Server - Limit Type/Number of Actors for Movies

[Scott750 29]

With 800+ movies in my collection, the amount of Actors, directors Producers, etc in my people list is HUGE. Most of those people I could care less about seeing. Is there a way to choose what people Metadata downloads? Like it would be nice if only main Actors and directors were downloaded.

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

Who is a main actor though? For example in the movie "Battleship", they had Alexander Skaarsgard on the poster and as a billboard actor. However he wasn't in the movie more than 2 minutes overall and his character died within the first 15 minutes without having an impact on the overall story.

[Scott750 29]

Or at least give us an option to check/uncheck who we don't want to see, like uncheck Producers for example.

[ebr 16179]

I think - but could be wrong - that the list of actors in the metadata is delivered in some sort of primary order.  Meaning that, it could be possible to say only get the first 5, 10 etc. actors and maybe leave out all crew.  Probably would need this setting per item type (as TV has more actors you are interested in possibly because of guest stars).  

 

Personally, I'd like that as, with the way the server handles people now, producing an index on people can be too slow to be very usable - and most of the people you don't really care about (minor bit parts and crew).

[Scott750 29]

I looked thru the choices for people in the Server and didn't anywhere to choose how many or which people to display. Should I just submit a feature request on this? Would be a nice feature to have.

[ebr 16179]

I'll just move this topic.

[Scott750 29]

Thanks ebr!