[mythtv-users] Labels instead of Recording Groups

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:43 AM, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm already working on converting our recording groups to "tags" (which
> will
> > be very much like gmail labels).  I plan to push initial support for it
> > (which will only have very basic UI support) soon (after some work stuff
> > slows down), and hope that doing so will allow our UI experts to help
> extend
> > the UI support.
> >
> > As far as multiple users, we do plan to have proper multi-user support so
> > that you don't have to find work arounds (like using recording
> > groups/labels/tags) for it.
>
> Tags sound like a great idea.  If you can assign multiple tags to a
> recording if the Delete Recording only deletes the tag and then when
> no tags are left the recording is removed from the hard drive that
> would be a great stride for basic multiple user support - would
> certainly be a good compromise between what we have now (duplicate
> recordings and/or remembering to move between storage groups) and a
> full multi user system.
>

I can't see Myth's multi user support being done this way but with the
services API it would be relatively trivial to write a script that would
enumerate all recordings, find the ones without tags, and issue deletes on
a regular basis thus achieving your goal.

Kevin
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