Looking at... A whats new feed - 2008/10/07 08:43Probably best to describe this functionality as it applies to me.
Been running Swisscenter for the best part of 2 years now - and I have my media location seperated out in a Movie repository (all films in one dump) and a structured "TV_Shows" drive, that follows the <show name>/<series #> directory structure with each file being named accordingly.
I work 70+ hours a week and things appear on the drive all the time from various sources that a piece of my own software leeches from ( NOT p2p )
What is missing from my perfect Swisscenter life is a list of new media that has appeared in the last few weeks, that covers TV shows and films - but not photos or music.
This would suit my wife, who upon finding I'm still stuck at the other side of the country can see what chick flicks have appeared in the movies - and however many episodes of "Deperate Ugly Betty CSI housewives : Miami" have recently been added to the system on a single page to view. Wife and daughter can then get the chocolate out and wait on the Sofa for non-technophobe husband to return and show them the other programs available.
I've been wondering about tackling this in a couple of ways. A unix script that trawls the directory locations and creates a playlist file. However, downloaded files sometimes come down with their existing Last Modified date - and as such, newly downloaded files could in fact have a date years/months ago and therefore be skipped.
Alternatively, have the daily php script that searches for new media create an RSS file of unindexed media it finds during a scan. - and at least I could share this as an enhancement I could share with others.D Pollard Player : Pinnacle ShowCenter1000g Server: Fedora 7, Apache2, PHP5, MySQL 4- Dell GX240, P4 1.7G, 512Mb, 300Gb
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fizze
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Re: Looking at... A whats new feed - 2008/10/07 09:56Well, what you're looking for is inotify (at least on *IX)
But actually it should be more than easy to do a SQL query that shows all unviewed stuff that has been added within the last n days. Presenting that in a suitable manner however, would be the far more challenging part
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Re: Looking at... A whats new feed - 2008/10/07 10:29You can already filter media to 'Recently added 7/14/30/90 days'. The filter can accessed from the 'Browse by ' pages for each media type.
For TV series it is a little different since there is no 'Browse by ' page. But you still have the indicator icons (red/yellow/green) showing whether a series is completely viewed or not. And you have 'Show viewed/unviewed' button for each series to easily see what has not been viewed.
NigelPlayer : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Looking at... A whats new feed - 2008/10/07 10:54I agree that it would be useful to have a simple "New media" page which just lists all media that is unviewed in date order (newest first).
I'll look at putting something in place when I return from vacation in a few weeks.
It won't have any advanced search or filtering facilities, but it will allow users to see at a glance what there is new media available. The only filtering I plan to add is whether to show or hide video, music or images (via the A/B/C or colour buttons).
Rob Player : Pinnacle Showcenter 200 and 1000 (wired ethernet) Server : Windows XP Pro running on an Athlon XP 2200, 768 Mb RAM, 1.8 Tb storage.
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fizze
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Re: Looking at... A whats new feed - 2008/10/07 13:50Wow, thats would be amazing. I actually wasn't aware of a filter by date added. Very nice! Swisscenter continues to amaze me constantly
Since the filtering stuff is already there for Videos, would it be difficult to use the same stuff for TV series as well?
What would be extra-fancy would be personized queries. If any of you guys know the software mt-daapd aka. firefly media server, there is something similiar called "smart playlists".
You cant do real SQL queries there since it only uses sqlite as backend, but thats still pretty nice. Then advanced users would be able to filter on whatever stuff they want to filter like, viewed, not viewed, ratings, date added... etc.....
But I guess this has come up before and was probably never considered to be implemented - until someone just does it
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Re: Looking at... A whats new feed - 2008/11/02 10:14Hi Rob,
that's great news. I'm waiting for a functionality like that for some time an was hoping that it will be implemented.
I would be very nice, if it shows all new media and not only the unviewed.
1. Reason, if my wife has watched an episode and let it for me to later watch, it will be gone, if only the unviewed are listed. 2. Reason, it would be nice to see all my last added pictures and music, because that is what I play or view most and it would be on one page.
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