Use Series StartYear in renaming

[allanabiud]

Great tool you've made here. Really scratches my collector's itch.

I think Perdoo should use the Series StartYear when renaming folders, maybe issues as well.

With how Metron handles volume numbers for collections (TPBs and Hardcovers), a TPB series with Volume 2 ends up in the same folder as the same name series with Volume 2 even though they don't belong in same series.

I talked with Brian about this and he seemed unsure himself.

Using Series StartYear at least helps differentiate.

[Buried-In-Code]

Currently Perdoo intentionally puts TPB and Single Issues in the same folder if they are the same volume as when it was originally created Metron wasn't a thing and I mainly used League-of-Comic-Geeks as my information source and that is how LoCG stores there comics.

I prefer naming via volume instead of startYear as there are too many series that have the same startYear, creating annoying conflicts. I hadn't considered both volume and startYear but I eventually want to make it pattern based so people can layout their comics however they wish.
I'm hesitant to put this stop-gap in only to rip it out again a version later.

[allanabiud]

Currently Perdoo intentionally puts TPB and Single Issues in the same folder if they are the same volume as when it was originally created Metron wasn't a thing and I mainly used League-of-Comic-Geeks as my information source and that is how LoCG stores there comics.

I prefer naming via volume instead of startYear as there are too many series that have the same startYear, creating annoying conflicts. I hadn't considered both volume and startYear but I eventually want to make it pattern based so people can layout their comics however they wish. I'm hesitant to put this stop-gap in only to rip it out again a version later.

Makes sense. I saw the league of comic geeks settings options and was excited to know what it does cause I also love how LOCG organizes their Series with TPBs but was unsure how to make use of them since I know LOCG only has an API for rerailers, correct?

[Buried-In-Code]

Correct, its not quite a public API. Perdoo did use to have a workaround, but it wasn't very reliable so I removed it. If they ever release a public API I'll likely add it back.