Adding More Details to File Names of Recordings

[Slugger]

I've been researching this for a couple days now, but don't see an obvious solution. I'd like the file names for recorded shows to include more details about the show, namely the callsign of the network along with an identifier for live tv recordings and IR recordings. The motivation is to allow easy identification of files that I don't want comm flagged by DM2/SA.

The only thing I've come up with to this point is writing a Runnable class that constantly scans the MediaFile objects and removes, renames the file, and reinserts the MediaFile object after the fact. Doable, but hardly elegant. This would also require a significant delay in polling by DM2 to ensure that I'd have time to rename the files before DM2 looks at them.

Thoughts?

[GKusnick]

Why do you need those details in the recording filename? I'm no DirMon expert, but it seems like it ought to be possible to use something like Niel's XML generator and set DirMon to filter based on file contents, not just file name.

Or write your own runnable class that creates empty semaphore files with whatever names you deem appropriate, and set DirMon to trigger off those semaphore files, without messing with the actual recording filenames.

[Slugger]

Of course! I was so focused on trying to find a way to encode the file name that it never occurred to create trigger files. And as you suggest, it also allows the criteria to be based on anything about the recorded show. This is perfect, thank you!