Labels for movies, TV shows and collections are a really helpful and flexible tool when it comes to filtering and/or adding items to smart playlists or smart collections.
Period (though I have wishes to expand functionality here, too).
What I am missing, is a visual representation (a “label” for certain labels, so to say). You list “editions” (under the covers in the poster wall view, for example), but labels are invisible for now.
There are labels that work like categories (for example, the label “christmas movies” can bring all my christmas movies into a smart collection with its own cover).
But use cases for laI bels are endless.
For example, I take note for all of my TV shows if they are “complete” or if future seasons are expected or missing in my library. This is only for internal use and should not become visible by default.
On the other hand, I really would appreciate the possibility to easily see if any of my movie collections is “complete”.
For example, the “Conan Collection” will probably not get any new additions (at least as far as TVDB and I know) - and I have a label set in each collection that tells me if movies are missing from it or if they are “complete”.
I can imagine dozens of other use cases where I don’t want to produce new smart collections or playlists and still want to SEE if a certain movie or TV is labelled (like personal recommendations to users or "blockbuster"s…, etc). Users should see a label while they are browsing through the library just like they normally do.
I can envision a “poster overlay image” which is showing a sleeve/band of certain colour and which is resizing just like the covers of movies, collections and TV shows are.
I want to choose the colour as well as one word of text by setting a label. If no such label is set, no overlay is visible. There should be a “first label wins” rule for conflicting labels being set for the same object.
Examples:
banner-yellow-RECOMMENDED
banner-red-COMPLETE
banner-white-FAVORITE
Only a few standard colours need to be available and there can even be some easy rules for words set to each banner, like a maximum of characters, single word, only capital letters or something according these lines.
I know that such a band/sleeve/banner overlay need to be with transparent background and must be rendered at some point. The rest is probably just CSS 
Maybe even the height of the sleeve/band and/or the opacity could be covered.
That would make labels really ven more useful than they are at the moment.
Last but not least, give users a choice of not letting these banners/bands/sleeves into their world if they would hate to have parts of their beautiful covers covered by things a server admin might think is useful.
I am not good in creating mock-ups, but maybe kind souls could help out and users could try and think of other use cases they would profit from a visual representation of “labels” and comment here on these.
What do you guys think?
