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justinrh
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The library card on my Home screen doesn't show an image montage.  How do you get Emby to create one?

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Neminem
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Look at your logs, is it done scanning?

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justinrh
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The library was already established, then I removed the media that were in the montage image, then I deleted the image, then I did a scan 2X.  Yes, the scan is done.

justinrh
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justinrh
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sa2000
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On 04/01/2026 at 14:27, justinrh said:

The library card on my Home screen doesn't show an image montage.  How do you get Emby to create one?

Is this a new library ? Did it ever have a composite image ? Could look at logs covering a scan and refresh to see if there are errors 

Not sure how often these composite images get updated

 

sa2000
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Just now, sa2000 said:

Not sure how often these composite images get updated

sorry - that was your question ! how to get it to update the composite image

need to look into it

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Hi, simply run a library scan.

justinrh
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You mean this?  That doesn't work.

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justinrh
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And before you ask, the log says:

2026-01-06 16:20:41.779 Info App: Refresh metadata requested on 13
2026-01-06 16:20:41.780 Info ItemRefreshService-0HNI6V1PKL4IU:00000014: http/1.1 Response 204 to host5. Time: 1ms. POST http://host4:8096/emby/Items/13/Refresh?Recursive=true&ImageRefreshMode=Default&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllImages=false&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Firefox Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=6b8eb788-c274-40c4-9a66-17f933b58561&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.1.90&X-Emby-Token=x_secret7_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us.
2026-01-06 16:20:41.841 Info ProviderManager: RefreshItem Start: 13 CollectionFolder C:\Users\adminperson\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\root\default\Music
2026-01-06 16:20:42.091 Info ProviderManager: RefreshItem Complete: 13 CollectionFolder C:\Users\adminperson\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\root\default\Music
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justinrh
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Hmm, it worked for my TV Series library.  Something broken with audio libraries?

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sa2000
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1 hour ago, justinrh said:

Something broken with audio libraries?

possibly. I did say ... need to look into it

sa2000
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what type of files are in the music library? I am seeing no images on libraries with flac files

 

justinrh
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m4a, wma, mp3

sa2000
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11 hours ago, sa2000 said:

Is this a new library ? Did it ever have a composite image ? Could look at logs covering a scan and refresh to see if there are errors 

@justinrhI presume if you create a new test library with some of these files, there would be a composite image?

It is possible if there is an error creating the library composite image, we do not correct it later - but would need the logs for when the initial creating of the composite image failed

9 hours ago, justinrh said:

m4a, wma, mp3

thanks

 

justinrh
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Created library MusicTest using the same folder, and no image.  Log attached.

embyserver.txt

sa2000
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17 minutes ago, justinrh said:

Created library MusicTest using the same folder, and no image.  Log attached.

I will see if i can reproduce the issue

I would have preferred copying a few albums to a new path and using that for the new test library

sa2000
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could you let me have your library settings please and a paths/file/folder names for a a couple of albums/artists

i will see if i can replicate - but would need same options/settings as what you have

justinrh
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I copied a few artists into another folder (Music2) for library MusicAgain, still no image.

embyserver.txt

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sa2000
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I can get the filenames for the media from the log

 

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justinrh
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2 minutes ago, sa2000 said:

could you let me have your library settings please and a paths/file/folder names for a a couple of albums/artists

i will see if i can replicate - but would need same options/settings as what you have

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sa2000
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thank you. any custom art / posters you have within the media paths?

 

sa2000
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any embedded images ? if you know

justinrh
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Just now, sa2000 said:

thank you. any custom art / posters you have within the media paths?

 

Nope.

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