Purpose of tags?

[Six66Mike]

Just wondering what the purpose of Tags are in the Metadata Information is?  There doesn't seem to be a way to browse them like genres and when I search for something like "Christmas", it only returns a title search and not any content with the Christmas tag associated with it like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

How can you make use of these tags to find or view content?

[paulc]

If you go under a movie/tv library folder, you can filter by tags and browse. 
First image, filtering of movies.
     
Second image, filtering of TV shows.
   

[thornbill]

There are some changes to make them more useful… 10.9.0 will feature support for searching for tags and at some point I want to make tags function more like genres so they appear as links that would take you to a listing of all content with that tag.

[Six66Mike]

If you go under a movie/tv library folder, you can filter by tags and browse.

There we go  

So far I've used filters to hide watched stuff, will go take a better look at the other options.  Thanks.

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There are some changes to make them more useful… 10.9.0 will feature support for searching for tags and at some point I want to make tags function more like genres so they appear as links that would take you to a listing of all content with that tag.

Love the search idea, 2nd part would be great if it was a wall of movies.  The amount of left-right navigation in the app is horrible, especially for vast amounts of content like genres and tags.

[Six66Mike]

If you go under a movie/tv library folder, you can filter by tags and browse. 

Just to confirm, this is only applicable while on the server, not the client?  I checked on my client last night and there's no option to do this, only via browser on the server.

Really looking for the client use case.

[bitmap]

The webOS client can view and filter by tags as well. I would assume that some of the other clients would look for parity if this were a sought after feature. Tags are extremely useful in some cases, I use them in a number of ways for management and notification for my users as well as have started looking at automation, genre, thematic, trigger warning, and other tagging that could be used client-side.

It all depends on what clients your users utilize.

[Six66Mike]

I was using the Zidoo client, this week moved to the Android TV client but still no way to use tags, which is a bit of a bummer. One of those things that look great in the Web client and you miss when using your player client.