4.9.1.80 single item folder view

[mrmixed 77]

Prior to upgrading to 4.9.1.80, folders that only contained one item used to sort and display nicely with adjacent titles which were not contained in folders.  Following the upgrade, regardless of the "Auto open single items in folder view" setting, these titles-in-folders now always display at the top of the list, mixed in with multi-title folders.

Note: This is for a mixed content library.  I know this is not necessarily the ideal way to set up a library, but I prefer to only have a single library with all of my content.  I''ve always managed to make it work up until now.

Attached is a screencap of how things display in 4.9.1.80, currently with "Auto open single items in folder view" turned on.  If I turn that setting off, this screen displays the same, although actually getting to the content will require an extra click to get through the unwanted sub-entry.  Regardless of that setting, when I click to get to the actual content, it's not using the original top-level image anymore, and the metadata at the content level is jacked up.

In my file structure, the first several entries appearing on the screen are the titles which I have placed within folders, because they have extras.  Prior to the upgrade, they used to display the actual title and release date in the below-image caption.  Now they only display the folder name and no longer sort nicely with the other titles.  (I have one "Documentary" folder that contains a few titles, and the rest are root titles because they don't have extras and there was no reason to dump them into subfolders.)  

Before upgrading, this view previously used to start with my multi-folder "Documentary" content and then everything else would sort nicely based on the view settings (such as Release Date).  Now all content in folders shows up at the top of the list, regardless of whether they are single-title folders or multi-title folders.  (One exception: folders which contain a TV "Season #" structure still work and sort correctly.)

 

I've tried re-identifying the title at the lower "content" level, and while this fixes the metadata, it doesn't affect the sort at the higher folder. 

 

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[Luke 42077]

Hi, isn't this a more accurate representation of your folders though?

[mrmixed 77]

Yes, it is; however, my point is that it used to work differently in the previous version.  And I very much liked how it worked!  If it would solve the problem, I would grudgingly put all of the standalone titles into their own folders, just to make the structures consistent between all of the titles, but it looks like I would still be unable to use the sort functionality since the metadata for single-title folders is no longer linked to the parent folder.  So I would still be very limited in terms of the sort functionality, and would be stuck displaying everything only by the folder sort name.  I would be especially grateful if the old way of doing things could magically be brought back, or at least turned into a configuration option.  This has caused all sorts of odd metadata issues, where titles seemingly don't have metadata because the system seems to now be trying to capture metadata at two different levels instead of just one.

Alternately, I would abandon my current folder structure entirely if there was a more robust method of marking files as "extras" within the filename.  Right now, I believe Emby only recognizes a very few particular text strings, like "-deleted", etc.

I'm curious as to whether this is unique to the mixed content library type or if happens any time a non-TV folder structure is used.  I am noticing all sorts of weird changes seemingly related to the folder-to-child-title linkage.  For example, this folder, which contains two movies in separate subfolders, suddenly is unable to display the movie posters at the proper size:

[dakinggp33 3]

I also liked to use the folder view to organize and browse my media. The "Add option for folder view to auto open single items in folders" does allow immediate access to the file, but then the media doesn't show any fields of info or abide by some sorting methods.

Edited October 6, 2025 by dakinggp33

[mrmixed 77]

I realized someone else already beat me in posting this issue.  We can close this thread and continue on the other one since it was opened first.

 

Although this more recent thread is also ultimately the same issue and has more development feedback: