New TV Season View

[kbeck 64]

This new view really sucks ball. Whoever designed it should be taken out and thrashed. It was bad enough when it was only for single season episodes but I see it now applies to everything. I really really really don't understand how you people intentionally screw up anything that works. Unreal.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, have you explored your Emby user display settings?

[GrimReaper 4739]

40 minutes ago, kbeck said:

This new view really sucks ball. Whoever designed it should be taken out and thrashed. It was bad enough when it was only for single season episodes but I see it now applies to everything. I really really really don't understand how you people intentionally screw up anything that works. Unreal.

It is an option, set it according your preference under your user's Display preferences.

[JoLas 26]

Time to edit all my users preferences again then... looks like all users got the "new default"

[kbeck 64]

14 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

It is an option, set it according your preference under your user's Display preferences.

I get it but a little heads up might of been nice other than a popup in the middle of the afternoon that a new version was installed. Reminds me of Cool Hand Luke...... What we have here is a failure to communicate.

[GrimReaper 4739]

6 minutes ago, kbeck said:

I get it but a little heads up might of been nice other than a popup in the middle of the afternoon that a new version was installed.

Don't know from which server version you've updated (and to which one), but that option has been implemented for over a year now, with the release of 4.8+ version, you likely just haven't stumbled upon it till now. 

 

[IdeasMan 12]

I also got hit by this after Emby automatically updated to v4.9.3.0 from v4.9.1.90 overnight.

While this may have been added to v4.8, it wasn't forcefully changed like this update has. The v4.9.3.0 update reset my view to Show all episodes of all seasons together when it was never like that previously (Was previously Show all episodes for only single season shows, which is how I like it).

I too found this confusing and frustrating until I found this thread as I was also coming to complain. I'm guessing the update either did not properly respect prior preferences or it has now decided this setting is the default and just set it. Either way, it's poor and I also now have to undo it for all of my users, as my other users won't be aware where this option is.

Edited January 10 by IdeasMan

[Trevor68 70]

bloody awful, lucky it is a setting hey, I wonder if we could get such a setting that we don't have to enable a radio button EVERY SINGLE TIME we want to search for missing episodes? 

[Trevor68 70]

1 hour ago, IdeasMan said:

Either way, it's poor and I also now have to undo it for all of my users, as my other users won't be aware where this option is.

true, how the hell did it end up default for all users? 

[Luke 42077]

It's because most modern streaming apps nowadays don't make you click through a season layer.

[Trevor68 70]

so your making **** decisions by just copying others then, fair enough. 

 

where can we find this default for all users, or did you just force it in the update?

Edited January 10 by seanbuff
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[Trevor68 70]

16 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Don't know from which server version you've updated (and to which one), but that option has been implemented for over a year now, with the release of 4.8+ version, you likely just haven't stumbled upon it till now. 

or had it forced apon you by default since yesterday either. 

[IdeasMan 12]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

It's because most modern streaming apps nowadays don't make you click through a season layer.

I'm not sure what kind of attitude that is. My streaming ecosystem is Emby and that's essentially all we use, so I couldn't give a rat's about what Netflix does.

Clearly this attitude means you intentionally forced this behaviour on users for whatever reason, yet it's clearly missing from the release notes:

Quote

- Add user option to set user's auto remote quality
- Add library option to use legacy folder scanning method
- Music transcoding fixes
- Add landing tab option for book libraries
- Support volume control with youtube trailer player
- Update mixed content tabs to combine Movies & Shows
- Fix maintenance mode blocking some settings screens
- Fix embedded audio fields not getting rescanned on file changes
- Fix loss of genre and collection images after deleting a movie

Nowhere there does it say you've changed this behaviour and nowhere is it made easy to revert for all users, hence this thread.

I fail to see how you feel this:

is a better experience than this:

Especially with that tiny Season 3 drop-down which is so easy to miss and obliterates the pretty season cover art many of us curate.

It's worse with a mouse. If I want to look at all episodes in Season 4, in the old view, I click Season 4 then I can scroll with my mouse. I can't scroll with my mouse with this new behaviour and instead must click, click, click all the way to what I want.

Considering how you seem to approach most feedback in these forums, I don't expect you to revert this unwelcome behaviour and will have to suck it up. I will, however, request you be more upfront next time and include major forced behavioural changes in the release notes so we're aware of it. Ideally, there should be a way for users (not Luke et al.) to apply our standard configuration to all users as well, without having to sign into each user account individually.

[Trevor68 70]

8 hours ago, IdeasMan said:

I'm not sure what kind of attitude that is.

it is called my way, or the highway. 

[Luke 42077]

I'm sorry for the mixup. The intention was not from a forcing standpoint but more of a modernizing one.

[Trevor68 70]

so every emby user got "modernised" if they like it or not? seems fairly deliberate to me. 

Is there at least a way to revert all users?

[kbeck 64]

On 1/9/2026 at 12:25 PM, GrimReaper said:

Don't know from which server version you've updated (and to which one), but that option has been implemented for over a year now, with the release of 4.8+ version, you likely just haven't stumbled upon it till now. 

 

It updated to 4.9.3.0 on 01/09/26 from 4.9.1.90 on 11/11/25. I promise you the Seasons were shown individually up to then. I work on it 8-10 hours a day 7 days a week. You guys should be paying me I'm on it so much. It looks like I'm not the only one to get blindsided.

[Neminem 1518]

8 hours ago, Trevor68 said:

Is there at least a way to revert all users?

Yes go to users.

Click on user to edit.

Then click marked in red.

Click marked in red.

Click and select "Always show season folders".

That it.

Now rinse and repeat on all your users.

Edited January 11 by Neminem

[IdeasMan 12]

Thank you, Neminem. Much easier than signing in as the user. Still annoying but manageable.

[Trevor68 70]

what is the default for new users? godawful view I imagine?

[ebr 16169]

5 hours ago, Trevor68 said:

what is the default for new users? godawful view I imagine?

I thought it was "Show all episodes only for single season shows".  

[Happy2Play 9780]

Not sure why this only affected a select few as this setting has been in place for quite some time.  As I have not seen any user settings reset.

[IdeasMan 12]

15 hours ago, ebr said:

I thought it was "Show all episodes only for single season shows".  

It was. That's how I had it and all of my other users on my Emby server had it. I also have another server which was a clone, albeit made years ago, which was also configured this way and every user on it was also changed to Show all episodes of all seasons together (previously Show all episodes only for single season shows).

Now, I don't believe I actively chose Show all episodes only for single season shows, rather, I accepted it when it was made the default (whenever that was) and left it as I felt that was good. It wasn't until v4.9.3.0 where this changed to Show all episodes of all seasons together for every user on both of my servers.

Maybe because we didn't actively select it, its state was stored internally as null or something, thus, the user hasn't chosen so fall-back to the system default, which prior to v4.9.3.0 was Show all episodes only for single season shows to now become Show all episodes of all seasons together?

As a test, I created a new user on v4.9.3.0 and the default selection for that user (having not copied it from another user when creating) is: Show all episodes of all seasons together.

[ak96ss 10]

Well, at least there is an option to revert the setting...  I ended up here by searching for how to roll back the update, because I *really* don't like having to have the seasons displayed that way. 

Edited January 13 by ak96ss
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[Happy2Play 9780]

Isn't this only an issue for NEW users as that is the default?

As all my users were changed to "Always show Season Folders" back when this setting was introduced in 4.8.0.29.