A few feature requests from a new user

I recently stumbled upon this wonderful piece of software, and have a few requests that come from other apps I have used.

My problem is I have found a few apps that do part of what I want, but none that do it all. Currently I'm using a program called MetaBrowser to organize my tv shows, along with my movies. It works off of TheTVDB and TheMovieDB to get its information and saves it in mymovies.xml format. This is used by a Media Center Plug-in called Media Browser(if you haven't heard of it check it out.) My TV shows come from TED(Torrent Episode Downloader) which is great but sometimes unreliable.

Basically, TED downloads the torrents into a watched folder, Bittorrent picks them up and downloads them to a "new shows" folder that Metabrowser watches, processes the shows, renames them to my specs and places them in the correct folder, along with the metadata(series.xml) and cover art(folder.jpg) and fan-art(backdrop.jpg). I then run another program called StarkCovers to give the cover art a little life.

As you probably see, TVRename does a lot of this, and some other things that are pretty cool. Currently, I cannot check for missing episodes, or have a RSS of when to watch from any of the programs I use.

SO now to the feature requests.

1. Gather metadata and save in series.xml format -------- I know this is being done in a XBMC format, I don't know how similar these are, if someone can give me an example? Would be nice to have the switch.

2. Add automatic downloading ------ TED does this by matching your preferences to files, by filtering by 720 and such, choosing the torrent with the most seeders and can also filter by min and max file size. These can be saved to a specific folder that Utorrent or Bittorrent watches, then they save those to the appropriate folder. TV Rename can then watch that folder and add automatically, processing for all cover art/fan art and renaming, as well as getting Metadata.

3. Search on specific date/time ----- Another thing TED does is keeps track of the air date for upcoming episodes from information from tvrage.com(I think you use tv.com?). It keeps this information of upcoming episodes, and searches for those episodes when the show starts airing(obviously will not find anything until the show goes off, but this is minor.) It searches until the episode is found.

4. Auto-generate xml feeds ----- TED auto generates the search feed for each Series and adds episode and filter information to search for each episode. This allows for more accurate downloads

5. All of these downloading features wrapped up for NZB downloads ------ I use newsgroups for alot of things, and have my programs set to watch for new NZB's as well, which could easily be wrapped up, not to mention I don't have to worry about seeds when using my NZB downloader, .


I'm no programmer, so I can't help out(wish I could!) but the Media Browser community has a lot of active programmers who make that program better each day, many of which I'm sure would be interested in making this program better when I introduce it to them. I'll be happy to put in words to maybe get some of these features added or along the way!

Thanks for such a great program!

Also, as a side note, I saw the need for a better bug tracker. I am going to talk to the dev of Media Browser to see if he'll give you access to his code for his bug tracker. He just implemented it on his site and it is great, allows for easy access to bugs/feature requests, making life easier for everyone! Check it out here: www.community.mediabrowser.tv

TV:
I use uTorrent to download all my tvshows using rss feeds.
TVRename then checks my torrents complete folder for missing episodes and moves whatever it finds to another location where all my tvshows are sorted.
xbmc then checks for new tvshows from my sorted location when I turn on my xbox and generates its own library...

Movies:
I manually download the movies I want and then move them manually to the appropriate year.
I then use Ember Media Manager to download imdb info and covers.

done...

I know I can use other programs to get the job done, thats what I'm currently doing. But for TV rename to have so many features already that has to do with TV shows, It would be nice to have a program that does it all. Thats what this post is about. With those features, all I would need is utorrent or bittorrent and thats it, TV rename would do everything.

TV:
I use uTorrent to download all my tvshows using rss feeds.
TVRename then checks my torrents complete folder for missing episodes and moves whatever it finds to another location where all my tvshows are sorted.
xbmc then checks for new tvshows from my sorted location when I turn on my xbox and generates its own library...

Movies:
I manually download the movies I want and then move them manually to the appropriate year.
I then use Ember Media Manager to download imdb info and covers.

done...
Tvrename launch itself automatically for you?
utorrent manages torrents for you? I mean it knows which episode to download? That s kind of redundant with tvrename. I think tvrename should be the one to do that.

I checked and TED is GPL licensed, so it may be possible to collaborate or borrow code, not exactly sure what that license allows. It would make it easier to add these features, as they seem simple enough(to a non-programmers logic).

1. Take the search feed or RSS feed from the torrent sites, search for each show and each episode the day/time it airs. Search for X amount of hours until found on 15 minute intervals.

2. Gather information for TV shows, you already use thetvdb to get the data(I believe?) so put that data in a xml document.

3. I don't know if this is possible to implement for NZB's, but I'd love it if it is, lol. I haven't found another program that could do it, and I like the other features of TV Rename so much, this would be my ultimate go-to program if it could have those added functions. I would then definitely recommend it to everyone I know.

For NZB's check out SABnzb+

Then add this addon.
http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=2262.0

Thanks a lot! Thats the answer for a lot of my problems!

I still think TV Rename would do well with this functionality too, . I'm hardheaded I know.

It would be nice if this made its way into TVRename. It already does most of the work, it has the database of watched shows, knows the air date, and can do the rename and organizing. All that has to be added is "scours all configured newsgroup indexing sources looking for any missing episodes and schedules them for download with SABnzbd"

The information to do the scripting for what is missing is there in the form.

Should probably make a thread for this.

But with all that said, it looks like Media Rover does what we need it to.(I haven't been able to test it) I think I just trust TVRename more, it does a good job.

Well, I have one main problem with MediaRover, its python, and my computer HATES python. I'm surprised I've gotten Sabnzbd to run. And really, the only thing needed of TVrename in the aspect of scouring for the nzb's/torrents is to put them in a folder that can be setup to be watched by the downloader(many have it, including free alternatives like grabit).

If some PHP could be written for a webpage to make custom RSS feeds for the TV shows wanted, that could be used to setup the downloads. And would fit nicely with TVrenames layout.

Currently I am using Sabnzbd with a custom RSS feed from tvnzb.com It works pretty good, but I like TVrename,

So this is what your looking for: http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=2746.0

I don't have the ablity to test any downloading where I am currently (its terrible!) so I haven't tried that one yet ether.

The other thing it would have to do to make it reliable is check the the download que of SABnzb or which ever torrent program your using. If it can't check that then it might re-add and episode mid download. There might be another way to fix that though. I just mention it because I know one of the scripts that was being used before had that build it.