[mythtv-users] Automatic title groups broken after rename

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/27/2012 03:44 PM, Martin Ginkel wrote:
> I have some recordings which are actually a series. But the original metadata
> contains title and episode subtitle concatenated in the title field.
>
> I edited title and subtitle to get a group of recordings in the recordings list.

You did this in Watch Recordings, using MENU|Recording Options|Change 
Recording Metadata?

> But this gives me only the series title as an empty group.
> The recordings are still available in the 'All Recordings' list.

You may need to exit and re-enter Watch Recordings to pick up the changes?

> Is there a way to correct this? I could also directly edit the recorded table in
> the database, but so far I didn't find a way (tried to change seriesid or
> programid).

No need to edit the database data directly--just use mythfrontend, as 
above.  If you edit the DB directly, you don't get the sanity 
checks/corrections mythfrontend has (and can cause problems with the 
recording).

> Can someone of the devs explain, how these automatic groups are generated.

Using the title (or whatever other option you've enabled, such as category).

Mike