context menu option for moving recordings to a different folder (1 Viewer)

[nino]

Hi -

In order to separate temporary recordings from the ones I'd like to keep longer time I usually copy "by hand" the recordings I want to keep to a My Videos folder (and delete the recording from My Recordings).

It would be great if the context menu in the recordings screen had an option for moving a recording to a different folder (and to delete it from the recordings database). Of course it would be nice if the target folder would be configurable.

Is anybody else copying around manually his recordings and thinks that this would be a good feature?

Thanks a lot,

nino.

 

[jonaskp]

I do this all the time, when recording movies. Definately would be a great thing to have. It could just be a simple thing like "I want to keep this"-kind of button, which moves it to either A: A predefined folder or B: Gives you an option to move to one of the folders that you have added to MyVideos.
Possibly with the added option of either deleting from the database or just edit the details so the recording gets physically moved, but still stays in the recorded tv section of MP (if this is even possible).
Recorded tv tens to get kind of messy when recording a lot of stuff, so being able to move around from within the GUI would be absolutely great.

 

[johnlc]

Just my €0.02

Well, based on the way Recordings are handled right now, the following would be pretty straight forward to do:
1) Add column to Recording - FolderId
2) Keep a list of folders, probably separate table, instead of one option on the recordings setup window (You could have an id on the card table, instead of foldername as it is right now - recordingFolder)
3) Left menu: Option to select Folder from above list
4) Context menu: Option to move recording to one of the other folders

Basically I think that MP should keep track of them all at all times, until you delete them.
Hhhhmmm:
5) Select destination folder when programming recording

This way you could setup folders for Friends, Bubber&BS, Prison Break, X-files, Movies etc then your recordings was already sorted when done

I didn't say it was easy, I said it was straight forward programming remember there are many details to cover in the code besides the above mentioned.

I do like the way shows of the same type is collected in subdirs as it is right now, else it would have been a complete mess on my HTPC.
Maybe some of this stuff is already covered by some plugin, I don't know.

 

[nino]

Hi -

I added some code (10-20 lines, really hacky) which gives me context menu option for moving a recording to a predefined (hard-coded) location and deleting it from the database. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the MediaPortal code in order to make the destination configurable or to implement this in a proper way.

I like and use this feature a lot.

Maybe some developer with more insight likes the idea, too?

Of course, more configuration options would be great - but maybe a small and simple solution is more likely to get implemented?

Cheers,

nino