Music and movie cataloging on LibraryThing!

P.S. So then, my post here boils down to this: Is there now a way to actually include here, a simple three to four minute example of, say, four of the people mentioned (Robert Taylor, Olivia de Havilland, James Cagney, Fielder Cook) to let each one "sing and dance" right before one's very own eyes? That way, the whole thing itself can be grasped directly and instantly experienced for just what it is.

>1 GeneRuyle: No offense, but you sound high :D There's no rhyme or reason to any of it.

>1 GeneRuyle:
There are various fields from which you might link to video hosted elsewhere. I think that's the sort of thing you're aiming for?

>2 SandraArdnas: Many thanks for your opinion, SandraArdnas! But visiting and viewing your ample LT pages, I believe you and I are "barking up quite different trees" here. I sincerely wish you the very best in following your stated pursuits. It's unlikely mine would even appear on your radar, especially those having to do with the more non-Jungian physiological and psychobiological traditions -- nascent as these admittedly are at this point. ;- ) I'll keep digging further anyway.

>4 GeneRuyle: I'd take my comment to mean you request is extremely unclear and in its current form sounds nebulous, but hey checking my library and being snippy about its contents is a better way to go about it. (FWIW, I contemplated if it's some gobbledygook produced by a bot)

>5 SandraArdnas:

Note also that @GeneRuyle has posted to another, ancient, thread on the same exact topic, admitting to being ninety years old; that post also made my eyes glaze over.

But a general comment to the original poster: This is a cataloging site. Yes, there are a few other things that you can do here, but the purpose is to catalog items. If you want to know whether you have, say, the DVD of "The Music Man," the site will help you track that: You can enter the movie and the format. If you want to keep track of the characters in the movie, you can use Common Knowledge to do that -- just put "Professor Harold Hill" in the People/Characters and "River City" in Important Places.

But film clips aren't cataloging information. You could put links in the notes, or something like that, but don't expect support for something that far outside the purpose of the site.

>5 SandraArdnas: Trust that you've made yourself perfectly clear to me. I have no doubt that to you everything I said was akin to the gobbledygook of a bot.

>1 GeneRuyle: Please note: New features "is a group for LibraryThing staff to announce and discuss new features and other improvements with members. Unlike every other group, we discourage starting new topics, unless you've actually developed a new feature (with or without our help)."
Site improvement requests belong in the Recommend Site Improvements group: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/559/Recommend-Site-Improvements.

>8 Taphophile13: Thank you for the helpful clarification. I'll look into the 'Recommend Site Improvements Group' you mentioned. Believe me, my intrusion here and the ensuing disruption it caused, was unintentional. I've just returned after an absence of almost a dozen years.

>8 Taphophile13:

Well, this is a continuation of that prior "ancient" thread, so really just the one. GeneRuyle didn't start the topic; Tim did. And GeneRuyle does seem to be trying to understand existing functionality, even if it is outside of the central purpose of the site. He wrote, "Is there now a way ... ?"

>10 paradoxosalpha: A thousand thanks to you for seeing that! That is precisely what was taking place and brought things to where they stand at present. In my own thinking, I refer to this kind of thing as a "systems problem." It surprised me to come across it at this high a level. But given Taphophile13's exceptional ability to both see and state the tangle accurately, it encourages me to believe that the LT system is indeed still capable of functioning at the optimum level. That to me is a very positive sign . . . that fresh and new means can indeed be developed if we all do our best. (It reminds me of a conversation I had with Jonas Salk way back in the 1970s at the very outset of my doctoral studies program, and indeed launched our staying in touch from that point clear on up to the very end of his life. All of which is aptly documented in print, by the way.) Regardless of what happens here, Taphophile13's responses have been genuinely creative and, in a word, "furthering." They foster our "sweating the fat off our brains" to develop bigger and better ways of doing our work. That's encouraging and is bound to bear fruit in ways beyond what we've known before. That should be acknowledged above all else. -G.R.