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