Duplicate Emby thumbnail behaviour change.

[general_xid 0]

This could be a feature already, if so guide me.

I have keep images in media folder on if this is the cause please tell.
In Emby if have a show with multiple seasons this is what the folder structure looks like:

• Folder
  • season 1
    • S01E01.mkv
    • S01E01-thumb.jpg
  • season 2
  • fanart.jpg
  • poster.jpg
  • landscape.jpg
  • season01-poster.jpg
  • season01-fanart.jpg
  • season01-landscape.jpg
  • clearlogo.jpg

If watching a certain episode I stop after certain minutes the show gets recorded in continue watching where the actual problem lies.

If the episode has thumb.jpg, the thumbnail, which shows in the season view of the the show it should display that but instead it shows every other image in the directory first other than that.

If the show has landscape.jpg or knows as show's thumbnail it will show that first.

So I deleted that and then it shows the season01-landscape.jpg or the season thumbnail.

So I deleted that then it showed me the season01-fanart.jpg or the season backdrop.

So I deleted that then it showed the the fanart.jpg or the show backdrop.

If i delete that then finally it shows me the thumbnail or the S01E01-thumb.jpg.

I could keep it without the seasons thumbnail, backdrop and shows thumbnail it would solve my problem but I don't wanna delete the shows backdrop. That's a deal breaker.

Can this feature be added?

EDIT:
One small note that after the metadata images get pulled it saves the images from tvdb or whatever as episodenumber-thumb.jpg which becomes the primary for the episode.

If add that image as thumbnail manually by selecting for one episode it shows that in continue watching. So the problem can be solved this way.

After doing so the image doesn't however appear in the media folder as episodenumber-landscape.jpg as it should so it might be taking extra storage.

Edited December 29, 2024 by general_xid
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[GrimReaper 3921]

10 minutes ago, general_xid said:

This could be a feature already, if so guide me.

It is not.

You can lend your support here (do read through all of it as related discussion actually starts few posts in):

 

[general_xid 0]

40 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

You can lend your support here (do read through all of it as related discussion actually starts few posts in):

I read all that.

If changing each image into -fanart.jpg is the solution i could run a batch rename and do that but not the solution i was looking for.

Wouldn't it be far simpler to change the inheriting order of images?

[GrimReaper 3921]

4 minutes ago, general_xid said:

Wouldn't it be far simpler to change the inheriting order of images?

As replied in the other topic, it might satisfy portion of the userbase - while antagonize the other part (myself included).