Collections not showing up

[BATTLE DONKEY 98]

Lol my bad, I did indeed reread it before I posted and still didn't see it, I've got an ear infection at the moment and I'll blame it on that lol

 

Not sure why it wouldn't show up. Let me give u the Microsoft solution, have u tried restarting MBClassic?

[NJ RadioGuy 2]

Repeatedly. MB-Classic, MB Server 3 and the whole PC. Probably a dozen or so reboots over the last couple of days as I install software and updates.

[BATTLE DONKEY 98]

From your web browser click on the user icon in the top right corner, then click my preferences, and tick the box "display a collection view to show movie collections"

 

From here you can also select if you want to group movies into collections when in the movie folder view down near the bottom and also which, if any channels you want displayed along that bottom row of the ehs. Ex. Would be if you want trailers to have its own category.

 

Hope that helps

Edited August 13, 2014 by BATTLE DONKEY

[NJ RadioGuy 2]

Hi all,

After a full HTPC rebuild I'm in the process of putting out the last few fires in my MB-C installation. When I launch MB-C I have items at the bottom for MOVIES, TV and HOME VIDEO. An option for "Collections" is not available. However, within Metadata Manager from the Web interface there is an option for collections.

 

I have changed the sort name to 1TV, 2Movies, 3Collections and 4Home-Video but no joy. In Preferences, Display, I have a check mark beside "display a collections view to show movie collections."

 

I have no option to create collections whatsoever, on any screen that I can find. Any idea what's going on?

 

Thanks in advance.

[NJ RadioGuy 2]

If you re-read my original post you'll see that I already did that

 

In Preferences, Display, I have a check mark beside "display a collections view to show movie collections."

[moviefan 184]

Are your collections created by the auto collection feature or manually organized by you into folders?  I use the latter method and I am pretty sure it was said that this does not work in MBC.

[NJ RadioGuy 2]

I have no collections any more. They were lost when I re-installed clean. I don't even have the option anywhere (that I can see, at least) to even create a collection.

 

I have now found another problem that I can't make go away. After 10 minutes of inactivity, a screensaver of generic pictures is put up on screen, despite it being turned off in Configuration/General (Screen Saver box un-ticked). I don't recognize the pictures, they are not mine and I have no personal photos on this PC.

[Luke 37060]

that sounds like the generic WMC screensaver. Also, you do have options to create collections. In the web client go to

 

Movies -> Collections -> New

 

Or

 

Movies -> Movie list -> Click the checkbox to open the selection tool -> add to collection

[NJ RadioGuy 2]

How do I get rid of the WMC screen saver?

 

OK, i created a collection (I thought I could do it via the Metadata Manager in the Collections setting, but I was wrong). Now how do I change the "default image provider" in "browse Online Images" so it actually goes out and fetches artwork for the primary and thumbnail images, etc, for everything in the collection? All I see now is a silly film frame placeholder. I would also like to get some quality art for the EHS home screen for movies, TV shows, etc. Yes, I know, I can manually add my own artwork, but I'd rather have something good looking automatically.

 

Likewise, all my 400+ titles have missing artwork, despite having a million jpegs/etc in their respective folders.

Edited August 14, 2014 by NJ RadioGuy

[moviefan 184]

How do I get rid of the WMC screen saver?

 

 

WMC ->> Settings -> Pictures -> Slide Show ScreenSaver -> UnCheck

 

[ebr 14910]

Gonna move this over to the server forum as this all appears to be server configuration stuff.

 

NJ - you do have the option to download metadata from the internet turned on, don't you?