Genre Images

[HouseOfCards 97]

Many of my genres in all libraries seem to never generate overview image collages.  Is this known, or do you need more information?  There are items in the genres without images, but they never regenerate.  A small issue, but it's persistent for a very long time.

 

[Luke 42352]

Hi, what genres have items that don't have images?

[HouseOfCards 97]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

Hi, what genres have items that don't have images?

I put images there in the post.  But any library with genres does it.  Movies, TV, Music.  Seems like just random genres...

[visproduction 351]

If you click on a genre without an image, are there any media posters in the genre or is it empty?

The genre names come from imdb.com.  Media content gets these genres automatically when correctly named content is added to an Emby library.  If you have an odd content name then that media may not get an genres at all. You can fix the media by assigning an identity to it, but if the name still stays incorrect, you could lose the genre with an Emby update and rescanning the Media.  That could explain why some media was listed in a genre and then lost it.

I think the same issue can happen with music.  Another way to get empty genre collections would be if the admin created genre with a name they like, but it is not a standard genre group recognized online.  In that case no songs would ever get automatically assigned that genre name.

Finally another way is if there are actually some items in genres with no images, then that music or media could have been added recently and a full scan has not been run to update the genre with an image. You can also right click, I believe, on a genre and do an update.   That can generate a new image, but the image will not always appear right away.  You may also have to force refresh the page to show a just made genre image.

Hope that helps.

[HouseOfCards 97]

2 minutes ago, visproduction said:

If you click on a genre without an image, are there any media posters in the genre or is it empty?

The genre names come from imdb.com.  Media content gets these genres automatically when correctly named content is added to an Emby library.  If you have an odd content name then that media may not get an genres at all. You can fix the media by assigning an identity to it, but if the name still stays incorrect, you could lose the genre with an Emby update and rescanning the Media.  That could explain why some media was listed in a genre and then lost it.

I think the same issue can happen with music.  Another way to get empty genre collections would be if the admin created genre with a name they like, but it is not a standard genre group recognized online.  In that case no songs would ever get automatically assigned that genre name.

Finally another way is if there are actually some items in genres with no images, then that music or media could have been added recently and a full scan has not been run to update the genre with an image. You can also right click, I believe, on a genre and do an update.   That can generate a new image, but the image will not always appear right away.  You may also have to force refresh the page to show a just made genre image.

Hope that helps.

If you click to edit images in a genre, there is no search option, just an add button to upload your own.  There ARE items in the genres without images, and has been for a while.  A feature of Emby is to periodically create a collage of the item images within the genre, but it just never does that.  This is not a new problem, I was just pointing it out so the developers could put it on their radar.

I put three images here.  Edit Images for "Action" has the collage, which can be deleted...  Edit Images for "Adventure" has no collage, but all you can do is add a custom image.  The third image is what is actually in "Adventure".  Plenty to generate an image from, but it never happens even after refreshing files, etc.  I'm not sure if refreshing metadata with a "Replace Images" would fix it, but that would also wipe all the custom artwork I saved with the library items, so that isn't a viable option.