<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, James Linder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws">jam@tigger.ws</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
On 12/04/2012, at 5:36 AM, <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org</a> wrote:<br>
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> In an age where strict "folder based" organization is losing it's appeal, I<br>
> find that recording groups are very frustrating.<br>
><br>
> Both my personal and work emails are organized using labels (categories in<br>
> MS Outlook). I frequently assign multiple labels to a single email and<br>
> when I click on the "folder" representing that label I see all the<br>
> associated emails, even if they appear in other "folders" too. I haven't<br>
> moved email out of my inbox folder in years, opting to filter it with<br>
> labels instead.<br>
><br>
> Currently we have several hundred recordings, many of which 3 or more<br>
> members of my family are interested in watching. While we can mark an<br>
> episode watched, or move it to someones recording group... there is no way<br>
> to easily know if everyone interested has watched it so either it sits on<br>
> the system until I can get everyone in the same room and go through them<br>
> all... or we delete recordings that not everyone has seen; both options are<br>
> frustrating.<br>
><br>
> I would like to propose a bounty to have recording groups replaced by<br>
</div><div class="im">> labels, similar to labels in gmail; I would be willing to contribute $40<br>
> for this feature and would like to see if anyone else would be willing to<br>
> add to it.<br>
</div>[snip]<br>
<div class="im">| Anybody else want in on this bounty?<br><br></div>
All the standard tools eg tar not working on a directory of files but instead a gigantic sea of tagged files!<br>
A whole layer of complexity to overcome a simple, elegant and functional system??<span class="HOEnZb"></span><br></blockquote><div><br>Huh? This post is talking about a proposed extension/replacement for Recording Groups - one of many existing pieces of recording metadata that has absolutely nothing to do with filesystem organisation!<br>
<br>- Chris<br></div></div>