Feature Request: Improve More Like This section

[Scott750 29]

I'm not sure how Emby decides which movies to display in the section "More Like This", but some of the suggestions aren't even close to being relevant. 

For an example, looking at Zombieland, I'm getting suggestions like Van Wilder, Frozen, Blue Streak.

I would rather see a suggestion like Shaun of the Dead and World War Z. Something zombie related or horror or comedy horror genre. Frozen I don't see how that fits.

 

If Emby is making suggestions from the actors and genre (Zombieland is listed as an Action, Comedy & Horror), maybe we can get a setting created to give us the user the choice on how the suggestions are made. 

We could have a checkbox that I would deselect suggest movies by actor or similar.

 

[Luke 42086]

This is a no win situation for us considering that users tend to have small libraries. We make the matches accurate, you guys complain that you always see the same results. Then we add more randomization to avoid seeing the same things, and then the complaints start coming in about relevance. I think right now we have changed it back and forth enough times.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

Actually Scott750 idea makes a lot of sense.

Instead of Emby itself choosing what it sees fit as "more like this" (which will never please everyone, no matter how smart it could be),

he suggest giving the final word to the end user, which inevitably will please more users.

[zigzagtshirt 55]

My suggestion is to avoid using the very generic genre label "drama" as part of the suggestion algorithm.  Every other movie gets tagged as "drama", whether it's a war movie or a Disney family movie.  So when ever someone watches "La La Land", they get the suggestion to watch "Tombstone".

Edited May 31, 2017 by zigzagtshirt

[CharleyVarrick 283]

I wonder how themovieDB are doing their version (they call it Recommendations).

I think they look at a massive database of their connected user's favorites to establish a pattern, similar to how LastFM works.

[Jdiesel 1431]

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/45908-server-integrate-trakt-recommendations/?hl=trakt

[CharleyVarrick 283]

Indeed thumbs up to @@Jdiesel as he nailed it

[Scott750 29]

Actually Scott750 idea makes a lot of sense.

Instead of Emby itself choosing what it sees fit as "more like this" (which will never please everyone, no matter how smart it could be),

he suggest giving the final word to the end user, which inevitably will please more users.

 

 

My suggestion is to avoid using the very generic genre label "drama" as part of the suggestion algorithm.  Every other movie gets tagged as "drama", whether it's a war movie or a Disney family movie.  So when ever someone watches "La La Land", they get the suggestion to watch "Tombstone".

 

Exactly!!

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/45908-server-integrate-trakt-recommendations/?hl=trakt

 

This is a great suggestion. But do you have to rate your movies before it gives proper suggestions? I have 800+ movies in my collection. It would take me quite a  to rate them all.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

Exactly!!

 

 

This is a great suggestion. But do you have to rate your movies before it gives proper suggestions? I have 800+ movies in my collection. It would take me quite a  to rate them all.

Well, it's the only way I know you'd get closer to a smarter "you might also like this" suggestion.

I did it on my multi k collection and it might have required 10 hrs work. This, as Jdiesel pointed out, is saved to the cloud, so even if your pc blows up in smoke tomorrow morning, this info is safe and sound.