While related they are not the same. Would be like saying history and documentary are the same, they are not. Anyhow, if someone wanted a movie to be Action/Adventure then they could just tag both genres.
Outside of movies wrongly getting one of these genres types plex now over populates the genre type making it useless. Approx half of my movies in my library fall into this Action/Adventure genre which makes it useless.
Also, plex is the only one that combines these to my knowledge. IMDB, TMDB and TVDB don’t so plex should not also.
Yep, we have an internal issue open for this and it will get changed but there have been higher priority tasks for that team and making the change isn’t trivial due to some inter-dependencies.
I love when things I just learn about (from the other thread) and decide to overhaul myself suddenly come together with very little effort on my part.
@anon5074910’s convo convinced me to ditch my old video store ways of combining Action\Adventure genre labels; it made total sense in a video store, really. Yet, I hadn’t adjusted this bit of physical->digital ownership myself despite my regular arguments for the flexibility of tags being so much more useful for digital vs physical media!
Question then… since I’ve already manually fiddled with these genre labels (action, adventure, action & adventure, action\adventure) what should I do to make sure my genre tags match sources or don’t conflict with the tag split? Since I was just about to go fiddle with this stuff manually I don’t want to cause myself additional complications (and I assume the answer might have to wait until after the mechanism of the change is sorted out).
In trying to fix the Action\Adventure (Action & Adventure) editing I’ve done - @anon5074910 has convinced me my old Blockbuster Video ways aren’t necessary any more - I’d like to refresh metadata back to defaults for genre metadata to cancel out any manual adjustments I’ve made to genre tags and to be prepped for when this internal issue is adjusted someday. Is there a reliable way for me to do this?
Edit: Found a process that worked for me. I selected all my movies and then locked the GENRE field. Saved it. I selected all my movies again and unlocked the GENRE field. Saved it again. Refreshed metadata and Genre was updated for all movies. So now I think my library is prepped for whenever the “action\adventure” split is done for the agents.
Edit: Looks like this change was enacted recently - refreshing metadata on a couple example movies recently removed the “action\adventure” tags and split them into separate Action and Adventure tags.
