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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/2018 1:26 AM, John Veness
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/05/2018 21:34, Greg Oliver
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I ... was just
wondering if people keep their lineups around forever (I
have non-watched recordings from 2013 still) so their
displays are not #xxxx on each recording..<br>
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Here in the UK, channels often change number, so I too have lots
of recordings that show #xxxx for the channel name, which looks
ugly. Even worse, sometimes new channels take over an old number,
so recordings that were originally recorded on, say, Drama, may
change to say they were recorded on ITV3, which is positively
misleading!<br>
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It would involve a database schema change, but I think the best
solution would be to save the channel *name* for each recording in
the recordings table, and use that when displaying in the UI,
rather than doing a lookup of the number in the channels table.
This would use slightly more disk space but would be slightly
quicker (one fewer lookup) and would retain what channel a
recording was made on, even if that channel moves or is renamed
later. This seems more "correct" behaviour to me.<br>
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John<br>
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I concur with John and give his idea a +1. This also affects the
Mythweb statistics page.<br>
Jay<br>
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