One folder with all files - make two libraries for music/movies?

[Utini 14]

This is a bit user specific and probably my own fault but:

I have a huge folder which has all my files inside. Basically one big download folder that contains a collection of 8 years worth of music/movies/tv-shows.

Naturally I added that folder as my library in emby but since it is pretty big and has mixed content, it gets a bit confusing.

I was hoping I could somehow make two libraries (which both access that one folder) where one library only shows music files and the other library only shows movies/tv-shows.

Is that somehow possible? Kind like "exclude folders that contain filetype .flac / .wav / .mp3".

 

[Spaceboy 2573]

AFAIK you can't have two libraries pointing at the same folder. you need to sort out that folder

[Utini 14]

5 minutes ago, Spaceboy said:

AFAIK you can't have two libraries pointing at the same folder. you need to sort out that folder

Oh crap

[Luke 42078]

This is something we'd like to be able to accommodate in future updates, but we're not quite there yet.

[Utini 14]

If anyone is looking here for a solution, this is how I do it for now:

• Torrent client is downloading everything into /Torrent/
• I then created additional folders e.g. /Torrent_Movies/, /Torrent_Linux/, /Torrent_Apps/ and so on
• Within the torrent client (Qbittorrent) I can set "Categories" and select storage folders for each category
• Then the torrent client can also automatically move all the torrents to the specific cateegory/storage folder.
• Basically I then sorted my torrents by "tracker" or other useful filters, selected a batch of them, set category
• Then all torrents get moved into the individual storage folders

In emby I now have several libaries e.g. Movies, Linux, Apps with each storage folder selected.

Additional I have "Mixed_Content" for the folder "Torrent" since everything lands in there until I manually set the category in my torrent client.

Only semi-automatic instead of fully-automatic but fine for me