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<blockquote data-quote="Jay_UK" data-source="post: 999284" data-attributes="member: 98509">Hi there,&nbsp;Just thinking off the top of my head (and in my situation where I have blank episodename, episodenum, episodepart, seriesnum, etc), the inbuilt duplicate checking which uses episodename will fail. So....&nbsp;What if I combine the title string, with the description string (where I have removed the first say 5 characters and any [*] occurences), and then hash it and store it in a new column (or even the the episode name column). The hash will be unique to that program and its description (with any [R] repeats tags removed, and any &quot;New&quot; type words at the beginning gone) - that might give better matching.&nbsp;Then when MePo comes to perform a duplicate check, it will check the hashes and see if they match - that way you could set it to record at any time on any channel - and hopefully it should only record once (assuming they have not changed the title and description)&nbsp;J.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay_UK, post: 999284, member: 98509"] Hi there, Just thinking off the top of my head (and in my situation where I have blank episodename, episodenum, episodepart, seriesnum, etc), the inbuilt duplicate checking which uses episodename will fail. So.... What if I combine the title string, with the description string (where I have removed the first say 5 characters and any [*] occurences), and then hash it and store it in a new column (or even the the episode name column). The hash will be unique to that program and its description (with any [R] repeats tags removed, and any "New" type words at the beginning gone) - that might give better matching. Then when MePo comes to perform a duplicate check, it will check the hashes and see if they match - that way you could set it to record at any time on any channel - and hopefully it should only record once (assuming they have not changed the title and description) J. [/QUOTE]

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