I know it's done once per TV Show, and not for each file. You do not have to explain.
Okay, sorry. I thought you did at first, but then I was confused because you mentioned "It can very well be 80 times I have to do it. And each of the times I have to start my workstation to do the work, or getting my mouse and keyboard for my HTPC. I really, really want to get rid of those peripherals". That seemed like it was something you were worried about on an ongoing basis. Do you get "into" 80 new shows weekly? Do you care if they're tagged properly since 90%+ of them are going to be crap and just deleted?
Anyhow... Sorry, that's why I got confused. Sure, I'll have about 300 to do the first time to get my existing library up to snuff. That'll be a crappy hour or so. But, that's why we also need a dialog that can handle batches better with a Queue list.
I personally would not like it to "guess", but if it finds an EXACT match, to use it, and not ask me. I think most shows will find an exact match, so, of the 80 (or hundreds) of shows, I bet 10% or less dont find exact matches. I could live with 10-20 "please verify" messages once, and very occasionally moving forward.
Perhaps it would work. With any system that employs guessing, I think there is serious danger. But then, I'd have never guessed they could have gotten the Carnac feature so good so fast. Matt can work some serious magic when he puts his mind to it.
In tagging my 50 or so recordings last night, the current system DID find some matches that were WRONG. For example, I had some files that came in tagged "NOVA" that were actually from NOVA ScienceNow. Carnac decided that ScienceNow was part of the Episode Name, not the Series. The problem is that thetvdb.com DOES have a separate Series ID for NOVA ScienceNow, as opposed to just vanilla NOVA, and since NOVA has been running for 39 seasons, the ScienceNow episodes all had "matches" in the dialog, they were just wrong.
I caught it because I could look at it and see that the proposed [Name] and [Description] didn't make sense for that particular episode.
The other thing that would concern me was this:
It's much less time consuming to look at a list of all your TV Shows once it's updated and correct the very few that gets a miss, rather than going through each and one of them and checking with a dialogue.
The problem is that how would you know they were wrong from the list?
MC would be filling the [Name] and [Description] fields. Unless your list showed the original file name, and you were darn sure to check them manually before ever using the Rename, Move, and Copy tool, you wouldn't be able to SEE that they were wrong.
The [Series] name would be "right" (or it would look right, because it would be an exact match for a show you have in your Library already).
The [Season] and [Episode] tags would be right.
The [Name], Cover Art, and [Description] would be wrong, but you wouldn't know because they would match what you'd expect for a show with the above data. So, how would you know to fix it? You wouldn't know until you played the file and said, wait, this isn't a NOVA episode about Nazis, it is a NOVA ScienceNow episode about butterflies. What the heck happened?
That's kind of my point. It would be easy to spot the "failures" if they were just untagged. It would be HARD to spot the failures if they were tagged, but tagged wrong.