This request doesn’t seem to be very popular but it does keep popping up over the years. It being a simple ask, I was hopeful that it would get some attention, but that’s just the way it goes here.
Asking for the ability to apply labels to entire libraries in order to allow top-down inheritance for kids content.
This feature has been suggested in the past but closed, and I’m not sure why. The alternative suggestions in previous threads were unnecessarily complex, like splitting up TV shows by content rating and nesting those folders. Most of us have automatic TV library management making this suggestion unworkable (and frankly absurd when labels already exist.)
Let me explain:
Libraries…
I’m throwing my vote behind this simply because a more automated solution is desperately needed.
That said, it would be quite simple to allow whole libraries to be shared without restrictions, and/or to make it optional to apply restriction files to certain libraries. Perhaps a checkbox to “ignore restriction profiles on this library” or something similar.
For instance, I want my kids to be allowed to watch anything in “Kids Movies” and “Kids TV”, but not everything in “Movies” or “TV”. When I…
[Feature Request] Individual restrictions on each Library @Sundrik
Labels for Libraries @wesman
Plex Sharing Labels & Libraries @mtkeane