UK Problems with show names

Hi,
In the UK on freeview quite a few of the channels are prefixing shows with New: or New_ this is fine but is causing a problem when the not so reliable broadcasters decide that after the first x number of shows they are going to drop the prefix, this results in TVHE not recording any further shows until either the prefix is removed from the title in the recording profile or a new recording is scheduled. It looks like TVHE does a wildcard at both the start and end of the title meaning that if you remove the new prefix when creating the recording, all shows with and without the prefix are recorded.

My question is this:-
Can the New: or New_ prefixes be programmatically removed when the recording is initially scheduled this way all recordings will function as expected. My current workaround is to manually remove this but this isn't really a long term solution though. Alternatively could we have an option under the recording settings that would remove user defined text from all show titles at the point the recording is scheduled, this would then give end users the option to specify prefixes they wanted to exclude depending on country removing the need for this to be a managed option that would need constant updating, a comma separated list or something would be perfect.

Thanks
Mike

Replies (8)

RE: UK Problems with show names - Added by Mike Someone over 7 years ago

Anyone?

RE: UK Problems with show names - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 7 years ago

Why not just use a regex to match the programmes?

For example,

(^New)?Long Lost Family

RE: UK Problems with show names - Added by Mike Someone over 7 years ago

Can you do this when setting the recording/apply to all recordings? I can solve the problem by creating the recording then editing it to remove the new prefix as it appears to already have a wildcard at the start and end of the title. For example a title of "Daves Show" would also match "New Daves Show" or "Daves Show New" however it is the manual removing of the prefix that would be handy.

Thanks
Mike

RE: UK Problems with show names - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 7 years ago

Mike Someone wrote:

Can you do this when setting the recording/apply to all recordings? I can solve the problem by creating the recording then editing it to remove the new prefix as it appears to already have a wildcard at the start and end of the title. For example a title of "Daves Show" would also match "New Daves Show" or "Daves Show New" however it is the manual removing of the prefix that would be handy.

Ah, I see. You may want to open a new feature request for this then