Put letters back on the side of media screen

[Beav 18]

After recent updates, I noticed that the list of letters on the left side of the "Movies" screen is missing. This allowed me to jump down the alphabet to find the movies starting with the letter in question. Can we please have that feature returned?

Thank you.

[GrimReaper 4740]

Which client app? Alpha-picker hasn't been removed, but there have been some users reporting it missing in certain browsers. 

Edited March 7, 2024 by GrimReaper

[Ronstang 294]

In the app, are you sure you have the library sorted by "Title" and not something else?  The "alphabet" only shows up in the margin if you are sorted on "Title".

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

6 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Which client app? Alpha-picker hasn't been removed, but there have been some users reporting it missing in certain browsers. 

For a feature that has not been removed the alphapicker sure has problems. I have not see an alphapicker in my photo library when displaying photos for well over a year. 

But Emby does not seem to even acknowledge that there is a problem. 

Emby's support is great, if they believe you, but they often subtly believe users are lying so they do not fix or even believe many problems. It is like some problems fall outside their belief system and they just can't handle the fact that there are bugs in many of the basic operations. The problems with the alphapicker are just one example of Emby hiding their collective heads in the sand. (Yes, I know ostriches do not really hide their heads in the sand or anything else for that matter.) 

[Luke 42080]

25 minutes ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

For a feature that has not been removed the alphapicker sure has problems. I have not see an alphapicker in my photo library when displaying photos for well over a year. 

But Emby does not seem to even acknowledge that there is a problem. 

Emby's support is great, if they believe you, but they often subtly believe users are lying so they do not fix or even believe many problems. It is like some problems fall outside their belief system and they just can't handle the fact that there are bugs in many of the basic operations. The problems with the alphapicker are just one example of Emby hiding their collective heads in the sand. (Yes, I know ostriches do not really hide their heads in the sand or anything else for that matter.) 

Do photo apps typically have a-z pickers? 

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

Do photo apps typically have a-z pickers? 

As you should know, they do and all of Emby's photo displays had them up to sometime in the last cycle when they either failed or were removed. After that point no alpha picker appears in "photos" display but it does appear when viewed by "folder." However in folder view the photos do not work past about the 5-600th photos. That is when I click on the photo I get a message "photo not found" but in "photo" view the same photo does display.

Photos have been screwed up for some time and I have made virtually this same set of posts at least 5 times and NOTHING gets done. 

I guess i should be happy that photos works at all but I cannot make myself feel happy about a broken app.

[ebr 16185]

17 hours ago, Luke said:

Do photo apps typically have a-z pickers? 

Most of them have date-based pickers in my experience.

[Beav 18]

Sorry for the late response, for some reason I didn't get any notifications on this topic, and it kind went by the wayside.

 This is happening in the TCL Roku TV app. 

Yes, it is sorted by title.

It only is happening in the movies category, not in any other categories.

 

Edited May 15, 2024 by Beav

[Luke 42080]

Hi, please attach the emby server log from when the problem occurred:

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Thanks.

[ebr 16185]

13 hours ago, Beav said:

Yes, it is sorted by title.

Hi.  Are you positive?  You sure it isn't sorted by something like File Name?

[Beav 18]

How would I change this? On the TV it shows by title. Am I missing a setting on the server side?

[Luke 42080]

37 minutes ago, Beav said:

How would I change this? On the TV it shows by title. Am I missing a setting on the server side?

Hi, try clicking the short button on the right side of the screen. What does that show?

[Beav 18]

Thank you! I don't know how it was changed but the was it.