Feature Request [Mass Labeling]

Feature Suggestions
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I’m sure this has been asked before but I’m now implementing the Home User accounts. Ratings and labels are good start on restrictions. Unfortunately the rating system has been very inconsistent decade to decade.

I like labels but could also solve this with more specific filter restrictions.

Is there a way to place a label over an entire genre? Right now it appears that I have to touch every single item and manually add a label.

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You are correct, there currently isn’t this functionality. It allows, Select and Deselect All only from what I can see on mine. +1

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Right now it appears that I have to touch every single item and manually add a label.

If you mean you have to add a label to each item individually, one at a time, that’s not true. If the below is what you understand to be the case, I apologize for being redundant. :slight_smile:

You can multi-select your albums, and add a label to them in one shot.

Toggle the Select tool on the left sidebar:

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Click on the albums you want to label:

Click Edit tool, go to Sharing page, and add Label. This will be applied to every selected album.

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This can be done for Music (by Album only, not Artists or Tracks), as well as Movies.

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@beckfield said:
This can be done for Music (by Album only, not Artists or Tracks), as well as Movies.

He means can’t we have a select all function… Then we could just filter down a genre, and apply labels to the whole genre. Instead of having to individually click each movie we want included.

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@s1mpleman said:
He means can’t we have a select all function… Then we could just filter down a genre, and apply labels to the whole genre. Instead of having to individually click each movie we want included.

  1. apply your filter
  2. hold down the Shift key and click on the first item in the list
  3. scroll down to the end of the list
  4. hold down the Shift key and click on the last item in the list
  5. all items inbetween are now selected as well
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@OttoKerner said:
5. all items inbetween are now selected as well

Well I never haha. Cheers.

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I had the same question awhile back and didn’t realize the shift-click function until another nice samaritan pointed it out… it works like a charm, I tagged thousands of items this way… wonder if there is some way to make this more intuitive…

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@arionl said:
I had the same question awhile back and didn’t realize the shift-click function until another nice samaritan pointed it out… it works like a charm, I tagged thousands of items this way… wonder if there is some way to make this more intuitive…

A select all button? :wink:

To be honest, I didn’t try it because there’s usually a load of obvious things Plex tends to leave out, and I thought that was one of them. Happy to find out it isn’t the case.

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Early 2021 clean-up: implemented