceptable for me (for the moment) is
using the sorting method it is using: the alphabeth. I have renamed the DVD
folders like:

Children - Dora
Children - Tom and Jerry
Movie - E.T.
Movie - Star Wars
Movie - The Usual Suspects
Music - Madonna
Music - Depeche Mode

By doing this my DVD's are grouped in in genre's, but still displayed in a
single view...



"dOinK" wrote:

> In Windows XP MCE 2005 the DVD library could be organized in user specified
> folders, e.g. enabling separate folders for self-made DVDs, another for
> children's movies, yet another containing music DVDs, aso. (I'm referring to
> DVDs stored on one or more hard drives, network folders, etc.)
>
> I just started using the Windows Media Center in Vista Ultimate, and am
> disappointed to see that all my DVD movies are displayed in a single view in
> the DVD library. This is really inconvenient, since I have a large number of
> movies on my computer.
>
> So... is there a way to organize the movies in the Vista Media Center's DVD
> library into different categories that can be displayed separately (like
> separate folders)?
>
> dOinK
>
>
>

Peter
Fri Oct 31 07:28:08 PDT 2008

you are absolute right. It is a shame not to implement such a simple
"database" specially when in earlier version they did! Also they did so in
the Vista versions in the section playing out own videos! So the mechanism is
still in the product but not availible for TV files an DVD galleries.

Let´s make a suggestion to Microsoft to fix this "bug" very, very soon.

Peter


"dOinK" wrote:

> In Windows XP MCE 2005 the DVD library could be organized in user specified
> folders, e.g. enabling separate folders for self-made DVDs, another for
> children's movies, yet another containing music DVDs, aso. (I'm referring to
> DVDs stored on one or more hard drives, network folders, etc.)
>
> I just started using the Windows Media Center in Vista Ultimate, and am
> disappointed to see that all my DVD movies are displayed in a single view in
> the DVD library. This is really inconvenient, since I have a large number of
> movies on my computer.
>
> So... is there a way to organize the movies in the Vista Media Center's DVD
> library into different categories that can be displayed separately (like
> separate folders)?
>
> dOinK
>
>
>