Put recording in season folders.

[p37307]

I'm making a wishlist request. I would wish that NPVR would automatically put TV shows in season folders.

The reasoning behind this is as seasons get large, having 100 or more recordings in a flat directory structure is time consuming as the folder loads.

The alternative would be manually doing it and importing the recording into the database to avoid duplicate recording schedules.

For example, suppose my recordings are on my hard drive and folder G:\_TVdir and my recurring recording directory rule is "Crime Drama."

For show recording CSI.S01E01.Best Of Times.ts NPVR would put the recording in folders:

Folder: CSI
Subfolder: Season 01
Filename: CSI.S01E01.Best Of Times.mp4
i.e. true Windows Path: G:\_TVdir\Crime Drama\CSI\Season 1\CSI.S01E01.Best Of Times.ts

Other examples would be
Original Recording Filename: Elementary.S01E22.Paint It Black.ts
Folder: Elementary
SubFolder: Season 01
Filename Elementary.S01E22.Paint It Black.ts
i.e. true Windows Path: G:\_TVdir\Crime Drama\Elementary\Season 02\Elementary.S01E22.Paint It Black.ts


Other examples would be
Recurring recording directory rule is "Donate Today".

Original Recording Filename: NextPVR.S01E01.Sub has done us all a great service by providing NPVR to us for free.ts
Folder: NextPVR
SubFolder: Season 01
Filename NextPVR.S01E01.Sub has done us all a great service by providing NPVR to us for free.ts
i.e. true Windows Path: G:\_TVdir\Donate Today\NextPVR\Season 01\NextPVR.S01E01.Sub has done us all a great service by providing NPVR to us for free.ts

Original Recording Filename: NextPVR.S03E02.Not many open source developers respond as much as Sub does to help users out.ts
Folder: NextPVR
SubFolder: Season 03
Filename NextPVR.S03E02.Not many open source developers respond as much as Sub does to help users out.ts
i.e. true Windows Path: G:\_TVdir\Donate Today\NextPVR\Season 03\NextPVR.S03E01.Sub has done us all a great service by providing NPVR to us for free.ts

Thank you for the consideration and THE GREAT PROGRAM!


PS: In the interim, what would be the command to update the filename in the database if I used another program to sort my recordings.

I was given this command in the past to mark recording as first run:

Code:

"C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\utilities\sqlite3.exe"  c:\Users\Public\NPVR\npvr.db3 "update scheduled_recording set blue='Y'  where event_details like '%%<FirstRun>true</FirstRun>%%';"

I'm curious if there is a command that I could use to update the filename:

Code:

"C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\utilities\sqlite3.exe"  c:\Users\Public\NPVR\npvr.db3 "update filename ???????????"

[mvallevand]

I had a wishlist request for the same thing and even have an option in imageGrabLite to do this and it works well for the Video Libary.

My primary request was to make the Recordings screen more friendly for multi season display, since NextPVR became unmanagable when I decided to catchup and record all seasons of TBBT. Subtitle sorts are useless for episode order and the recording date is only good if shows are recorded in episode order. I added an option in iGL to set the recording date to the original air date as a work around.

Right now I am on Season 4 of "Game of Thrones" and it is a nuisance scrolling to where I am. Using the Video Library works with my utility but the season folder shouldn't be necessary with a database, Kodi and Plex are good examples. When I made the request I think I asked for a naming convention for season art too.

The NScripthelper utility has a way to rename the file.

Martin

[p37307]

The NScripthelper utility has a way to rename the file.

Martin

Thanks martin.

My main issue about the database would be NPVR thinking a recording is gone and rescheduling it again in the future.

I looked around for documentation for NScripthelper and would this be the call for an external program/script to sort this G:\_TVdir\Crime Drama\CSI.S01E01.Best Of Times.ts to
G:\_TVdir\Crime Drama\CSI\Season 01\CSI.S01E01.Best Of Times.ts:


"C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\NScriptHelper.exe -Rename G:\_TVdir\Crime Drama\CSI.S01E01.Best Of Times.ts G:\_TVdir\Crime Drama\CSI\Season 01\CSI.S01E01.Best Of Times.ts"

Also, how much time would I have before NPVR removed the file from the database while my program/script was reorganizing the folders?

[mvallevand]

My main issue about the database would be NPVR thinking a recording is gone and rescheduling it again in the future.

If the file is deleted NextPVR won't re-record it if it is in the history. I have my settings set to keep a long history.

Also, how much time would I have before NPVR removed the file from the database while my program/script was reorganizing the folders?

Depends, my config.xml settings are set so NextPVR never removes the files automatically from the database. Otherwise I believe it is when you attempt to access them.

Martin

[sub]

Ok, I'll add support for this in the next release.

Would you prefer "Season 1" or "Season 01"?

[p37307]

Ok, I'll add support for this in the next release.

Would you prefer "Season 1" or "Season 01"?

I prefer Season 01.

Thanks sub.

[mvallevand]

I prefer Season 1 but Video Library does an alpha sort so it needs the leading zero.

Martin

[sub]

Ok - we'll go with a leading zero.

[scJohn]

I would go with 2 digit so you would be compatible with Plex. On the other hand EMBY prefers a single digit. Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. Allthough I suspect that EMBY would not chock on 01.

Plex:https://emby.media/community/index.php?/...cognition/
EMBY: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/TV%20naming