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Updated Nov 29, 2009 by moy...@yahoo.com

A simple way to group a bunch of titles together on TiVo Now Playing List with pyTivo pushes (pyTivo pushes group differently than pyTivo pulls):

1. Put all videos you want grouped together on TiVo in a single folder.

2. In that folder put a file named default.txt with a unique seriesId tag (doesn't matter what it is, just don't repeat it for other folder groupings):

seriesId : some_unique_folder_name

3. For each video in that folder, make an accompanying metadata file: For example, for the video video1.mpg, there would be a metadata file named video1.mpg.txt with the title name you want to have on TiVo:

title : title1

(You can also add other tags such as description for example if you wish).

NOTE: The title of the first file that is pushed will control the folder name, so in above example folder name would become title1, and subsequent videos in same folder would group under the same title1 folder.

FULL EXAMPLE

1. Under a folder I have a default.txt file with:

seriesId : Kids_Movies_folder

2. Under same folder I have movie1.mpg with movie1.mpg.txt:

title : Kids Movies
description: This is Kid Movie 1

3. Now I push movie1.mpg

4. Under same folder I now have movie2.mp4 with movie2.mp4.txt:

title : Kid Movie 2
description : This is Kid Movie 2

5. Now I push movie2.mp4

Result on TiVo:

Kids Movies (2)
   Kid Movie 2 (description=This is Kid Movie 2)
   Kids Movies (description=This is Kid Movie 1)

METADATA TAGS SUPPORTED FOR PUSHES

seriesId (not used in same way as pulls but useful for grouping purposes)
title/seriesTitle
episodeTitle
description
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