Duplicate Collections based on unique id instead of path

[foleys 6]

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.

 

[Luke 37004]

Hi, what if it's a home video?

[Happy2Play 8241]

More discussion on this here.

 

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/77907-make-collections-path-independent

[foleys 6]

Oops, It appears I did not search well enough to find this question already existed. Sorry.