pyTivo Discussion Forum

[wmcbrine]

OK, I've got the "time" metadata keyword working again (in a new way -- startTime and stopTime are now always based on the "time" value, which means it has to be parsed). While I was there, I added a couple of new keywords that can be used in the "time" field instead of an ISO date/time: "File", and "OAD" (for "originalAirDate"). If you use one of these, the time will be based on either the file's date/time or the defined originalAirDate (which defaults to the file's date/time if not specified). The idea is to use these in default.txt files, so that all the files in a directory get transferred that way, without having to add the time to each one's metadata.

[rdian06]

Neat!

What do you think about making default.txt recursive (i.e. affect subfolders) or allowing some feature where you can define a share-default.txt for a given share so that it would affect all sub-directories in the share (and skip having to do the recursive search up the tree for default.txt when processing metadata)?

[philhu]

I think a shared recursice default.txt is a great idea.

I would keep it default.txt, like it is now.

Add a:

recursive = true

to it to be recursive thru subdirectories UNDER the current path.

Phil