different library images for users

[weiiihaooo 2]

There are two folders to save movies. one is public to all users and the other is private.

the primary image of the library is generated by Emby from all movies and public to users. 

hope the library image can be generated by user's access

[seanbuff 1146]

Why don't you just change the library image to something custom?

[Happy2Play 9441]

I can see this being extremely problematic depending on how many users you have and restrictions for those users.  I don't see it being realistic for server to get say 10 images for 10 users per library.

I would say use the most restricted users setting to generate dynamic images.

[weiiihaooo 2]

On 9/1/2022 at 7:34 AM, seanbuff said:

Why don't you just change the library image to something custom?

this is the solution I'm using. just want a better way to do this

[Luke 40074]

2 minutes ago, weiiihaooo said:

this is the solution I'm using. just want a better way to do this

You can already do this in the web interface. You just can't do it uniquely for every single user.

[weiiihaooo 2]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

You can already do this in the web interface. You just can't do it uniquely for every single user.

Is there any way to disable thumbnail image creating. the default folder is from font, looks great

[Happy2Play 9441]

Currently there is no way to disable dynamic images that I am aware of.

[MoviezMcGee 1]

Personally, I would like to see a feature like this. I like the idea of the library interface reflecting that user's playlists. It makes it more personal and dynamic. If there are concerns about the performance of this feature, why not add it anyways and include a toggle for the server admin to enable it, or keep the old behavior? This way, the user can decide? And to mitigate performance issues, Emby could have a default placeholder graphic, and then the playlist library thumbnails could be generated on a scheduled task instead of on the fly. In my mind, this feels like a good compromise. It doesn't even take that much processing power to generate thumbnails anyways, in my experience. We could also try something like this to make it more responsive:

1. Isolate the playlist library thumbnail by user
2. Update the playlist library thumbnail per user, perhaps on a scheduled task and display a placeholder image if the playlist is empty.
3. If a user deletes all their playlists, don't show the playlist library on the home screen, as there is not going to be any possible thumbnail and you also cannot create a new playlist from here anyway. It would just be empty.