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My emby Server randomly created a collection for films and I don't know why. I didn't change anything. The films it added to the collection are on the server for a few months now but the collection must have been created just a few days ago, I just noticed it. I deleted the collection, but still it appears between the libaries in the libary view. How can I disable and delete collections. I see no reason to use this feature but I see no way to delete is as normal libaries. Im using v 4.6.7.0 Regards Skyobliwind

Feature request for Auto Box Sets & the Emby server to show missing collection items / placeholder images for what we don't have that is part of a collection. http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/22732-auto-box-sets-show-missing-collection-items/ Thanks, hoping to see it worked out.

Hey all i have had a bit of an idea and would like to share with the devs to see if this would be possible. as you can see from the first photo this is how the collections column looks like now and i would like to talk you through the new design idea i have had with the following pictures. second photo : Okay so as you can kinda see i have extended the view panel for what would be available in the selected collection when being hovered over by mouse or keyboard, this would then show what movies our available in that current collection that uploaded to your server. along with its collection logo and information. if there is more than 4 movies in you collection you would then be able to scroll from left to right to show the 5th 6th etc movies. also just to note when closing this panel to see the next collection you could press your back button on your keyboard or mouse to show other collection under the view panel. Photo 3: So in this photo, i am showing you that when hovering over one of the selected films it will in-large the same as emby currently when hovering over films along with the movie logo and information and metadata information ie date added, ratings, length etc. once clicked it will then redirect to the movies page then being able to press play from there. Photo 4: The last photo is just showing when hovering to the next film it is showing its in-large image and information. I hope you guys like this idea and same for the devs as well. not sure if it would be feasible or even a good idea but just thought i would share with you and hope you liked it haha.

Hey there, First of all, a quick thank you for the hard work on Emby, it's amazing ! I recently discovered and activated the option "Group items into collections" in my Movies library. That option is a must ! I wonder how I could lived without it so far… Anyway, let's get to the point : I have some manually created collections in which grouping items doesn't make sense. For example, let's say I have a "Tim Burton" collection : I don't want the Beetlejuice, Batman and Dumbo movies grouped into a "Tim Burton" collection, but I do want to keep the Batman movies grouped into one. I thought that such collections could really benefit from a new option "prevent grouping" ( false by default ). What do you think about it ? Thanks in advance, Takit

Hi! I just configured the Trakt plug-in on my Emby server. I ran the “Sync Library” task manually under Scheduled Tasks. It cleared out my whole collection in Trakt. Rather than be upset, I thought I’d just get curious about what’s happening. So I went to Trakt and “recollected” Season 1 of Westworld and after the scheduled task ran, my Trakt collection got emptied out again. I doublechecked the Emby page for the show and it has the correct Trakt link at the bottom of the page. How do we troubleshoot why the plug-in is not pushing my Emby collection to Trakt using this instance as an example?

I have lots of movies that I put into collections (Godfather, Back to the Future, etc). But when those movies are put into a larger collection, say, "Dad's movies" they cannot appear inside of that collection as a collection. It would be great if this was a possibility.

How I can add a movie to a collection using C#? I'm developing a plugin and want to be able to add a movie to a newly created collection during, for example, Refresh Metadata/Identify action. I tried: QueryResult<BaseItem> collections = _libraryManager.QueryItems(new InternalItemsQuery() { IncludeItemTypes = new[] { "collections", "Boxset" }, Name = collectionName }); // one collection item found if (movieItem.AddCollection((BoxSet)collections.Items[0])) { // once with UpdateToRepository, once without movieItem.UpdateToRepository(ItemUpdateType.None); // movieItem.UpdateToRepository(ItemUpdateType.MetadataEdit); } and this: _collectionManager.AddToCollection(newCollection.InternalId, internalIdMovieItemsArray); During the action, I can add another movie to the newly created collection, but not the one I'm currently updating. How I can add a movie to a collection using C#?

I'm using the API for a quite a while for my projects successfully. I'm struggling to understand how I can nest videos. I'm reading about folders, collections, virtual folders but so far, I haven't been successful in achieving any nesting structure. To start with, I'm able to create a Virtual Folder, but how can I add content to it? Alternatively, I currently have all the movies in one folder on the file system. If I can use Emby to sort movies into subfolders, I would be open to it, too. Every help is most welcome.

Bonjour à tous Je ne pense pas avoir trouvé de sujet traitant de cet exemple précis, mais s'il en existe désolé pour ce post.. Mon problème est le suivant : j'ai en physique sur mon Synology des séries genre Game Of Thrones et je souhaiterais y associer les métadonnées de TMDB avec Emby d'installé sur ma Shield Nvidia , seulement l'ID de Games of Thrones ici 1399 correspond à "tv" alors que dans le plugin TMDB d'Emby , il n'y a que "collections" comment faire , je n'arrive pas à trouver un plugin sympa qui gère bien toutes les métadonnées pour les séries et collections. Merci de votre aide.

HI, I moved my library to a new server and did not take my configs with me. On the old Server Collections were created without problems. With the Plugin? Now nothing is grouped together. In Library I have "collection information from metadata downloaders" activated. And I already scanned the library anew. However, there is no Collection ID or whatever in the Movie Metadata. Furthermore I have multiple Versions of the same Video, but they will be added separately.... What do I have to do to group them? I have seen that I have to use a "-" to denote the Versions, but in the old Server it partially worked without and now it does not work with hyphens either. ...I know that I can do it manually but I would like to know how to do it automatically. @Happy2Play @cayars

Hi there, I recently switched from PLEX to Emby media server, as the features I'd like are richer with emby community. Now I'm facing two problems and need some help. Emby Server on Synology 4.7.10.0 Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 21H2 Kodi v19 Matrix Emby next-gen addon 6.2.22 I organize collections by hand, as the automated feature doesn't follow my liking. The option in the library settings is disabled. 1) The movies and the collections show up in the emby web-frontend (i.e. Batman movies) When turning on KODI (W10 icw MadVR) many of the collections, and some content, get lost (i.e. missing Batman) They can't be found in novies and not in box-sets. If I turn off show collections option in KODI Media settings, all movies are shown individually under the movie section, the collections are still missing in the box-set section. Missing movies in collection (bottom right corner shows only 4 movies) but contains 39 elements So far I have been trying repair db, refresh db & collections. 2) There are many errors in the emby protocol (attached) I can't seem to fix (i.e. folder permissions) *** Error Report *** Version: 4.7.10.0 Command line: /volume1/@appstore/EmbyServer/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/packages/EmbyServer/var -ffdetect /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/bin/ffprobe -nolocalportconfig -ignore_vaapi_enabled_flag -pidfile /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/EmbyServer.pid -defaultdirectory /volume1/Public -updatepackage emby-server-synology7_{version}_x86_64.spk -noautorunwebapp Operating system: Linux version 4.4.180+ (root@build13) (gcc version 8.5.0 (GCC) ) #42962 SMP Tue Sep 20 22:35:56 CST 2022 Framework: .NET 6.0.8 OS/Process: x64/x64 Runtime: volume1/@appstore/EmbyServer/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 4 Data path: /var/packages/EmbyServer/var Application path: /volume1/@appstore/EmbyServer/system System.UnauthorizedAccessException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/volume1/Movies/Die Unglaublichen (2004)/Die Unglaublichen (2004) 1080p DTS-ES.nfo' is denied. ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied --- End of inner exception stack trace --- The permissions (r/w) are set globally and inheritated downwards: I hope my description is sufficient, I'm not a native speaker so feel free to ask any questions. Regards Seb EDIT: I forgot to mention that movies are in more than 1 collection (i.e. Batman is in (ALL) and in a seperate actors collection) embyserver.txt

So I've searched the forum, and read through the wiki, but haven't found an answer. I'm trying to create a collection that will update itself. So I'd like a collection for my 4k content, and if I add something new I'd like the system to recognize it's 4k and automatically put it in the collection for me. So it's not an automatic collection based on metadata from the provider, but off the information in the content itself. Is there a way to do that in Emby that I'm missing (entirely possible, I can be dense). Or would this be an FR I'd have to put together and see what comes of it?

Hi All, I have tried searching for a solution but have not had success. If there has already been a thread for this please let me know. Context: I have both 4K and HD versions of both Movies and Shows, and these are kept in different folders, but in the same library. In other words, 4K movies and HD Movies are in the same library, and another library for 4K and HD TV Shows. I've kept the 4K and HD content in different folders because I have two instances each of Radarr and Sonarr configured. For example one instance of Radarr for 4K content, and another for HD content. Another reason they are in separate folders is because of space, as 4K content are on its own drive. Also I have put the 4K and HD content in the same library to allow version grouping. TV Shows are set up to do automatic version grouping. Movies I am still doing manually as I have not managed to get the plugin working yet. Problem: I have noticed that whether its a Movie or TV show when there are two versions grouped together and you add it to a collection, it only seems to add one of the versions to the collection. Therefore sometimes when you search for a movie and open it, it may show the version not added to the collection. I know its the different version as the covers are different on both. Changing the version in the drop down does not change this. I have taken a video to best show what I mean. I can manually resolve this by splitting the versions and adding both to collections, then merging again. This is easy to do for Movies but is time consuming and easy to miss one. For TV shows you need to disable Automatic Show Merging, add to collections, then enable it again. This is also very time consuming. Does anyone have any advice on a better way to do this? Is the problem the way I've set it up, or is this perhaps something that could be addressed in a future version? Emby Versions and Collections.mp4

I know there is an easy way to accomplish this but I do not seem to have the searching skills to find it so any help would be much appreciated. I want to select a number of movies and add them all to a collection all at once. I can select a group of movies but if I choose add to collection it only adds one of the movies. What am I missing?

Hi, As the title suggests I can't seem to get the Collections to automatically populate. If I've understood correctly, the AutoBoxSet plugin is now a built in feature so Collections should automatically generate but nothing. I've tried a Metadata refresh and a Library Scan but still empty. Does anybody know how to resolve this? Thanks in advance

Since upgrading to Emby 4.6.2.0, I noticed a few of my movie collections getting duplicated. It seems to be related to the presence of the Ampersand character in the set name. (Note: This is on an ASUSTOR AS-5304T NAS). Here's the example of "Harold & Kumar Collection": I've attempted to delete one or the other collection. But the duplication keeps coming back. In the "nfo" of each movie, I see the following line: <set>Harold &amp; Kumar Collection</set> I've deleted both collections and changed the set in the "nfo" to: <set>Harold and Kumar Collection</set> Well, then (after a metadata scan) it shows 3 collections: And in the "nfo", I now see 2 set tags: <set tmdbcolid="30663"> <name>Harold &amp; Kumar Collection</name> </set> <set tmdbcolid="30663"> <name>Harold and Kumar Collection</name> </set> At this point, I am running out of workaround strategies. Hence my cry for help. Thank you so much for your assistance! Jeff

I have just started using the Emby apps installed both on the Chromecast with Google TV and 4K Fire Sticks and am loving not having to cast from my iPad anymore! However, I'm still trying to figure the best way to organize all my various content. Upon reading through the forums about collections within collections and how it seems like that may never happen (no idea WHY that would be so hard....), I found some other users that were assigning Playlists to Collections as an alternative and have done that a LOT. Unfortunately, when I browse the Collections and pull up a Playlist --- the playlist has no content -- there is nothing there to select/play. If I go directly to the Playlists tab to open the playlist it works just fine. This totally defeats the point of using the playlists as sub-collections and, thus, puts me back at square one. Is this expected behavior? Is there any chance it would ever be fixed? Thanks!

Moin, I only noticed it now, so it may have been like this before. Collections" can no longer be displayed in the server. They ALL have no content. Is this only the case with me? Version 4.6.0.30

Is there a way of preventing my users from adding / removing items to / from a collection? I could not find any option or answer is this forum. Thanks!

Hi Emby community. Hope you're all well. On my Emby it is very slow to resume video if it resumes at all. Is this a common issue? On all the platforms I use Emby on, it either stalls when I try to scrub through the video (like say to the halfway mark) or just starts it back at the beginning. Any thoughts on this? Also, is it possible to adjust the display of the files in my Colletions on the android box to get rid of the Netflix like side scrolling and just have a thumb wall? All the best and Merry Christmas!

Hi, It would be helpful if you add collections to search results. If you have a few hundred collections, it become a chore to find what you are looking for by sorting through them manually. The same argument could be made for Genres, specially with genre cleaner plugin and Emby's ability to handle custom genres. Optional: If polluting the results is an issue then perhaps a search syntax could be added that you can type in the search box to make the results more specific. example; collections: search-query (only returns the results from collection) genres: search-query (only returns the results from genres) custom-media-library: search-query (only return the results from that specific library) Thanks,

I'm not sure how much the screenshot helps, but for some reason, the system automatically creates a 'collection' for these 2 movies even though they are not technically related other than the fact that they have the same name in the title: 1) Enter the Ninja 2) Revenge of the Ninja Don't judge me for my bad taste in cheesy 80's ninja movies I keep deleting the collection, only to have it show up again the next day. Any idea what's happening here? server_log.txt

For some of my movies I have both an 1080p and a 4k Version saved into the same folder. Emby groups the files together properly and allows me to pick the version I want to watch. It seems that there are a few movies that just refuse to be added into a Collection when I do this. My John Wick movies show in a collection and have both 4K and HD in the same file. As will my Pacific Rim Movies. My Matrix Movies, will not go into a collection (even if I try to add them manually), The Incredibles will also not allow me to add them to a collection. I use the same file name structure for all of my movies.

Is it possible to generate a Collection in Emby by pulling from Trakt, using either one or both of 'collected' or 'watched' status in Trakt? Alternatively, to allow marking 'collected' or 'watched' as Favorites. I can see how to do it manually: 1. Pull Sync from Trakt, 2. Filter Playstate Played, 3. Manually mark each series as Favorite or add to a Collection. But am not sure if there is an auto-generate method to do this. The logic is: When moving to a new server with new content it can be handy for each user to mark the TV shows they like. Kind regards

Hallo Zusammen, kann man irgendwie bestimmte Filmkollektionen ausblenden lassen in emby? hab jetzt z,b eine Kollektion Disney und in Ihr sind sämtliche anderen Filmkollektionen wie Toy Story, Cars etc. hinterlegt. Jedoch werden mir die Kollektionen auch nochmals in der Filmübersicht angezeigt. Bsp. Kinderfilme Cars Collection, Disney Collection,Peter Pan, Frozen, Toy Story Collection Disney > Cars Collection, Toy Story Collection gewollt wäre das nur in der Disney Kollektion die dort hinterlegten Kollektionen angezeigt werden. Kinderfilme Disney Collection, Peter Pan. Frozen Disney > Cars Collection, Toy Story Colection