Thumbails for offline collections

[a11an 2]

Hi all,

I’ve recently moved back to Emby from Jellyfin, mainly because I found collection management in Jellyfin a bit buggy. I’m really impressed with how well Emby picked up my library — all of my collections were detected perfectly.

For context, I don’t use any scrapers at all; everything is managed via local .nfo files.

I do have one question though:
Is Emby able to automatically pick up collection thumbnails and artwork from local files?

At the moment, it looks like I have to add the collection images manually. I’ve got around 40 collections, which I can do by hand if needed, but it would be great if there’s a setting or naming tweak that would allow Emby to pick them all up automatically.

Each movie’s movie.nfo includes the collection set information like this:

<set> <name>Some Movie Collection</name> </set> 

I also have a collection XML file set up as follows:

<Item> <ContentRating></ContentRating> <Overview>A description</Overview> <LocalTitle>Some Movie Collection</LocalTitle> </Item> 

This is the folder structure I’m using for a typical movie collection (boxset):

Some Movie Collection [boxset]
- folder.jpg        (ignored)
- fanart.jpg        (ignored)
- logo.png          (ignored)
- collection.xml    (ignored)
- Example Movie 1
  - Example Movie.mp4
  - movie.nfo
  - folder.jpg
  - fanart.jpg
- Example Movie 2
  - ...

The movies themselves are detected and grouped into collections correctly, but the collection-level artwork appears to be ignored unless I add it manually via the UI.

Sorry if this has been asked before — I’ve searched around but haven’t been able to find a clear answer.

Thanks in advance!