Alternate Versions allow more than one entry in our online database to share the same UPC/EAN or Disc ID. For more details on what they are and how to create them, see our alternate versions info page.

Alternate versions are designed to solve three general cases:

• Updated re-releases of a title under the same UPC/EAN/Disc ID
  • Use for: Two or more releases of the same title with largely different cover images (e.g. Disc ID profiles shared among different box sets).
  • Use for: Two or more releases of the same title with significantly different content. (UPC/EAN only)

  The first added entry uses the base UPC/EAN/Disc ID, and subsequent additions use the next available alternate version.



• Unrelated releases of different titles that share the same UPC/EAN
  • Use for: Two or more releases of different films/shows which share the same UPC.

  The first added entry uses the base UPC/EAN, and subsequent additions use the next available alternate version.

  Note: In prior program releases, subsequent versions were added by Disc ID. These entries will be replaced with UPC/EAN alternate IDs.



• More than one film on the same side of a single disc (including Bonus Feature Films)
  • Use for: Different films on the same side of a single disc.
  • Do not use for: Different cuts of the same film

  The first added entry uses the base Disc ID, and subsequent additions use the next available alternate version.

• Alternate versions are not used for contributing profiles for shorts or episode-level profiles for TV series.
• Alternate versions are not used for releases with the same UPC/EAN/Disc ID which are already differentiated by locality.

• A release with a single UPC/EAN, with each movie on its own disc, or on its own side of a disc:
  • UPC Entry: (Movie 1/Movie 2) data
    • Disc ID A Entry (Side A): Movie 1 data
    • Disc ID B Entry (Second disc, or Side B): Movie 2 data
• A release with a single UPC/EAN, with two movies on the same side of the same disc:
  • UPC Entry: (Movie 1/Movie 2) data
    • Disc ID A Entry: Movie 1 data
    • Disc ID A Entry (Variant ID #1): Movie 2 data


• Note: Do not create and contribute a disc ID profile with multiple movies:
  • UPC Entry: (Movie 1/Movie 2) data
    • Disc ID A: (Movie 1/Movie 2) data
      • Disc ID A Entry (Variant ID #1): Movie 1 data
      • Disc ID A Entry (Variant ID #2): Movie 2 data