crusher11 854 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 It would be really good to be able to compile, within Emby, a database of theme music, and apply themes by ID or whatever to each film/TV series/etc. I have dozens of Laurel & Hardy shorts. All of them use the same Laurel & Hardy theme music. Which means there are dozens of copies of that music taking up space on my server. I also have several wrestling "best of" compilations for various wrestlers, using their entrance themes. Again, I have several copies of some themes on my server. It would be better to be able to simply assign these, from one place, thus only having one copy. An additional benefit of this could be that if you're in a collection with a given theme, and then select a film that also has that theme, it could simply continue playing rather than starting over as it currently does. As an example, my collection of Laurel & Hardy shorts also has the Laurel & Hardy music, but every time I select a film from within the collection the theme starts over from the beginning. Potentially, films could even be assigned multiple themes, and if one of those themes is currently playing it could continue playing that theme, thus allowing films to continue playing the theme of multiple collections in which they reside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Well you can already do multiple themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 8, 2019 Author Share Posted September 8, 2019 That's the least relevant part of my suggestion, and it couldn't work the way I was talking about anyway. What does it currently do, pick one at random or play them in sequence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 I believe it's in sequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 8, 2019 Author Share Posted September 8, 2019 Right, which isn't the sort of thing I'm talking about at all. And I'd still need 20+ copies of the Laurel & Hardy theme, seven or eight copies of AJ Styles' entrance music, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14923 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 If these items are within a hierarchy, then theme music is inherited from parents. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funwithmedia 352 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 If these items are within a hierarchy, then theme music is inherited from parents. I did not know that -- thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 If these items are within a hierarchy, then theme music is inherited from parents. What counts as a hierarchy? I know I can give a theme to a TV show and it'll play for all seasons, etc but what about my example of the Laurel & Hardy set? This also wouldn't help the situation with WWE wrestler best-of sets. I have, for example, six "Best of AJ Styles" DVDs, and six "Best of Kevin Steen" DVDs. I would very much rather not have six copies of "I Am" and six copies of "Unsettling Differences" sitting on my server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 The hierarchy is folder based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 So it wouldn't help with the collections thing anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Currently, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 Which is why it would make sense to be able to simply refer everything in the collection back to the one theme file. For things outside collections, too, as I mentioned above with the wrestling examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 What if a movie is part of mulitple collections, and they all have themes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 I'm not sure you're understanding my proposal. Theme music audio files would be stored in a "themes" folder. There would be database entries for them. When editing an item's metadata (be it a film, a TV show, a season, an episode, whatever), you can then select a theme for it. Or potentially multiple themes. Then, when a film is selected for example, the system runs through the themes associated with it. If one of them is currently playing, it keeps playing. If not, it picks the first theme, or a random theme, and plays that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Well I do think it would be neat to be able to designate any audio file in your library as a theme for any given item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 Right, that's basically what I'm after. My six AJ Styles DVDs, for example, will all have the same theme but won't be in a collection, so only having to have that file on the server once would be a huge space-saver (in as much as I have lots of wrestlers for whom this is the case). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Actually, a further question re: hierarchies. With movies I can obviously have letter folders, ie "Films/A/Alien, Films/A/Avatar" etc. How does this work? Could I have more than one "organising" folder, and do they count towards hierarchies? ie could I have "A/AJ Styles/Best of AJ Styles in TNA", "A/AJ Styles/Best of AJ Styles in ROH", etc and put a "theme.mp3" in "A/AJ Styles", which would then play for all films inside the AJ Styles folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 In theory yes but we haven't tested that ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Just tried it, and the answer is no. No theme plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 Bump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 It's possible for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 854 Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 So you've said. Just figured I'd re-raise it in the hope it gets some traction with other users which might push things along a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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