I was adding some Fellini and Jodorowsky movies ... what classification genre? I think Surreal is the only one who can apply, but is missing from the list.

And that's the point: there a lot of movies, from art house movies (Bunuel, Dali, Jodorowsky), to more "mainstream" movies (ex: David Lynch) that are just plain "Surreal" movies. I think a genre for Surrealism should be added to the main genres tab (the contributed ones).

I to agree, there needs to be the option to add more genre's to the list.  I have found about 5 that is not on the list and would like in my profiler.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Please keep in mind as the rules specifically state,...

Feature requests may concern local databases. I never heard about rules concerning local. But perhaps I missed something...

The OP is talking about for the main database... see where I put in bold...

Quoting locutus2k:

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And that's the point: there a lot of movies, from art house movies (Bunuel, Dali, Jodorowsky), to more "mainstream" movies (ex: David Lynch) that are just plain "Surreal" movies. I think a genre for Surrealism should be added to the main genres tab (the contributed ones).

And I do tend to agree with skip that the list must be manageable... but I personally don't have a problem with long lists of something like genres as they seem to be easy enough to manage since they are all in alphabetical order. If you are concerned about local only... this problem is solved with the new Beta Version as you can add as many as you like locally only. It is caledl Custom Genres... and Ken even gave us the ability to have 5 genres attached to a profile (I would personally like to have a couple more) At this point I have a total of 53 Genres in my beta version... and always considering if I need more. But as I said... these custom Genres are local only... but at least that should solve the problem for surfeur51.

Well I would think it would solve THIS problem at least.

I am personally thrilled with the custom genres (just wish I had 7 or 8 slots per profile for genres) I basically given up on the idea of having decent genres for the online database... so I just do genres local only now. 

And just to be clear... I do think 5 genre spots per profile is more then enough for movies (well to be fair will say most movies)... but I see lots of occassions where it is not enough... especially on Anthologies and some TV Series. As an example...

I create custom genres for sub-genres.... like for horror sub-genres I have stuff like Vampires, werwolves, Anthologies, Action-Horror, Animal Attack, Comedy-Horror, Demons, Cult/Voodoo,  Ghost/Hauntings, Mummy, Psychological Horror, Slasher, Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, Zombies.

Now take a TV Series such as Tales from the Crypt (to just name one)...

Top 2 Slots:
- Television
- Horror

Now with up to a good 6 to 8 episodes per disc... if on a disc there is a slasher episode, a vampire episode, and a Voodoo episode that would fill all available slots by giving us...


- Television
- Horror
- Slashers
- Vampires
- Cult/Voodoo


... but that is only 3 out of up to 8 episodes taken care of. Get one more episode that don't fit into one of the already used genres I can't track it the way I prefer to. Of course I know there is tags... but now with custom genres I would prefer not to use tags for genres any longer.

So that is just one example where adding a few more custom genre spots would be helpful... there is many more... pretty much any anthology series could possibly use more.

So my suggestion is one of 2 things...

1. Give us a few more slots to help with such situations
2. Change up the genre a little so that we can add as many genres as we want... and still have the top 3 genres on the main database... just no custom genres for main database.

I realize all you said Skip... I really do. But sub-genres are still genres... just a sub category of them. that is why they are called sub-genres. So I personally prefer them to be with the genres locally... as I stated. So I see no harm in mentioning it. All I am saying is for some purposes 5 slots is not enough room if you are going to give us custom genres give us enough slots or the ability to have as many slots as we like for local use. I am saying this because I personally prefer not to have to look in 2 different places for what I consider the same information.

Snark:

So far no one answered my question and my concerns. I am not necessarily picking this particular Genre request. Where does it end and are we supposed to start accounting foir EVERY possibility from Every user that comes down the pike, thus winding up with a total mess at some point, along with data that would be argued incessantly, There comes a point where enough is enough, where is it. Evereybody can rationalize therir facorite choice a Genre just as you did but, do you want to have to dig through 1000 possibilities (which would be all to eay to achieve). As for the fields mentioned, you will NEVER have enough to satisfy everybody, if Ken gave us 10 fields someone would want 11. At some point....

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