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zybex:
I think Blog and Concert are acceptable, but Business should not be a subtype.

Hendrik:
Blog and Concert are fine for me, they are distinct formats of content, and don't really relate to a Genre or such. You can argue for Business, but at least it would not have a direct overlap with functionality that would break if you use it (probably).
Kids on the other hand has that. Just because a show is Sesame Street and not CSI, you still expect metadata lookup to work, for example.

mattkhan:
Concert is a genre imv, I have films of concerts and they can also be TV shows. Business is the same to me, I could have images, docs and videos that are for business. Blog is the only one that is possibly a subtype to me though I don't know what the format of that would be for it to be stored in MC? Could also be a doc with a given genre.

Hendrik:
Blog was added on the request to store "vlogs", or "video blogs", at least for that it seems to be its own sort of video format.

drmimosa:
"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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