[fabtar]

1)I have thought about improving the downloads management for the series .

Example
gianni 1x1 ita.avi
gianni 1x2 ita.avi
gianni 1x3 ita.avi
...
and so on


Usually It is reasonable to create a new category call "gianni series" just for the sake.
Sometimes the names are not so clear or uniform and the category's feature "alphabetical order" couldn't suffice in giving a reasonable download order.
It could be nice to introduce a "strict download order" for the priority (inside the category) which permits to manually set which is the first desired file, the second one and so on.
In this case the priorty field (High, low, auto, normal) could be replaced by a numerical field for the download position in a queue.

example:

file name             priority (the position in the request queue)

gianni_s1ep1            1
gianni 1x03             3
gianni 1x2              2

1 is the first to be downloaded, 2 the second and so on...
it could be nice to have the chance to select the priority (or position) manually and also it could be nice that the last file moved or added to that category (with strict order enabled) has to be positioned at the bottom (the last position, the bigger number).
Setting the same position could be also permitted, this means a file has the same priority of another.
The sources should be strictly assigned respecting this queue 's order.


2) .emulecollection extensions.

"1)" could be improved by extending the .emulecollection files.
let's consider an hypothetical gianni_1st_season.emulecollection

I suggest to left emulecollection to group downloads by creating a single collection. The .emulecollection could also incorporates the correct strict download order.
By clicking on gianni_1st_season, emule should create a gianni_1st category, adding all the serie's download inside with the right strict order:

file name             priority (the position in the request queue)         category

gianni_s1ep1            1                                                   gianni_1st
gianni 1x03             3                                                   gianni_1st
gianni 1x2              2                                                   gianni_1st

for security reason emulecollection cannot create directories out of the main incoming tree.

This post has been edited by fabtar: 06 November 2009 - 05:07 PM

[fabtar]

Here I propose an alternative behavior,
In case more files are set to the same position:

name                  priority
gianni 1st.ep2          2
gianni 1x02             2

in case of download completion of one of them the other ones should be moved to a lower (or the lowest?) position, this 'll speed up the completion of the series in the right order.

This post has been edited by fabtar: 06 November 2009 - 05:05 PM

[Andu]

Why don't you create a category for the series. Assign all the files to the category and then set the category priority to 'Download in alphabetical order'?

[Link64]

@Andu: I think he is considering the case that the files are not properly named for downloading in alphabetical order. But the solusion is to simply give the files correct names, which is necessary anyway sooner or later.