Topic: Movie Genre of "Foreign" (Read 1173 times)

csimon · « **on:** November 03, 2012, 01:05:24 pm »

I know it's probably built-in to the movie database, but it seems the vast majority of the British movies I import automatically get the genre "Foreign". I have to then go in and remove this manually - it can't be done in bulk I believe as the Genre property is a list item and it's not possible to just remove one genre from a group of items (as far as I know).

The genre "Foreign" is meaningless to a large part of the world. Is there any way to stop this from coming through or, more generally, perhaps it might be a good suggestion to set up a blacklist of genres that should not be imported?

csimon · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2012, 01:45:18 pm »

For example, describing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sound of Music, and Black Beauty as Foreign is just wrong!

MrHaugen · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2012, 02:14:57 pm »

I agree. For everyone outside the US this is very wrong. It will probably not be that meaningful for all US citizens either. Genre is not dependent on countries. It should be a keyword instead. But manipulating certain tags from an online source like that.... Hmm. I don't know. Sounds like a thing to take up with the theMovieDB guys instead.

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csimon

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csimon

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MrHaugen

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