Some Help on Media Sorting With Genres vs Tags

[snowypete 3]

I've started going through cleaning up my media collection. My collections all fairly well organised in folders off the main line i.e Movies>Zombies Movies>Vampire etc. I've noticed there's a lot of random crap tags in the metadata from iMDB /tMDB (like buddy movie, witchy poo's, biotope, lincoln nabraska). All useless from my point of view to find a random movie. So I started cleaning up some of these....one by one . I've made some headway to sorting but one thing that’s come up is Genre or Tag?

While there's a general consensus that there's about 11 "proper" genres - Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime etc etc, what do you do with the sub genres? Like Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Superheo etc? I started adding in these sub-genres as their own and quickly realised it was getting out of hand with multiple similar genres - like Australia, Aussie, Ozploitation etc. So I cut it back to one main Ozploitation with a Tag Aussie as well. But then when I came to a Genre of Animals with a Tag for subs like Dogs, Cats, Pigs then Werewolf shouldn't technically be it's own Genre but rather Animals with a Tag of Werewolf . So now a Genre of Vampires or Mummy doesn't really fit either with that logic.

So I guess my question is - How are you guys using the Genre and Tags within Emby to help sort your collections?

And is there a way to do bulk Genre and Tag edits? (And BTW - I tried the "Bulky Editor" and "Genre Cleaner" plugins without much luck)

I'm leaning more towards keeping the main genres (with maybe a couple of extra's) and everything else as Tags like

- Genre: Crime Tags: Gangster, Mafia, Robbery, Assassin

- Genre: Horror Tags: Vampire, Werewolf, Mummy, Halloween etc

- Genre: Fantasy: Tag: Time Travel

- Genre: Space Tag: Astronaut, Start Wars, Space Invasion