Feaure Ideas:Renamable Seasons / User Created Seasons (1 Viewer)

[Mavoc]

i have 2 somewhat related ideas

1) Renamable Seasons
what if we could rename the "Season 1, Season 2, etc." to something else on an individual level. maybe through a <Season.Prettyname> field

examples
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Water Book, Earth Book, Fire Book
Heroes
Volume One, Volume Two

plus show like Digimon and Power Rangers are more like multiple series treated like seasons. this way you give appropriate titles to the seasons.

2)User Created Seasons
this idea i aimed towards making long anime series that are sorted by absolute numbers to be easier to browse.

shows like DragonBallZ with 200+ episodes listed in one long list is a pain to navigate. what if we could put in user created dividers between episodes that would be treated like seasons.

example
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
we could put a divider after every 4th episode
1,2,3,4|5,6,7,8|9,10
then in the seasonal view we would see something like this
episodes 1-4, episodes 5-8, episodes 9-10

then if we were to use my first idea we could change it again to
Saiyan Saga, Namek Saga, Ginyu Saga

this would allow the user to break up a long listing by a set number(say every 25 episodes) or by story events(sagas, arcs)

i would love to hear if anyone would have uses for this other then the ones i listed, and feel free to add ideas that build off of this one

 

[Inker]

1) only going to happen if supported by the online database. I don't think there are many series that would benefit from this, but since it would be easy to do, why not, so I suggest you raise your idea with them.

2) I don't know about that one, I guess you can kind of fake it with views (although I'm not sure it works at the moment), but at first sight it sounds rather complicated to implement for rather limited results (basically anime). Speaking of which, why can't the stupid anime stuff be organized like everything else? Seems everything needs to be handled differently for it.....

 

[Mavoc]

1) only going to happen if supported by the online database. I don't think there are many series that would benefit from this, but since it would be easy to do, why not, so I suggest you raise your idea with them.

i'm confused on how the first idea has anything to do with theTVDB, as this field should be up to the individual user. I would personal label my seasons in a "Season 1 - 2007/2008" format unless the series had a unique name for the season. there is no way this could work on the online DB as there is no "right answer".

 

[Inker]

Hmm, but isnt there a "right answer"? Example Heroes, I think everyone would agree that seasons should be named Volume 1/2? This is what I would strongly prefer as it requires almost zero user changes and would benefit everyone immediatly.

If that's not what your asking, but your asking about each user has to enter/input this on their own, then its more of a "Tagging" feature. You can kind of do this right now, but you'll have to change things in the DB itself (add a column called pretty_name to season table or something and add your values there), then in config you can reference the new column to be displayed. The downside is that if-else-then scripting is currently not included in the dll, so you can't say for seasons that have this filled display it, otherwise show as currently.

If such tagging is to be supported, it will be done in a much more generalised way (tag anything), and I will also need to finilize the if-then-else scripting. It's interesting, but I'm not promising anything from my side.

That said, there are other devs. who can and do work on the plugin, so maybe one of them would like to add this?

 

[Mavoc]

while tagging anything would be nice, seasonal view has a lot less variables to use. this is why i specifically mentioned renaming seasons.

would it not be easier(then if-then-else) to make this work by always using the pretty_name value and throw "Season <Season.seasonindex>" into it as the default value. i know mediaportal has a feature for typing in names(imdb searching) but the function is never used in tv-series. is there a reason this function is not used to help with online matching, and could this be used to tag files from inside tv series?

i will bring it up with theTVDB people and see about adding season pretty_names to the series view, then tagging it would be easier. Link

think i might just add something simpler for now, like <Season.Seasonindex> - <Season.Years>

i hope that made sense as it was thought out in 3 sittings and nearly reverse order.

 

[Inker]

would it not be easier(then if-then-else) to make this work by always using the pretty_name value and throw "Season <Season.seasonindex>" into it as the default value. i know mediaportal has a feature for typing in names(imdb searching) but the function is never used in tv-series. is there a reason this function is not used to help with online matching, and could this be used to tag files from inside tv series?

think i might just add something simpler for now, like <Season.Seasonindex> - <Season.Years>

Yes, you can use that as the default value, and you can do it right now (at least I think it will work), but you'll need to manually tinker with the database. Same with Season.Years, if you add the column and fill in the values (again, manually) it should work just fine.

As I said, ideally the plugin would allow you to add your own tags to any item, but currently that is not implemented.