4.6 - How are Collections stored and other changes?

[frylich 5]

Hello Paul, is there a serverside setting to turn it off? Thanks

[Carlo 4330]

Hi, You can control if Collections are created or not in EACH library.

[Happy2Play 8296]

54 minutes ago, frylich said:

Hello Paul, is there a serverside setting to turn it off? Thanks

If you are referring to the Collections library via My Media, no it is a User Home Screen option.  So it has to be hidden per user.

User icon-Home Screen

Edited May 26, 2021 by Happy2Play

[frylich 5]

This box isnt checked in my libarys. So i dont know why the collections section is created. However. Thanks

8 minutes ago, cayars said:

Hi, You can control if Collections are created or not in EACH library.

 

[Carlo 4330]

Did you check EVERY library?
Did you EVER have collections/boxsets prior to 4.6?

If you don't want any of the collections you can remove/delete them.  But I'd suggest giving them a chance as they make for a great way to help organize box sets of movies.
Anyone who doesn't want Collections to show up on their home screen can turn it off, just like playlists.

[Happy2Play 8296]

13 minutes ago, frylich said:

This box isnt checked in my libarys. So i dont know why the collections section is created. However. Thanks

 

Does your movie metadata have the <set> tag?  If so Collections will be made.

[Ceten 27]

18 hours ago, Diedrich said:

Just copy them somewhere else before you delete them in case you need to reference them, use their images, or restore them.

Always take a backup first
I used the plugin to move the images and removed the old library, looks perfect now!

[frylich 5]

Hello everybody,

in the meantime I have made friends with the new automatically generated rubric of collections. Now I wonder why there are no automatically generated images in any collection. So far, this has always been the case with films and series. That is certainly an setting.

What did I miss?

Thanks in advance

[Carlo 4330]

Hi, after adjusting the setting to your liking have you done a full library scan?
That should create the collections for you.

[frylich 5]

10 minutes ago, cayars said:

Hi, after adjusting the setting to your liking have you done a full library scan?
That should create the collections for you.

Yes is did, but the collection images are missing. Any idea?

[Carlo 4330]

If you edit your Collection library what do you see for these options?

[frylich 5]

23 minutes ago, cayars said:

If you edit your Collection library what do you see for these options?

 

I thought the following would be the important setting?

Is it necessary to save the images locally?

[Carlo 4330]

That should work.

What happens now if you do a refresh missing meta-data on the movie library?

[frylich 5]

1 minute ago, cayars said:

That should work.

What happens now if you do a refresh missing meta-data on the movie library?

Already did so. Nothing changed. Also a few full libary scans and meta data scans.

[Carlo 4330]

What happens if you multi-select (top left circle on collection) a dozen collections then use the 3 dot menu top right to refresh them?
Give it a minute or two to do it's refresh.  Go back to the main menu and enter collections again.

Do you get cover art now?

[frylich 5]

7 minutes ago, cayars said:

What happens if you multi-select (top left circle on collection) a dozen collections then use the 3 dot menu top right to refresh them?
Give it a minute or two to do it's refresh.  Go back to the main menu and enter collections again.

Do you get cover art now?

Like this? There is no refresh button.

[frylich 5]

9 minutes ago, cayars said:

What happens if you multi-select (top left circle on collection) a dozen collections then use the 3 dot menu top right to refresh them?
Give it a minute or two to do it's refresh.  Go back to the main menu and enter collections again.

Do you get cover art now?

I can refresh metadata, you mean this?

[Carlo 4330]

Try that.

[frylich 5]

1 minute ago, cayars said:

Try that.

I did, nothing changed. But Im also running a full libary and metadata refresh right now, may is have to wait a few hours. I tell you then.

[Carlo 4330]

Yea, you got a busy server right now.

Let us know how you make out.

[frylich 5]

4 hours ago, cayars said:

Yea, you got a busy server right now.

Let us know how you make out.

Conclusion: Unfortunately, nothing has helped so far. Oddly enough, only the James Bond film series has achieved the desired result before all efforts. How can that be?

[Carlo 4330]

Right now the fanart website has an SSL cert issue so no images are being returned by them.
That likely means we don't have any idea if your refresh would have worked or not.

[frylich 5]

19 minutes ago, cayars said:

Right now the fanart website has an SSL cert issue so no images are being returned by them.
That likely means we don't have any idea if your refresh would have worked or not.

Solution: I have to identify every single collection by hand:

I find this very tedious and ultimately it doesn't make sense because the collections were recognized automatically. Isn't that a contradiction ?!

[Carlo 4330]

We're looking into this but right now it's impossible to test properly because of the fanart issue.

[frylich 5]

22 hours ago, cayars said:

We're looking into this but right now it's impossible to test properly because of the fanart issue.

Any updates with that fanart issue?