Country tags (why would you do this?)

[GorillaBasho]

I don't remember which update it was, but why on Earth would you add the country tags like this? I can understand adding a 'country' field.

But I can't understand why its under tags, and more importantly why it was forced on to every file? Was it a mistake? If it wasn't then why isn't there a option to turn it off, and like everything else it should have been set to off by default.

I hate tags and it was a lot of work to clear the massive text walls of tags out of metadata and get Jellyfin to not add more, though it still regularly happens to random files and I'd have to manually remove them and set the file to never allow tag changes. And now you do this to me? I tried to clear the tags with TMM but they still appear in JF, only way is one at a time.

Why add this tag without an option to disable it, or wait and add it with the much requested mass tag feature?

Not a big deal, but very annoying. so toddler tantrum.

[crobibero]

Can you please provide a screenshot to what you’re referring to?

[TheDreadPirate]

Are you using NFOs generated by an external application?  If you're talking about the tags in my screenshot below Jellyfin does not add a country code or name to them.

   

[GorillaBasho]

No, NFO files were generated in Jellyfin. I tried removing all tags as well as the 'country' field in tinymediamanager after this happened, but the tags still exist in Jellyfin. I also have all metadata fields unchecked in my libraries because sometimes the primary images and other metadata I had changed would revert back.

       

[34626]

Id agree, the tags in Jellyfin is bloared, there are also parent control which can allow or disallow content to be shown to a user, but it ends up in "tags" and the issue is how complicated it is to manage the tags.. I use NFOs and running in docker i have set the library to be read only, this prevents Jellyfin from chnage anything, but at the same time the parent control tags only works when using the buillt in metadata manager in Jellyfin and not when adding tags in the NFOs.
It would be nice to be able to work on the tags in Jellyfin more user/group/select the users to do something for and just mark the movies you wish to change something in..

[TheDreadPirate]

What metadata source are you using? AFAIK, this isn't a thing on TMDB and TVDB. I double checked and I don't have a single country name in my tags.

[GorillaBasho]

TVDB and TMDB. Would the source be relevant, as I said the libraries have no sources selected and are set to never update, the metadata on these files was downloaded months ago. The addition of these tags was a direct result of updating Jellyfin, however I discovered today that the tags don't appear in Roku or Amazon, so only in Jellyfin media player and web-player afaik.

[raulo1985]

I don't remember which update it was, but why on Earth would you add the country tags like this? I can understand adding a 'country' field.

But I can't understand why its under tags, and more importantly why it was forced on to every file? Was it a mistake? If it wasn't then why isn't there a option to turn it off, and like everything else it should have been set to off by default.

I hate tags and it was a lot of work to clear the massive text walls of tags out of metadata and get Jellyfin to not add more, though it still regularly happens to random files and I'd have to manually remove them and set the file to never allow tag changes. And now you do this to me? I tried to clear the tags with TMM but they still appear in JF, only way is one at a time.

Why add this tag without an option to disable it, or wait and add it with the much requested mass tag feature?

Not a big deal, but very annoying. so toddler tantrum.

Not an expert by any means, but if you don’t like tags in general (although I agree it would be nice to have a setting to disable or enable them if you want), you could add this line to your css code in the general section of the dashboard. This should disable all the tags from the GUI regardless of the client, and not just the countries. The tags will still be there will all the metadata stored, it’s just that they won’t show up at the GUI (I understand that’s what you want):

.itemTags {
  display: none;
}

And if you want to disable them only for an specific device type (like desktop, tv or mobile), you can add that device type to the line like this:

.layout-desktop .itemTags {
  display: none;
}

Note: replace .layout-desktop for .layout-mobile or .layout-tv depending on the device you want this rule to be applied. If not added, the rule will be applied to all web based clients (unless the client has this rule overruled by its own css code). From my understanding, this won’t work with web not based clients (like Swiftfin).

Not sure if this is what you want, but didn’t hurt to throw my two cents.

PS: if you don’t want all tags to show up at the GUI, this way you wouldn’t have to worry about future metadata updates. Even if the tags metadata gets updated, they will never show up. Don’t know if there’s a css code to disable specific type of tags though (like only countries).