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Recently both EMBY (stable) and EMBY for WMC (beta) updated to the latest versions removing the paths to my collections in WMC. I updated EMBY to the latest beta but the issue persists. I do not have the "Auto Box Set" plugin or ever used the Web Browser to build or add to collections. I have all my Movie collections physically compiled to local HDDs most locked to protect them from any changes. The collections are still visible under the Web Browser tab, just not in WMC. I think all the settings are still correct in both EMBY and EWMC as it has always been solid, but with the updates perhaps something has changed. I recently started building a "Blade Runner Collection", and will use it as an example with the photos and logs attached. Additionally; If I have to use the Box Set Plugin or Web Browser to build all the collections again to be able to view from Emby for WMC, do i delete the parent folder leaving all the child movie folders on the drives firstly? Will all the custom made images created be deleted in the process? Thanks for your help, MBClassic-1112016062f60b079e24ac498f096a599bee547.log server-63588084020.txt Configurator-10120166829cc1163e34322bac22325718f3ea9.log

Okay so some of you might be aware or might not be aware of the fact that now when a movie collection is created a primary image and a thumb image is no longer auto-generated previewing all the titles in the collection. My request is simple add this back in but as an option under the "edit images" section of collections. Can simply be a button that once clicked auto generates a thumbnail and primary image of which you can then delete or keep. This way if you don't need/want the custom image made for that collection because you have a better image of your own you can use that image(s) instead.

I just wanted to share a tip that you can use the Collections feature also for your favorite Actors and Actresses. Or Directors, Writers, etc. I have decided to do Actors and Actresses. I have only done Actresses so far but I will get around to adding Actors as well. Admittedly I got a bit carried away with it and added too many people but it's still nice that I can easily see all my favorites together in one place. I will often do marathons of specific actors/actresses movies so this works out for me well. Just wanted to share this because I know most people use it mainly for things like Star Wars collection or Planet of the Apes collection. I grabbed all of my images from either TMDb.org or Google. ~Cheers

Don't know what happened, but with the latest version of the server, there is nowhere in the interface to add items to a collection. There used to be a place to click to scan the library for titles that matched a criteria (eg. Marvel superhero movies) Now the most it will do is search IMDB for artwork related to collections defined by IMDB.

The "Collections" page on Theater is always blank for me. Running theater on the same machine as Server, on Win 10. Have Auto Boxsets plugin enabled. Collections show up in "Metadata Manager", and on the web app, but not in Theater. Any ideas why this could be happening?

It would be nice to have a function to backup our Collections or maybe even our entire Libraries and the ability to Restore them. This is why: 1. I have some Collections that I have had to create manually. Examples are Jeane-Claude Van Damme Movies. He made allot of movies and I like to keep them all together. I have 22 movies in this collection. Abbott and Costello 34 movies. Vincent Price over 20 movies. Collections of various kid movies. 2. In my Movie Library, there always seem to be a few movies that do not pull the correct meta data or images. I have to manually straighten these out by entering the data directly and uploading my own images. 3. When ever there is an issue with Emby and I either have to reload my Libraries or reinstall Emby, it is very time consuming to get everything back the way it was. 4. I used to run all the latest beta's but have lately found that if there is a problem with the latest build, it is too time consuming to get my libraries and collections back the way they were. I have over 1500 movies, 153 collections of movies, 97 TV Shows with all Seasons, and over 1500 music albums. After getting everything the way I like it, it would be nice that if something does happen I can restore my libraries and meta data back the way it was. I love using Emby and think this would be a great feature to have, at least for users running the latest beta's.

I noticed today that my Collections folder is not showing up in any Emby view (WMC, Android or website). When I go into the Metadata manager, I see the Collections folder, but nothing under it. In my Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\data\collections folder, all of my boxsets that I've created are there. The only change I did recently was set up a new PC in the house with Emby, and accidentaly turned on Legacy Folders. I think I went back and changed everything back the way they used to be, but still can't see Collections. And yes, the "Show Collections" box is ticked. Did I perhaps accidentaly uncheck a box somewhere in Settings that made the Collections not show up? Do I need to refresh something? Start Collections from scrap? Thanks!

Installed a bluray player in the main PC yesterday, so some of my drive letters got reassigned and therefore had to point some library items in the right direction again. After some reindexing I find I had to redo my Collections list. The new list works fine in the server but I find I can't get Emby Theater, Emby for Windows and the Fire TV app to show my collections at all . Am I missing something obvious to get them to show ? Am on the latest server dev 3.0.5714.28118 (if that's relevant) and Windows 8.1 64-bit IE11.

For some reason after marking a bunch of Collections "Favorites" (created by AutoBox Sets plugin), there are none showing up on my "Favorites" page. Surely that is an oversight because if I go all the way in to the Movies then Collections (how its set to display currently) I can set my filter to only show my "Favorite" Collections, but that is so much more effort. Please include Collections in the "Favorites", thanks.

Is there a way to sort videos within collections alphabetically in the server? I have some collections that have a mix of movies and tv series e.g. Star Trek. MB3 shows the contents separated into movies and TV shows (which is good) but the movies and the tv shows are then in a more or less random sorting. Is it possible to add the sort button that you have at the top level items inside collections as well?

When viewing movies on the server or android app I have my folder views working but when i click on collections from within a folder I.E. box sets it shows me collections for all box sets in my library. How can I set it to display collections for only the current folder.

I cant add Blade movies to a blade "collection". I use to have it there but deleted the movies and readded better quality versions of the movies. After deleting the movies the collection folder went away. Now when i try to add the movies as a new collection it says that the child with id xxxxxx already exists but there is no Blade collection in the drop down menu. I've tried deleteing the folder in the collections folder on the c drive but it just pops back there after i leave and still cant add Blade movies.

This problem is two-fold: 1. I guess this would be for ebr, but I've noticed that in recent official releases of the emby server, the Auto Box Sets plugin (1.0.0.7) seems to be having minor issues. I couldn't pinpoint a problem to it directly until the past few days, when "The Day The Earth Stood Still" collection appeared, but it was (and is) in Deutch (my server language is English). I checked on Themoviedb.com and found they did not have an english translation, so I corrected that, then deleted that collection from my server and refreshed. It still pulled down the dutch information for that box set https://www.themoviedb.org/collection/343738-der-tag-an-dem-die-erde-still-stand-filmreihe, and so it seems as though the box set plugin is not pulling from default language as indicated, but simply from the url, which as you can see, is in Deutch. 2. The second problem relates, but some of my movies in the past few server builds have been losing their metadata during server scans, notably, the collection ID metadata. It seems to vary which collections and which movie will lose this information, but lately it appears to be the 3rd movie in a collection (Back to the Future lost Part 3, Beverly Hills Cop lost the 3rd one, Harry Potter lost the 5th one) as examples. Further, I have been unable to force the server to rescan for the collection ids (tried manually doing a scan media, and also went to the metadata manager and selected advanced edit on the movies tab and tried with both "missing" and "all" parameters selected. I'm unsure what is causing this to happen, but I know the movies that are no longer in collections do have correct collection tags on themoviedb.com, so I'm unsure if it's a change on their end, or an unexpected bug in the recent official server builds (I am on 3.0.5641.4). I restarted my server and let it startup, then I ran the metadata manager>Movies>Advanced Refresh>Refresh all. Attached is my server log (also, I noticed that even after 4 hours, the swirling blue circle was still present on my screen). server-63570863134.zip

Just wondering if anybody has the following. If I go to the home page in the web, where it show 'My Views' etc. the Collections icon isn't generated. Also, clicking on this icon goes to the Collections screen which shows as empty. However if I click on my DVD Movies icon and select Collections from there, my movie collections show up fine. Is this supposed to happen ? Thanks

Hii I'm running the Server Configuration Backup Plugin (1.0.0.5) and it's really awesome! But i've two things: First: It would be nice, if we could backup our collections too. I saw the entry in the MBBackup.xml but it does not backup anything. Is it possible to get this working? Second: A sheduled task for restore the default backup would be very nice, because i'm using this plugin to get all the same configurations on every server we are running (atm i'm using a autoit-script to get this done). Thanks for the advise.

Hi - a long time user of xbmc/kodi but recently moved over to Emby, the quality of which is just amazing so well done for all those who contributed!! I'm going through my library and manually grouping content together where I have multiple resolution copies, however I'm getting stuck when I come across content that is already in a collection/box set, I find there is no easy way to group those items. I'm basically applying a genre filter which displays my content outside of the collections so they can be selected. It would be useful if there was 'duplicate' filter/sort option. Or am I missing something here? My server is running on a Synology NAS and I'm using the Web Client. Jas

Help... my collections have vanished! I had stable release 3.0.5588.1 running on a Windows 7 box. In my user preferences, "Display a collections view to show movie collections" and "Group movies into collections" are checked. I started making collections manually. I made 3, and everything was fine. After I made the 4th one, all of the collections disappeared from my Collections page (it says 0 of 0). If I tried to remake them, I got an error like "A child with the Id ............. already exists." Also, it wouldn't let me make new ones. I tried upgrading to beta release 3.0.5597.0. Now, I can add new collections on the collection page, but the old ones still don't show up and if I try to recreate them it still says they already exist. On the Movies page, if I select a movie to try and add it to one of the invisible collections, the Select collection pull-down only shows "New"; the collections I made before don't show up.

Hi Emby Team, Would it be possible to add the ability for the various actors, producers, directors etc to be downloaded when collections are being compiled. The metadata screen actually has spaces for all the various metadata downloaded and collected for individual films and TV shows like genre, plot, studio etc. And The Movie Database actually has this information but it's not downloaded. If that was possible then when we look through collections we could click on an actor and see what other films and TV series they also appear in. I think this would be a bring a welcome dimention to the collections feature. Thanks for the great work thus far though guys, been using this for years and it still continues to amaze with it's developments. Thanks in anticipation, Lloyd.

Hi there so I am currently experiencing some bugs with the collections feature. Firstly if I make a collection and go to remove under the metadata manager > collections > titles > remove button it says 'No collection exists with the supplied ID". Secondly, in order to actually view the list of collections I have I need to click on a collection and click Titles then click back onto the main collections metadata option and then it will show the Titles option. Otherwise if I just click on Collections without clicking on Titles first it only shows Metadata and Images as the 2 tabs. Media Browser Server Version 3.0.5607.2 --- On a side note any idea where I might find the auto-generated thumb image used in collections on my computer so I can also use it for my backdrop image? server-63567134479.txt

I have Capt. America 1 & 2 in both HD & 3D formats. Folder structure are: \\HOMESERVER-PC\3DMovies\Captain America 1 - The First Avenger 3D (2011) HSBS\Captain America 1 - The First Avenger 3D (2011) HSBS.mkv \\HOMESERVER-PC\Movies1\Captain America I - The First Avenger (2011)\Captain America I - The First Avenger (2011) .mp4 And separate folders for Capt. America 2 & Cat. America 2 3D The issue I have is that I like to keep a view of non-3D Movies and a separate view of 3D Movies. This in itself is not a problem, the problem is Boxsets\Collections. I used the Auto Box Sets plugin and it places all 4 movies in 1 boxset. When I look at 3D Movies view I see Capt. Amer. Boxset with 4 movies in it. Same for when I look at the Movies view. Is there anyway to create separate boxsets for the 3D movies and only have them show up in 3D movies view? Same for the non-3D movies but showing up in the Movies view?

hey guys is there a way of display Collections Tab view thumb as default, every time i close my browser or clean cookies, the view of Collections go back as poster view thanks in advanced

I know there has been significant discussion on this topic. I am writing this seperate topic as I am simply struggling to make sense of it and hopefully it will help others in the same boat. I like the clean look of the no legacy type view as it gives you a simply list of your collections. However I am struggling with the lower level views like Genre, collections etc. Let my explain with images. Here in the left image you can see I have sub-views enabled which from the description makes me think I get Genre, collections etc within the Movies view from the EHS. This does not appear to be the case and all I get is my full movies list. For the right image I do get the required views with these checked. First question really is why the two sets of options? What is the significance of each? Now that I have those views I want they look awful with the mix of no icon at all in the case of Genre to the new imagemagic type ones for collections and resume. How can I achieve a uniform look here? By the way as you can see I have played with IBN images with favourites. This is the only item with a custom image and backdrop. My IBN stems from years of past MB tweaks so I assume I can just add a folder for each of these to the "General" folder in IBN and provide a folder and backdrop image? I guess the likes of collections and resume in this case is made up for my due to the lack of IBN config? If this is the case why no backdrops either? Also why no treatment of Genre? And then if I go into Genre I can see further oddities with icons even though I have full IBN for each genre in view below. Again why are some icons affected and some not? Why if IBN is in play are any of the icons being treated differently? Current server is 3.0.5581.26746 MBC is 3.0.264.0

I have a bunch of 2-disc "special editions" ripped to video_ts format, using the "Disc 1, Disc 2" standard. I would like for there to be two things related to this 1) On the website at least, browsing through movies shows each disc as its own movie, rather than grouping them together as a collection. This would be fine (or at least acceptable), except that it also does not have any visual indicator of which disc is which. I see how collections are useful as their own nav, but there should definitely be a way to have them grouped together in the main "movies" section. There appears to be a "Group movies into collections" preference in the user prefs, but maybe it's not working? 2) When viewing a collection comprised of titles with the Disc # format, show a disc number indicator, so it is possible to determine which is the movie and which is the bonus features, or whatever. This is also true for "Studios" view.

I was wondering if it would be possible to add an entry point or category in the metadata editor for "Movie Set" or "Set" or something like that for the purpose of organizing movie collections into movie sets for Kodi. It would be useless for MB clients, and I don't want it if it caused any sort of issues with MB, but it's handy for telling Kodi to group movies into sets. I know Metabrowser had an entry point like this. That way, say for instance with the Bourne Collection, you could just type in Bourne Collection in the Set entry point in each of the Bourne movies, and Kodi would group them together. Ideally Kodi would recognize MB collections (and artwork selected etc..) but this would still help. edit: Thanks for moving this to feature request, EBR.

Did a quick search and didn't find anything. So I recently installed 3.0.5518.0 Beta of windows mediabrowser server and I'm finding a weird bug in the "Metadata Manager". When I go in to change the primary image of a collection for an auto boxsets plugin created collection, the primary image always reverts back to the primary image of the first asset in the collection. This doesn't matter if I go to the image flag, browse for the image using the "browse image" button and download from an online source, or click on the cloud button under the primary image. After I restart the server, the primary image always reverts. Art, banner and logo images don't seem to be affected. I always hit save after in the metadata tab of the collection. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug in the beta? Anyone else seeing this? To reproduce the issue: - Goto Metadata manager - Click on a collection under collections - Click the images tab - Click the cloud button under the primary image poster - Click download on a poster from an external source such as theMovieDb - Click the metadata button and hit save - Goto settings and restart the mediabrowser server or just use mediabrowser for awhile / re-log in - Click on the collection again and watch the primary poster art revert to the primary image of the first asset in the collection Also does mediabrowser use an external bug tracker like JIRA or something that we can do a search in? Just a noob question that I haven't really found an answer for atm. I'll post some logs shortly when I get home. I don't have the cover art plugin installed but I do have auto box-sets plugin installed. TIA