Fixed in v2021.09.14.2014
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Confirmed, thanks!
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Why are labels separate for TV Shows and Movies? I want to use the same labels I created for my TV Shows with Movies, but my Movie list is blank so I'd have to recreate all the same ones.
Also, this created a new bug. Some Movies think they are television episodes. For instance, "10 Buildings That Changed America" is a Movie and comes up as such, but the label selections are linked to TV Shows. However, I cannot select any label or create new ones (it just doesn't respond when doing so) since the engine thinks it is an "episode".
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I believe this is because the Library cannot handle mixed content. The Library will display movies or shows, but not both. (Sometimes it would be nice to allow them to be mixed, such as allowing a movie that begat a spin-off TV series to be grouped together.)
Yeah, totally get that Shows and Movies (unfortunately) cannot be mixed, at least for the time being, so definitely not pushing anything down that path. But Labels are custom metadata, so I don't see why Movies and TV cannot share a JOIN to the same table to select/lookup them instead of having two tables that are doing the same thing. The database designer in me wants the efficiency!
You assume to know so much about our backend 
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Our backend isn’t a relational db and these results are being pulled from recordings and shows separately to get the sets to choose from.
This is just a presentation thing. We can fix this up so the same labels are offered for both content types. I’ll get that added in soon.
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Oh, you want to talk OLAP? 
Actually, I don't want to know, keep some magic in the wonderful mystery of how Channels works... looking forward to seeing the update!
I know not top priority, but I would love this soon!
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Fixed for next build.
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Now that we can integrate and properly label home videos and concerts and music videos and anything else under the sun into our Channels DVR universe, this “labels” feature sounds even more intriguing. Hopefully the ability to label/tag on a per-recording, per-episode basis is in the works. I would use that A LOT.
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Yay, works perfect! Now I have a fun day of labeling ahead of me!
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Added in next build
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Awesome. Already putting it to good use. 
One idea that I think could help popularize the label feature, is if they could be exposed for browsing, alongside Favorites. These recordings are from my "Wonders Years" box set:
(The "25 recordings" are "Extras.")
Anyway, for TV series and big concert collections and even home videos, being able to label/tag/group files for easy browsing would be great. Think mini-collections, organized by theme or character. Are labels meant to be exclusive to the DVR? Or will they be exposed / browsable from client apps too, one day?
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They’re just there for rules and stuff for now. But we’ll see how they develop. Your examples are helpful.
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If you set those 25 episodes as Season 0, they’ll be filed as Extras.
But there’s sort of an issue with our internals that prevents setting Season as 0. We’ll get it sorted.
Cool, thanks, I think that utility will give the feature traction, as it makes it more practical. Personally speaking, if that metadata isn't exposed in the client UI I'm less incentivized to put in the time to label things in the first place.
Being able to apply labels from the client app itself would also be divine.
Regardless it'll be interesting to see how it all develops. Thanks for the consideration.
Yeah, I figured something changed with regards to this, because initially these were were Season 0, and were properly labelled as Extras, but sometime in the past couple of weeks, they got labeled as Recordings instead. Not a big deal on this end, I still know what they are...
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This could be the Favorites fix I did. Previously, the logic didn’t need to include Favorites or these new categories.
Another pass needs to happen to support everything better I think.
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Any chance of adding the ability in smart rules to be able to include / exclude shows in other Collections?
Use case: I want to use build a collection of all of the shows that my wife watches. And I want add some existing collections. I’m currently using Labels for this but that means I have to label each show.
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