Existing genres should pop up when typing them into metadata

October 8, 2024

I like to create custom genres for some films (like Film Noir, Historical Fiction, Old Movies 1960-1989, Classic Literature, RomCom, etc). As I am typing a genre name into the field to add one to a film, it would be helpful if existing genres with the same spelling started to pop up in a list that I could scroll down to select from. This would save me from having to type the full genre name I have already entered for other films and keep me from having mis-spelling duplicates that would also lead to mis-categorization errors later. This could also apply to "standard" genres that one might like to add that weren't included with the initial indexing. Perhaps, having a database(DB) of existing standard & added genres for the software to choose from would be helpful. You could include a DB of the standard genres with the initial installation, but make it locally managed, so each server would be capable of adding new genres to its own DB, rather than having to make it available to all Emby Users.

Adding to playlists shows a list of already created playlists to choose from below the option to add a new one - this is another possibility.

The screenshot shows an example of my suggestion as implemented by another software package I have used. As I type the world "old" into the genre field, the 2 "old movie" options pop up in a list I can select from.