| Criteria for Catalog Files | Catalog Version - summer19 |
| (why we do what we do in the catalogs) | |
| Major Catalog Media Types | Technical aspects of Media |
| Movies | > A majority of our movies are in 1080p - this is the current standard we try to use when acquiring all new films |
| > Most modern movies are either in .mp4 or .mkv | |
| > Movies that were encoded several years ago are often in 480p or 720p and usually have the .avi file format | |
| Exceptions - The lowest file size available is used for Foreign films and Documentaries movies (480p or 720p), | |
| unless there is a good reason for higher definition - then a documentary or foreign film may be available in 1080p | |
| > Almost all Classic movies are Blu-Ray and consequently have large file sizes (6 gigabyte+) | |
| > We have only a small selection of 4K (2160p) movies in the current catalog | |
| > Our movie collection covers the entire age of movie making, as far back as 100 years ago | |
| TV | > Most of our TV shows that are grouped into seasons are in 480p with a large portion also in 720p |
| > Only newer shows produced in the last couple of years are in 1080p | |
| > The only TV List, Uncategorized by Episode, is made up of single TV episodes which are all in 480p | |
| > We try to list TV shows having multiple versions of seasons with the most complete seasons at the top of the list | |
| > There are no 4K (2160p) TV shows in the current catalog | |
| > TV and movies are the most well categorized media types | |
| > We have only a small amount of TV programming prior to the 1980's with most coming from the 1990's to present day | |
| Music | > The vast majority of music is encoded as .mp3 at various bit rates with some .flac recordings |
| > There are 4 Catalogs and 3 Lists with most music not being fully categorized | |
| > Many albums have art work included as .jpg, but we hide these files to make reading the catalogs easier | |
| > Our current music section is not as big as it will eventually be, but it covers a wide variety of music. | |
| Books | > Books have many formats such as .mobi, .azw3, .txt, .doc, .djvu, .chm, but the two biggest are .epub and .pdf |
| > Like music, most books have not been fully categorized and many have cover art that we do not show in the catalogs | |
| > Most non-fiction and academic is in PDF format, fiction mainly is in Epub, and oddball stuff can be found as text. | |
| > The only significant group of foreign books are in the Epub Catalog in spanish language | |
| Magazines | > Almost all magazines are in .pdf format and most modern titles only go back to 2015 |
| > There are, however, large groups of "pulp" and other classic magazines from the 1930's up to 2000 | |
| > There are also a lot of international versions of magazines which have abbreviations such as "AU" (Australia) | |
| Audio Books | > .mp3 is the most common file format for audio books, with a few .wma and .mp4 |
| > we show all the files of an audio book so you can verify that it is complete | |
| > there are some single file audio books, but most have multiple files for each chapter or section | |
| Music Videos | > music videos are a mix of .avi, .mpg, .mp4, .mkv, .wmv and .vob file formats |
| > because of when they were most popular, most music video date from before the year 2000 | |
| Music Concerts | > all video formats used - time period from present day back to 1960's |
| Instructional Videos | > all video formats used, like audio books, there are some single file videos, but most have multiple files |
| > this media type is being changed to "Instructional Video and Audio" so there are .mp3 audio files in the category | |
| Major Catalog Media Types | Catalog Categories for each Media |
| Movies - | Action, Animated Adult, Animated Children, Classic, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Foreign, Horror, |
| Horror Comedy, Science Fiction, Western, WTF, 4K (2160) | |
| TV - | Action, Animated Adult, Children's TV, Cartoons, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Food and Cooking, Foreign Language, |
| General Entertainment, Horror, Legal/Political Drama, Medical Drama, Period Drama, Police/Crime Drama, Reality TV | |
| Science Entertainment, Science Fiction, Soap Opera, Sports, Supernatural Drama, Teen, Western | |
| Music - | Bluegrass , Blues , Christmas Music , Classical , Collections and Lists , Country , Dance , Death Metal , |
| Droning , Dub and Dub Step , Electronic , Electronic Background , Electroswing , Folk , Foreign Music , Guitar , | |
| Hard Rock , Hawaiian , Heavy Metal , Hip Hop , Horror Punk , Instrumental Music , Jazz , Latin , Metal , Orchestral Pop , | |
| Other , Pop , Progressive Metal , Psychedelic Rock , Punk Rock , Rap , Rave , Reggae , Rhythm and Blues , Rock and | |
| Roll, Ska Punk , Soul and Funk , Soundtrack , Trance , Unknown Music , Various Singles , Video Game Music , Vocal | |
| Books - | Epub, MOBI, PDF, By Cluster |
| Magazines - | By Cluster, By Title |
| Audio Books - | By Title, By Author, By Cluster |
| Music Videos - | By Cluster, By Title |
| Music Concerts - | By Cluster, By Title |
| Instructional Videos - | By Cluster |