Blocking the creation of new categories (genres) of films

[Grzegorz93 4]

Hi. 

Is it possible to block the automatic creation of new categories (genres) of films? I have a category "action" in my language (Polish), but every now and then an "action" folder in English is automatically created. In addition, it is now empty and did not disappear after changing the metadata of the video previously there. 

 

[Luke 42556]

Hi, we are looking into this. Thanks for reporting.

[howllor 33]

I suggest looking into the plugin Genre Cleaner. You can then for example tell the plugin to always map Action to Akcja. Its what I've been using for the occasional duplicate genre like Sci-fi and Science Fiction

[Grzegorz93 4]

2 hours ago, howllor said:

I suggest looking into the plugin Genre Cleaner. You can then for example tell the plugin to always map Action to Akcja. Its what I've been using for the occasional duplicate genre like Sci-fi and Science Fiction

Can you tell me how to configure this plugin?

[howllor 33]

It's very straightforward, you first choose the library you want the change to apply to, and then you see a list of all current genres. You can then pick the genre you want to "remove" and choose which other genre you want it to be merged into. When you're done, refresh the metadata for that library and you should see that there are now only the approved genres left

[howllor 33]

There's more info here:

https://emby.media/community/topic/896-genre-cleaner/