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[muzicman0]

Now that the Season and Episode is being used from XMLTV, I have changed my subscription rules so that the filename (name) is tagged as [Series] - S[Season]E[Episode] - [Name]

which renders something like this:

Castle - S7E2 - Montreal

Which is fine...but (and WARNING, I am being VERY nit-picky here!)

If I have the same rule in the rename files option, the filename ends up as:

Castle - S07E02 - Montreal

Which I prefer...is there a way to make the subscription option pad the numbers with a 0 if it is below 10?

[RoderickGI]

You just need to add a test to see if the Season number is less than 10, and if so, append a "0" to the front. I don't know the syntax off the top of my head, but the logic is something like;

IF( [season] < 10 then use "0+[season]", else use [season])

Or actually you may need to test if the length of the number is one or two characters, and add a leading "0" if it is one, because sometimes you may get a two digit number that is less than 10 (i.e. 07) and you don't want to add another zero then (007)!

Look up the MC rules Expression Language syntax here: http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_expression_language

You may want to test if the program is a series before you apply these rules. You don't want strange stuff happening when naming movies. So you will need nested IF statements.

Plus you will also need to test for the season and episode numbers being empty, and decide how you want to handle that. Normally if a program is an episode of a series, and neither the season or episode is know, a "--" is used instead of a number, as in;

Castle - S--E-- - Montreal

There are a couple of experts on the forum when it comes to the Expression Language. Hopefully they will pop in an help. 

[muzicman0]

I'm not horrible with expression language, but I usually work off of an example...so I will just have to look it up.  The tag is applied on subscriptions though, so I already know that it is a series, because I only put the expression on certain subscriptions.

[RoderickGI]

Well that makes it a lot easier. 

Please share the result you come up with.

[Yaobing]

I have incorporated the idea into MC's default behavior.  You can still override it using your own tag expressions.

On start recording a show, the file name will be formatted as follows:

Use user's "Filename (name)" tag expression
or [Series] - S[Season]E[Episode] - [Name]
or [Series] - [Name] yyyy-MM-dd
or [Name] - S[Season]E[Episode]
or [Name] yyyy-MM-dd  (this one being the previous behavior)
depending on availability of data in program entries.

Single-digit episode and season numbers will be padded.

[muzicman0]

I also just noticed my rule on subscriptions isn't putting the .ts extension in the filenames...oops!  I am going in and editing my custom tags now to include .ts at the end.

[Yaobing]

I also just noticed my rule on subscriptions isn't putting the .ts extension in the filenames...oops!  I am going in and editing my custom tags now to include .ts at the end.

Yes, strictly speaking, you need the extension since you are renaming a file.  When my change is released, MC will add proper extension when recording starts, so it is no longer that critical.

[RoderickGI]

I have incorporated the idea into MC's default behavior. 

Nice job Yaobing. It is the little things like this that make JRiver and MC a pleasure to use.