Favourite People

[Cluttered 15]

If I add 'Tom Holland' from spiderman then go to my favourites, it shows two tom hollands, if I remove the other one then both vanish.

Happens with chris evans too. (Did a search for celebrities with the same names, these two examples are the only ones I found that are both in my library).

Edited October 13, 2023 by Cluttered

[MBSki 1114]

Yea, I mentioned the same thing 2 years ago. Sounds like a change could be made, but only for new installations. I don't know why and I don't think @Lukeever provided a clear answer. 

 

[Cluttered 15]

Ah, apologies, searching for favourite/favorite & people returns too many results to find matching issues.

I expect I will get told off for raising it.

Seems like a simple fix, rather than searching for the name as text and returning spurious results just do what they do for films etc and use a unique number! (Which is why they use the ID's for imdb, tmdb, tvdb etc.).

Indeed if you search for a person on those sites then you get a unique 'personid' for this exact reason.

It's odd.

[Luke 42083]

When you use the metadata editor, currently all you can do is enter the person name. So yes, this becomes a name-based lookup. We need to improve this to allow you to select an existing person in your database, so that way when there are multiple matches of the same name you can pick the right one.

[MBSki 1114]

18 minutes ago, Luke said:

When you use the metadata editor, currently all you can do is enter the person name. So yes, this becomes a name-based lookup. We need to improve this to allow you to select an existing person in your database, so that way when there are multiple matches of the same name you can pick the right one.

Yes, that would be nice. It's been a few years and doesn't seem like a difficult change to make. Can you but that on the last for the NEXT beta? Let's get this beta to stable first.