There are a variety of use case (i.e. Music Videos and TV Specials) where season and episode labels are not helpful and simply look odd. It would be very nice to be able to turn them off. A Music Video is not Episode 4. A Charlie Brown Christmas is not Episode 1.
A Charlie Brown Christmas is actually a movie. IMDB.com number: tt0059026 TMDB.org number: 13187
It’s a made for TV movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s still not a movie. If you put it into your movie library, it gets identified correctly, all metadata gets populated and there it is. You can put in additional tags to flag it how you want after that.
Don’t music videos get put into music libraries? (Don’t know, since I don’t have any music videos…)
@MikeG6.5 said:
A Charlie Brown Christmas is actually a movie. IMDB.com number: tt0059026 TMDB.org number: 13187It’s a made for TV movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s still not a movie. If you put it into your movie library, it gets identified correctly, all metadata gets populated and there it is. You can put in additional tags to flag it how you want after that.
Don’t music videos get put into music libraries? (Don’t know, since I don’t have any music videos…)
I am fully aware of the fact that I can classify it as a movie. That is entirely beside the point and does not in the least way impact the rationale for the feature request. Holiday specials are super-annoying, because some are classified as movies, others as TV Shows and some get listed both ways. I do not especially like putting things like Frosty the Snowman in my movie library and I do not want to create an entire library just for handling a dozen or so of these holiday on-offs. That is why I built a custom show in my TV Library called Holiday Specials. Every Holiday is a Season and has a super-obvious poster to indicate what the holiday is. Every special is set up as an episode in the appropriate Holiday season. It works well, for the most part.
Music videos can go in the Music section, but there are some serious drawbacks. The biggest one is that you have to navigate the music library and check each Artist to see if there are videos. If the videos are stored at the album level, you have to drill down to the individual album. This works fine if you know exactly what you are looking for, but it completely sucks if you just want to sit down and play some music videos. People have been asking for better music video functionality for years.
These are not the only use-cases for this. There are people that have custom content, instructional videos, etc. who set up TV libraries. Let’s face it, the Home Video library pretty much sucks for anything except home videos. Augmenting a few features of the TV Library would solve a lot of problems.
