Hi Steven,
Yes, what I'm suggesting is that if you set a specific Label to a Bin, any media you drop in it would take on that Bin's Label. So if you have a logical reason to drop video clips together with MP3 files into a Bin, they'd take on the same Label.
You could create more Bins than available Label colors, since any newly created Bin would be Label-free, as is currently the case in Premiere. With 6 Labels/colors (other than the one used for bins), you could set 6 different types of auto-labeling Bins. Of course, you could set 2 or more Bins to the same Label. For example, the color for all Interview related footage could be set to green, and therefore any related bins - e.g. 'Soundbites', 'Interviews', 'Questions', 'Answers', 'Interviewer/Interviewee Reactions', etc. - could be set to the same Label. That way, any subclips sent to those Bins by way of the subclip creation tools I suggested in another thread, would automatically take on the Label chosen to represent Interview footage. This would make it extremely easy to identify all Interview related clips in the Timeline when drag/dropped from any of those Bins!
I think 6 Labels is a good enough start, but the case could be made for having more color Labels available.
How many do you think there should be?
I hope this makes sense. If you have any improvements to suggest on this idea, please share! I do like to consider as many questions as possible before forming FRs. 