ACdb.tv - Automated Collections

[Dibbes 514]

On 12/11/2025 at 2:00 PM, Amything said:

To discover media outside of your library, you can add a collection, sync it to your library and then on the website you will be able to see which items you are missing.

 

I found that this does not always work flawlessly... Somehow, there is content greyed out (marked missing) that is added to Emby. I checked in this collection, but it happens basically in every collection I have added to my Emby instance.

 

On 12/11/2025 at 2:00 PM, Amything said:

I want to add trailers to collections so that if you’re missing items, you can at least watch the trailers for the ones you don’t have. The problem is there’s no clean way to serve trailers that I know of. I haven’t found any API I can tap into, so the only options are workarounds, and none of them feel right.

As long as you'd be able to disable that, or replaced by a greyed out item per collection, that would be great

[Amything 122]

On 12/12/2025 at 22:39, Dibbes said:

I found that this does not always work flawlessly... Somehow, there is content greyed out (marked missing) that is added to Emby. I checked in this collection, but it happens basically in every collection I have added to my Emby instance.

Hey, just to be clear. After syncing a collection, and checking missing on the website, there are items in the collection on Emby, but grayed out on the website? Or is it missing both grayed out and in the collection on Emby?

[hspantera 8]

hi. how to exclude library from searching on collection on the new 2.4.0.0 Acdb.tv plug in? I have 4k library and 1080p library. i just want the collection to search the 1080p folder. how can i exclude the 4k library? thanks

[Amything 122]

18 minutes ago, hspantera said:

hi. how to exclude library from searching on collection on the new 2.4.0.0 Acdb.tv plug in? I have 4k library and 1080p library. i just want the collection to search the 1080p folder. how can i exclude the 4k library? thanks

Hi, that is the next feature coming, will be around Christmas/New Year.

[hspantera 8]

Ok . Thanks.

[Dibbes 514]

13 hours ago, Amything said:

Hey, just to be clear. After syncing a collection, and checking missing on the website, there are items in the collection on Emby, but grayed out on the website? Or is it missing both grayed out and in the collection on Emby?

It's missing from both the collection and greyed out on the website. I need to investigate, but it seems this is based on the spelling of either the sort title or original title. Sometimes Emby has issues with that...
Also, there seem to be Sync Issues when the collections sort title is edited, might be another reason. Maybe over Xmas I'll have the time to look into that.

Edited December 15, 2025 by Dibbes

[Amything 122]

@DibbesIt uses the IMDB ID, as long as that is correct in the metadata it should be good.

[Dibbes 514]

6 hours ago, Amything said:

@DibbesIt uses the IMDB ID, as long as that is correct in the metadata it should be good.

No, I meant this sort title, the one from the collection itself, not the collection members

I tried modifying that, as at the moment this is a mess:

Edited December 15, 2025 by Dibbes

[Amything 122]

9 minutes ago, Dibbes said:

No, I meant this sort title, the one from the collection itself, not the collection members

Ah right, the default is for the collection to go to top when something new gets added to it.  Configure it on the site, set it to Default and it will just use the default Emby sort name or custom if you want to control it yourself.

[Dibbes 514]

33 minutes ago, Amything said:

Ah right, the default is for the collection to go to top when something new gets added to it.  Configure it on the site, set it to Default and it will just use the default Emby sort name or custom if you want to control it yourself.

Yeah, that looks way better!! Thanks!

[atropa 10]

On 12/11/2025 at 2:00 PM, Amything said:

Yes, 3 collections for free, then there is a 20 collections tier for $2 or about 2 Euro.

To discover media outside of your library, you can add a collection, sync it to your library and then on the website you will be able to see which items you are missing.

 

I want to add trailers to collections so that if you’re missing items, you can at least watch the trailers for the ones you don’t have. The problem is there’s no clean way to serve trailers that I know of. I haven’t found any API I can tap into, so the only options are workarounds, and none of them feel right.

Hey great addon      I like this feature very much.  Is there a way to show the missing items in Emby ?  I mean, you can see the missing films not only on the website, but also in Emby as grey covers. ?

[Amything 122]

5 hours ago, atropa said:

Hey great addon      I like this feature very much.  Is there a way to show the missing items in Emby ?  I mean, you can see the missing films not only on the website, but also in Emby as grey covers. ?

Thank you! I don't think it's possible without pretty drastic work around like creating dummy media. Not something I want to be doing to be honest.

What I can do is give the option of showing Trailers in collections. That would be a pretty easy feature to add. How you acquire the trailers is on the user though. 

[hspantera 8]

Hello. Still don’t have sort by last episode date added? When I create a collection on acdb for example I want all the latest tv shows on top of list. But for example stranger things was released in 2016. But this last season in December of 2025. And if don’t have last episode date added the last season don’t show on top of latest shows. You still can’t add that feature? Thanks.

[Amything 122]

I’ve added a new feature that lets you exclude specific libraries per collection. To find it, open a collection you've added and click Edit.

19 hours ago, hspantera said:

Hello. Still don’t have sort by last episode date added? When I create a collection on acdb for example I want all the latest tv shows on top of list. But for example stranger things was released in 2016. But this last season in December of 2025. And if don’t have last episode date added the last season don’t show on top of latest shows. You still can’t add that feature? Thanks.

Hi. The plugin can only use the sorting options available in Emby without workarounds like modifying the sort names of items. I do have the option to sort by Date Added using such a workaround. Would you use it if I add the additional option to edit the sortname based on the date of the latest episodes of series? See here to understand what happens when you use this option.

[hspantera 8]

I will give an example. Strange things the series. When I add a collection with the latest tv shows realesed the last season don’t show on top of the list because the series was original realesed in 2016. What I woul like is when I create a collection of latest series the season that is realesed recently show on top of list. And not the date the it was original created. So when new episodes of series are realesed the acdb automatically puts those episodes on top of the list. That is the only thing is missing to acdb to be perfect now. Because working only with latest added dates it will miss the new seasons realease date.

[hspantera 8]

And one more thing. The acdb collections when I choose latest tv shows never shows the latest seasons. Only latest tvshows date added. That’s no good because it’s always realeasing episodes weekly and it don’t show in none of latest shows collections already created in acdb. For me latest shows is what are realeasing now. Not the date of tv show was created. The collections should show and be updated by episode realese. Not by new tv show date added. Because when I create a latest show collection I want all tvshows episodes to show. Not the date the tv show was created. Like stranger things was created in 2016 but last season it was out now and in latest tv shows collections don’t show. So I only see the complete tv show date added. Not the latest season that are being realeased..

[Amything 122]

@hspanteraDid you see my question in my last reply?

14 hours ago, Amything said:

Hi. The plugin can only use the sorting options available in Emby without workarounds like modifying the sort names of items. I do have the option to sort by Date Added using such a workaround. Would you use it if I add the additional option to edit the sortname based on the date of the latest episodes of series? See here to understand what happens when you use this option.

 

[supermood 71]

hi I tried your Plugin with the IMDb best 250 movies collection. first I loved it.

now I see that for example godfather part 1 and 2 are ONLY in that collection and not anymore in the goodfather collection.

that doesn't make any sense. 

any idea how to 

revert that for all my movies? 

prevent that from happening in the future? 

I think you should add the info in the description text to warn about it 

thanks in advance for support

[Amything 122]

3 minutes ago, supermood said:

thanks in advance for support

Hey. I don't believe that to be related to the plugin. I've not pushed any updates for a while now and there are no other reports like this. Also wouldn't make sense in terms of what the plugin does.

The setting that is adding these movies automatically to collections is an Emby setting. It's a library settings. Do you have it enabled?  

 

 

[supermood 71]

sure the setting is on. 

this is weird I just checked another one like back to the future and that movie is in both collections. strange because I'd didn't do anything with the godfather movies.

anyway it seems and I hope you're right

thanks happy day