at least one collection missing without plugin

[EatPrilosec 22]

Now that the automatic collection plugin has been merged into Emby I noticed that it has failed to auto-create at least one collection, The Cornetto Trilogy:

https://thetvdb.com/lists/three-flavours-cornetto-trilogy

https://www.themoviedb.org/list/68

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by NErdgOd56

[GrimReaper 4740]

That ain't a Collection but a List, neither of those movies belong to any Movie Set so TMDB API won't return any <set> info for them, i.e. that info cannot be scraped. You can manually create that Collection if inclined so. 

Edit: Some read here:

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by GrimReaper76
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[EatPrilosec 22]

before, with the plugin, it fetched metadata and fanart for it, without manually creating a collection. to me, the user, thats a regression of the feature. did the plugin use a different service? i guess ill have to go dig up code and see if i can restore the functionality i want because the plugin in the repo seems to be a stub now

[GrimReaper 4740]

AFAIK Lists were never supported even in plugin (I might as well be wrong), it is however possible that that Collection DID actually exist at some point and was removed at a later stage due to policies change; I cannot, however, see that automatic scraping would ever be feasible unless some sort of provision for manually selecting it is introduced: as same movie can be a part of (theoretically) countless Lists, you would end up with just as many Collections created? 

[rbjtech 5284]

3 hours ago, GrimReaper76 said:

AFAIK Lists were never supported even in plugin (I might as well be wrong), it is however possible that that Collection DID actually exist at some point and was removed at a later stage due to policies change; I cannot, however, see that automatic scraping would ever be feasible unless some sort of provision for manually selecting it is introduced: as same movie can be a part of (theoretically) countless Lists, you would end up with just as many Collections created? 

Exactly this.  TMDB no longer allow 'Collections' on groups of films that are not directly related to each other.  ie Jaws 1, 2 & 3

The 'Cornetto Trilogy' (ie Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the Worlds End) are not related - thus they are not in TMDB as a 'Collection'.

[Luke 42079]

10 hours ago, NErdgOd56 said:

before, with the plugin, it fetched metadata and fanart for it, without manually creating a collection. to me, the user, thats a regression of the feature. did the plugin use a different service? i guess ill have to go dig up code and see if i can restore the functionality i want because the plugin in the repo seems to be a stub now

Hi, again as the others said, that is a list on moviedb, not a collection. It would have not been imported with the previous design either.

Does this answer your questions?

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Note that it very possibly was a collection on TMDB in the past.  If you ran a library scan with the plugin installed when TMDB had such a collection it would have been created.  The plugin wouldn't have deleted the collection when TMDB later removed that entry but someone starting from scratch wouldn't have that same collection recreated.

[EatPrilosec 22]

On 8/3/2021 at 7:09 PM, Deathsquirrel said:

Note that it very possibly was a collection on TMDB in the past.  If you ran a library scan with the plugin installed when TMDB had such a collection it would have been created.  The plugin wouldn't have deleted the collection when TMDB later removed that entry but someone starting from scratch wouldn't have that same collection recreated.

this is most likely what happened, i just specifically remember it making one and assumed it was the plugin being merged, causing it not to appear anymore.

it also seems like a lot of my collections are missing "poster" art and instead just make a 4-way thumbnail of the movies inside the collection. but i can fix that by hand, i like fanart more than the official posters anyway

[Carlo 4561]

Check your collection library settings to see what meta-data providers are setup to pull from.

[EatPrilosec 22]

7 minutes ago, cayars said:

Check your collection library settings to see what meta-data providers are setup to pull from.

good idea, i thought they used the same settings as the movie library. but, they all seem to be on

 

[EatPrilosec 22]

oh, maybe i should put fanart at the top, eh?

 

[EatPrilosec 22]

how does one invoke a refresh of the metadata of the collection library, it doesnt appear in the three-dot menu like the other libraries?

[Carlo 4561]

They look fine.

Try selecting a few of the posters using multi-select and then Refresh Metadata with image replacement.

Does that update the posters?

[EatPrilosec 22]

1 minute ago, cayars said:

They look fine.

its the "Dynamic image provider" one i didnt like; i disabled it.

1 minute ago, cayars said:

Try selecting a few of the posters using multi-select and then Refresh Metadata with image replacement.

Does that update the posters?

yes, this works thank you

[EatPrilosec 22]

Much nicer now, thanks again @cayars

 

[Carlo 4561]

Glad you got it working!