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Thanks for thinking about the suggestion.

It will be my pleasure to add your improvements (edit: done  ) . Thanks. So, I assume you got it working, right?

As far as SideA, SideB is concerned, I didn't think about that because LoadDVD was originally for changers. There are no changers in wide use that can select the disc side to play, and the eject-style carousels, such as Dacal, hand you the disc anyway. You decide which side to play manually.

So, I have to give some thought to the hard disk format, and how to make a simple change that allows a different trailer to be selected for a side.

Probably something like (until then, maybe Giga's idea will do for you):

<a disc=2 side=A href="c:\mymovies\mytrailer.avi">Play Me</a> , defaults to side=A if missing

or

[filepath disc=1 side=B ]e:\mymovies\starwars.iso[/filepath]

A little off topic here, but I went to your site to download the BulkEdit plugin but get directed to a page that says your account has been suspended? Too much traffic?

I've finally got all my DVD's catalogued and am now in the process of setting up the Play/Retrieve feature to play them from my media server [ \\Media\DVDs\<dvd name> ]

The multiple disk setup is kicking my tail 

For example, this works perfectly for 24 Season 1 (with "Play" in the Location field:

[filepath disc=1]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S1 - D1\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=2]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S1 - D2\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=3]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S1 - D3\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=4]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S1 - D4\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=5]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S1 - D5\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=6]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S1 - D6\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]

But this virtually identical sequence for Season 3 gives a "Disk Eject Failed" message for any disc except #1:

[filepath disc=1]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S3 - D1\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath][filepath disc=2]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S3 - D2\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=3]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S3 - D3\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=4]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S3 - D4\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=5]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S3 - D5\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=6]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S3 - D6\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  [filepath disc=7]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S3 - D7\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]

In fact, I have the same problem with Seasons 2 through 6 of the 24 series, but Season 1 works perfectly !!  The ONLY difference is the filename of the discs -- in fact I copy/pasted the "Notes" section from Season 1 to all of the other seasons and just edited the "S1" to the appropriate season [But I also tried retyping the whole sequence to see if that would fix it for other seasons -- and it doesn't.

Any ideas??

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The space vs. no space between the closing [/filepath] and next leading [filepath] was an attempt to see if that would make a difference (it didn't).

What's REALLY interesting is that if I copy the entire "Notes" field from my 24 Season 1 entry and paste it into 24 Season 2, Season 3, etc. NONE of the later seasons work even though Season 1 works perfectly.  The other seasons just play the first disc -- otherwise they just give the "Disk Eject Failed" message !!  (obviously they would be playing the wrong disc anyway if it worked --- they'd all play Season 1 discs)    The ONLY difference in this case is the name of the DVD Profiler entry:  "24: Season One", "24: Season Two", "24: Season Three"; etc.  All have "Play" in the location field (I've tried "Play", "play"; and "PLAY" just to be sure case differences didn't have an impact).  I also modified the PlayFromDisk.BAT file so DVD's, BluRay's, and HDDVD's all have the same action -- just in case somehow the later seasons were being flagged as the wrong disc type.  NOTHING helps !!

Just for grins, here are the actions in the PlayFromDisk.BAT file:
if %7=="DVD" "C:\Program Files\Cyberlink\PowerDVD8\PowerDVD8.exe" %6
if %7=="HD" "C:\Program Files\Cyberlink\PowerDVD8\PowerDVD8.exe" %6
if %7=="BluRay" "C:\Program Files\Cyberlink\PowerDVD8\PowerDVD8.exe" %6


I won't be home until very late tonight ... but I'll give the alternative sequence you suggested a try.

<a disc=2 href="\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S1 - D1\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo">ignored</a>

Does "ignored" mean I can put anything there and it's ignored ... or does it mean to be the text "ignored" ??

Are there any changer settings that might modify the behavior?  I've played just a bit with them to see if that would resolve this; but didn't find anything that helped.

I'll post the results of trying the alternative sequence later tonight.

I have a separate profile for each Season (1 - 6) of 24.  Each profile has a child profile for each disc; and EVERY profile has "Play" in the Notes field.  The child profiles each have an entry to allow directly playing that disc ... e.g. [filepath]\\Media\DVDs\24\24 - S2 - D4\Video_ts\Video_ts.ifo[/filepath]  is the entry for disk 4 of Season 2.  ... and they ALL work perfectly.

In addition, I've listed the appropriate number of discs in each "master" profile -- the idea being I could play any disc directly from that without having to open the child profiles.  They're ALL configured exactly the same -- but only Season 1 works !!! 

i.e. here's the structure for Season Two (all of the seasons look the same except for the # of discs):

24:  Season Two
      24:Season Two: Disc One
      24:Season Two: Disc Two
      24:Season Two: Disc Three
      24:Season Two: Disc Four
      24:Season Two: Disc Five
      24:Season Two: Disc Six
      24:Season Two: Disc Seven

Of course I only see the child profiles if I click the "+" sign by "24:Season Two" ... and my goal was to not have to do that.  I've got a LOT of series discs that I play to set up the same way, so it'd sure be nice to get this working.  Hopefully the alternative syntax will work -- I'll try it late tonight and let you know.

Edit: Ok, you got it! 

BulkEdit was designed to let you update a whole bunch of Location fields at one time. Your decision about how many is "too many" to do manually.

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"... play needs to be in the Location fiield of each disc in each profile, not Notes." ==>  That was an error in my post.  All of my "Play" entries are in the location fields -- but as I just noted, I did not have it in the rest of the discs for the master profiles in Seasons 2 through 6.

You know this raises a possible new feature. If I add "Play" to the list of default changers, you wouldn't need to code anything if that's all you ever needed to use LoadDVD for. Sorry I don't have that feature now, but due to your suffering, it will be there for future generations. 

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Excuse me, but I didn`t see it temporarly. I thought, that You withdraw it.

That's ok. Now the questions is .... did it work????? 

No. It crashes often, when Profiler will be closed.