dpollard
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Looking at... A whats new feed - 2008/10/07 08:43
Probably 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
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