Searching for DVD extras?

[nmkaufman 50]

Would it be possible to have DVD extras show up in search results?

 

Or is there a reason this would be a bad idea, I'm not thinking of?

 

It would be a pain to have deleted scenes and outtakes turn up in search results, but a lot of special editions have featurettes or short films by the same director.

It'd be neat to keep these alongside the movie they came with, but losing the ability to find them with search means I'll probably never find some of them, again.

Edited September 5, 2020 by nmkaufman

[rbjtech 5284]

Tag's are searched - so you could tag them as such and they will then be found during a search.

The issue is as all the 'extras' are kept in the same extra's folder - you are not going to know what is a worthy item to search for vs a 'deleted scene' for example.

Edited September 5, 2020 by rbjtech

[Carlo 4561]

I personally wouldn't want extras showing up for my normal searching.

[nmkaufman 50]

I'll consider the tagging option, or just keep extras that are their own separate content elsewhere.

Truth be told, I have so few movies with extras that I never actually scroll down to see if there are any after I watch a movie.

I may just move all of them to their own library.

 

 

[rbjtech 5284]

5 hours ago, nmkaufman said:

Truth be told, I have so few movies with extras that I never actually scroll down to see if there are any after I watch a movie.

 

.. lets not go there - there is an entire thread somewhere asking for 'extras' to be flagged as 'available' in the current view so you DO know they are there - otherwise, as you say, you have no idea they are available and won't bother scrolling down to find them.

I did try Tag's once to identify that there were 'Extras' - but now even those have been moved lower down the view (they used to be directly under the overview text) - so now not even that is an option...

 

[Carlo 4561]

Yea, same issue for me not knowing if that movie has them or not and scrolling rbjtech mentioned.  We really do need a better way to handle this from an indicator such as "Extras Present" written up top to maybe a different icon than Trailers.  So for example you get the normal Trailer button if it uses external source for Trailers (ie youtube) or switches to "Extras" or "Featurette" button if multiple trailers/extras are present locally.  Clicking that button would give you a new page to choose what to play.  However easiest method would by to move this section up so it's the top row right under the detail info and first row which would at least partially display on every system.  These are essentially "part" of the info for that MOVIE ONLY and would make sense being the first row even before the actors which are always present and everyone knows to scroll down for that info.