Folders View - Behaviour Change

[DarkStar1977 92]

Hi Emby Team,

I would like to request a behaviour change in "Folders view" for libraries.

Today when you create a library you add 1 or more folders to this library:

If there's only 1 folder added to the library, in this case the folder "COMICS", the behaviour is what is expected, that the library display on folders view the content of the folder that contains the library:

But if there are more than one folder setup on the library:

Then what is presented are the folders that compose the library, not it's contents:

This happens in all emby libraries.

My view is this at least must be configurable (Folders View: Show Parent folder (Y/N)

I understand that what is expected is to see the contents of the folders that compose the library not the parent folder itself (What would happen if what's added to library is the root folder of an external drive ????)

Can this be changed ?

Thanks

 

Edited April 1 by DarkStar1977

[unisoft 325]

You add each sub-folder instead of the parent only.....

[DarkStar1977 92]

8 minutes ago, unisoft said:

You add each sub-folder instead of the parent only.....

So you're telling me than to avoid this behaviour, for my movies collection I have to add 3426 + 4148 folders one by one ?

Do you see that your proposal does not scale, right ?

And I really doubt emby library support adding this number of folders ...

Next, please.

 

Edited April 1 by DarkStar1977

[unisoft 325]

11 minutes ago, DarkStar1977 said:

So you're telling me than to avoid this behaviour, for my movies collection I have to add 3426 + 4148 folders one by one ?

Do you see that your proposal does not scale, right ?

Next, please.

 

Ah, I have my folders by GENRE so not as many. My movies are in folders from the main GENRE.

e.g. /Media/Movies/Action,       /Media/Movies/Adventure,       /Media/Movies/Animation

The same for my Music Videos library too. All works fine. I have it this why so I can prevent some users from seeing some folders using the inbuilt access permissions under USERS on the Emby server side.

Not against your change, but it could start messing up everyone else's too.

 

I think you can do what you want by using AGGREGATION setting - I use it to combine two different folders into one. You may have one folder on one share and same name on another share. For example, I might have COMEDY on one share and COMEDY on another but they look seamless in Emby under the one folder of Comedy. If you are using the old XML file metadata, you just have to ensure the common artwork (e.g. backdrop.jpg/logo.png/cleart.png/banner.jpg) and XML files for series.xml etc are in both the locations. I actually use this.

Edited April 1 by unisoft

[DarkStar1977 92]

38 minutes ago, unisoft said:

Ah, I have my folders by GENRE so not as many. My movies are in folders from the main GENRE.

e.g. /Media/Movies/Action,       /Media/Movies/Adventure,       /Media/Movies/Animation

The same for my Music Videos library too. All works fine. I have it this why so I can prevent some users from seeing some folders using the inbuilt access permissions under USERS on the Emby server side.

Not against your change, but it could start messing up everyone else's too.

 

I think you can do what you want by using AGGREGATION setting - I use it to combine two different folders into one. You may have one folder on one share and same name on another share. For example, I might have COMEDY on one share and COMEDY on another but they look seamless in Emby under the one folder of Comedy. If you are using the old XML file metadata, you just have to ensure the common artwork (e.g. backdrop.jpg/logo.png/cleart.png/banner.jpg) and XML files for series.xml etc are in both the locations. I actually use this.

If you read my request you will se that I'm asking this to be configurable to not mess anything other users can have already.

Regarding "AGREGATION" is not applicable on my evirnoment as is built over different WD NAS and the access to play with the filesystem is limited and complicated.

Edited April 1 by DarkStar1977

[Luke 39780]

Hi, yes I think an option makes sense. Thanks.