Exactly. And on Plex it’s listed right below the title but it’s cropped out in James’ screenshot.
Edit: It won’t let me upload more than one image as a “new user” but the director is listed above the cast on all three services you mentioned. It’s so bizarre that this is the hill Infuse wants to die on. It’s such an obvious missing feature from an otherwise great app. Even if you just added a setting that’s toggled off by default, I’d be happy!
I’ve long argued that Infuse needs a “simple” options menu and an optional expanded “power users” menu to avoid scaring users with an overwhelmingly cluttered menu due to all the new features people are asking for. But alas, Infuse is built for Apple products, and Apple’s ethos is “we designed it this way because this is the best way (and easiest to support) and if you don’t like the way we did it, you can go pound sand”.
That could be helpful. But I still don’t understand why there seems to be a strange resistance to implementing what is the norm on every other platform, and for good reason. I don’t understand it. That the maker of a film should come first, and not last, in the credit list, is just basic common sense and is how the closing credits roll.
And although I liked Infuse’s interface in many other ways, this is why I stopped using it.
I was looking for a director credit wishlist thread, and this is the only one I found.
Is this really not even being looked into? Having the director somewhere in the main “details” section, just like James himself posted a couple of months back, would make the most sense (in addition to having the name at the end of the cast/crew section).
This is how some streaming services have it, and also having to scroll through the entire cast/crew section to see the director just feels wrong. Not to mention that cast listings sometimes have spoilers in character names or spoilery dual roles.
it’s disrespectful to the filmmaker. director should come first among credits
For me the decision here isn’t whether to put the Director first or last in a scrolling list of faces. Director metadata should be listed alongside the Title and Description. It’s more important information, imo, than the film’s runtime, rating, etc and yet instead up being up there alonside that very info, it’s buried at the end of a list of actors.
Candidly, this reminds me of the stubborn resistance to adding alphabet scrolling in the app when it was so clearly a win for the user wanting to browse their media library. I couldn’t use Infuse until that was added even though I tried many many times over the years to work around it.
Director metadata should be listed alongside the Title and Description. It’s more important information, imo, than the film’s runtime, rating, etc and yet instead up being up there alonside that very info, it’s buried at the end of a list of actors.
agree. Infuse’s stubbornness on this is bizarre.
+1
stubbornly dissing the director is not a good look