Filenames vs .org-AMV names & Add Opi-Link to dl-Page

nokvok · Post by **nokvok** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:52 pm

Hi over there,

Am downloading AMVs here quite a while now (no money to donate and no skills to create thus i'm just leeching

) and i usully avoided the Forums, but it is late at night and i am sick, thus my Brain doesn't work right anyways, so i might as well post here.

Well, i wanted make some Suggestion i guess... here it comes:

My dl-behaviour showed me clearly that the only reason why i dled 359... wait... 360 now... local videos while giving only 3 opinions is the simple lack of a "Give Opinion"-Link on the download Page (the Page which is shown After the Download started).
I am quit of the Lazy kind and hitting "Back" several times while messing with the automated dl-scripting isn't my thing... esspecially when i dled ten AMVs at once

-> Thus i suggest to Add a "Give Opinion" link to this dl-page. (It would be great if i could give my Star rating on the Give Opinion page, too... allthough i am not sure if this function isn't there allready... i am not hitting the opinion page often

)

Neither do i think it is funny to try to guess which Filename belongs to which Video name...

-> Thus i suggest to Match the filenames of the download with the Actual name of the Video as it is shown here on .org

... oh, and of course i suggest that you all wear Warm clothes on windy aotum days so that you don't get sick like i did...

... further i suggest someone tells me the correct spelling of aotum... i do not suggest to search for any further Spelling errors, though...

bum · Post by **bum** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:03 am

errr, just click on the "my downloads" link in the main members page which shows all local videos downloaded. and please try and show a bit of appreciation to the hard work of amv'ers by giving a few OP's . we spend weeks working hard on our vids. its not hard to spend 5 minutes ticking a few boxes and writing a few coments.

nokvok · Post by **nokvok** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:31 am

sure, i wouldn't mind giving ops... that's not the Problem, the problem is the accessibility of the Op-Page and the often difference of the Name of the video and the Name of the File.

I actually though about the suggestion i made before i made them, i am sure these Improvements would make it much easier for me to give ops, and the easier it is for me to give ops the more often i will do it... simple logic.

I btw, believe i am not the only one suffering from this problems when sorting their Vids or accessign the op-page for just downloaded Vids.

SQ · Post by SQ » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:54 pm

I agree witht he extra opinion link... Can't get enough opinions!

But the filenames are the same as what they were uploaded as. I think it'd be really daunting to write up a script to rename all uploaded files, so you'll just have to yell at the editors who name the files they upload weirdly.

Like me. =p

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:18 pm

I think what he meant, or rather what i originally interpreted it as, is the video information page or *somewhere* should list the filename.
I remember a while back, I downloaded like 20 amvs all to the same song... even though I tried to give star ratings as I went, I ended up getting confused and having no idea which video i was rating, so I ended up just giving a lot of them the same score.

nokvok · Post by **nokvok** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:52 pm

Yes yes, adding the Filename to "somewhere else" than only the dl page would be enougth, creating a certain "File naming Standartisation" as Guideline for Submitters would also be Great, some people use the Anime name, some the song name, Some just an abreviation of the Vid-name, many Add their Studio or creator names... of course some add them as Prefix some as Postfix
All in all it is a pretty messy job to find a certain AMV in my AMV folder, may be if we have a Guideline "How to name your AMV properly" people wouldn't yell at the Creator sthat much

SQ · Post by SQ » Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:57 am

But my XviD-FFIX.avi and TTS323.avi will NEVER DIE!

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:29 am

nokvok wrote:Yes yes, adding the Filename to "somewhere else" than only the dl page would be enougth, creating a certain "File naming Standartisation" as Guideline for Submitters would also be Great, some people use the Anime name, some the song name, Some just an abreviation of the Vid-name, many Add their Studio or creator names... of course some add them as Prefix some as Postfix
All in all it is a pretty messy job to find a certain AMV in my AMV folder, may be if we have a Guideline "How to name your AMV properly" people wouldn't yell at the Creator sthat much

It's a good idea in principle, but much like trying to get everyone to agree on one way to name their MP3s, you probably don't have good odds for sucess.

I know MJ renames his vids to a certain convention (Anime - Editor Name - Song Name or something like that), perhaps you could try that? The filenames aren't edged in stone, nothing's stopping you.

-DOKool

YouTube · Post by **derobert** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:56 pm

nokvok wrote:"File naming Standartisation" as Guideline for Submitters would also be Great, some people use the Anime name, some the song name, Some just an abreviation of the Vid-name, many Add their Studio or creator names...

Hmmm, you know, this is something that could be an .Org preference. We have all the info in the db; we could generate the file name for local downloads per downloader's preference.

SQ · Post by SQ » Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:19 am

Dew it, Derobert!

PS: Will you be at AWA?