New TV Season View

[akacharos 31]

+1 for being a terrible idea to enforce this as a default view for all users. 
A lot of defaults in Emby are not ideal (eg. sort by title) and it's a shame that there is still not a feature for admins to change such settings for all users in one go.
Having to enter to each user profile >  preferences  and make changes is time consuming.

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, akacharos said:

+1 for being a terrible idea to enforce this as a default view for all users. 
A lot of defaults in Emby are not ideal (eg. sort by title) and it's a shame that there is still not a feature for admins to change such settings for all users in one go.
Having to enter to each user profile >  preferences  and make changes is time consuming.

But nothing here has changed or I should say I have yet to see this change for 10 existing user accounts.  Only default for a New user here.

[IdeasMan 12]

2 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

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.

Clearly not, hence why more of us are coming out of the woodwork.

Seeing as you explicitly chose Always show season folders, it would explain why you weren't affected by it and hints towards why we were. I suspect the preference was null before, thus, up to Emby's discretion. When they initially introduced Show all episodes only for single season shows, we all got that because there were no preferences prior, hence we went along for the ride.

When they changed the fall-back default to something else with the most recent update, those of us who liked Show all episodes for only single season shows (previous default) were changed to the new fall-back, because we hadn't explicitly selected Show all episodes only for single season shows when it was first introduced, because, why would you if it's working?

You weren't affected because your users had a preference explicitly defined.

[Happy2Play 9780]

13 minutes ago, IdeasMan said:

Clearly not, hence why more of us are coming out of the woodwork.

Seeing as you explicitly chose Always show season folders, it would explain why you weren't affected by it and hints towards why we were. I suspect the preference was null before, thus, up to Emby's discretion. When they initially introduced Show all episodes only for single season shows, we all got that because there were no preferences prior, hence we went along for the ride.

When they changed the fall-back default to something else with the most recent update, those of us who liked Show all episodes for only single season shows (previous default) were changed to the new fall-back, because we hadn't explicitly selected Show all episodes only for single season shows when it was first introduced, because, why would you if it's working?

You weren't affected because your users had a preference explicitly defined.

That would only be valid for an update standpoint from 4.7 to 4.8+ when introduced.  As this is not a new option.  But who knows as I have no idea what server set this is hitting as have yet to see an issue on any of my Windows systems.

But explicitly if the setting was never set then yes the default is "Show all episodes of all seasons together".

 

 

[Brendon 119]

16 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

But nothing here has changed or I should say I have yet to see this change for 10 existing user accounts.  Only default for a New user here.

Changed every one of my users except my admin account, as people keep saying these changes should never be forced by default and for crying out loud can we please get some global admin features, I am sick to death of having to go through 40 users every time something like this happens, even disabling access to a library takes maximum effort.

[akacharos 31]

19 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

But nothing here has changed or I should say I have yet to see this change for 10 existing user accounts.  Only default for a New user here.

Not true in my case. All the existing users in my server were changed to the new default .

[Trevor68 70]

all of my users were changed to this stupid setting a few days back in the most recent server update. 

before that I did not even know it existed, so seems pretty intentional to me. 

[yaksplat 66]

ugh...  That's where the seasons went.

[Neminem 1518]

And Luke just put this up

And it does not cover changes from 4.8 to 4.9.3

There where a lot in between, so sad

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

20 hours ago, Neminem said:

And it does not cover changes from 4.8 to 4.9.3

That is normal for a Maintenance release of 4.9.x.x as 4.9.3.0 is not the first release.

Ironically the change for this topic happened during the 4.7 to 4.8 update.  So, I still have no idea why some are seeing the change now that happened over 2 years ago.

[ebr 16169]

10 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

So, I still have no idea why some are seeing the change now that happened over 2 years ago

I think the default (what happens if you never changed it manually) was changed in 4.9.3.

[Neminem 1518]

1 hour ago, ebr said:

I think the default (what happens if you never changed it manually) was changed in 4.9.3.

You think So you are not sure

Well anyways its not in the change logs

[Trevor68 70]

Why would you mess with user defaults? Like your snazzy new thing? just tell people about it and let them make up their own mind FFS. 

[kbeck 64]

On 1/15/2026 at 2:34 PM, Neminem said:

And Luke just put this up

And it does not cover changes from 4.8 to 4.9.3

There where a lot in between, so sad

 

This ain't Burger King. It's the way we want you to have it or else. Thus the forced updates with no way to go back a revision.

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, kbeck said:

This ain't Burger King. It's the way we want you to have it or else. Thus the forced updates with no way to go back a revision.

Hi, there are options in your user display settings to make them display exactly as you prefer.