In v1, there was a feature to edit the quality of an existing episode, if it ever got picked up wrong from the file naming in the incoming folder or its file properties. Are there any plans to bring this feature back?
Here’s the thing:
Let’s say, you have something in your incoming folder and it is a dvdrip, but the file or folder name is rather obscure and does not reflect the quality in a format, that is readable by ND, it will get picked up as SDTV. On the other hand, when something is a WEBDL, even though the resolution might be rather low, it sometimes gets picked up as WEBDL-720p (I don’t know how this decision gets made, file size? extension?), although it actually fits the WEBDL-480p category better.
Currently, the best way I found to correct such a mistake is to use a file explorer, navigate to the affected episode manually and rename it, following the exact naming scheme ND uses, then refreshing the show in ND, refreshing the page in the browser, looking whether it picked up on the change, and then change the Watch status (as the original file is renamed, ND thinks it got deleted and I have “Ignore deleted episodes” activated).
Although it rarely happens that this kind of manual intervention is necessary, it was way more convenient to just have an edit button, where one could manually change an episode’s or season’s quality from the web interface. Paired with the feature to rename episodes or seasons it was really easy to manually manage the quality of your shows.
Since the renamer is back in v2 and recently I saw a “Shutdown” and “Restart” button, I am under the impression that ND is working towards a complete solution, where the user won’t have to bother with file explorers and Remote or VNC connections anymore and manage everything from the web interface. In that case, having the Quality editor back would certainly be a welcome addition.
It’s already there, open the episode details modal and click the quality, you can then choose the quality you want in the drop down. This has been there for a while.
Also full season editing has been requested here: https://trello.com/c/75MOaJ92/397-change-parsed-quality-for-entire-season
Wow, I didn’t know that.
I tried it and it works. I always saw these Quality indicators as a label, never knew they would transform into a dropdown spinner, once clicked.
Awesome, thanks.
yeah there is a cool feature at least in the latest Beta that you can set size limits on how big you want an episode to be or how minimum
I found this really helpful as i started download 3gb 720p eps which the usual 1gb - 1.5gb are perfectly fine so i just tweaked this and all good the correct ones started downloading
as i mentioned in a previous post i have been offline for about 2 months and just the amount of work and features that have been achieved in that time is incredible all due credit to @markus101 and @kayone (if there is any other devs i missed i apologise)
I agree. The file size feature is really great. I have not set it up perfectly yet, but I really see its value, especially, like you said, with 720p. Where SD releases were the same file size across different source mediums, 720p releases vary greatly in size. Let’s say a regular half-hour network sitcom used to be 175MB for 22 minutes (in xvid), then the sd webdl and the dvdrip or brrip would be 175 as well. Like you said, an hd episode that might start off with a 1-1.5gb hdtv rip then gets a 1.5-2gb webdl and eventually a 3gb bluray rip.
So far, I’ve handled this through 3 different quality profiles for hd releases:
hdtv: only hdtv-720, mostly used for late-night talk shows
webdl: hdtv-720 and webdl-720 with the cutoff set to webdl. I use this for a couple of good shows, that are not impressive enough visually to justify the bluray file size bump. Still webdl are clean, have no network logo, commercial break cuts, etc. and usually a full intro and credits are included.
bluray: hdtv-720, webdl-720 and bluray-720 with the cutoff set to bluray. This I only use for very select shows that are worth the file size and/or don’t have many episodes anyway.