Duplicate collection and how to merge them

[Michudy 1]

Hi, I let to mannage my collections automatically, and using tiny mediamanager just for tags. But sometimes my collections split and one film is in one collections ant two sequels of that film are in separate collectioons with same name and properties. is there a way to merge them. If I delete they are both delete.

 

[visproduction 316]

1. Rename one collection so you can tell the difference.
2. Open up two browser windows of both collections.
3. On the collection with less movies, click on the lower right three dots of any movie not in the other collection.
4. When all movies have been copied over, click on the three dots in the collection you want to delete and choose delete.  Movies are not deleted from the overall dbase with this choice.
5. Rename the collection back to whatever name your prefer, if needed.
6. Change 'Sort by' entry in metadata for the updated collection, if you want the collection page to sort differently, if needed.

[Luke 42083]

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is there a way to merge them. If I delete they are both delete.

Hi, that's odd. What version of the server?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

8 hours ago, Michudy said:

If I delete they are both delete.

If that happens and you still have the problem how are you recreating those collections? If you are using the "automatic" collection creating plugin (or if such is incorporated into the server by now) you might want to turn it off. I never use it as it created way too many junk collections for me.

However if you really just want to merge the collections then all you need to do is choose one as "destination" and use the other as "source" and then go into "source" and select all the movies/shows in it and then use the three dot menu at the top of the screen and choose "add to collection" then choose "destination" as where the movies to go.
That will result in all the movies being in destination and, if there were overlap earlier, the already existing movies will not be added. That is "add to collection" does not create duplicate entries.

I also wonder what happens if you rename one of the collections involved. Does that rename both?

Emby does need to work on the collection feature but, mostly for me, it works nearly perfectly just the way it is.

[visproduction 316]

16 hours ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

However if you really just want to merge the collections then all you need to do is choose one as "destination" and use the other as "source" and then go into "source" and select all the movies/shows in it and then use the three dot menu at the top of the screen and choose "add to collection" then choose "destination" as where the movies to go...

Wow, this is a great shortcut and much easier to use for moving multiple movies / shows into a collection.  Thanks Gilgamesh!

[Michudy 1]

18 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, that's odd. What version of the server?

The version is Version 4.8.0.47 beta.. and I using latest version of Tiny Media Manager just for tags, set to do not change anyhow the nfo file, just add tag information (But it loads collections as well even if i dont want to, so thats maybe a problem) But your solution helps, I rename one collections add the missing movie to another and then delete one. Seems working. Thanks you a lot!

 

Sorry for the bad english I am from Czechia.

[GrimReaper 4746]

6 minutes ago, Michudy said:

and I using latest version of Tiny Media Manager just for tags, set to do not change anyhow the nfo file

Which setting would that be? 

[Michudy 1]

5 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Which setting would that be? 

Settings in screenshot.. and I do not change the nfo directly , I copy the info file to another folder (not the primary one) that change it in tiny media manager and copied back to emby.. 

[GrimReaper 4746]

You misunderstood what that setting does - it has nothing to do with NFO writing/changing or not - it just preserves (or not) existing data upon rescraping. TMM will rewrite your NFO each time, it only depends whether it'll be a 'clean' NFO or not (with or without embedding unknown/unsupported data from existing NFO files). 

[Michudy 1]

1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

You misunderstood what that setting does - it has nothing to do with NFO writing/changing or not - it just preserves (or not) existing data upon rescraping. TMM will rewrite your NFO each time, it only depends whether it'll be a 'clean' NFO or not (with or without embedding unknown/unsupported data from existing NFO files). 

So the "do not overrerite existing data" will change the data?.. i thought that keep everything in nfo file as it is from Emby and just add the "Tags" line.

[GrimReaper 4746]

32 minutes ago, Michudy said:

So the "do not overrerite existing data" will change the data?

That depends on your workflow and your settings ("existing data" referes to data that TMM "knows", i.e. has in its db). 

34 minutes ago, Michudy said:

i thought that keep everything in nfo file as it is from Emby and just add the "Tags" line.

Nope, it doesn't work like that. If you "Read NFO data" for selected movies or TV shows from existing Emby-created NFO, TMM will import most of those and then write them back upon scraping and subsequent NFO writing. But it will not just add any tags to existing formatted NFO and keep it as it was. 

[Michudy 1]

1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

That depends on your workflow and your settings ("existing data" referes to data that TMM "knows", i.e. has in its db). 

Nope, it doesn't work like that. If you "Read NFO data" for selected movies or TV shows from existing Emby-created NFO, TMM will import most of those and then write them back upon scraping and subsequent NFO writing. But it will not just add any tags to existing formatted NFO and keep it as it was. 

Can you give me advice, how to set the tinymedia manager to do not change what already Emby does? And I do not change the entire library, just get the nfo directly , I copy the info file to another folder (not the primary one) that change it in tiny media manager and copied back to emby.. 

[GrimReaper 4746]

Not sure why would you want Emby downloading your metadata since you're already using TMM (that uses all the same providers that Emby does plus a lot more), but if you're keen to keeping that, the only thing I can think of is to Create offline movies (basically media stubs) - menu underneath Update source(s) button on the main toolbar - in a separate location out of your media collection, scrape whatever data you want and afterwards manually copy desired tags to Emby-written NFO within your media collection.