Use First Broadcast Date in Filenames? Capitalisation?

C E Macfarlane c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk
Sat Jan 3 12:09:12 PST 2015


1)	First Broadcast Date

AFAICS, there is no way to get the first broadcast date from the XML
metadata into the filename.  This can be somewhat confusing for series where
the episode titles do not include this information, yet there are a great
many episodes which will get muddled up without it.  For example, Letter
>From America:

	Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp

		Episode Name:	Domestic affairs
		http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040brl0
			http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040brl0.xml
			<first_broadcast_date>1978-01-06T21:15:00Z</first_broadcast_date>
			1st Broadcast:	06-01-1978

As can be seen, the xml metadata contains the First Broadcast Date, but I
can't find any way of getting this into the file name before the Episode
Title.  What I want is something like:
	Letter from America - 1978-01-06 Domestic affairs

Is there is an existing way to do this?  If not, can we have one?

2)	Capitalisation

Is there an option to get ...
		Letter From America By Alistair Cooke
... instead of the default ...
		Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
?

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