Feature Requests: Movie Genre Filtering and Movie Listings

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Hi;

It’d be great if the way to filter by genre wasn’t so convoluted! Just about all other media/content players treat genre as a first class citizen (even the bloody Apple TV), and it’d greatly improve usability for those with kids so that their 5 yo didn’t have to scroll past Friday 13th to get to Frozen …

Also, the movie listings show the background, not the movie poster; can this be changed?! I don’t want to have to go through each movie just to create a decent looking background that displays when the movie files have the poster embedded.
If the option for background is a majority preferred, can an option be added for those that prefer posters?

Cheers!!!

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Regarding 2)

Movie listings always show the movie poster. Is it possible that your movie library is a “Home Movie” library and not a proper movie-library? This would explain why you don´t see the actual movie covers.

And regarding 1)

Filtering is possible, but yes you have to go to movies => browse => check the genre filter for what you like.

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Cheers for the response @mike4001!

Posters/Backgrounds

It is indeed showing up as a Home Movie library despite having selected Movie when creating the library. I have replicated the configuration and it seems that my choice of agent (Personal Media) is what causes it to get reconfigured as a Home Movie library :confused:

I was using Personal Media as the agent as all my movies have all the information I want configured in the files metadata and therefore I do not want it overwritten from any of the online sources in the adjacent agents for Movies.

Any suggestions?

Genre/Filtering

Yes, I am aware that the filter is possible. What I was requesting was more if it could be made a first-class citizen in the UI seeing as just about all media players/library services do and it makes it damn easy for those with younger audiences haha

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So I ended up mimicking the Local Media Assets bundle and creating a new agent that only looked at local media metadata; works a charm now and does not force the library to be created as a Home Movie library (despite it being manually specified as a Movie library).