Filter by IMDb rating

[herobucket 2]

It would be great if there was a way to range filter by IMDb rating. Like only show movies with a rating above 7.0

[visproduction 315]

Hero,
You probably are aware that in any library you can sort by IMDB and the top rated media rises to the top.  With filters, yes, it's possible to do mulitple parameters at once.  What example case did you want exactly that you could not do with a simple Sort by IMDB rating?

[herobucket 2]

On 11/9/2024 at 12:01 PM, visproduction said:

Hero,
You probably are aware that in any library you can sort by IMDB and the top rated media rises to the top.  With filters, yes, it's possible to do mulitple parameters at once.  What example case did you want exactly that you could not do with a simple Sort by IMDB rating?

Sort and filter are different concepts. Almost every filter field can also be sorted on, but filter and sort are used differently.

The most common way I use the application is something like, I want to find a recent Western movie to watch, but I don't want to watch a lousy one. So I go to Western genre and sort by date. I scroll through until I see something that looks interesting. I click on it. If it has a 5.0 rating, I scratch it off and keep scrolling. It would be better if you could just like filter out everything below 7.0 so you scroll through things you would actually watch.

[visproduction 315]

Hero,

Yes, filter functions a little differently. It is a reasonable request for a feature. But, you can also click first on the Western genre, either by a link inside a media page or search for Western and then click the genre button result.  Both of these ways get all westerns across all libraries,  or click an individual library genre for Westerns (Inside the library - the Genre tab, then Westerns).  Sorting the best westerns to the top is easy... If you sort inside genre results by IMDB first, the best Westerns come to the top. Emby will remember your sort by imdb preference, the next time you go into Genres for that library.

If you count, the number of clicks for either of these ways, the total is less than using filters.  With filters, you also have to remember to undo the filters to get back to normal, so that is double up on the clicks.

• Inside a western movie media page click on the small western link = 1 or 2 clicks to find a media page, then 1 click results in your list.  If you last sorted by IMDB high rating first, it will be remembered... so = 3 clicks.
       (This only sometimes work because media genre links were limited in Emby to only 4 or so.  I am not sure if that is still happening. This can be changed to show all the genres, links for a movie, but there is no switch to do this in admin settings.  You have to update a js file which may revert back on an Emby update release.  It may be nice to have a switch for number of genre links allowed.  Part of the problem is the CSS style for the Media page area,  because too many links can result in some links not showing or cause overlaps, unless the CSS height is hacked to automatically grow higher for this div, which I have done in my css theme.)
• Click search, type Western, click the Genre Western = 2 clicks and typing.
• Click library, click genre, click western = 3 clicks
• If Imdb filter was available, you could go to genres, click Filters, click and choose above whatever rating 7 and above and then find your selection only for that library.  Then you would need to eventually undo all this to come back to normal. If you forget it seems like something is wrong with your library and there is only a reverse color filter button to tip you off, you left a filter on.  If imdb was a filter, I count 5 in and 5 out = 10 clicks.

 

Edited November 11, 2024 by visproduction

[Luke 42077]

6 hours ago, herobucket said:

Sort and filter are different concepts.

Hi, yes of course they are different. He was just trying to help by mentioning what is currently possible today.