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Media Subtypes Needed
mwillems:
--- Quote from: drmimosa on December 08, 2023, 08:57:10 am ---"Kids' may be the wrong word, and Media-Sub-Type may be the wrong method/category to do this.
Here is my desired outcome:
For Video only, use Media Sub Type to separate all children's video content from other content. So Pulp Fiction and Bluey are separate, as well as downloaded Youtube Children's Music Videos being separate from a Youtube Dave Matthews Concert.
Right now I use a custom tag for this and it works fine, so like I said maybe Kids or Children isn't appropriate as a Media Sub Type. And Hendrik, you bring up an important point that downstream functions like lookup metadata depend in different ways on Media Sub Type.
...BUT :) ...
Most major streaming app do this at a high level - Amazon Prime gives you a "Kids" button right at the start, Netflix does the same. Since those are video streaming services, their "Media Type" is always video, and the next tier down in terms of metadata. which seems similar (but not equivalent) to MC's Media Sub Type, because it's the next level down in terms of metadata heirarchy...
I guess I am arguing myself into my own solution here, because the problem I encounter is that kids stuff appears here and there and everywhere at the moment. You are saying a lower tier metadata in the hierarchy like "Genre" would be more appropriate, and that's similar to what I am doing by having a boolean Kids/Not Kids custum tag.
Soon my boys will be stronger and smarter than me, and none of this will matter ;D.
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I've been using a combination of genre tags and user tags for this. I add "children" or "kids" as a genre for kids programming and then I can filter on that because genre tags are additive (you can have as many as you want), so there's no cost in just tacking on another one. That way I can make views that don't show the kids grown up stuff and don't show me kid stuff.
I also use the "users" tags and functionality to filter this way, I made a user tag for both parents and one for the kiddo. The user tags are especially nice because I can, for example, sync all of my wife's music to her phone because it's all tagged with her user tag, or create a view that only shows my kid the music she likes. User tags are even more flexible, because a given piece can be tagged for all users, one user, or no users. So if there's an album or show we all like, and we all want to see it in our personal views that's easy to do with user tags, but you can't accomplish that with a binary kids or not kids tag or a genre tag. My experience is that I'm using the user tags more and more as my daughter grows up and her media interests have begun to increasingly overlap with the grownups' media interests.
drmimosa:
Thank you, great idea.
whoareyou:
One more subtype -
"Pure Audio"
Thanks
Hendrik:
If you are suggesting a subtype, an explanation what it's for and had a right to exist might go a long way. What is pure audio, and why does it not fit other types? Remembering that it should describe a format of content, not the content itself.
whoareyou:
--- Quote from: Hendrik on December 17, 2023, 01:05:04 pm ---If you are suggesting a subtype, an explanation what it's for and had a right to exist might go a long way. What is pure audio, and why does it not fit other types? Remembering that it should describe a format of content, not the content itself.
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With regards to the request for "Pure Audio" - Subtype
These are blu-ray disks but only contain audio tracks i.e. dts-hd, Atmos, flac, Dolby TrueHD. Even though they are bluray disk they contain no video.
In my opinion the closest subtype is "Music Video", but they are definitely not Music Videos.
https://www.pureaudio-bluray.com/
Thanks
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