4.9.3.0 Broke my media layout. WTH

[GHynson 9]

@brothom

I understand how emby is supposed to edit the file names, I just don't like the way it does it. 

I setup my layouts with visual "queues in mind"  For instance, when you walk into your 4/yo's room and ask her what she's watching, you'll most likely get a " I dunno" response.

So when something is playing on  the screen you're not familiar with like the image below, once it's scrolled down past the header, you have no idea what's playing.

 

With the naming convention I use, you can just walk into a room and visually see exactly what's playing without asking questions. 

 

When you've spent year's dealing with "other peoples" extremely large, half-@$$ed, and convoluted AF Databases like me.
I've gotten into the habit of making, looking at data, as "human-readable" as possible.

[brothom 177]

Just now, GHynson said:

When you've spent year's dealing with "other peoples" extremely large, half-@$$ed, and convoluted AF Databases like me.
I've gotten into the habit of making, looking at data, as "human-readable" as possible.

Well, yes. The data itself should be selfcontaining, i.e.: "Chico Bon Bon Monkey With a Tool Belt (2020) - s01e09 - Spatula Showdown.mkv"
Personally I prefer so include the year of the show and separate season/episode, because basically everybody does that. 

But that's on the data aspect of things. We're talking about the UX part here where User Interaction takes place.

4 minutes ago, GHynson said:

I setup my layouts with visual "queues in mind"  For instance, when you walk into your 4/yo's room and ask her what she's watching, you'll most likely get a " I dunno" response.

So when something is playing on  the screen you're not familiar with like the image below, once it's scrolled down past the header, you have no idea what's playing.
With the naming convention I use, you can just walk into a room and visually see exactly what's playing without asking questions. 

Not to be blunt, but you could literally just check your Emby Dashboard, which is what I do.

Regardless of all that, it's a personal choice and it's up to you to manually edit each and every piece of media of course. It's a free interwebz!

[Skyobliwind 7]

This thread kinda got offtopic.

I just updated to 4.9.3.0 and yes, the default layout for all my users now is this ugly side scroll stuff.

I can't find an option to change it back for all users on all devices -> Bad Update

I now must tell every user how they can reverse it, as the side scroll layout is not only ugly but also quite unpractical on most devices...

Is there a solution available to revert for all users?

[ebr 16169]

2 hours ago, Skyobliwind said:

Is there a solution available to revert for all users?