Currently PLEX shows the score/rating of a movie or TV show , represented with 5 stars.
the problem with this representation is that a movie with IMDB rating of 5.4 has 3 stars which also applies to a movie with IMDB rating of 6.9 - but the difference in quality is enormous !
instead i would suggest that movies with IMDB rating of 4 or below should show up as 0 stars
- 5 as 1 star
- 6 as 2 stars
- 7 as 3 stars
- 8 as 4 stars
- 9/10 as 5 stars
This way it all makes more sense and i bet it matches the catalog of most collectors.
I personally only have a handful of IMDB 4-5 rated movies while the rest is 6+
I could of course run a script on all my NFO files that did all this - but for all those movies that are auto-scraped i would lack this normalization.
I am against this. It is a gross generalization of peoples movie tastes.
For example I watch a lot of obscure and sometimes controversial horror movies. These kinds of movies are disliked by many people, and so they very often end up on IMDB as below a 5, regardless of the quality of the movie. To be honest probably more then half of my library would get zero to one stars with your design, simply because of movie tastes.
I think the best solution for this would be to use more stars (10) or have half stars like in Plex home theater. The difference between 5.4 and 6.9 would then be more visible.
Come to think of it, this discussion is probably pointless anyway, since it’s not IMDB ratings Plex uses, but rather themoviedb ratings, but yeah.
well - the star representation should be normalized as i said…
so in you case your lowest rating movie could be a 3 on IMDB and the highest rated might be 8
in this case 0 stars would mean IMDB 3 and 5 stars would represent IMDB 8.
this would make the Star-rating even better.
