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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1166166" data-attributes="member: 141969">I suspect that the original poster wants what WMC can do today.&nbsp; It is all dependent on each and every programme having a unique identifier.&nbsp; The Microsoft internet EPG does have this, as does the broadcast EPG in the UK.&nbsp; The problem is that MP currently does not use this information.&nbsp; For series, WMC performs the following trick: it remembers the ids of episodes that it has recorded, and avoids recording duplicates.&nbsp; But it also does this for episodes that have been recorded, viewed, and deleted.&nbsp; In other words, WMC remembers the programme ids of recordings that no longer exist in any of the libraries.One deficiency in WMC is that it does not use the programme id to avoid recording duplicates of one-off programmes (i.e. programmes which are not part of a series).&nbsp; This is a capability that should be supported too -- inform the user that the programme was recorded in the past, and ask whether it should be recorded again (which the user might want to do).Remembering the programme id of every programme that has ever been recorded will result in the database growing indefinitely, so there would also need to be some clean-up dialogue to allow the user to request deletion of all programme ids older than a user-specifiable number of years.Simples!&nbsp; So when can we have this implemented? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite27" alt=":whistle:" title="Whistling&nbsp; &nbsp; :whistle:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":whistle:" />-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1166166, member: 141969"] I suspect that the original poster wants what WMC can do today. It is all dependent on each and every programme having a unique identifier. The Microsoft internet EPG [i]does[/i] have this, as does the broadcast EPG in the UK. The problem is that MP currently does not use this information. For series, WMC performs the following trick: it remembers the ids of episodes that it has recorded, and avoids recording duplicates. [i]But it also does this for episodes that have been recorded, viewed, and [b]deleted[/b][/i]. In other words, WMC remembers the programme ids of recordings that no longer exist in any of the libraries. One deficiency in WMC is that it does not use the programme id to avoid recording duplicates of one-off programmes (i.e. programmes which are not part of a series). This is a capability that should be supported too -- inform the user that the programme was recorded in the past, and ask whether it should be recorded again (which the user might want to do). Remembering the programme id of every programme that has ever been recorded will result in the database growing indefinitely, so there would also need to be some clean-up dialogue to allow the user to request deletion of all programme ids older than a user-specifiable number of years. Simples! So when can we have this implemented? :whistle: -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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