Rate watched movies

[Neminem 1604]

2 minutes ago, Underclass said:

(if they ever implement this) in which you could disable this ability on all users and it'd be like this feature still doesn't exist for that server)

I surely hope so, cause I don't want this.

[JoshuaAJones 69]

On 11/19/2024 at 1:16 PM, Neminem said:

Between my 5 users this would be of no use.

2 people - 5 stars 

1 person - don't care 

2 people - 3 stars

What should the ruling be ?

4 stars or undecided ?

 

what if 

4 people don't care.

1 person 5 stars.

should the media be 5 stars ?

No.

Only you should see your ratings.  Only you care about your ratings.  No one else does.

My mom doesn't care that I love The Matrix or an MCU movie and I don't care that she has watched Elvis 20 times.

My ratings would be for me only so I could filter to MY 5-stars from the 90s, etc.

What others on my server like/dislike is of zero concern to me.

[bousenfamily 2]

wow 10 years and there is still no way to personally rate movies - right now i use collections but its painful -  would love a simplier way to rate my movies

[Junglejim 385]

1 hour ago, bousenfamily said:

wow 10 years and there is still no way to personally rate movies - right now i use collections but its painful -  would love a simplier way to rate my movies

That's because it's a bad idea! If you really like it add it to favs... Whats the point of giving it like a personal 4.2? Who cares! Just watch what you think you could like by the meta that's already downloaded!! 

[bousenfamily 2]

there is no nuance to favorites   just like there isnt even a not like and there is no good watch list - so for me favourites is my watch list but if i want to revisit things it would be good if  i could do that by preference but hey you do you

Edited January 1, 2025 by bousenfamily

[JoshuaAJones 69]

30 minutes ago, Junglejim said:

That's because it's a bad idea! If you really like it add it to favs... Whats the point of giving it like a personal 4.2? Who cares! Just watch what you think you could like by the meta that's already downloaded!! 

Hereditary... that's why.

90% rotten score (which are critics and don't matter).

7.3 from iMDb... closer but still inaccurate 

On a 1-5 scale, I'd give it a 1. It was a terrible movie that I hated BUT one of my kids loved it has watched it a few times with friends.  Therefore, it won't be deleted.

Do I care that she likes this movie?  No.

Do I care if others might like it?  No. And, I'm certainly not going to ask them for their opinion on it.

I only care about MY opinion about the movie.

That's why I want to be able to rate my movies and only see my ratings.

[redYellowScott 0]

As an Emby user, for each library I want to select an option if ratings should be displayed and if enabled be able to select where the rating is sourced from (including personal), so that I can quickly sort / reference my content by chosen rating.

*My specific use case is workout videos.  After the workout i want to select a rating so that I know to delete the video, keep it for reference, rotate it in/out every so often, or if it was one of my favorite workouts of all time.

[bousenfamily 2]

I gave up on ratings in my family all users have favourites and that is their watch list then we have collections based on each persons favs

[JoshuaAJones 69]

Almost 11 years now.  

At least make it an option to turn on/off ratings in your own profile. That way, those that don't want to use ratings don't have to use them. Don't punish the rest of us.

This is ridiculous. 

Can we get any dev input?

[ebr 16309]

9 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

Almost 11 years now.  

At least make it an option to turn on/off ratings in your own profile. That way, those that don't want to use ratings don't have to use them. Don't punish the rest of us.

This is ridiculous. 

Can we get any dev input?

Hi.  Optional features that most people will not use are the most expensive type of feature we can put in the product in terms of development, maintenance and support and also complexity for the end user so we try to limit these as much as possible.  All research for many years has shown that the vast majority of users never turn on optional features so this becomes something that costs a lot but delivers not that much value (to the majority of people - I understand it would deliver value to the ones that want it).

Our experience with this feature (we used to have it) was that not many people used it so that just makes it not something that is at the top of our list when you consider all the other features that would deliver value to a larger audience.

All that is not to say the we will never have this again.  Just that it isn't at the top of the list to spend time on.

Thanks.

[noybman 9]

Netflix used to have a like dislike option. It even hid it from the screen if you disliked it.

They removed it. I see the discussion here but I feel those against it are wrong.

My wife likes things I HATE. I want to keep it, but I never want to see it in my list. Let me hide it. Conversely, since we all live on different schedules, if I could go see 5 people disliked something, I could go delete it. I cannot fathom why we're only allowed to like things. Just because a big media conglomerate thinks we shouldn't be allowed to dislike their stuff doesn't mean Emby should follow suit. LOL.... if Netflix allowed users to dislike things they never wanted to see again, the catalog might look empty and people would cancel.

 

PS...... if my family all likes something, and I see 4 people liked it... I might choose to watch it.

I realize this feature would take time, but we have a like feature already.... so is it really that complex??????

 

[ebr 16309]

16 hours ago, noybman said:

My wife likes things I HATE. I want to keep it, but I never want to see it in my list. Let me hide it

Hi.  There are a few ways you can accomplish that now.  Tags is probably the easiest and you could also use Folder Based Access Control

Important to realize that this FR is just for rating movies - that doesn't also imply hiding certain ones - that would be a different feature with its own issues.

[noybman 9]

On 5/24/2025 at 9:36 AM, ebr said:

Hi.  There are a few ways you can accomplish that now.  Tags is probably the easiest and you could also use Folder Based Access Control

Important to realize that this FR is just for rating movies - that doesn't also imply hiding certain ones - that would be a different feature with its own issues.

Tags are not accessible on .... most clients? The web browser sure..... And can I allow people to "create" or "add" a tag without giving them advanced permissions????? The point was to allow them (the family members using it on a Roku TV or whatever), to press a Thumb Down, or a Broken heart or something.

As I mentioned.... there is a Heart! soooooooooo...............

 

I would argue that if it is MY media server, and my opinion was the only one that mattered, why would I need a heart either? I would have everything I owned hearted?!?! So yeah... we should have the Yes & No side of the coin.... the Yin & the Yang. Squeeze one more symbol in there! or let the heart have a level, 1-5 lol... ANYTHING.... just give the users an option other than fish or starve.

[visproduction 332]

On 5/23/2025 at 1:41 PM, noybman said:

I realize this feature would take time, but we have a like feature already.... so is it really that complex??????

NM, Hi, did you read about the development estimate, earlier in this discussion?  Do you think my assessment was not accurate?  I listed a company that does this for a fee on eCommerce.  Do you know of any production team that can beat that cost and also support it for less money?  Usually, when a company is offering a service, their fee is far less than trying to customize it, in-house.  If anyone has found an online service to do ratings with less cost, by all means, post a response here.  I have worked with Internet companies that rate social media content for about 400K media content items.  The feature is really much easier said than done.

Related article regarding a summary of costs for creating a site like Netflix.  https://medium.com/@miracuvesseo/the-true-cost-of-building-a-netflix-like-platform-in-2025-160f6d5ac0df

Edited May 28, 2025 by visproduction

[Brojbeanu 5]

I think like and dislike would be enough, and that's not so you can see your own evaluation, but only so that the server administrator can evaluate the type of movies watched, which of them were appreciated or the opposite. It would be ideal if there was also a reflection of these in the statistics of existing movies, obviously it would also be useful in the statistics for each user.

[JoshuaAJones 69]

5 hours ago, Brojbeanu said:

I think like and dislike would be enough, and that's not so you can see your own evaluation, but only so that the server administrator can evaluate the type of movies watched, which of them were appreciated or the opposite. It would be ideal if there was also a reflection of these in the statistics of existing movies, obviously it would also be useful in the statistics for each user.

I am the server admin and, as stated before, I don't care what others like/dislike.

I don't want to see another user ratings, just mine.

We already have IMDB and RT ratings built into the pages.  Why can't I put my personal ratings in?

I just want to see MY ratings. To me, I'm the only one that counts.  It's my opinion on the movie and I'd like a good way to sort my favorites from the chaff.

Every item on every website in the world has a rating next to it.  I want that too... along with a ratings dB that is kept on my server.  I don't need to share my ratings with anyone else.

If it could transfer that rating to Trakt, that would be a bonus.

Edited August 5, 2025 by JoshuaAJones

[Brojbeanu 5]

18 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

Sunt administratorul serverului și, așa cum am mai spus, nu mă interesează ce le place/nu le place altora.

Nu vreau să văd evaluările altor utilizatori, doar ale mele.

Avem deja încorporate în pagini ratingurile IMDB și RT. De ce nu pot să-mi introduc ratingurile personale?

Vreau doar să văd ratingurile MELE. Pentru mine, sunt singurul care contează. Este părerea mea despre film și aș vrea o modalitate bună de a-mi sorta preferatele de nefolositoare.

Fiecare element de pe fiecare site web din lume are o evaluare lângă el. Și eu vreau asta... împreună cu un dB al evaluărilor care să fie păstrat pe serverul meu. Nu trebuie să împărtășesc evaluările mele cu nimeni altcineva.

Dacă ar putea transfera acel rating către Trakt, ar fi un bonus.

If you are only interested in your opinion and everything is for you then don't share it with other users and add the movies you liked to your favorites or even better delete the ones you don't like and don't want to watch again. I am also a server admin and I am very interested in what the users think....the movies I don't like I can put them separately just for me in another library that only I have access to or delete them. So I don't see on a server intended for other users why they would be interested in your evaluation...everyone has different tastes....If you are arrogant keep the server just for yourself and give yourself as many likes as you want....I don't see the point of likes in your case...delete the movie if you don't like it...

[JoshuaAJones 69]

4 hours ago, Brojbeanu said:

If you are only interested in your opinion and everything is for you then don't share it with other users and add the movies you liked to your favorites or even better delete the ones you don't like and don't want to watch again. I am also a server admin and I am very interested in what the users think....the movies I don't like I can put them separately just for me in another library that only I have access to or delete them. So I don't see on a server intended for other users why they would be interested in your evaluation...everyone has different tastes....If you are arrogant keep the server just for yourself and give yourself as many likes as you want....I don't see the point of likes in your case...delete the movie if you don't like it...

I am not sure what you are ranting about here but, from the quote attached, I see that English is not your preferred language so I'll see if I can make it a bit simpler for you. 

If you read the rest of this thread from the beginning, you can clearly see where I stand on this issue.

I am the system admin/owner of my server.  I currently have about a dozen family members using it.

I do not know what they want to see and, although I do take requests from them, it is easier to just collect a lot.  So, that is what I do. 

Why would I start deleting or moving items just because I don't like them?  That's insane and a bit narcissistic. What I like is definitely not what others in my family like. Otherwise, 90% of it would be sci-fi.

I would like a personal rating system within Emby to keep up with the movies that I have personally rated.  I do not need to share my ratings with anyone else.

If I cared about what other thought about a movie, I could easily use the IMDB and RT ratings already attached to the movie synopsis.

By having my own ratings, I could later do a search for all of the movies that I rated a 5 or I could see everything that I rated a 4/5 in the 1980s.  Things like that.

Critical examples would be movies, such as Hereditary and Poor Things.  Each of these have good ratings (Poor Things is now on the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die).  I hated both.

On the other hand, I think that I'm the only one in my family that loves Office Space and Idiocracy.

In the end, I want to only see MY ratings.  My brother should be able to see HIS ratings. By having a small database attached to the Emby suite that keeps up with the ratings of all of my users, I could keep them local without hassling any other site.

BUT, as stated earlier, if my personal ratings could then be transferred to my Trakt account, I'd appreciate that little bonus.

[Brojbeanu 5]

8 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

I am not sure what you are ranting about here but, from the quote attached, I see that English is not your preferred language so I'll see if I can make it a bit simpler for you. 

If you read the rest of this thread from the beginning, you can clearly see where I stand on this issue.

You are right.... English is not my native language and I have not studied it, but I use Google translate both to and from my native language to and from English and I understand perfectly what you wanted to say from the beginning. Both my understanding and the translations are based on the accuracy achieved by Google. If you managed to read the topic from the beginning, you would see that Luke said at one point in first page: "I don't think we're going to do both numeric and like/dislike. There's an industry-wide shift towards the simple ability to like something, so that's what we've chosen." so I appreciate that you continue to support an already lost cause for which a decision has been made. 

 

8 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

I am the system admin/owner of my server.  I currently have about a dozen family members using it.

I do not know what they want to see and, although I do take requests from them, it is easier to just collect a lot.  So, that is what I do. 

Why would I start deleting or moving items just because I don't like them?  That's insane and a bit narcissistic. What I like is definitely not what others in my family like. Otherwise, 90% of it would be sci-fi.

I am also a server administrator. But emby server is not created just for you or for use within the family. It was created to generally offer the possibility to share your content with other users regardless of its type. So I appreciate that our requests should satisfy general, not personal, requirements. My point of view refers to the need for the server administrator to see which movies and which genres of movies were appreciated by users in order to be able to add attractive content. The option of deleting movies was not the only option offered by me. I have also mentioned (and others) other options, including adding to Favorites. Another option would be to create 5 libraries where you can move your movies according to your rating (e.g. Top 1, .... Top 5). It all comes down to a few mouse clicks), especially since others prefer a different genre of movies than what you see.

 

9 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

If I cared about what other thought about a movie, I could easily use the IMDB and RT ratings already attached to the movie synopsis.

This is where you are wrong. It's not about what others think, to give an example of IMDB, RT, etc. It's about what the users of your server think. There are a lot of movies that are not appreciated by others and that I liked or vice versa, but for me what matters is the appreciation of those on your server that you are addressing .. and don't forget!!! We are not talking about you and your family, but about all those who have an emby server and provide content. A change is not made to please you, but to be useful to everyone.

 

9 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

BUT, as stated earlier, if my personal ratings could then be transferred to my Trakt account, I'd appreciate that little bonus.

I'm sorry to inform you, but ratings on Trakt are made using a number between 1-10 hearts, so your proposal with 1-5 that would sync with Trakt is impossible, especially considering what Luke said and reminded me of above.

[JoshuaAJones 69]

- Luke's comment was made 11 years ago, when this was Media Browser. Emby is currently well beyond its old capabilities and, if this feature was not wanted, people would not keep bringing it up. 

- As for the like/dislike, you could just ask your users. Talking to them would be an easy solution for what your are wanting to know.

- Favorites does not offer the search capacity that I would like. That's where the personal database of ratings comes into play.

- I do not understand your 5 folder remedy.

- There is a Playback Reporting plug-in, if you want to see what people are watching, how many watched what, total times viewed, etc. That may answer some of your concerns.

- I understand the Trakt 1-10 vs a 1-5 scale. It was a pie-in-the-sky request and you could always just multiply by 2. It really doesn't matter.

Summarizing... I would like a personal ratings database. If there were a "Share My Ratings" option in order to share with others on my server or with Emby-at-large, that could be another useful tool for some that could be implemented later.

It all has to start somewhere. 

[tOLJY 51]

Would be great if something like this could be implemented.

For me, if be happy to have ratings go to Trakt.

[Freekverheul 6]

Hallo Emby-team,

Op dit moment ondersteunt Emby alleen  anonieme beoordelingen . Er is geen manier om te zien welke gebruiker wat heeft beoordeeld, en mijn gasten maken meestal geen gebruik van het beoordelingssysteem.

Ik zou graag een heel eenvoudige functie willen hebben waarmee gebruikers afzonderlijk kunnen reageren :

Wat ik zoek:

• Een kleine reactieknop ( https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f44d.png https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f642.png https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f44e.pngof iets dergelijks) op de filmpagina of het scherm 'Nu aan het afspelen'.

• De reactie wordt per gebruiker opgeslagen , niet globaal of anoniem.

• Extreem lichtgewicht: één tik, geen tekst, geen sterrenbeoordelingen.

• In het serverdashboard:

  Overzicht dat laat zien welke gebruikers op een film hebben gereageerd.

  Optioneel filteren/sorteren op "meest gewaardeerd door mijn gebruikers".

Dit zou gebruikersfeedback veel leuker en nuttiger maken en het lost de huidige beperking van het beoordelingssysteem op .

Bedankt 

Freerk Verheul

[HakanDemir 4]

Hi,

As a new Emby user, I set up a server for my family and relatives. To practically track whether users like or dislike the content they watch, and to free up space by removing unwanted content, I implemented a simple method using playlists.

Method

I created two separate playlists for each user:

• Liked
• Disliked

I asked users to evaluate the movies they watch by adding them to these playlists.

How It Works

• Users add the movies they watch to these playlists
• I can see all playlists
• Users can only view the playlists I allow
• They cannot edit others’ playlists (only manage their own)
• If needed, I can allow certain users to view each other’s playlists

I made my own “Liked / Disliked” playlists visible to all users, so they can also see my recommendations.

[JoshuaAJones 69]

This should have been handled a decade ago BUT people keep trying to complicate a simple rating system.  This isn't Plex. Stop trying to add every stupid nuance to a really simple thing.

Look... in Filters, I see that I can toggle on Favorites.  If I do so, do I see your favorite movies? No. I see the movies that I favorited, no one else.

All I've been asking for is a simple 5-star button so that I can rate a movie or show after I am done watching it. Example below (I should have made the stars Green).

At this point, instead of the Favorite toggle in Filters, you are given the choice of choosing your rating 1-5 and any other filter selection you would like, such as year (or years).

Now, I am able to see my 4-star-rated movies from 1984 or my 5-star-rated movies from the 90s.

There is no reason to expand this feature further. I do not need to see what others like or don't like.  I don't need to average my rating against every Emby user in the world. I don't need my rating to transfer to Trakt or iMDb or anywhere else.  Just a small ratings section within the database. The same database that keeps up with my Played stats.

Please... please... can we get some traction on this feature?

Edited 1 hour ago by JoshuaAJones

[visproduction 332]

Ideal would be to run the ratings on a separate service that only updates Emby's data after the page loads.  Ratings change when anyone updates a rating.  It is not a practical idea to add ratings to the database, because checking for changes will slow down the page load on every page, where ratings are visible.  This is why rating services use a separate service, not connected to loading the initial media page. 

This request is easy to ask for but, very difficult to create.  Ok, it doesn't matter if this seems like it should be easy and not create an issue.  It's just some stars appearing here and there on the media page and perhpas in a list of content.  It is not a good idea to add this to a media database, unless it's handled where loading the rating / review data does not impact the initial page load.  You can delay the loading, stagger updates to only happen once a week and make all the computations happen on a different service, if you had mulitple servers, which Emby does not use.  So, to make it work efficiently on a single server, is complicated and rather expensive in time, support and design.  Also all the ratings have to somewhere fit on each page, in every media poster location, be able to be turned on or off and work on every platform and all browser sizes.  I mentioned earlier in the forum that online companies pay monthly fees to have such reviews created and monitored for their products. Shopify, for example, dropped their rating, review service on products in 2024 and you have to go now to a third party service. All online movie ratings services have monthly fees from third party services.

If the admin wishes to make ratings available as a service to users, that statistically makes sense.  Fine, that is the admin's rating.  But trying to get a rating consensus from users reviewing any media, you really need to get at least a minimum number of viewers to vote.  For a typical collection of media, user ratings won't be significant on any one media even after the media has been available for an entire year.  Emby is not available to enough people to make ratings from a few viewers to really reflect anything.

Alternative methods would be for the admin to create a recommended library or collection.  Collections can be made to appear first in the collection list by changing the sort title.