Let me just weigh in here.

I absolutely hate the fact that when I buy movies that come on multiple formats that DVD Profiler pushes so hard to add each disc as a child profile.  In my mind, I'm buying one movie, so it ought to be one profile in my collection.  The software already has a feature to keep multiple discs within a single profile, so I'm not sure what the benefit to having separate child profiles for the same movie...

If a collection comes with multiple movies or multiple different versions of the same movie, yeah, it makes sense to have multiple child profiles for each of those titles.  But when it's the same movie in three different formats (Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, for example), it doesn't make any sense to me to treat those as multiple profiles.  I bought one movie with three discs.  Same actors.  Same edit.  Same length.  In my mind it ought to be one profile, with the three discs listed in the "Discs" section of the profile.

TV series are the worst.  You buy a single season and it's completely arbitrary how many child profiles are going to be associated with that.  Some shows are 25 episodes of an hour each and are encoded with high bit-rate, so they'll be 6 discs, or more.  Other shows have 6 half-hour episodes and come on a single disc and have no child profiles.  The first, even though it is one season, shows up with 6 child profiles.  The second, also one season, shows up with no child profiles.  The number of physical discs in a TV series is meaningless for keeping track of how many titles are in a collection and doesn't correlate in any meaningful way to the number of seasons or episodes.

To make matters worse, DVD Profiler by default counts the parent and child profiles separately in the total number of discs/titles.  So a three-disc collection actually gets counted as four (1 parent + 3 children), which is wrong by anyone's definition.

If I was voting, I'd say that when a collection comes with three copies of the same movie, that it ought to all be kept in the parent profile using the multiple-disc feature and count as one title.  TV series ought to be one parent profile when it is a single season, and one child profile for each season when multiple seasons are in a single box.  And DVD Profiler ought to set the "Counts As" to zero (or at least ignore that number and disable the entry field) for the parent profile when child profiles are attached. 

Right now I don't have any idea how many titles I have, or how many discs I own.  The numbers coming out of DVD Profiler are meaningless.

Quoting djdjohnson:

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Right now I don't have any idea how many titles I have, or how many discs I own.  The numbers coming out of DVD Profiler are meaningless.

I personally love children, but I can still tell you exactly how many movies/seasons, DVDs vs. Blu-ray and 3Ds I have. The tools have been provided to let you count or keep your collection any way you choose. I agree with DJ, a few more default settings would make it better.