"Documentary" Music Video Type // Mod: new local extra type

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I would like to be able to have documentaries about a music artist as part of my Music library alongside music videos, live videos, concerts, etc. Currently the closest tag for these is “-behindthescenes” but that isn’t really appropriate for a full length documentary film about an artist. Can a tag be added for “-documentary” that then has it’s own video type within the music videos tags?

2

How about the already existing -featurette extra suffix?

3

I believe that only applies for movie extras, as it’s not in the list of tags recognized to show up in the music library.

Those would be:

  • -behindthescenes (behind the scenes)
  • -concert (concert performance)
  • -interview (artist interview)
  • -live (live music video)
  • -lyrics (lyrics music video
  • -video (regular music video)

Right now I’m using -behindthescenes but even that isn’t really the same as a full documentary film about an artist.

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4

I just tested this, and apparently -featurette does work, so I would assume that the remainder of the extras/trailers tags also work. Very interesting find!

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5

It works the other way around as well. You can add local extras to your movies of type -video or -lyrics if you want to. (provided, the library uses the new agent)

6

This is great to know, thank you! I’d still love to see a few more extra types (including one for full length musical artist films) but this will work for now! Perhaps a way to make custom tags within the settings?

Either way, thanks!

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I know that we have the sub-folders (Behind the Scenes, Deleted Scenes, etc.) that can be located under the primary feature folder for recognition by the server software.

Is there a way we could see “Documentaries” added to the folder structure? I have just started ripping a lot of the extra features from the myriad of discs that I own, and noticed a lot of them have features that can’t be categorized by the current folders (ie: Apollo 13, Avatar, etc).

Just a suggestion. Thanks for the consideration.

8

Just use Featurette or Other.
If the documentary is about making of the main feature, one could argue that this is exactly the category which “Behind the Scenes” was intended for.