Unify genre/tag layouts

[evil_crab 23]

I feel that the current search/filtering functionality is fairly limiting and can be improved in multiple ways:

1. Make it possible to use a combination of multiple genres/tags for filtering.

2. Add an option to limit the search to an individual library (https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/96375-search-each-library-individually/)

3. Unify layouts for genre and tag filtering. Currently, they are different:

Genre

Tag

Edited August 6, 2025 by evil_crab

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  I changed this to a single request because the other two are already existing FR.  Thanks.

[evil_crab 23]

@ebrCan you please direct me to FR for using a combination of multiple genres/tags for filtering?

[ebr 16169]

There are a bunch of different variations of this request but, also, most of the apps should already support multiple selection on filters.

 

[Luke 42077]

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3. Unify layouts for genre and tag filtering. Currently, they are different:

The reason they are different is because genres are something that will flow from the top down. Meaning if you assign a genre to a series, you expect that to apply to the episodes as well. Therefore you really only need to see series when you click on a genre and not the multiple categories.

Tags can be independent at every level, and so that's why you need to be able to see what series, seasons, episodes are tagged with what.