Cast & crew

[Santiag0 10]

By default emby does a good job in finding the cast & crew for most titles but a lot of it ends in the grey logo with no cast or crew which is not the prettiest looking. Instead of having that maybe by default have it so if it finds nothing for a cast or crew just have nothing show instead would look much nicer than a blank one. Just my thoughts.

[Luke 42077]

HI, I don't quite understand. Can you please show some kind of example of what you're asking for? Thanks !

[Happy2Play 9780]

Are you wanting to not show/hide blank placeholders.  

[Santiag0 10]

Yes just have the blank ones not even show.

[Luke 42077]

I like how Apple TV does it by putting their initials in there instead of an icon. Similar to WMC years ago.

[Santiag0 10]

Can you show me a pic of it, I don't have apple tv and I can't remember how win media center looked, thank you.

[Happy2Play 9780]

I will guess something like your avatar on the forum but with initials.  But with different background/silhouette.

from the net

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:410/0*MATq7_0JMwtMuf6z

Edited August 24, 2025 by Happy2Play

[Santiag0 10]

I don't think that would look very nice.

[seanbuff 1315]

44 minutes ago, Santiag0 said:

Yes just have the blank ones not even show.

imo you can't just not have them show. people use that row for actors names, even if they don't have a photo they still need to be listed.

[Santiag0 10]

8 minutes ago, seanbuff said:

imo you can't just not have them show. people use that row for actors names, even if they don't have a photo they still need to be listed.

I always delete them in metadata and sometimes none are there but it gets tiresome deleting them all the time. Just my preference though would be good if I could have an option to just not show them.

[Beav 18]

Just because the actor is blank in the thumbnail, does not mean that there is no information on them. Also, I've come across several instances where the actor's thumbnail is blank on one movie but there on another. I've then gone and updated metadata and the thumbnail appears. 

In short, I like it as it is, but think the initials in a circle would look nice as well.

[crusher11 1101]

On 8/25/2025 at 6:45 AM, Santiag0 said:

I always delete them in metadata and sometimes none are there but it gets tiresome deleting them all the time. Just my preference though would be good if I could have an option to just not show them.

But the point of the cast list is to tell you who is in the movie, and those people were in the movie.