Rate watched movies

[CarlosLima 150]

+1 for five star 

[JoeAverage 5]

I'd love to have a way to rate watched movies within Emby using a 5 star system, and then a Filter option to show only films rated X or more stars.

[SofaWolf 1]

I'm giving 5 stars for hopefully being able to give 5 stars in the future.

[jakeg1235 4]

Would also love to see this!

[Underclass 6]

Revisiting this because personally the idea of being able to like/dislike a movie still feels like an important aspect of a media server. Having that also allows the possibility of clicking on a movie and seeing something "user#1 has liked this movie".

[JoshuaAJones 64]

This has become even more important over the years of watching, as I have Show Unplayed selected.

Feasibly, I could go into my filter and have it show me my 4-star movies from the 80s or 5-star movies from all-time, if we could get this simple 5-star rating system off the ground.

JS, it's been 4 years since my last post on this topic.

[Buzzin69 1]

I actually can't believe this is not already a thing.  I used this feature a TON in Plex and was surprised Emby did not have it.  I have been using the favourite feature as a substitute watchlist, I would love the ability to do user ratings instead since I don't really want 2000 pages of movies and tv shows/episodes I liked.  Come on Emby.  You know ya wanna.....

[ericluda38 0]

User Rate movies

 

[visproduction 264]

Statistics need a large number of reviewers for each media before the reviews make any sense.  Otherwise, with just a few votes, some media will get voted up to the top while a large portion will have no votes. 

That said, I think people get a lot of satisfaction to vote for their favorite media and show results for everyone.  It's a social media fun thing.

But, the effort and cost is high and the results would never be accurate.  Here is a calculator to show significant results within + - 5%. How many people out of 100 users need to vote to get 70% confidence that you are within + - 5% accuracy.  The answer is you need 53 people out of 100 to get only 70% accuracy for the target + - 5% result.

 https://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html?type=1&cl=70&ci=5&pp=50&ps=100&x=Calculate

You will never get that proportion of people voting on any media.  So, according to the formula the ratings will be inaccurate. 

 

Creating ratings is huge effort. You have to update the database, add new lookup data, create the code to present the rating buttons and tabulate the results and send them to all media pages, plus art poster data, add the on / off check buttons in admin.  Then there would need to be extra time for any future bug fixes. 

This would be expensive and time consuming.  And it can never be accurate.  And I would bet that even if a rating system gets created, people would complain continuously, to make it more accurate, which cannot be done with such a limited number of ratings.  Again, this would be only for fun feature.

 

There are eCommerce rating services online, that typically charge $15 a month / per site. Their software only works with eCommerce platforms, so they could not be used for Emby.  Have a look at how complex it is for this 3rd party rating software plugin.  These guys make money on just putting in ratings on other websites.

 https://judge.me/#home-grow-with-us
 

These type of "fun features" would slow down the software a lot, cost too much code development time and incur ongoing support costs to fix possible bugs with each release.  This could damage Emby and is too dangerous to do, in my opinion.  It's one of those things that sound simple, but is very complex and expensive to create.

Edited September 12, 2024 by visproduction

[C.S. 76]

I think this is more about communicating with friends and family about shows x, y and z. An "accurate" rating is not the point.

I'd actually like to have a dropdown/popup list somewhere on the item screen showing individual user ratings, because I know whose opinions I favor (sorry uncle Joey!).

Yes, everything costs time and money. (Time is money, so we could just say it costs time and leave it at that.) But the point is to create an overall product that people want more than any competing product. Cool stuff (details) like this is what gets you toward that goal.

[JoshuaAJones 64]

I just want to be able to locate my 5s from the 80s or 4s from the 2000s.

Something like that.

At this time, I just have the watched movies get hidden.

[Underclass 6]

6 hours ago, visproduction said:

Statistics need a large number of reviewers for each media before the reviews make any sense.  Otherwise, with just a few votes, some media will get voted up to the top while a large portion will have no votes. 

That said, I think people get a lot of satisfaction to vote for their favorite media and show results for everyone.  It's a social media fun thing.

But, the effort and cost is high and the results would never be accurate.  Here is a calculator to show significant results within + - 5%. How many people out of 100 users need to vote to get 70% confidence that you are within + - 5% accuracy.  The answer is you need 53 people out of 100 to get only 70% accuracy for the target + - 5% result.

 https://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html?type=1&cl=70&ci=5&pp=50&ps=100&x=Calculate

You will never get that proportion of people voting on any media.  So, according to the formula the ratings will be inaccurate. 

 

Creating ratings is huge effort. You have to update the database, add new lookup data, create the code to present the rating buttons and tabulate the results and send them to all media pages, plus art poster data, add the on / off check buttons in admin.  Then there would need to be extra time for any future bug fixes. 

This would be expensive and time consuming.  And it can never be accurate.  And I would bet that even if a rating system gets created, people would complain continuously, to make it more accurate, which cannot be done with such a limited number of ratings.  Again, this would be only for fun feature.

 

There are eCommerce rating services online, that typically charge $15 a month / per site. Their software only works with eCommerce platforms, so they could not be used for Emby.  Have a look at how complex it is for this 3rd party rating software plugin.  These guys make money on just putting in ratings on other websites.

 https://judge.me/#home-grow-with-us
 

These type of "fun features" would slow down the software a lot, cost too much code development time and incur ongoing support costs to fix possible bugs with each release.  This could damage Emby and is too dangerous to do, in my opinion.  It's one of those things that sound simple, but is very complex and expensive to create.

In regards to it costing money, that's also why people are paying for premiere. To help contribute for things that would cost money/time to implement. They've previously stated they would be going with a simplistic like/dislike approach (which is fine) and never raised any concerns about price or difficulty in implementation for that themselves.

[Clangrijan 19]

What Plex is going to implement is very, very good:

https://www.avpasion.com/plex-resenas-peliculas-series-nueva-funcion/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=telegram

[Luke 39819]

13 hours ago, Clangrijan said:

What Plex is going to implement is very, very good:

https://www.avpasion.com/plex-resenas-peliculas-series-nueva-funcion/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=telegram

Hi, what are they going to implement soon?

[Clangrijan 19]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, what are they going to implement soon?

Plex has launched a new feature that allows users to write and share reviews of movies and series within the platform, similar to apps like Letterboxd and TV Time. Movies and series are rated with stars from 1 to 5, and the reviews can be shared with friends and their friends, creating a more social experience. This update complements the previous "Discover Together" feature and lets users collaboratively discover content. The function includes privacy options and customizable filters to adjust the reviews you see.

[rbjtech 4950]

3 hours ago, Clangrijan said:

Plex has launched a new feature that allows users to write and share reviews of movies and series within the platform, similar to apps like Letterboxd and TV Time. Movies and series are rated with stars from 1 to 5, and the reviews can be shared with friends and their friends, creating a more social experience. This update complements the previous "Discover Together" feature and lets users collaboratively discover content. The function includes privacy options and customizable filters to adjust the reviews you see.

Can you imagine all that lovely data for Plex to scrape and sell to the highest bidder ... 

[Junglejim 383]

I guess you have to be into the whole social media bulls#*t (hey look at me, this is what I think)... egotistical crap.

[C.S. 76]

4 hours ago, rbjtech said:

Can you imagine all that lovely data for Plex to scrape and sell to the highest bidder ... 

True. On Blex this will be a source of personal data to be mined, but on Emby it would just be an awesome feature.

[Clangrijan 19]

5 hours ago, Junglejim said:

I guess you have to be into the whole social media bulls#*t (hey look at me, this is what I think)... egotistical crap

That's totally inaccurate. I'm not a fan of social media, but I value the chance to chat about movies and TV shows with other people on the same server.

Edited October 11, 2024 by Clangrijan

[Junglejim 383]

10 hours ago, Clangrijan said:

That's totally inaccurate. I'm not a fan of social media, but I value the chance to chat about movies and TV shows with other people on the same server.

There are other platforms/forums to discuss what you like/don't like if that's your thing. I just don't think the Emby app is the place to do that.

[JoshuaAJones 64]

I DO NOT want to "chat" with anyone about what I think about movie.  If I want that, my wife is sitting next to me.  I don't care what my brother or mom think either. 

How many people do you have on your server?  Don't you know them?  Give them a call.

I want the "opportunity" to rate movies on my server that only I can see, no one else.  If I rate a movie a 5 and my brother rates it a 3, I do not want it to aggregate our scores and show it as a 4.  I want it to show as a 5 on MY account and a 3 on HIS account.

I want to be able to search for all of my TOP RATED (4s and 5s) movies from the 90s or specifically 1994 and it will show Speed and other movies that I found great.

I want to see all the 3s from the 2010s, the 5s from 2022, etc.

BUT, I want it to be MY rating, not someone else's.

IF Emby wants to take my scores and combine them with others within the community or server (and I think that decision should be an opt-in box somewhere), that would be fine but utterly useless to me, as I don't care what other think about movies and shows.  I only care about what I like.  It's my movie collection, not yours.

If I think a movie is crap and give it a 1, that is my opinion.  Someone else on my server may give it a 5.  That is their prerogative.

If someone on my server wants to see my favorites, I can create a list.  I won't, but I could.

Look, I guarantee that most users will never rate enough movies to move the needle in either way, it's just not what they do. But, it would be helpful for those of us that are a bit obsessive but private.

I don't rate movie on IMDb or RT... BUT I'd rate them on my own server.  Just saying...

[Kured 12]

Just sharing my opinion that I agree we should have a 1 to 5 star rating system by now.

[Ninho_NO 0]

In my opinion, it would be great to have the option to rate content from 0 to 5 stars, which could automatically sync with Trakt.tv or Simkl. I don’t understand why some people view this as something negative, considering it would be fantastic for those who use it, and for those who don’t, it wouldn’t make any difference at all.

[Neminem 812]

Between my 5 users this would be of no use.

2 people - 5 stars 

1 person - don't care 

2 people - 3 stars

What should the ruling be ?

4 stars or undecided ?

 

what if 

4 people don't care.

1 person 5 stars.

should the media be 5 stars ?

Edited November 19, 2024 by Neminem

[Underclass 6]

That's how ratings work in general yea, no point added a weighted rating system to something like a personal media server. If people truly disagree with it then they'd also rate it themselves leading to a more accurate representation. Usually it'll have something along the lines of 5 stars and a (1) next to it representing it's only one person's opinion. 

It's not exactly a feature that's harmful to those who don't/won't use it (especially since if it's something you truly don't desire chances are there'll end up being a user setting of allowing a user to rate media items (if they ever implement this) in which you could disable this ability on all users and it'd be like this feature still doesn't exist for that server)