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What's your Sort order for the Now Playing list?
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Posted by: tomlouie

I use sort by Expiration, because I prefer seeing the order in which they'll expire.

Tom

Posted by: mtmra70

huh, guess i didnt realize there was a sort option.......but i think it sorts by when it was recorded

Posted by: tomlouie

In case you don't know how to change sort ordering:

In Now Playing, Enter:
(S)low (0)Zero (R)ecord (T)humbsUp

Tom

Posted by: ronsch

I use all three from time to time and even switch between orders to move from one end of Now Playing to the other.

Posted by: rseligman

I have a 138hr TiVo. Impossible to find anything unless it's alphabetical.

Posted by: beejay

I use all three. Normally alphabetical, but I'll switch to "recorded" to see what was recorded recently. Rarely need "expiration", but it's nice to have the option.

Posted by: allan

I've never tried alphabetical. Since I only have 60 hours, I need to know which shows I'm about to lose.

Posted by: Smeg

I use Newest except when I am searching for a certain show, then I go to Alphabetical and I switch to Expiration when I'm housecleaning...

Posted by: jeffk

no need to hit s 0 r t to sort in now playign anymore. Just hit info, and theres a option to pick sort method :-)

Posted by: murgatroyd

I switch between them all the time while doing housekeeping, but my default is by expiration, so I can extend the expiration dates on shows I don't want to be deleted.

I usually switch to Newest in the evening when we sit down to watch the stuff that TiVo has taped for us that day. I use Alpha when I am dumping shows off to tape.

Jan

Posted by: StanSimmons

I default to Newest, but switch Alpha when I'm viewing series, and Expiration when I get low on space (very few suggestions.)

Posted by: biker

I switch to all three from time to time.

Posted by: phone1

Alphabetical - it's the only way to keep up with 100+ entries. I can't wait for grouping.

Posted by: JPriller

I usually leave it in Alphabetical, but switch to Expiration when I'm looking to see what's new and what movies its got (I always have those set SUID, in Expiration all those green-circle shows get clumbed together).

Posted by: T-Veaux

Since we still like to watch many of our favorite shows the night they air, but an hour or two later we use "Newest" setting as the top of the now playing list is a nice recap of that night thus far. It also helps me compare to my mental notes I take while reviewing the To Do List.

Posted by: HTH

I leave it in recording order most of the time, but I switch to alphabetical to get to the suggestions faster, then while on a suggestion I switch to expiration to know which suggestion wants to delete first. (But I don't necessarily trust that expired and suggested recordings delete in the order depicted.) Similar method to get near the top again (alphabetical, find nearest expired recording, expiry, find first non-expired, recording order).

But then I have more episodes of Odyssey 5 recorded than there are unique episodes.

I do wish there was a fourth sorting option that would list suggestions first.

Posted by: tomlouie

quote:
Originally posted by HTH
I do wish there was a fourth sorting option that would list suggestions first.

Or allow the menu cursor to wrap around from the beginning to end and vice versa!

Tom

Posted by: David Platt

quote:
Originally posted by tomlouie
Or allow the menu cursor to wrap around from the beginning to end and vice versa!

Tom

Amen on that one!

Posted by: Dale Sorel

Sorting by expiration rules!

It's great to be able to change the expiration date and know what's going to be bumped first :up:

Posted by: Jobeth66

With 306 hours, I use alpha. The chances of anything being deleted are slim so I don't care about the expiry date.

I'm with the 'can't wait for folders' crowd. :)

Posted by: Ruth

I use alphabetical primarily (as others have noted, with more than 100 hrs it's really the only way to go), but I'll often switch to newest to see how much unused space I've got left, or to find something that I know should have recently recorded.

Posted by: jk5598224

I would be nicer to have a sort by 'Size On Disk' Ascending/Descending, no?

Posted by: Raech

quote:
no need to hit s 0 r t to sort in now playign anymore. Just hit info, and theres a option to pick sort method :-)

Hit info where dear??? I know lots of the cool features but I guess I missed this one.

Posted by: cwerdna

My Tivo is in the default sort order >90% of the time. Only when I need to locate something by title do I switch to alphabetical.

Posted by: rbird

Expiration. It gets me about 30% of the behavior I want from a free space/deletion time indicator. TivoWeb's additional features get me all the way up to about 50% capability (and it has proven to me that Tivo's space calculations are ULTRA-conservative).

Of course I will occasionally switch to either of the other two options, but generally only to find a particular program more quickly from the list (by date to find last night's Futurama, or alphabetical to "group" a series in order to find the oldest episode to watch first).

Bob

Posted by: grecorj

quote:
Originally posted by jeffk
no need to hit s 0 r t to sort in now playign anymore. Just hit info, and theres a option to pick sort method :-)

Well that depends -- combo box owners still have to use the SORT code.

Thats Select 0 (zero) Record Thumbs Up while in the NP List.

My default is the default (newest first); alpha is handy to group by show.

Posted by: JuryDuty

Pretty cool little "hack" there. Still, after using the other two options, I prefer to sort by newest recorded. I tend to watch only the last 10 shows recorded anyway, with my movies about 1/2 way down the list for a rainy day.

Posted by: HTH

quote:
Originally posted by tomlouie
Or allow the menu cursor to wrap around from the beginning to end and vice versa!

Only if it behaves like System Information does with backdoors enabled when you keep trying to Page Down beyond the end (the "All your tuners are belong: TO US!" backdoor easter egg). If I'm somewhere in the middle, I'd like an audible indication to know when I hit the start or end of that list, and have it be similarly resistent in case a lot of Page Ups/Downs got buffered. Or a special key to get around.

Better yet, why not just map http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/tivo/ir.gif and http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/tivo/tab.gif to do Home and End to take you to the top and bottom of any menu, respectively? Or some signal that changes the interpretation of Page Up/Down for the next signal only to do the same? Bonus: you could then get to the top and bottom from anywhere instantly instead of paging repeatedly to get there.

Posted by: njtaz

How come when I hit those sort options your talking about nothing is happening? Is there something that I need to do first to enable this feature?

Posted by: geoman47

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no need to hit s 0 r t to sort in now playign anymore. Just hit info, and theres a option to pick sort method :-)
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quote:
Originally posted by Raech
Hit info where dear??? I know lots of the cool features but I guess I missed this one.

I too must have missed this one. I hit s O r t, but I don't have an info button to my knowledge... I have the Peanut Remote.

Posted by: keefer37

SVR-2000 is alphabetical.
HDVR2 is default. I can't sort on the HDVR2.

Posted by: Vernon

quote:
Originally posted by geoman47
quote:

I too must have missed this one. I hit s O r t, but I don't have an info button to my knowledge... I have the Peanut Remote.

The newer peanut remotes look like this: http://store.tivo.com/catalog/34_bu...oal_picture.jpg, and have an "Info" button on the top right. I have an older peanut remote, with no Info button, but the s-0-r-t command works fine.

Posted by: HTH

Ah, for older remotes, it is the Display button, and for older still, you use Enter.

Posted by: jsmeeker

The default. I know you can change it, but don't know how to and don't really care too. Newest seems best. Just like my email.

Posted by: sschwart

I use alphabetical when I'm trying to find a specific show. When I'm just cruising through new stuff, I switching it to newest.

Then again, I'm only at 70hrs.

-Steve

Posted by: njtaz

quote:
Originally posted by Vernon
The newer peanut remotes look like this: http://store.tivo.com/catalog/34_bu...oal_picture.jpg, and have an "Info" button on the top right. I have an older peanut remote, with no Info button, but the s-0-r-t command works fine.

I have that newer remote with the Info button, but when hitting it while in the now playing screen does nothing for me.

Posted by: HTH

You have to enable Slow Zero Record ThumbsUp for Info to work in Now Playing. Once enabled, there should be extra text at the bottom of the screen explaining it.

Posted by: njtaz

quote:
Originally posted by HTH
You have to enable Slow Zero Record ThumbsUp for Info to work in Now Playing. Once enabled, there should be extra text at the bottom of the screen explaining it.

How do you do that? Is there a key sequence of some sort that I need to hit?

Posted by: HTH

quote:
Originally posted by njtaz
How do you do that? Is there a key sequence of some sort that I need to hit?

s/to enable/to enter/

If you continue to act dense, I'm not going to bother responding.

Posted by: Marconi

quote:
Originally posted by tomlouie
In case you don't know how to change sort ordering:

In Now Playing, Enter:
(S)low (0)Zero (R)ecord (T)humbsUp

Tom

Ummm... In what software version was this functionality added? And why have you folks been keeping it a secret?!?

I tried the key sequence listed above and was rewarded with the message "Press DISPLAY to view sort options" or something like that. OK, so where's this "DISPLAY" I'm s'posed to press?!?!? It's certainly not on the remote control.

Posted by: tomlouie

quote:
Originally posted by Marconi
Ummm... In what software version was this functionality added? And why have you folks been keeping it a secret?!?

I tried the key sequence listed above and was rewarded with the message "Press DISPLAY to view sort options" or something like that. OK, so where's this "DISPLAY" I'm s'posed to press?!?!? It's certainly not on the remote control.

Try the INFO key. Or, you can just press "1" or "2" or "3" while on the Now Playing Screen, to sort in Chronological, Expiration or Alphabetical order.

Tom

Posted by: HTH

If your TiVo remote doesn't have either a Display or Info button, it should tell you to use the Enter key instead, unless you used another remote that does have one of those keys with that or another TiVo (say, a DirecTiVo or Series2).

Using a newer remote in the presence of an older TiVo also changes what button you press to access filter options in Live TV's Guide (a quickly forgotten feature as you learn to watch recordings only and never Live TV).

I haven't tested to see if 3.2 will talk about using the Enter key if you only use an older remote with it from a fresh restart. 3.0 won't suddenly talk about the Info button.