Hi Thomas On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:15 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: > > Doesn't the feed contain a date/time stamp? Could we not simply > > prefix > > each file with that? In the case of the The Merlin Show you would end > > up with something like:- > > > > 20080314-episode.mp4 > > > > Trying to keep track of things will be tricky so whatever solution we > > come up with needs to be as automated as possible. > > Yes, this works - as long as the corresponding feed contains a > pubDate timestamp (at least one that is parseable, so we can turn it > into YYYYMMDD). > > A new idea would be to simply keep a dictionary that maps URLs to > file names and when we get a given file name, we check if this value > is already in the dictionary - if it is not, we simply add it to the > dictionary. If it is, we append something like "-1" to the file name > and check again, etc, etc.. This would make things more safe in case > something changes (the pubDate could theoretically change in some > blog software if the article is edited). As the date is not reliable as you pointed out, I think this leaves us with very little option but to implement the dictionary solution.
I don't mind giving this a go if there is no rush! ;) I haven't looked but is the code you used to test the file naming in SVN? Paul _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
