Collections - posters instead of folders

[Hoosiers317 16]

This might be a silly question, but how do I get Emby to show me collection posters instead of these folders? The view is set to primary. 

 

Edited October 9, 2025 by jrcorwin

[GrimReaper 4739]

That should've been downloaded automatically (or collage created). Check if TMDB fetcher is enabled in your Collections library? 

[Hoosiers317 16]

14 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

That should've been downloaded automatically (or collage created). Check if TMDB fetcher is enabled in your Collections library? 

Hmm I don't have a collections library. This is the just the collections tab/section within my movies library. (which is fine, that's how I would prefer it and don't want a separate library for just collections)

Edited October 9, 2025 by jrcorwin

[GrimReaper 4739]

3 hours ago, jrcorwin said:

Hmm I don't have a collections library.

Hm, you should have one regardless. Can you share a screenshot of your Settings>Library tab in the sidebar? 

[GrimReaper 4739]

There's no need to post in multiple topics, I can see from your other post that you still have Scan in progress - wait for it to finish, you'll get both Collections library and posters downloaded. 

[Hoosiers317 16]

9 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Hm, you should have one regardless. Can you share a screenshot of your Settings>Library tab in the sidebar? 

Haha...sorry...I started posting in the wrong thread! 

 

[Hoosiers317 16]

4 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

There's no need to post in multiple topics, I can see from your other post that you still have Scan in progress - wait for it to finish, you'll get both Collections library and posters downloaded. 

Yep, sorry. I had another topic open in a different thread and responded in the wrong one.

[Luke 42077]

5 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

wait for it to finish, you'll get both Collections library and posters downloaded. 

Did this happen?

[Hoosiers317 16]

On 10/9/2025 at 2:21 PM, Luke said:

Did this happen?

No, it didn't. I waited for the full scan to complete and do now have a library for collections, but no poster art for them. I can see poster art in the cover/thumb thing for the collections library itself, but inside the library they just look like folders. 

[GrimReaper 4739]

2 minutes ago, jrcorwin said:

now have a library for collections, but no poster art for them

 

On 10/9/2025 at 4:37 PM, GrimReaper said:

Check if TMDB fetcher is enabled in your Collections library? 

If TMDB meta-downloader is enabled, try unticking/ticking it back again, run Refresh Metadata on one Collection afterwards to check how it behaves. 

[Hoosiers317 16]

5 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

 

If TMDB meta-downloader is enabled, try unticking/ticking it back again, run Refresh Metadata on one Collection afterwards to check how it behaves. 

I'll give that a shot. TMDB was enabled. 

[GrimReaper 4739]

20 minutes ago, jrcorwin said:

I can see poster art in the cover/thumb thing for the collections library itself

Then again, if you're seeing collage there, that would indicate posters were already downloaded, they're just not showing in the UI - if you access Collections library from another browser (or clear browsing data in the current one), do the posters load? And if you enter any of those collections detail view, is the poster present there?

Edit: If you navigate to your server programdata\metadata\collections folder in your filesysyem, do collection subfolders have artwork present? 

Edited October 11, 2025 by GrimReaper
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[Hoosiers317 16]

15 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Then again, if you're seeing collage there, that would indicate posters were already downloaded, they're just not showing in the UI - if you access Collections library from another browser (or clear browsing data in the current one), do the posters load? And if you enter any of those collections detail view, is the poster present there?

Edit: If you navigate to your server programdata\metadata\collections folder in your filesysyem, do collection subfolders have artwork present? 

Refreshing the metadata while choosing the options to look for missing metadata and replacing images does the trick.

[Hoosiers317 16]

Appreciate the help @GrimReaper