Future of TV Rename

[Tom Snyder]

Mark/SirSparkles/whatever,

It's been over 2 years, by my count, since you released version 5.08.  I'm perfectly happy with it, but others want more, as evidenced by the many entries on the Ideas for Features list and the Issue Tracker.  Do you have any plans to release any updates in the future?  If not, have you given any thought to passing on the developer job to someone else?  I'm not really familiar with all the GitHub rules of succession, but I guess anyone could pick up where you left off.  I know, from prior chats with you, that you feel that the program has reached the point that you envisioned for it and nothing more needs to be added.  It just seems a shame that such a unique program has been allowed to stagnate like it has.  No other TV/Movie program has the combined database and scheduling features like TV Rename. It should be at the top of the list of mandatory programs for video watchers and collectors.

[Steven K]

Understand the sentiment.  While I too would love to see new features esp. the one difficult one I've asked for over the years to be able to grab direct download links from an RSS feed to make my process fully automated.  It's been so well put together that it still works amazingly well without much maintenance.  As long as I can manually get the new episodes into the monitored folder, TVR just takes it from there.  As I mentioned it would be nice for new features, but I'm happy if it just continues to work as my initial expectation was to find something that would rename and move my files to the correct location.  It does all this and more!

[Pontus Berg]

Agree!

I have a few pain points, but have learned to navigate around them.

* Multi episodes. It will still try to rename something like S01E01-02 and skipping the much needed 02 part. I have needed to remove series where I have this from the list of series it checks. I know you can manually override, but that feels wrong.

* Language support is still a bit sketchy at times. Movies that have a Swedish name, I sometimes miss when searching, so I have to search using TMDB and then paste the Id in as a workaround. 

* Matching has a tendency to find partial hits. Let's say there is a move called "war" and one called "war in the far east". Tryingto add the latter, I have seen that it take it as being the first.

I have no idea why, and I'm sure this would be a setting I could change in a setting file but the window where it has found a match, the columns are miniscule. Every time I have to expand them to see the name and the year. Here I would also like to see that I could double click the wanted option in the list for a quick add. That is the natural way, to do it for me.

But anyone can make a fork of the original and play with it. The license is Gnu so I guess anyone can continue on their form as long as it remains Gnu.