[mythtv-users] Best way to organise lots of recordings [was: Column width difference title/recgroup]

[Jason Chambers]

On 09/10/2010 10:52, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>> MENU|Change Group View|Show Program Titles
>>
>> Won't that do what you want?
> 
> No, because this gets messy if you don't have a few series recorded only
> but also a lot of movies. Say I have 100 movies recorded and a dozen
> series. If you then show the program titles in the group/recording view,
> you could as well don't group your recordings at all, because it really
> doesn't help with organizing anymore.
> What I have in mind is some semi-automatic 3rd level in the groupings,
> depending on whether there is more than one recording for a recording
> title. I for example have recording groups for series, documentary, etc.
> All movies and anything else goes into the Default group. So as an
> example, I'd would love to have a navigation like this:
> 
> Default      -> Broken Flowers
>              -> Prince of Persia
> Documentary  -> Planet Earth
>              -> Foo Bar
> Series       -> Mad Men -> Episode 1
>                         -> Episode 2
>              -> Weeds   -> E01
>                         -> E02
> 
> The two-level navigation is fine as long as you either don't record many
> different things, or you watch series quickly and delete the episodes if
> you're done. As soon as you record either a lot of different stuff of
> keep the series episodes, the recording view doesn't scale well for me.
> As a workaround (and that gets us back to my original issue) I create
> separate recording groups for those series that I don't view and delete
> immediately, so that they don't pollute my "Series" recording group.

Going away from the original problem here somewhat, but ...

It took a while for me to find a method of organizing recordings that
worked well too.

The best way I found of organising the recordings were to create a
couple of generic recording groups too (I have Comedy, Drama,
Documentary and Films).

However I then *only* list programme titles on the left hand-side (Menu
-> Change Group View -> Show Titles). And I only view the screen one
recording group at a time (using Menu -> Change Group Filter, or the
using the fast-forward/rewind keys to cycle through them).

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Although you have to press a key to switch between films and series
rather than seeing them on the same screen at the same time that isn't a
problem.  (And I generally know whether I'm in the mood for a film,
documentary or series before I even turn the TV on anyway).

The list on the left means it very easy to find a complete season of a
particular show.  It can also be used to find things alphabetically when
you know the name (even for one-off shows).  Yet its not annoying when
the list gets long because its not a mixture of films, documentaries and
series all dumped together.  So I don't have to delete stuff after
watching it to keep things manageable - I can just leave it there and
let the auto expire take care of freeing space for new recordings when
necessary.

And you've still got the watch list to tell you what to watch next if
you're not looking for any particular program, or the "All Programmes"
header for a purely chronological list.

-- 
Regards,
Jason