Avoid multiple instances of a file to have in Movies and TV Shows?

[Ronstang 294]

I'm trying to figure out how to do this.  There are some TV shows that also have feature length movies that are not considered episodes of the show itself and some box sets contain these movies.  I like to create a folder in the TV Show folder called "Feature Films" so that people perusing the TV shows see the available extra content since they may not know it exists or better yet that I have it but that means having a copy of the movie in two locations....one in the "Feature Films" folder under TV Shows and one in a folder for my movie library.  I really don't need two instances but I don't see any other way because I don't want to add a bunch of "feature film" folder locations to my movie library.

Is there any way to have them show up in both places with only one file location on my system?

[roaku 842]

Sounds like you want the strm feature:

https://emby.media/support/articles/Strm-Files.html

I use it to point to local file paths with no issues.

Edited September 23, 2023 by roaku

[Ronstang 294]

Thanks, that is awesome.  Learn something every day....if your looking!

[Ronstang 294]

This worked like a champ and will definitely make life more easy as I want all films related to or spun from a TV series available from not only the movie library but from the home screen for the  TV series itself since many may not know of all the related content.  For instance I have the original Batman (1966) TV series on Blu-Ray and I have the original full length movie but I also have all Batman movies since from 1992 until present and I want all of them available from within the series home screen since they are related even if they didn't come from the series directly like the first movie.  This way someone in the mood for the series may become in the mood for one of the movies and its right there without searching.

Thanks again roaku!

Edited September 23, 2023 by Ronstang

[Ronstang 294]

There is a caveat, well 2 but the first is more important.

First, this works but creates an issue of multiple servers that share the same store of files.  My beta and stable servers both use the same location for "completed" items that I know are ready for prime time and this includes some of my TV shows.  The problem with a STRM file here is it only works on one server as the file location is local on one and a network location on the other.  I fixed it so it is correct on my stable server because that is the server I let others connect to but that leaves me without the ability to use it on my beta server.  Is there there a solution to this issue?

Second, since it's under TV shows movies show up as specials.....not the end of the world but it would be awesome to have a way to place a movies folder within the series that showed the posters and the info screens of the movies.  If this is possible some day that would be a huge add on for some of us but if not this works for the purpose I need it to.

Thanks

[Luke 42080]

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Second, since it's under TV shows movies show up as specials.....not the end of the world but it would be awesome to have a way to place a movies folder within the series that showed the posters and the info screens of the movies.  If this is possible some day that would be a huge add on for some of us but if not this works for the purpose I need it to.

Thanks

Currently, no, you'll have to find a way to make the path work for both. I think supporting relative paths in strm files would be a good idea and could help with that.