Renaming "Series name"

[Christoph21x]

Importance: very low
Part 1

Dear Chris, dear all

I encountered a series which is (officially) named as "Special Unit 2"
In EPG it comes up as

• Special Unit 2 (TheTVDB entry, no AKA's)
• Special Unit II
• Special Unit 2 - Die Monsterjäger
• Special Unit II - Die Monsterjäger
• Die Monsterjäger

Not a problem for core functionality of Guide Enricher - I simply mapped two regex entries to one TheTVDB-ID - so far, so good.

Proposal: section "renameMap" with tags/entries/function "renameSeries"
What if GE implemented a config section "renameMap" with which a EPG series TITLE could also be "renamed"?

Positive side-effects:

• using Argus directory naming would end up in a definable and COMMON sub-directory for such entries
• additionally indeed for ANY entry: users could "set default" ("rename") the subdirectory for certain series.
• Example for above mentioned series:
  (renameSeries schedulesDirectName="regex=Special Unit .*"seriesName="Special Unit 2" /)
• it just should be ensured that the renaming run/process is performed BEFORE the actual search within TheTVDB - we then could rename some encryptic namings simply as the official series name - and would need no further mapping to ID for them

Negative side-effects:

• People have to be aware that, through re-naming of series, potentially the recording schedules could miss the recordings --> recording schedules must be set up in a (more) flexible way, ensuring, that raw (source) series names AND resulting (target) series names are covered within the schedule.
• Example for above mentioned series within Argus: Name | Starts with | "Special Unit " OR "Die Monsterjäger"

From my point of view, this is not very difficult to implement.
The benefit out of this function for Argus Users would potentially be huge. Some (many?) would probably use it just because of this functionality - and it bases on functions that all are already inherent withing GuideEnricher.
Many of them would THEN also start to use the core functionality as well.

I hope, this in understandable. I would be... hmmm, let's say: enthusiastic 💃

Greetz - Chris

[Christoph21x]

Part 2
Based upon above mentioned proposal, we could - in a second step - extend the regex syntax (re-use & expand the regex of seriesMap - and usable also there) within the renameMap section:

• introduce a "split" syntax ("flexible change & adjustment" is inherent within regex expressions)
• could be used to split a combined series/episode title like "Tatort: Blah-blah-episode-title" into: series title: "Tatort" and Episode title "Blah-blah-episode-title"
• only AFTER this series / episode name update (as discribed above) the actual TheTVDB-search would be performed
• please map this example to series like "Lewis", "Nora Roberts", and (really) many more
• Example, using syntax from WegGrab+Plus:
  (renameSeries schedulesDirectName="regex=Tatort |. ," seriesName="Tatort" /) (exclude "any char" (can be ":" or "-" or " " or.. after "Tatort " (WITH space)) and empty char after the name and take the rest)

THIS second step would use the added renaming functionality out of step 1 (which is rather a new functionality from the point of users' view) to extend the CORE functionality of GE, making it appearing much more "intelligent"

Now you have my full proposal: Part 1 + 2

Greetz - Chris