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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/05/2018 21:34, Greg Oliver wrote:<br>
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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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John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T</pre>
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