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Holiday movies not taged as holiday in genres
posted by ozzman39STAFFMOD on December 14, 2014 at 11:05 AM
i have found some Holiday movies not tagged as holiday in genres and are locked is there any way this can be fixed? or is there a reason for it
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5255-the-polar-express
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11395-the-santa-clause
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9021-the-santa-clause-2
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13767-the-santa-clause-3-the-escape-clause
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10719-elf
I am sure i can find more if this is something we can fix I mean other movies that are holiday are tagged as such? thanks for your time
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 14, 2014 at 11:13 AM
"Holiday" is not a valid genre on TMDb.
If there's any movies that are marked as holiday it would have been leftover from when we did have it as a valid genre back in ~2010.
I would suggest using plot keywords to help build a list of holiday movies.
https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/65-holiday
or
https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/1991-santa-claus
For instance.
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 14, 2014 at 2:49 PM
Interesting, that's definetly a bug. We haven't supported holiday for ~4 years. They'll be getting removed this week. There's a bunch of little issues around genres that need to get cleaned up.
Reply by Surfing_spider
on December 14, 2014 at 3:29 PM
I would also like the holiday genre back. Just been trying to tag a movie. Whats the problem with grouping christmas films together? Makes sense to me
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13396-the-snowman
Reply by Samara
on December 14, 2014 at 3:58 PM
I think Holiday is not a genre and for example foreign is not either, in every country a movie with a different language as to be used in the country is foreign, that makes no sense
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 14, 2014 at 8:23 PM
Like I said, "Holiday" hasn't been a genre on TMDb for over 4 years and unfortunately won't be again. There's an old thread locate here discussing the potential changes. I realize that thread is 1.5 years old but the gist of it is the same.
Plot keywords are a perfect use case to group holiday, or halloween, or whatever other example you can think of.
Cheers.
Reply by ozzman39
on December 15, 2014 at 12:18 AM
It's kinda off topic but for ppl that wanna add it it's super easy to edit genre's in plex
Also thanks for the responses I didn't know it was removed
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 17, 2014 at 6:48 PM
FYI, these fixes were pushed live.
You guys might be interested to see our new discover page that got keywords hooked up. You can pull our:
These are just simple example but you can filter and sort by a number of options.
Cheers.
Reply by ozzman39
on December 18, 2014 at 11:13 AM
Is there any method u recommend for using these key words with plex??
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM
Hey ozzman39,
I don't honestly know if Plex has any way of using our keywords or not. It would be best to contact them to find out.
Cheers.