My collection is also in a bit of a mess. In the bad old days, I purchased a lot of pirated DVDs (even quite a few legit VCDs from HK and TW) I guess I must have hundreds of discs. I also have at least 150 Europorn DVDs and VCDs (mostly legit). All these are now somewhere in storage and never see the light of day since I don't have a DVD player connected. There were many good flix in there and one of these days I will have to rip and encode them onto my NAS.
I have have a big collection (about 300GB) that's stuck on my previous NAS that one of these days I have to retrieve (I think I know how to do it, but just never got around to ...) In there is my fond collection of Maria Ozawa and Takako Kitahara.
And a pile of DVD+R holding back-ups of older bit-torrents. Many are back-up of the aforementioned NAS. Same story... many are really excellent flix, but I hardly ever go thru them and re-watch them.
My current (2nd) NAS is holding only the downloads from past 2 years or so... Already 250+ titles. That's also a measure of my downloading pace...
Since starting my own JAV database software, I have finally developed my own approach to JAV collecting:
Every few days (weeks), I would browse JAVZOO to scan for recent releases. If I am busy in a period, I might skip a month between browsing, but that's ok, you won't miss a good JAV. Also for a few particular actresses I kind of keeps tabs on their monthly releases, and irregularly I might do a search by genres. Most of these I perform on JAVZOO, but sometimes I check out releases on 3xplanet, as I notices sometimes 3xplanet release a good JAV that's not found on JAVZOO.
DMM and R18 I understand is more "authoritative" but R18 is not comprehensive at all, and DMM is a hassle to access. Anyway JAVZOO covers most of the info found on DMM.
So that get me the JAV codes that I decided to get. I also save the cover image from JAVZOO (which is hot-linked from DMM anyway) Next is kickass.to, usually the DVD code will give me a torrent there and for a new release, the bittorrent is completed within an hour. Sometimes I do have to come to Akiba Online, but not often.
Then I move the file from the BT location to the JAV folder(s), stripping off any extra files. I go back to JAVZOO to get the Japanese title and Google Translate it, fixing it to my satisfaction. Then I crop the cover image to make a poster (typically 300x412 pixels) with .tbn extension (XBMC convention) then rename the the movie file into this format:
DVD-code English Title optional actress name.EXT
e.g. PPPD-340 Her Sister Big Tits Creampie Seduction Julia.mp4
The actress name is skipped if there are more than 3 actresses
Then it's done. On XBMC I found most commonly I browse by file date (the date the movie was downloaded) or by filename (therefore sorted by DVD code).
For uncensored vids, I also apply the same process but it's slightly more time-consuming since they often lacks DVD covers so it's more troublesome to make a poster/thumbnail. But I kind of insist on it, since uncensored vid lacking a cover image will almost never get watched so why keep it on the NAS?
I have retroactively applied this naming and thumbnail convention to all the vids on my current NAS. Next... is for the next post...