Allow multiple rating systems for Kids accounts, or Assign Equivalency

[minkshaman 2]

I've had a look and it seems a pretty common complaint that parental ratings are using the wrong nationality.

It's known that this is due to the volunteer metadata system, but I wonder if it would be possible to assign multiple allowed ratings for Kids accounts.

 

Alternatively, having a function allowing parents to identify which ratings are equivalent may be easier?

[MBSki 1114]

You can change the parental rating on any item or alternatively, set the custom rating. Is that close to what you're looking to do?

[minkshaman 2]

Not really.

 

my issue is the same as many others I’ve seen in the past.

 

I have bucketloads of kids media that’s unable to be filtered by parental rating, because I don’t want to have to manually override 150+ items individually with varying ratings.

 

if I could assign multiple ratings across all country systems to my two child profiles, that’d work well for me.

 

The alternative is that I could manually say that value(s) x from the American system is equivalent to value y from the Aus system, and have it work.

[GrimReaper 4740]

11 minutes ago, minkshaman said:

The alternative is that I could manually say that value(s) x from the American system is equivalent to value y from the Aus system, and have it work.

Ratings are already tracked internally and assigned weight/numeric value and various country ratings should correspond to equivalent rating from other countries; exact example where it is not working for you would be required.

[minkshaman 2]

Wow. Ok, so I don’t see any of that.

If I tick “Block items with no or unrecognised rating information”, Mary Poppins is blocked, as it has the Portuguese rating of “M6” meaning that it’s appropriate for over the age of 6.

The child’s account is set to maximum of AU-PG.

If I override the rating with a custom rating, it shows up.

 

this is consistent across all media that has pulled non-Australian ratings.

[MBSki 1114]

That definitely sounds like a bug. Great catch!

[GrimReaper 4740]

13 minutes ago, minkshaman said:

If I tick “Block items with no or unrecognised rating information”, Mary Poppins is blocked, as it has the Portuguese rating of “M6”

It is blocked as "M6" is considered "Unrecognized" rating since TMDB returns these as Portuguese Parental Ratings for movies:

Quote

"PT":[
{"certification":"Públicos","meaning":"For all the public (especially designed for children under 3 years of age).","order":1},
{"certification":"M/3","meaning":"Passed for viewers aged 3 and older.","order":2},
{"certification":"M/6","meaning":"Passed for viewers aged 6 and older.","order":3},
{"certification":"M/12","meaning":"Passed for viewers aged 12 and older.","order":4},
{"certification":"M/14","meaning":"Passed for viewers aged 14 and older.","order":5},
{"certification":"M/16","meaning":"Passed for viewers aged 16 and older.","order":6},
{"certification":"M/18","meaning":"Passed for viewers aged 18 and older.","order":7},
{"certification":"P","meaning":"Special rating supplementary to the M/18 age rating denoting pornography.","order":8}
]

Syntax should be "M/6" for it to be valid/recognized/assigned weight/used.

[minkshaman 2]

4 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

It is blocked as "M6" is considered "Unrecognized" rating since TMDB returns these as Portuguese Parental Ratings for movies:

Syntax should be "M/6" for it to be valid/recognized/assigned weight/used.

Appreciate that that’s the right process and all, but that’s not what was pulled.

I suspect it’s been pulled from TheTVDB as they’ve got the content as “Portugal M6” and American NR.

This is likely what’s occurring with all the other ones that are blocked.

This makes my second suggestion of being able to define equivalent ratings more useful, as I can define at the system level that M6 is M/6 or whatever.

[GrimReaper 4740]

6 minutes ago, minkshaman said:

I suspect it’s been pulled from TheTVDB as they’ve got the content as “Portugal M6” and American NR.

Then you likely have TVDB as top-preferred provider in your movie library - which, IMHO, should generally be avoided either by moving TMDB on top or (personal preference) disabling TVDB altogether as movie fetcher, and Refresh Metadata>Replace All on affected movies. 

Edited August 20, 2023 by GrimReaper

[GrimReaper 4740]

30 minutes ago, minkshaman said:

This makes my second suggestion of being able to define equivalent ratings more useful, as I can define at the system level that M6 is M/6 or whatever.

Related topic:

 

 

[ebr 16178]

Yeah, we just need to be sure the system recognizes M6 as well as M/6.