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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 660361" data-attributes="member: 18896">You can also work around the limitations of the existing system that you forsee.I personally like the multiple-genres done by IMDb, because a movie like 'Scream' is more a comedy to me then a 'Horror', but my wife would look under Horror/Thriller to find it.But you can just create your own genre folders, and then add complex exceptions for it, or combinations. For example I got a genre 'Romatic Comedy' that looks for movies that have genre 'Comedy' and 'Romance'. And then exclude those movies from the custom 'Comedy' genre. It can get complex and I got some custom categories with like 30 rules, but only had to set it up once and enjoy it forever (praying that IMDb doesn't decide to change genre naming).The problem with only using one genre from IMDb is that the genres are shown in alphabetical order. So eventhough it is easy to adjust the scraper to only grab one genre, the results will not be pretty. Avatar for example will be put under 'Action' and while technically correct, I have it under the Sci-Fi genre myself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 660361, member: 18896"] You can also work around the limitations of the existing system that you forsee. I personally like the multiple-genres done by IMDb, because a movie like 'Scream' is more a comedy to me then a 'Horror', but my wife would look under Horror/Thriller to find it. But you can just create your own genre folders, and then add complex exceptions for it, or combinations. For example I got a genre 'Romatic Comedy' that looks for movies that have genre 'Comedy' and 'Romance'. And then exclude those movies from the custom 'Comedy' genre. It can get complex and I got some custom categories with like 30 rules, but only had to set it up once and enjoy it forever (praying that IMDb doesn't decide to change genre naming). The problem with only using one genre from IMDb is that the genres are shown in alphabetical order. So eventhough it is easy to adjust the scraper to only grab one genre, the results will not be pretty. Avatar for example will be put under 'Action' and while technically correct, I have it under the Sci-Fi genre myself. [/QUOTE]

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