Collection Posters are Doubled

[Scott750 29]

My collection posters somehow are set to these double images. I don't like this. How do I change this?

[Deathsquirrel 741]

Those are created when there is not a poster set for the collection. 

[FrostByte 5049]

I have several of those collections, there should be posters for them. I got them using the boxset plugin. But ya, it normally doesn't do that for me unless there isn't a poster

[Scott750 29]

It's weird because I did have a poster pic in each of the movie folders. I did find out in the web client preferences, if I unchecked "Collections" and "Group Movies into Collections" I am able to manually create each collection.

 

 

I was hoping the boxset plugin would do this automatically.

Edited May 25, 2015 by Scott750

[Luke 37064]

you shouldn't have to do that. the dynamic images should never have been generated if you already had your own image. we will have to see why that's going on.

[Scott750 29]

Thanks Luke. Do you need me to post any logs?

[Deathsquirrel 741]

What you showed initially is what you get when you create a collection and there is no existing poster art in tmdb for that collection.  For example, I have a Wizard of Oz collection.  I created it through emby and ticked the box to retrieve metadata for the collection from the internet.  That worked fine except there is no poster on tmdb for that collection so until I make a poster for the collection it has a poster image generated by emby using the posters of the three movies in that collection.

 

If the collections were created by the auto boxset plugin then tmdb may have been down at the time or there was another problem downloading the images when it ran.  Just pop into the metadata editor, expand collections, select the first one, click the Images tab, and download an available poster.  You can likely clean up all your collections very quickly.

[ebr 14913]

It's weird because I did have a poster pic in each of the movie folders.

 

We are talking about having an image for the collection not the individual movies...

[Scott750 29]

Deathsquirrel thanks for the tip on how to get the posters in Metadata Manager.

 

So I found that for all of the collection folders that had the weird images (and ebr you were right, all of those collection folders did not have a primary or poster jpg in them), even trying to download the images in Metadata Manager nothing showed up. So I then re-identified the collection and it downloaded all of the necessary images.

 

Is there a certain way I'm supposed to name each movie's collection folder? Because AutoBoxset plugin only recognizes 6 of my 87 collections. All collection folders are named with just the main movie title, like "The Matrix". But the "Alex Cross collection" I dont have a collection folder for that. Auto boxset found the 2 movies I had and created it itself. 

 

 

[Deathsquirrel 741]

There should not be collection folders at all.  Let's say you have 3 Alien movies.  Each movie should be in its own folder.  Each of those folders should be in the same folder as any other movie.  So they would look like this:

 

\Movies\HD\Alien (1979)

\Movies\HD\Aliens (1986)

\Movies\SD\Alien 3 (1992)

 

The plugin will create the collection.

 

You CAN create a folder for each collection but you'll have issues in some clients.  That would look like this:

 

\Movies\Alien Collection [boxset]\Alien (1979)

\Movies\Alien Collection[boxset]\Aliens (1986)

\Movies\Alien Collection[boxset]\Alien 3 (1992)

 

...but, again this is not recommended.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Deathsquirrel

[speechles 1917]

Normally, you just lump all your movies into one folder, and auto boxset plugin "automatically" creates this without much having to organize.

 

Also, you can indicate the folder is to be assumed a box set by the legacy style (read as old way) of adding them as "batman collection [boxset]". Then in this place folders properly named "batman (1966)". Then inside each of this is the correct batman movie " thebat66.avi" for example. The name of the movies isn't as important as the folder it is in.

 

Adding [boxset] is how you would have to do it to keep your currently split collections. So the quick fix is to just add the missing [boxset] tag to each folder name that is such. Conversely, you could also use the metadata editor and set those collection folders manually to the type "boxset". But using the metadata editor won't allow storage migration as easily, to a new machine, replicating identically as the [boxset] tagging will. Use whichever way is easiest for your situation.

Edited May 26, 2015 by speechles

[Vidman 589]

Also the auto box set plugin does not automatically create boxsets based on your file structure, it creates them based on the movies tmdb IDs and matches that info with tmdbs collections info. So for the plugin to work well you need to make sure all your movies have correct tmdb metadata

Edited May 26, 2015 by Vidman

[Scott750 29]

Guys thank you for the tips! I used to have [boxset] in the main collection folder, and everything was fine until say the past month when all of my collections got broken, as shown at the top. I only grouped the movies into collection folders to help me manage them on the server easier. But based on what you're all telling me, I will break them up into their own movie folders.

[Deathsquirrel 741]

It's a bit of a pain at first since you have to break up existing folders, but in the long run it's a lot easier.  Movies are all treated the same on the disc & everything is done through metadata.  It also eliminated the occasional issue where I might fit 3 movies in a collection on a disc but come the 4th I had to relocate the whole collection due to space constraints.  Now the physical location of the movies in my library is irrelevant.

[PBzeer 6]

I make my own collections, with a separate Collections folder.

 

Collections/

      Clint Eastwood Western Collection [boxset]/

              Movie Title - Shortcut

 

      Clint Eastwood Action Collection [boxset]/

              Movie Title - Shortcut

      

In this case, I supply my own Art. For something like Resident Evil, I use the tmdb collection metadata and images. It works fine for me.

[moviemadnessman 13]

It should be noted that when using the Autoboxset plugin, the collections it creates seems to be stored in the app folder for Emby (that is to say by default it would create them at C:\Users\[you]\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\data\collections), which would explain why they did not show up in your custom folder location (//[your network]/boxsets.

 

In addition, you will be able to tell which collection you made manually vs the ones automatically created by the collection folder name.  I will include a few pictures to show what I mean.

Collection folder (all created automatically, note the tags in the folder names)

 

Collection view in server manager view

 

As others mentioned, for your custom collection folders to show up, you need to include the [boxset] tag in the folder name.  And without a landscape.jpg and/or a poster.jpg (depending on your view settings ... my Roku defaults to the landscape picture, all other places show me the poster image) located within the root of a collection folder, Emby will automatically create one just to have something to display using the individual movie posters, repeating as needed to fill the space given.  Hope this and everyone elses comments help get everything back on track for you