2014-11-23, 17:04
Hello
I've recently discovered the possibility of using tags for movies. I'm currently sorting out my library to better filter certain movies and wondered if I should use custom genres or tags to do so, and what are the benefits using one over the other (if any)?
For example I have a lot of stand-up comedy, the majority of which are already part of that comedians set, and part of 'Comedy' genre by default scrape info. I would like to group all stand-up comedy together, so I could create a customer genre, or add tag, but which to choose and why? I'm leaning towards custom genre as this is easily accessible via library, and present when viewing all other genres, which is something I often use to browse and select a movie to watch.
I understand if I was to use a tag, I could create a smartplay list and filter that way, but I've never really used a smartplay list, so not too familiar with them. It seems to me, if I was to use tag/smartplay list in this way, and perhaps add link to main menu via a custom skin, this group would be separated from my usual browsing habits (via movie library). As such is there a way to include 'Smartplay Lists' in with the 'Videos > Movies' view so I'd have something like this...
Genres
Title
Year
Actors
Directors
Smartplay lists
Studios...
Also with regards to creating tags, what do you guys do? Do you scrape from Tmdb using Universal Movie Scrape, or simply create your own as and when needed? I started to scrape from Tmdb, but already I feel a lot of the tags would not be useful to me personally, and often there are far too many scraped. It would be great if it was possible to set UMS to use a limited number of tags, and to use only the most popular ones, ie 'weighted' tags. Weighted in the sense that many different uses have selected the same tag like for example on LastFM for music, although I don't think weighted tags is actually supported on Tmdb, so all tags are currently equal (will have to check).
What's your thoughts please? Do you perfect to create custom genre's or do you take the tag/smartplay list route?
Thank you
I've recently discovered the possibility of using tags for movies. I'm currently sorting out my library to better filter certain movies and wondered if I should use custom genres or tags to do so, and what are the benefits using one over the other (if any)?
For example I have a lot of stand-up comedy, the majority of which are already part of that comedians set, and part of 'Comedy' genre by default scrape info. I would like to group all stand-up comedy together, so I could create a customer genre, or add tag, but which to choose and why? I'm leaning towards custom genre as this is easily accessible via library, and present when viewing all other genres, which is something I often use to browse and select a movie to watch.
I understand if I was to use a tag, I could create a smartplay list and filter that way, but I've never really used a smartplay list, so not too familiar with them. It seems to me, if I was to use tag/smartplay list in this way, and perhaps add link to main menu via a custom skin, this group would be separated from my usual browsing habits (via movie library). As such is there a way to include 'Smartplay Lists' in with the 'Videos > Movies' view so I'd have something like this...
Genres
Title
Year
Actors
Directors
Smartplay lists
Studios...
Also with regards to creating tags, what do you guys do? Do you scrape from Tmdb using Universal Movie Scrape, or simply create your own as and when needed? I started to scrape from Tmdb, but already I feel a lot of the tags would not be useful to me personally, and often there are far too many scraped. It would be great if it was possible to set UMS to use a limited number of tags, and to use only the most popular ones, ie 'weighted' tags. Weighted in the sense that many different uses have selected the same tag like for example on LastFM for music, although I don't think weighted tags is actually supported on Tmdb, so all tags are currently equal (will have to check).
What's your thoughts please? Do you perfect to create custom genre's or do you take the tag/smartplay list route?
Thank you