Rate watched movies

[Neminem 875]

2 minutes ago, Underclass said:

(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)

I surely hope so, cause I don't want this.

[JoshuaAJones 64]

On 11/19/2024 at 1:16 PM, Neminem said:

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 ?

No.

Only you should see your ratings.  Only you care about your ratings.  No one else does.

My mom doesn't care that I love The Matrix or an MCU movie and I don't care that she has watched Elvis 20 times.

My ratings would be for me only so I could filter to MY 5-stars from the 90s, etc.

What others on my server like/dislike is of zero concern to me.

[bousenfamily 2]

wow 10 years and there is still no way to personally rate movies - right now i use collections but its painful -  would love a simplier way to rate my movies

[Junglejim 383]

1 hour ago, bousenfamily said:

wow 10 years and there is still no way to personally rate movies - right now i use collections but its painful -  would love a simplier way to rate my movies

That's because it's a bad idea! If you really like it add it to favs... Whats the point of giving it like a personal 4.2? Who cares! Just watch what you think you could like by the meta that's already downloaded!! 

[bousenfamily 2]

there is no nuance to favorites   just like there isnt even a not like and there is no good watch list - so for me favourites is my watch list but if i want to revisit things it would be good if  i could do that by preference but hey you do you

Edited January 1 by bousenfamily

[JoshuaAJones 64]

30 minutes ago, Junglejim said:

That's because it's a bad idea! If you really like it add it to favs... Whats the point of giving it like a personal 4.2? Who cares! Just watch what you think you could like by the meta that's already downloaded!! 

Hereditary... that's why.

90% rotten score (which are critics and don't matter).

7.3 from iMDb... closer but still inaccurate 

On a 1-5 scale, I'd give it a 1. It was a terrible movie that I hated BUT one of my kids loved it has watched it a few times with friends.  Therefore, it won't be deleted.

Do I care that she likes this movie?  No.

Do I care if others might like it?  No. And, I'm certainly not going to ask them for their opinion on it.

I only care about MY opinion about the movie.

That's why I want to be able to rate my movies and only see my ratings.

[redYellowScott 0]

As an Emby user, for each library I want to select an option if ratings should be displayed and if enabled be able to select where the rating is sourced from (including personal), so that I can quickly sort / reference my content by chosen rating.

*My specific use case is workout videos.  After the workout i want to select a rating so that I know to delete the video, keep it for reference, rotate it in/out every so often, or if it was one of my favorite workouts of all time.

[bousenfamily 2]

I gave up on ratings in my family all users have favourites and that is their watch list then we have collections based on each persons favs

[JoshuaAJones 64]

Almost 11 years now.  

At least make it an option to turn on/off ratings in your own profile. That way, those that don't want to use ratings don't have to use them. Don't punish the rest of us.

This is ridiculous. 

Can we get any dev input?

[ebr 15652]

9 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

Almost 11 years now.  

At least make it an option to turn on/off ratings in your own profile. That way, those that don't want to use ratings don't have to use them. Don't punish the rest of us.

This is ridiculous. 

Can we get any dev input?

Hi.  Optional features that most people will not use are the most expensive type of feature we can put in the product in terms of development, maintenance and support and also complexity for the end user so we try to limit these as much as possible.  All research for many years has shown that the vast majority of users never turn on optional features so this becomes something that costs a lot but delivers not that much value (to the majority of people - I understand it would deliver value to the ones that want it).

Our experience with this feature (we used to have it) was that not many people used it so that just makes it not something that is at the top of our list when you consider all the other features that would deliver value to a larger audience.

All that is not to say the we will never have this again.  Just that it isn't at the top of the list to spend time on.

Thanks.

[noybman 9]

Netflix used to have a like dislike option. It even hid it from the screen if you disliked it.

They removed it. I see the discussion here but I feel those against it are wrong.

My wife likes things I HATE. I want to keep it, but I never want to see it in my list. Let me hide it. Conversely, since we all live on different schedules, if I could go see 5 people disliked something, I could go delete it. I cannot fathom why we're only allowed to like things. Just because a big media conglomerate thinks we shouldn't be allowed to dislike their stuff doesn't mean Emby should follow suit. LOL.... if Netflix allowed users to dislike things they never wanted to see again, the catalog might look empty and people would cancel.

 

PS...... if my family all likes something, and I see 4 people liked it... I might choose to watch it.

I realize this feature would take time, but we have a like feature already.... so is it really that complex??????

 

[ebr 15652]

16 hours ago, noybman said:

My wife likes things I HATE. I want to keep it, but I never want to see it in my list. Let me hide it

Hi.  There are a few ways you can accomplish that now.  Tags is probably the easiest and you could also use Folder Based Access Control

Important to realize that this FR is just for rating movies - that doesn't also imply hiding certain ones - that would be a different feature with its own issues.

[noybman 9]

On 5/24/2025 at 9:36 AM, ebr said:

Hi.  There are a few ways you can accomplish that now.  Tags is probably the easiest and you could also use Folder Based Access Control

Important to realize that this FR is just for rating movies - that doesn't also imply hiding certain ones - that would be a different feature with its own issues.

Tags are not accessible on .... most clients? The web browser sure..... And can I allow people to "create" or "add" a tag without giving them advanced permissions????? The point was to allow them (the family members using it on a Roku TV or whatever), to press a Thumb Down, or a Broken heart or something.

As I mentioned.... there is a Heart! soooooooooo...............

 

I would argue that if it is MY media server, and my opinion was the only one that mattered, why would I need a heart either? I would have everything I owned hearted?!?! So yeah... we should have the Yes & No side of the coin.... the Yin & the Yang. Squeeze one more symbol in there! or let the heart have a level, 1-5 lol... ANYTHING.... just give the users an option other than fish or starve.

[visproduction 275]

On 5/23/2025 at 1:41 PM, noybman said:

I realize this feature would take time, but we have a like feature already.... so is it really that complex??????

NM, Hi, did you read about the development estimate, earlier in this discussion?  Do you think my assessment was not accurate?  I listed a company that does this for a fee on eCommerce.  Do you know of any production team that can beat that cost and also support it for less money?  Usually, when a company is offering a service, their fee is far less than trying to customize it, in-house.  If anyone has found an online service to do ratings with less cost, by all means, post a response here.  I have worked with Internet companies that rate social media content for about 400K media content items.  The feature is really much easier said than done.

Related article regarding a summary of costs for creating a site like Netflix.  https://medium.com/@miracuvesseo/the-true-cost-of-building-a-netflix-like-platform-in-2025-160f6d5ac0df

Edited May 28 by visproduction