category based sorting

[michael.lowden]

I have a strange category situation (that I'm sure is not too uncommon).

I download two of almost everything I watch, and would like to be able to sort the different qualities under different folders (top level). So I have the "TV" folder that stays on my server, and the "TV-SD" that gets dumped weekly to my tablet.

Right now, my closest solution is to use the built in "TV" sorting (that works awesome), and then use an unsorted category for "TV-SD" that goes to my "TV-SD" folder. The only annoyance here is that the kickass TV-Sorting doesn't work here, so all my files are just dumped into gibberish folder names.

What I'd love to have, and if anyone has an idea, is the have multiple TV-sort categories so they go where+how I want. Maybe a sorting tool that is just totally generic where you can add a custom Pattern Key to specific category types. But like an open list for all available categories and then just a pattern key next to it.

Possible table structure (pseudo-coded):

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+-----------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Category       |  Type    |  Pattern                                                          |
+-----------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Apps           |  Apps    |  {default for type}                                               |
|  Misc           |  Misc    |  {default for type}                                               |
|  MikesMovies    |  Movies  |  ./Movies-Mike/%Name (%Year).%ext                                 |
|  SarasMovies    |  Movies  |  ./Movies-Sara/%Name (%Year).%ext                                 |
|  TV             |  TV      |  ./TV/%ShowName/%SeasonNumber/%EpisodeNumber - %EpisodeName.%ext  |
|  TV-SD          |  TV      |  ./TV-SD/%ShowName/%SeasonNumber - %EpisodeNumber.%ext            |
|  ...            |  ...     |  ...                                                              |
+-----------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

The list would automatically be as big as the list of "categories" one builds. Or perhaps even just part of that settings screen a "Set output pattern" button would do the same .

Any thoughts / suggestions are more than welcome. If possible, I'd be willing to program this but I don't want to start it and find out later that SABnzbd+ cannot support it for some reason.

thanks
Mike

[michael.lowden]

UPDATE:
I've found a partial fix to this. By assigning type TV to both of my categories, and different folders (as I had before). The "TV sorting" can be assigned to both categories and it just follows the same pattern into my "TV" and "TV-SD" directories. I just wish that I could have a different pattern between the two categories.
Such an awesome product (BTW).