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<blockquote data-quote="stoked" data-source="post: 369408" data-attributes="member: 62266">dvdfreak,There are two features I'm looking for: a way to record only first run shows, and have recordings renamed for import into MyTVSeries. However, I don't trust my provider's first run data and I don't think MP can even read it. Have you considered a newsfeed client to <a href="http://www.tvrage.com?" target="_blank">TVRage.Com</a>? I think tvrage has an API as well but I haven't really looked into that. In each user's account, the user can add their favourite shows and tvrage provides a newsfeed for upcoming airing dates for your shows. If FTR could pull that newsfeed, just the Show and Date info alone would provide first run information. Users may have to manually map the show names manually since every provider uses different names, but I'd imagine some fuzzy logic matching would work pretty well. And for the 2nd part, could FTR record the shows based on for example TVRage's naming convention of 01x01 or something similar that MyTVSeries can import? My problem with regular MP recordings is that MyTVSeries can't tell what season/episode the recordings are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stoked, post: 369408, member: 62266"] dvdfreak, There are two features I'm looking for: a way to record only first run shows, and have recordings renamed for import into MyTVSeries. However, I don't trust my provider's first run data and I don't think MP can even read it. Have you considered a newsfeed client to [url=http://www.tvrage.com?]TVRage.Com[/url]? I think tvrage has an API as well but I haven't really looked into that. In each user's account, the user can add their favourite shows and tvrage provides a newsfeed for upcoming airing dates for your shows. If FTR could pull that newsfeed, just the Show and Date info alone would provide first run information. Users may have to manually map the show names manually since every provider uses different names, but I'd imagine some fuzzy logic matching would work pretty well. And for the 2nd part, could FTR record the shows based on for example TVRage's naming convention of 01x01 or something similar that MyTVSeries can import? My problem with regular MP recordings is that MyTVSeries can't tell what season/episode the recordings are. [/QUOTE]

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