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My searching skills seem to be lacking so I will ask these questions directly: Is there a way to select multiple files and add them all at once to a collection? Is there a way to have collections display in line with the movies and hide the contents of the collection? That is I want only one "Thin Man" entry when I am browsing but when I click on that entry I want to see all my "Thin Man" movies.

Hi folks, I have two Media Maps in Emby (both with sub folders). One for my daughter and one for myself. We both have made Collections. I hope you can add some extra functionality to the Collections option. It would be very nice that the Collections can be separated per Media Map, otherwise we see each other collections and we really don't want that. Because I don't want her to see the movies that I watch By the way the folder view option is not working correctly on the Nvidia Shield (in the sort menu you can not select folder view) so all movies are displayed on the screen. On my TV (LG) however this function is working correctly. I hope you can also made this possible very soon on the Nvidia Shield because I prefer the Shield app above the LG App. Many thanks in advance. Nighthawk

No collection appears in the Android TV application. The server and the application are in the same LAN, in the application for Android phones they do appear, using the browser they also appear, in the Windows application they also appear. Any idea of the reason?

Please can we have some changes so that when I view by GENRES, I see individual movies and collections? If a movie is a member of a defined collection, I want to see the collection rather than each movie listed that is in the collection. This could be a config choice setting too.

I'm new to emby so it's likely I have something configured wrong or misunderstood requirements. But I have this error when attempting to play/shuffle a TV Collection. Each individual show can be played, as well as shuffling within the series. It's only the collection I'm having issues with. The error occurs on android, android tv (local) and the web client. My set-up I'm running emby docker (emby/embyserver:latest) on ubuntu 16.04.5 with an SSL nginx reverse proxy (linuxserver/letsencrypt). With this set up, my public https port number 443, emby is accessible at https://emby.domain.com. I've enabled "Secure connection mode: Handled by reverse proxy" in server settings > advanced as well as the "external url: emby.domain.com". I have no ports exposed directly to emby. The collection name is "Shuffle" - log attached - I see a lot of plain http requests to http://emby.domain.com:8096. BTW if there's an easier way to shuffle a group of shows (using android and android tv clients) I'd be happy to try an alternative. As far as I can tell, all other features appear to be working as intended. Any help or ideas appreciated. thanks - looking forward to becoming a lifetime member if I can get this issue resolved and do some more testing.

When on a movie details screen I click on the three dots and choose add to collection, the collection screen comes up...However, when "New..." his highlighted I press the "A" button to select that dropdown nothing drops down even though I have several collections in there. Now when I use the web interface and do the same thing it works fine...the list of collections come up and I can add that particular movie to a collection. I have version 1.1.226.70 of Emby on my Xbox One X and on my Qnap i have Emby Server version 3.5.3.0 Thanks

It would be a nice feature to show missing items in a Collection much like the current feature in Shows where it displays missing episodes. There are several instances where I didn't even realize sequels were available for a particular Collection until I searched themoviedb. Missing Collections items (meta data) could be pulled from themoviedb.

At the time of creating a recording for either a series or one off, in the settings, have the ability to choose one or more collections the recording will be assigned to.

It would be great to have either a "No Collection"-Collection in the overview or to Filter the library for "(Not) in a collection" so you can hide the media that is already covered in a collection.

As per my post raised HERE , i was wondering about getting theme music to play on Emby collections from within Emby Classic. If i place a theme.mp3 in a manually created collection (old style folder structure), then from Emby Classic, the theme song plays when entering that collection. However, if I create an Emby collection, and place the theme.mp3 file in the collection folder (e.g. Toy Story [boxset] folder), then the theme song does not play in Emby Classic. It does play if I enter the collection from the web client, just not from the Emby Classic application. I hope this is something that could be implemented. Thank you.

This is not major issue, however it is an annoyance. The collection plugin is creating a collection of 2 unrelated movies. The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Hulk (2003). It is putting them into a collection for the TV movies staring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. Every time I delete to collection it will be rebuilt on the next scan. Any ideas on how to stop this?

Hi All, Looking for some assistance. I have always manually created my boxsets (refer below layout), placing the theme.mp3 in the root folder, and viewed them in Emby Classic using Legacy Folder View. Toy Story Collection\ Toy Story (1995)\ Toy Story (1995).MKV folder.jpg backdrop.jpg etc. Toy Story 2 (1999)\ Toy Story 2 (1999).MKV folder.jpg backdrop.jpg etc. Toy Story 3 (2010)\ Toy Story 3 (2010).MKV folder.jpg backdrop.jpg etc. folder.jpg backdrop.jpg etc. theme.MP3 This setup has, and still is working fine. The issue I am having is with Emby created collections. I have recently started to convert my manual collections to Emby collection. Everything is working great visually except I am unable to get the theme.mp3 to play when i enter the collection, like it does for the legacy folder view. I have placed the theme.mp3 file in the Toy Story Collection [boxset] folder created by Emby when i grouped the movies into the collection. I have also tried placing the file into a sub folder theme-music\song1.mp3 but this didn't work. The theme song will play when entering a collection from the Web Client, but will not play from within Emby Classic. Within the Emby Classic configuration, I have Legacy View enabled, as well as Collapse Movies into Collections. I have also enabled Active Backgrounds. With these settings I am able to see both types of collections without issue. I can hear the theme.mp3 play when i enter a folder view collection, but it will not play when i enter an Emby collection. I tried disabling the Legacy Folder View just in case that was causing interference, but this did not work. Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. It's the only thing stopping me from converting all of my collections over to Emby Collections. Cheers.

OK, this is my bug report format. If it's OK no need to say but if you would prefer a different method, just let me know. Bug: "Collections" name doesn't follow renaming convention Severity: Cosmetic OS/Apps Effected: Web, LG TV, Android The OS/Apps Effected relate to hardware that I have access too. If it doesn't state other OSes, it's not that it doesn't exist, rather it's that I don't have the hardware to check for it.

Hello all, I am hoping someone could offer some assistance. I have recently only started using Emby's collection feature (in the past I would create the Collection folder manually myself). I have set all of my Emby data (cache, metadata, trans-coding) saved locations to another drive on the server Emby is installed on. Everything is running extremely well, however I have a small hiccup regarding Collection metadata. By default, Emby looks for, and stores Collection metadata to it's default location of C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\data\collections I have added a new location to where I have all other Emby data stored, being \\MEDIA-SERVER\MediaBrowser\Collections I manually moved all existing data from the default location, to the new folder, and then removed the default location from the Library, leaving only the new location to monitor. Emby has no issue with this change, displaying the data as it should. However, after a library scan Emby creates a new library with the name Collections1, which has the default location listed against it. I can delete the Library Collections1, but it gets recreated automatically. Also, whenever I create a new collection, it continues to store the information in the default locations, instead of the new location as specified against the library. I have looked at the settings for Collections in Metadata Manager, but it only displays the default path of C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\root\default\Collections with no way of changing to the new location. Is there something I am overlooking to get Emby to store all newly created collection data to my new location of \\MEDIA-SERVER\MediaBrowser\Collections ? I am running Emby Server Version 3.4.1.0 Thank you for any help you could offer. Cheers.

Hello, I just updated to version 3.4.0.0 and at my Collections are not displaying. It took a moment to realize that Collections now appear as a library, with a file path so I enabled the display for the users and the icon displays, but there is no content. The Collections library is directed to the path C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\data\collections and there are collection folders under that, in each folder is and XML file and one or more jpg files. Thanks..

H/W Server: Windows 10 / Intel NUC i5 Emby Server: Version 3.0.5782.0 Hi Forum - I have just been reading the Editing Collections thread. Since it has been asked and answered I did not want to continue to add to it since my question varies. My question is simply whether or not the Server Home>Settings>Display Settings>Group movies into collections duplicates the Auto Box Sets plug-in? I have had the plug-in installed for a few years but recently have struggled to keep all films included in collections after each Library Scan. Even after manually adding them, the next scan loses them even though each film contains the IMDB collection ID. I uninstalled the plug-in, went through the same process of manually adding the missing films (Austin Powers, Basic Instinct, Alien, etc) and reran the library scan only to lose the films I just added to the collections. Am I off base here? Currently I have un-installed the plug-in. Thanks, @Tanamur

Hello everyone! I have a persistent problem with emby Collections that I just can't find an answer for. Any input would be appreciated... I have a large movie collection stored on a Synology NAS. My emby server is a Windows 10 tower. I'm running the latest emby server (auto update). I have about 100 Movie Collections that I have manually set up in emby. I have another 15-20 collections that I want to set up, but won't cooperate. Several odd things are happening... Multi-Select doesn't seem to work at all for this purpose (on ANY collection). When I multi-select the 4 or five movies that I want included in the collection, then hover over one of them and right-click and select "add to collection", it appears to work fine. However, when I then go to "Collections" and open that specific collection, it only has one movie in it - the one that I was hovering over when I right-clicked and chose "add to collection". The others simply aren't in there. ??? I end up having to add one movie at a time to the collection.... Some movies are not showing up properly in the collection. Let me explain...I'll use the Exorcist collection as an example. When I add the movies, one at a time to the "Exorcist" collection, all seems to work fine. However, when I go to "Collections" and look at Exorcist collection, it shows three of the movies as "Movies" (Exorcist 2, 3, and 4) and one of them as an "Other Item" (Exorcist 1). When I open and view the details of any of the 3 that are shown as "Movies", the info (metadata) looks perfect - meaning it is exactly the same metadata that I meticulously put into the movie via the Metadata Manager". However, when I look at the movie that the collection shows as an "Other Item", it has a completely different set of metadata from which I put into the movie. It has different images, genres, people, keywords, etc...across the board it is different metadata than the movie that I had set up in the Metadata Manager. Then, when I open the Metadata Manager and look at the Exorcist movies, it shows the Exorcist collection with all 4 movies under it (3 with correct metadata, and one with different and incomplete metadata) Interestingly, the one movie title that shows up with weird metadata (Exorcist 1 in this example), ALSO shows up as a "Movie" - separate from the collection. In other words, there are now two entries in the Metadata Manager for Exorcist 1 - one under the Exorcist collection heading, and a second one simply shown as a movie. the one shown as a movie has perfect metadata that I had originally put in myself. As previously mentioned, I have another 15 or 20 sets of movies that I would like to set up as collections, but I can't because most or all of the movies show up as "Other Items" when I try to add them to collections and have screwed up metadata associated with them. Usually it happens to all of the movies in that set, but not always. For example, all three movies in the "Hills Have Eyes" collection show up as "Other Items". Other sets behave like the Exorcist set where most of them show up as "Movies" and one or two show up as "Other Items". I have looked at the file structures of the movies involved and they look perfectly consistent with every other movie in my collection. I use Genre folders (Horror, Comedy, Action, etc...) under which I have individual movie folders such as "Exorcist 1", "Exorcist 2" etc... In each of these movie folders, I store the images and other metadata in the same folder as the movie. Further, I have had no issues with emby finding these movies with library scans. The movies in question look and act like every other movie. I can see them in the "Movies" folder. I can see and edit their metadata in the Metadata Manager. They show up properly in reports. In other words, I cannot find any evidence that these movies aren't set up properly in the file structures in which they live. I can provide screen shots of everything I am describing if that would help anyone understand the issue better. Thanks in advance to anyone that may be able to shed some light on this strange behavior. I am out of ideas...

Grüß Gott, eine Frage bzw. Anregung. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit für die Musiksammlung eigene Sammlungen zu generieren, die nicht unter den Sammlungen für Filme erscheinen, sondern als eigene Musikcollections auftauchen. Denn Film- und Musiksammlungen gemeinsam werden schnelle unübersichtlich. Wenn nicht, wäre das vielleicht ein Feature, das in einer der nächsten Releases eingebaut werden könnte, wenn Interesse dafür besteht. bkh

Okay, so out of nowhere I had two problems occur at once... Collections stopped working. Movies and TV are now displaying singular. I tried turning Collections off and back on, but it didn't help. My Adult library is set as "Home Videos and Photos". I did have two folders in it that were displaying correctly as movies (did not inherit). Now one of them (the actual Movies folder) has changed (it behaves as if it is storing videos) and I can't get it to change back. I did not receive any error messages and I have not tried any corrective actions yet for fear of making it worse. Since these two things happened at the same time, I am really concerned that an automatic update broke my system (which was working great). How do I fix this and should I turn updates off? Thanks. server-63654940800.txt server-63655027196.txt server-63655027200.txt server-63655084107.txt server-63655084144.txt server-63655113599.txt server-63655199996.txt server-63655200000.txt

I am playing around with using my Emby to replace the "file share" i had setup via my router and a usb stick. Have 2 questions: 1. Is there a way to hide the default icons called "Collections" and "Folders"? I don't see an option to hide those selections in the User Access settings. I just want only the Folder and certain other Library Folders i create or select to show. 2. Is there a way to have a remote user upload a file to the Emby server? Is this a feature/plugin that could be added in the future? Thanks.

Hello Emby I have a small but annoying issue where the Collections feature adds movies to incorrect Collections (i.e. in my Indiana Jones Collection I get "Perfect Storm" added). When I manually remove that move (remove from Collection), it goes away but then pops up later on. Any ideas on what is causing this? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Rob

Server Version 3.0.5464.40000 Parental controls work as expected when "Parental rating:" is set to "Adult" except for the Collections view. I am working on changes to the Godfather Trilogy collection to demonstrate the issue. It takes a long time (several hours) to come up with examples because my collections do NOT update in a timely manner (a ticket has been submitted in this regard http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/15921-delayed-collection-group-display/&do=findComment&comment=160722). I am posting without examples in case recommendations for resolution can be made without them. I will post the examples later when they become available. The issue: "Parental rating:" is set to "Adult". The collection folder along with it's included images ARE visible/available for inappropriate users. It does appear to handle the movies as expected as they are NOT visible/available for inappropriate users (NC-17 limited) even within the collection. This issue can be worked around by setting the collection folder "Parental rating:" to XXX. Some XML generators generate "Adult" as opposed to "XXX" rating. Is MB supposed to handle "Adult" or must every "Adult" rating be manually changed.

So I'm pretty sure that if you have your Library set to "Group movies into collections," and individual movies from a Collection are added as the first items on a Playlist, you will not be able to play that Playlist normally. To get the playlist to play, you'll have to select and play the first title itself. I'm probably an edge case, but there's no way I can get by without grouping movies into Collections in my library view. Any thoughts?

Can someone help me clear up a point of confusion about Collections, Libraries, and Views? Are the following statements correct? 1. There is currently no way in Emby, using Collections or metadata, to create a new "group" of media and have that "group" show up on the Home screen. The only way to do this is to setup the folder structure on the server accordingly and then create a new Library. 2. In the screenshot posted by Happy2Play (http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/23419-folder-views/&do=findComment&comment=228742), the "Kids" group is actually a separate Library that points to a separate folder on his server with all the kids movies in it (i.e. /Kids Movies). If you were to create a Collection called "Kids" and add movies to it from your existing movie Library, then the only way to see them in a group would be to navigate into the Collections folder/view on the Home screen ("display a collection view" setting) and/or see them grouped within the Movies folder/view ("group movies into collections" setting). For me, I would really like the option to create groups or categories of media and have them show up alongside my Libraries on the Home screen without having to physically group the media in separate folders on the server. For example, I have a Library called "All Movies" pointed to the /Movies folder with all my movies in it. It would be really nice to create a couple of groups called "Kids Movies", "Martial Arts Movies" and "Wife's Movies." These groups would contain all the movies that I designate from the "All Movies" Library, using metadata or otherwise, and each group would show up separately next to "All Movies" on the Home screen. You could do this without having to create a new folder for each group on the server and then manually movie all the movie files/folders I want into the new group folders. This would allow all the media to be organized in a simple folder structure (/Movies or /TV), provide an easy way to create and navigate to a customized subset of that media (Kids Movies / Kids TV) in the Emby clients, and give complete control of the media organization/navigation to Emby Server. I could imagine myself creating new groups all the time. Say, I am on a "Comic Book Movie" kick or a "Movies about Sports" binge. It would be very nice to be able to easily group movies together and have that group show up on the home screen, without having to manually restructure my media folders on the server and create separate Libraries. Groups could be add/removed without having any impact on the server's folder structure. I could even expand on that further by imaging having Collections inside my group, or having a group that would contain a mix of media types (Movies, TV, Music, etc.). For example, my "Star Wars" group could contain the two separate movie Collections (original trilogy and the new trilogy), The Clone Wars movie, The Clone Wars TV series, the Star Wars Rebels TV series, the movie soundtrack albums, etc. The group would be easily accessible right next to my "All Movies" Library on the Home screen. Perhaps this can already be accomplished, but I have yet to get it to work in my testing, or see it explained in detail on the forums or the wiki. Any insight or thoughts on how to do this would be appreciated.

Being from the old school I still have folder based collections in my file structure. In recent versions the collections like this was broken but I don't want to open old wounds here. My question is on comparing the two methods. With the folder based method I can see the parent collections image in the collections area but I see the individual films in movies/all area. By contrast if I use the Emby collection creation method, I see the parent image in both areas. Are both of the above correct and intended functionality? Do I really need to do one or the other to keep uniformity? In my opinion if I wanted to see collections I would do to collections and if I want to see all films I would expect to see all individually listed in the all area.