4.8.0.5 Some Collections are side scrolling

[jiggity 35]

Hi, 

After updating i am noticing some collections are now locked to a side scrolling display

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Are these from a Mixed Content Library?

But sound like this topic.

 

[jiggity 35]

Just now, Happy2Play said:

Are these from a Mixed Content Library?

But sound like this topic.

 

No, as you can see in the screen shot it is just shows

[Happy2Play 9780]

That does not mean much as you only have Shows in the Collection and If you add a Movie that would change.

What is the library content type those items came from?  

[jiggity 35]

1 minute ago, Happy2Play said:

That does not mean much as you only have Shows in the Collection and If you add a Movie that would change.

What is the library content type those items came from?  

Huh?!

If I add other things it would show other things, is that what you are saying?
Shows come from TV.  Does Emby list as Shows if they come from another library

[Happy2Play 9780]

Have yet to make a scroll collection for Shows though.  I did reproduce with Movies in other topic.  Still testing trying to reproduce in 4.8.5.0.

1 minute ago, jiggity said:

Does Emby list as Shows if they come from another library

Collection items can come from any library.

[jiggity 35]

13 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Collection items can come from any library.

That is not what you asked.

You asked "What is the library content type those items came from?"
I responded "Shows come from TV.  Does Emby list as Shows if they come from another library"

You said "That does not mean much as you only have Shows in the Collection and If you add a Movie that would change"

I told you "If I add other things it would show other things"
 

Obviously collections can hold any content type.
What is your point here?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Talking is circle with no true answer.  Collections item come from where or what every library content type you add them from.

But still unable to reproduce your issue in 4.8.5.0 so either something changed and you have delete and recreate the collection or there is a specific variable to the setup that I do not know how to reproduce.  I can reproduce on Movies in Beta but not TV.

So it will come back to how do we reproduce this issue?

[Happy2Play 9780]

@Lukeis there some legacy setting that would cause scroller in Collections (does not appear to be display or resolution).  As I have only found one library so far to cause it for Movies on one server but not another with the exact same media and library content type.  Unable to reproduce at all for Shows.

Will try to compare api library configs on these libraries per server.

Edited April 23, 2024 by Happy2Play

[rexerm 36]

Not sure if this is jiggity's case, but one thing that causes unwanted horizontal scrolling (though it is all unwanted to me) while showing only one media type is mixing Movies with Seasons (not entire Shows). Though, of course, the Seasons do no show after this update, either:

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, the seasons not showing is resolved for the next release. Thanks.

[jiggity 35]

On 24/04/2024 at 22:30, Luke said:

Hi, the seasons not showing is resolved for the next release. Thanks.

@Luke
4.8.6 updated
Collections still side scrolling

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, jiggity said:

@Luke
4.8.6 updated
Collections still side scrolling

Is that an existing Collection or New Collection?

[jiggity 35]

4 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Is that an existing Collection or New Collection?

Existing

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, jiggity said:

Existing

Can you test New?  But will guess existing may be broken requiring recreation, but just a guess as the view is already written.

But still don't know for sure how to make one that scrolls and one that does not/

[jiggity 35]

I can't do much with my library as the discogs plug is back to being broken and it is taking 10+ hours to do a library scan

So until that is fixed, no

Or until the way music files are ingested is overhauled, no

Edited May 6, 2024 by jiggity

[Luke 42077]

40 minutes ago, jiggity said:

@Luke
4.8.6 updated
Collections still side scrolling

In cases of collections containing multiple media types, that is currently by design. Can you please show us an example of a collection that is side scrolling? What's in it?

[jiggity 35]

8 minutes ago, Luke said:

In cases of collections containing multiple media types, that is currently by design. Can you please show us an example of a collection that is side scrolling? What's in it?

Shows and movies don't split into side scrolling, only shows and seasons, or Movies and episodes.  This is a poor UI/UX design


 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Mixing Shows and Movies does not create scroller but adding Seasons does.  So I guess it comes down to specifics as it is dependent on what you are putting in a Collection.

Movies and Shows no scroller

anything else cause scrollers.

 

But yes previously I could make this happen on Movies but not now.

[jiggity 35]

26 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

I guess it comes down to specifics as it is dependent on what you are putting in a Collection.

It shouldn't!
Collections are supposed to be content agnostic, and there is no design reason for them to be horizontal scrolling for any platform.

[rexerm 36]

29 minutes ago, jiggity said:

It shouldn't!
Collections are supposed to be content agnostic, and there is no design reason for them to be horizontal scrolling for any platform.

Welcome to the club. Many of us are quite unhappy with this sudden design change.  At best, we've just gotten a vague "more options to control this are possible for future updates" response.  The Android TV client did it right: while it defaults to this new view, it also has an "All Items" button to enable to old view.

Edited May 6, 2024 by rexerm
typo

[Happy2Play 9780]

4 minutes ago, rexerm said:

The Android TV client did it right: while it defaults to this new view, it also has an "All Items" button to enable to old view.

And an issue across the board when one client does its own thing.  But not a TV app user so which client is defective?

[rexerm 36]

2 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

And an issue across the board when one client does its own thing.  But not a TV app user so which client is defective?

Probably the one that has you needlessly scrolling horizontally when webpages essentially have unlimited vertical space. 

[MBSki 1114]

33 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

And an issue across the board when one client does its own thing.  But not a TV app user so which client is defective?

I think the answer is obvious. It's the app managed by the dev who continues to ignore users.

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 minute ago, MBSki said:

I think the answer is obvious. It's the app managed by the dev who continues to ignore users.

Actually, this has been an issue for years where one app does one thing and the others do not.  So, everyone wants to compare Android to everything else.  There is no universal dev standpoint across all platforms just similarities.   So, if the time was taken to add to one then why not all?