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<blockquote data-quote="SkinsFan0521" data-source="post: 978064" data-attributes="member: 116249">I have a question/request about the recording of previous episodes...&nbsp;I believe that the way this currently works is that it looks through your recorded TV folder and if the episode that is scheduled already exists in there, it won't record it again. However, if the episode was previously recorded and deleted, it will record it again. Is that correct?&nbsp;If that is correct, I'd like to suggest that you keep a database or something of previously recorded shows. That way, if I delete a show, it won't re-record it. I don't want to have to keep previous episodes of a show that I've already watched, just so it doesn't record them again.&nbsp;Or, (something that would require more work) I would love to only record first airings of a show. I don't care to record episodes of a show from last season or something like that. I just want to record new episodes. Obviously, this would need to be an option, not a mandatory thing because everybody wants different things.&nbsp;I also tried doing some things in mySQL that would use the previously aired date from the tvguide.xml file, but couldn't figure out a good solution. For some reason, the functionality of importing the previously aired date was never put into MP, but the information is stored in the xml file. I tried to work with some table triggers that would update the column with the appropriate information, but kept running into limitations of mySQL (or my own limitations that I was blaming on mySQL. haha). I didn't want to go the route of building a full-blown plugin and was hoping to do things just in the database, but maybe with your plugin you'll be able to do more?&nbsp;Anyway, sorry for the long post, but if it would be possible to only record things that I haven't already recorded or (ideally) only the first airing of the episode, that would be excellent!&nbsp;Thanks a lot!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SkinsFan0521, post: 978064, member: 116249"] I have a question/request about the recording of previous episodes... I believe that the way this currently works is that it looks through your recorded TV folder and if the episode that is scheduled already exists in there, it won't record it again. However, if the episode was previously recorded and deleted, it will record it again. Is that correct? If that is correct, I'd like to suggest that you keep a database or something of previously recorded shows. That way, if I delete a show, it won't re-record it. I don't want to have to keep previous episodes of a show that I've already watched, just so it doesn't record them again. Or, (something that would require more work) I would love to only record first airings of a show. I don't care to record episodes of a show from last season or something like that. I just want to record new episodes. Obviously, this would need to be an option, not a mandatory thing because everybody wants different things. I also tried doing some things in mySQL that would use the previously aired date from the tvguide.xml file, but couldn't figure out a good solution. For some reason, the functionality of importing the previously aired date was never put into MP, but the information is stored in the xml file. I tried to work with some table triggers that would update the column with the appropriate information, but kept running into limitations of mySQL (or my own limitations that I was blaming on mySQL. haha). I didn't want to go the route of building a full-blown plugin and was hoping to do things just in the database, but maybe with your plugin you'll be able to do more? Anyway, sorry for the long post, but if it would be possible to only record things that I haven't already recorded or (ideally) only the first airing of the episode, that would be excellent! Thanks a lot! [/QUOTE]

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