Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:42 am
Good thing to consider: Stop assuming that 1.-Movies commonly come in two parts and 2.-That two files with consecutive numbers will always be two CDs in a movie. I can't count how many times I've had the program almost believe it was uploading subtitles for two parts of a movie instead of two expisodes for a series.
For mass uploading this becomes more serious, as you may end up with 14 episodes of a series, that the program may believe are 7 movies.
So, a checkbox before "mass" uploading would be nice, the checkbox (or radio button, or popup menu, I don't care) could ask if the directory contains movies or tv series, if it contains movies it can ask if movies are split in two files or in a single file (or mixed contents). If it's a series it can ask if it's a single series or not and a single season or not (we should expect some level of organisation from users at some point in time).
These questions would make subtitle uploading much more practical.
Finally, and maybe unrelated. I believe "ratings" should be integrated in any form of subtitle download or upload. When you enter SubDownload (or other programs) you should have a section or tab for "ratings" that lists the subtitles you've downloaded and a way to rate them and/or take them off the list.
I also believe uploaded subtitles should present more metadata than they currently do (especifically they should make it clear if they are as-is or have been "tweaked" by the user (or if they require further tweaking).
If I had the technical chops I would make an app that integrated VLC or mplayer (for video viewing and sharing through uPNP), a torrent client with RSS support, options to uncompress downloaded files and filters for how to move them around, opensubtitles support for download and upload and automatic organisation of files (Movies, TV Series, Musicals, Documentaries, etc.) and automatic popups reminding users to rate the subtitles.
One can only dream.