[mythtv-users] sorting watch recordings?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/26/2006 07:26 PM, Michael Freeman wrote:
> On 2/26/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 02/25/2006 09:35 PM, Michael Freeman wrote:
>>     
>>> can i sort the watch recordings screen by show title rather than day
>>> recorded?
>>>       
>> The only options for sorting are:
>>
>> Sort Episodes
>>     - Record date
>>     - Original Air date
>>     - Program ID
>> Selects how to sort a shows episodes
>>     
> in particular, i wanted my episodes of 24 to show up in order of day 1-5
> rather than in order of when myth snagged them off cable.
> so you're saying there's no way to do that.
Oh.  Why didn't you say so?  ;)

All you need to do is forget what you think you want and instead realize 
what you really want.  You're suggesting sorting episodes by episode 
title (subtitle).  This would seldom be useful (only for 24 and Surface 
and a few other shows).

However, what you really want is to sort by the date in which they 
aired.  This is frequently useful.  See "Original Air date" above...  
(Note that your grabber must provide the original air date information 
or you'll have to manually update the database to include the 
information.  It's possible this will only work automatically with 
DataDirect.)

Mike