Aspect ratio off for cover art

[gene0915 42]

I recently blew away my Debian 12 install and upgraded to Debian 13 and got Emby back on there but all my TV shows and movies are displaying a weird aspect ratio when I go into the libraries:

But if I'm at the main page, they look good:

I tried Googling and searching the forum and couldn't find my exact problem.

[GrimReaper 4739]

What is your library View (three-dot menu, next to Filter) set to?

[gene0915 42]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

What is your library View (three-dot menu, next to Filter) set to?

[Neminem 1518]

Instead of Primary switch to Thumb

[gene0915 42]

1 minute ago, Neminem said:

Instead of Primary switch to Thumb

Yeah, that does sort of fix it:

 

.... but I want the 'normal' view back.

(Taken from another post on here):

[Neminem 1518]

Guess you need to refresh metadata to get that back.

Do you see Primary image if you edit images ?

[ebr 16169]

2 hours ago, gene0915 said:

I recently blew away my Debian 12 install

Are you sure your media has posters to show? 

[gene0915 42]

5 minutes ago, Neminem said:

Do you see Primary image if you edit images ?

Yep:

[Neminem 1518]

That is blank, meaning there is none.

Click search and you should finde, if a refresh metadate on library does not work.

[gene0915 42]

5 minutes ago, ebr said:

Are you sure your media has posters to show? 

Not sure I understand.

Once I got Emby reinstalled on my fresh copy of Debian 13, I added the library folders back and kicked off a metadata refresh. These are all just .mkv files.

When I first started playing around with Linux for my server OS years ago, there was a lot of trial and error....  ..... every few days I'd hop to another distro and would wipe the drive clean and try a new one. I've done this a lot and rebuilt the library many times but I've never ran into this problem before.

 

[ebr 16169]

2 minutes ago, gene0915 said:

Not sure I understand

Are you sure you enabled proper image providers for the library to find a primary image?  If you click search on that blank primary tile, what comes up?

[gene0915 42]

4 minutes ago, Neminem said:

That is blank, meaning there is none.

Click search and you should finde, if a refresh metadate on library does not work.

Yes, that does fix it perfectly but any idea why when I did my initial library scan/metadata refresh, virtually none of them populated?

[Neminem 1518]

Logs from that would show if there was issue upstream with metadata providers.

What metadata providers have you enabled in you library settings.

[gene0915 42]

3 minutes ago, ebr said:

Are you sure you enabled proper image providers for the library to find a primary image?  If you click search on that blank primary tile, what comes up?

Oh, ok. Yes:

[Neminem 1518]

Hmm that look like you Movies and your screen shots show tv shows ?

Ohh I see now it for both TV and Movies.

Edited August 17, 2025 by Neminem

[gene0915 42]

Just now, Neminem said:

What metadata providers have you enabled in you library settings.

[gene0915 42]

Just now, Neminem said:

Hmm that look like you Movies and your screen shots show tv shows ?

The problem is happening with both libraries.

 

[Neminem 1518]

Try a metadata refresh look for missing.

[gene0915 42]

2 minutes ago, Neminem said:

Try a metadata refresh look for missing.

Will do. I kicked off another full metadata refresh at the moment. I'll see what things look like after it's done then try 'look for missing'.

I'm also not opposed to just nuking the install again and starting fresh.  (Not Debian 13.... just Emby).

Lucky # 13............ I knew I should have skipped it. lol

 

Edited August 17, 2025 by gene0915

[Neminem 1518]

[gene0915 42]

Thanks for all the assistance this morning! I'm happy to report that after the 2nd metadata refresh completed, everything looks normal: