Missed episodes and other ideas
Alf69
1: The ability to mark an episode as "Missed".
There can be many reasons why you miss or skip an episode, such as you forget to set the timer, the vcr malfunctions, you discover a new show some time after the pilot or, as in the original "Doctor Who", some of the episodes are believed to be lost. Just because you miss an episode you don't stop watching the rest of the season, you'll just have to wait for a rerun to see the missed episode. In the meantime the next episode on the frontpage is no longer the next episode you are going to see.
The way I imagine this to work is either a new icon, a red minus, next to the green V you set to mark the episode as seen, or that you longpress the green V to make it a red minus. The green season status bar will then turn red to indicate a missed episode. The missed episode will disappear from the frontpage, allowing the next unseen episode to be displayed, untill there are no more unseen episodes and the next upcoming episode is more than a month away. Then the first missed episode will be displayed on the frontpage.
2: Clearer visualization of recorded episodes
Seriesguide already utilizes the Tract.tv function of marking an episode as "in collection", aka recorded. I would really like a small icon on the frontpage, maybe next to the "Favorites" star, so that on a day with nothing on tv, you can take a quick look down the frontpage and find something you have recorded.
3: Automatic cleanup of no longer existing episodes and seasons.
Very often on Tvdb.com episode and even seasons will be replaced instead of updated when new information is made public. This creates orphaned episode and seasons in Seriesguide. The episodes can be manually removed, but it is very tedious if there are many and you have to have an idea of which episodes are wrong. There is however only one way to remove orphaned seasons, and that is to delete and reimport the show.
Is it possible to make this cleanup automatic, either as a part of the normal "update (all)" or, if that takes too long, a new function that you can use when needed, maybe even on show-level if nessesary?
4: Frontpage, a new option in the dropdown menu where Favorites and Unseen/upcoming are combined, so that you see unseen/upcoming favorites.
I have several shows I am not currently watching. I may have seen some episodes or I intend to see it later but not now. They will not show up when selecting "Favorites" in the frontpage dropdown, however those favorites on hiatus with no unseen/upcoming episodes will. If I select "Unseen/Upcoming" the favorites on hiatus will not show up, but those shows I haven't marked as Favorites will, since they all have unseen episodes. Whether I chose "Favorites" or "Unseen/Upcoming" I will get results I am not looking for. Is it posible to get a new option that will only show those of my favorites with unseen or upcoming episodes?
Uwe Trottmann
See my responses below.
On Aug 6, 2012 9:56 PM, "Alf69" <lars....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Let me start by saying that Seriesguide is an amasing program that I have used for about a year and a half, but I have a few suggestions that would make it perfekt, at least for me :-).
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> 1: The ability to mark an episode as "Missed".
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> There can be many reasons why you miss or skip an episode, such as you forget to set the timer, the vcr malfunctions, you discover a new show some time after the pilot or, as in the original "Doctor Who", some of the episodes are believed to be lost. Just because you miss an episode you don't stop watching the rest of the season, you'll just have to wait for a rerun to see the missed episode. In the meantime the next episode on the frontpage is no longer the next episode you are going to see.
> The way I imagine this to work is either a new icon, a red minus, next to the green V you set to mark the episode as seen, or that you longpress the green V to make it a red minus. The green season status bar will then turn red to indicate a missed episode. The missed episode will disappear from the frontpage, allowing the next unseen episode to be displayed, untill there are no more unseen episodes and the next upcoming episode is more than a month away. Then the first missed episode will be displayed on the frontpage.
>
In the next release the next episode will be determined differently (using the next highest number instead of the oldest unwatched episode).
> 2: Clearer visualization of recorded episodes
>
> Seriesguide already utilizes the Tract.tv function of marking an episode as "in collection", aka recorded. I would really like a small icon on the frontpage, maybe next to the "Favorites" star, so that on a day with nothing on tv, you can take a quick look down the frontpage and find something you have recorded.
>
This is planned, no ETA.
> 3: Automatic cleanup of no longer existing episodes and seasons.
>
> Very often on Tvdb.com episode and even seasons will be replaced instead of updated when new information is made public. This creates orphaned episode and seasons in Seriesguide. The episodes can be manually removed, but it is very tedious if there are many and you have to have an idea of which episodes are wrong. There is however only one way to remove orphaned seasons, and that is to delete and reimport the show.
> Is it possible to make this cleanup automatic, either as a part of the normal "update (all)" or, if that takes too long, a new function that you can use when needed, maybe even on show-level if nessesary?
>
Same here.
> 4: Frontpage, a new option in the dropdown menu where Favorites and Unseen/upcoming are combined, so that you see unseen/upcoming favorites.
>
> I have several shows I am not currently watching. I may have seen some episodes or I intend to see it later but not now. They will not show up when selecting "Favorites" in the frontpage dropdown, however those favorites on hiatus with no unseen/upcoming episodes will. If I select "Unseen/Upcoming" the favorites on hiatus will not show up, but those shows I haven't marked as Favorites will, since they all have unseen episodes. Whether I chose "Favorites" or "Unseen/Upcoming" I will get results I am not looking for. Is it posible to get a new option that will only show those of my favorites with unseen or upcoming episodes?
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Try to sort your shows by favorites first when using the upcoming filter.
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Alf69
> 1: The ability to mark an episode as "Missed".
In the next release the next episode will be determined differently (using the next highest number instead of the oldest unwatched episode).
> 2: Clearer visualization of recorded episodes
This is planned, no ETA.
> 3: Automatic cleanup of no longer existing episodes and seasons.
Same here.
> 4: Frontpage, a new option in the dropdown menu where Favorites and Unseen/upcoming are combined, so that you see unseen/upcoming favorites.
Try to sort your shows by favorites first when using the upcoming filter.