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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1291622" data-attributes="member: 141969">Recording a TV series is, I think, an inexact science.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> In the UK and some other countries in the world, the broadcast EPG contains unique series and episode ids. These are binary ids and are not human readable. They are not part of the human-readable programme description, and currently MP does not use them.The major channels are reasonably reliable in setting correct binary series and episode ids in the EPG, and this would be the preferred way to record a series. These unique ids also allow avoidance of recording episodes that have already been recorded. In fact, WMC remembers these ids for episodes that have already been recorded, watched, and deleted, so WMC does not re-record an episode that no longer resides in the folder for that series. The minor channels are less accommodating, and some (I think) don't provide these ids in the EPG.So any solution that uses the binary ids would also need to be capable of scheduling a series without using the binary ids (e.g. as MP does now).I have not used an internet EPG with MP, but I believe that some internet EPGs do in fact contain binary series and episode ids (Schedules Direct does, I think). I don't know whether MP uses these ids currently.I would like to see MP implement all of the cleverness of WMC in this area, but I think that this is probably a major piece of work. I have not looked at the structure of the EPG database, but I suspect that it might need to have several additional columns added to contain the binary series and episode ids, plus (in separate columns) the "deduced" series and episode ids that result from your coded analysis of the programme description (I think that we probably need both types of ids, not one or the other). Once the database structure has been changed, you could implement the use of the deduced ids, with use of the binary ids being deferred until some future update (the columns for the binary ids would be left empty until that additional functionality was implemented).-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

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