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Windows => Television => Topic started by: greynolds on February 23, 2019, 02:18:33 pm

Title: "Missing" TV Episode Numbers
Post by: greynolds on February 23, 2019, 02:18:33 pm

@Yaobing:  There's at least one TV show that I record, "Behind The B", that doesn't get an episode number set in JRiver Media Center, but does in Windows Media Center using the same SchedulesDirect guide via the EPG123 program, so I'm pretty sure the underlying guide data is the same.  For an episode that's recording right now, I see program ID of "EP01785705.0077" in Media Center and WMC is recording it as "Episode 77".  Would it be possible to update the TV recording info to use those last 4 digits (trimming leading 0's) as the episode number when there isn't otherwise an episode number in the guide data?  That would help a bit in sorting and avoiding recording duplicate episodes.

Thanks!

Title: Re: "Missing" TV Episode Numbers
Post by: greynolds on February 24, 2019, 08:03:28 am

After giving this some more thought, I figured out a way to grab the value from the Program ID field automatically.  In the recording rule, I added a new entry to the Apply These Tags section:

RemoveCharacters(Right([Program ID], 4),0,1)

The apply only if field is empty checkbox is checked just in case the guide data starts to include actual season episode numbers.

Title: Re: "Missing" TV Episode Numbers
Post by: Yaobing on February 24, 2019, 08:40:58 am

Good solution.

I thought about your suggestion, but I am not sure it would make sense doing it internally.  It would work for episode IDs written in that particular format, but that depends on who supply the EPG data.

Title: Re: "Missing" TV Episode Numbers
Post by: greynolds on February 24, 2019, 09:45:01 am

Quote from: Yaobing on February 24, 2019, 08:40:58 am

Good solution.

Thanks!

Quote from: Yaobing on February 24, 2019, 08:40:58 am

I thought about your suggestion, but I am not sure it would make sense doing it internally.  It would work for episode IDs written in that particular format, but that depends on who supply the EPG data.

Yeah, that makes sense.  One could theoretically handle different ID formats internally based on the selected source for guide data.  It would work great until the guide source decided to change the format... :)  As long as it can be accomplished via configuration, there's really no need to handle it internally anyway.

Title: Re: "Missing" TV Episode Numbers
Post by: tzr916 on February 24, 2019, 04:29:04 pm

Quote from: greynolds on February 24, 2019, 08:03:28 am

After giving this some more thought, I figured out a way to grab the value from the Program ID field automatically.  In the recording rule, I added a new entry to the Apply These Tags section:

RemoveCharacters(Right([Program ID], 4),0,1)

The apply only if field is empty checkbox is checked just in case the guide data starts to include actual season episode numbers.

Amazing how some people can come up with the correct usage of those formulas...