foleys 6 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 It would be nice if collections, specifically the manually created variety, would be linked via a unique ID associated with the movie title, instead of the physical file system path to the movie file. My reasoning for this request is that I routinely go through my library and replace movies with a better quality version (eg: 720p to 1080p), or fix a directory structure error via a rename or a move to a different directory, etc.. So ultimately what happens is the path to the file changes. The result of this updating/renaming is that the movie losses its membership in the collection because the path to the file changed. So I have to try and remember that the movie was a part of a collection and re-add the title once emby knows about its new path. Emby already appears to track the movies in a library based on the title and/or some unique ID. I'm assuming this because I've noticed that if I add a movie to my library, watch it, and then rename the movie files, emby still knows that I played that particular movie title. It would be nice if emby used this same unique ID when creating collections. That way I can replace movie files and rename directories to my hearts content, and as long as emby still resolves the movie to the same title, it wont break the collection membership. Hopefully this make sense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37055 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Hi, what if it's a home video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8279 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 More discussion on this here. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/77907-make-collections-path-independent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foleys 6 Posted November 10, 2019 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 Oops, It appears I did not search well enough to find this question already existed. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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