IDEA for easy upgrade to new TV database (1 Viewer)

[Rybber]

I have now been using MP for 1½ years, and tried a lot of different versions and CVS releases.

One of the biggest annoyances is, that you have installed a new CVS release and find out that the TV database has migrated to a new version.

Using this new DB version, mp will "import" all of my old recordings as UNKNOWN, making it very hard to pick the right show to watch.

My plea, is that when MP imports there recordings, it parses the filename and inserts this into the <TITLE> xml tag. Now you will get all recordings sorted by name, however the description is lost - but that's a small price to pay.

eg.

TV 2_Desperate Housewives_200603151935p02.dvr-ms

Should be parsed into:

<TITLE>Desperate Housewives</TITLE>

This should be a walk in the park to do for the right programmer, and makes life a lot easier for beta testers.

Thanks...

 

[Rybber]

*bump*

 

[samuel337]

Technically, all the metadata for recorded tv shows (DVRMS) are stored within the file itself, similarly to tags in MP3s. I've seen code in MP that reads this from the files and adds it into the database, but obviously, its not working if you're getting a problem.

So this is more a bug report I think.

Sam