Custom library images dissapearing

[MediaIntelNUC 49]

Hi!

I have custom library images made for the "front wiev" in regards to the librarys and also one of the librarys wich is my collection folder.

I change them on my win 11 server manually, and those are then visual on all my apps (Android Universal) on my phone and Nvidia Shield aswell as Android TV app on the same shield like so:

 

But it changes back to:

 

I have disabled all fetching of metadata in the library settings on my server but this still happens. I seem to recall that there was a setting to "show library folders as a picture" but i cant seem to find it and disable it if that was the solution.

 

This is also applied to my collections from my collection folder (Filmsamlingar in front-wiev librarys) from:

 

to:

 

I havent been able to figure out why this occurs and when, i have tried to pinpoint when it happens by running manual metadata scans and library updates and that doesnt break it so im all out of clues, any help would be appreciated.

This reproduces itself to all connected apps.

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[Amything 136]

Do you have Cover Art plugin installed by any chance?

[MediaIntelNUC 49]

13 minutes ago, Amything said:

Do you have Cover Art plugin installed by any chance?

Hi!

No sir.

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[Luke 42678]

Hi, on one of those libraries, can you try using the image editor to first delete the existing image.

Then assign your new image. Then see if it happens again after that. Thanks.

[MediaIntelNUC 49]

@Luke

Will do, check back here if that doesnt solve it

[MediaIntelNUC 49]

@Luke The problem has occured again, but this time not all library icons dissapeared.

I did a Library -> scan all librarys and most of the icons, both primary and miniature, dissapeard but not all.

It hasnt been a problem since i did as you suggested but it seems that this overall scan "broke" it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have no idea why this happens, the Icons are namned the same (Icon-collection-poster-Primary, and Icon-Collection-poster-landscape) so that cant be related since only some dissapears, and there isnt a "broken thumb" in the corner so the issue isnt that the file is corrupt or any folder-permissions. I have tried to use the metadata handler in the left meny and use the padlock icon on all the collection folders to see if that did anything but no luck.

 

I have not made any changes to my collection folder, other than the tip you gave me above, and im all out of ideas..

 

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Edited 14 hours ago by MediaIntelNUC

[visproduction 363]

Try removing the dashes from the names of the image files.  Emby uses the dash in defining file names.  I am guessing this could be upseting the ID of the images.

[MediaIntelNUC 49]

2 hours ago, visproduction said:

Try removing the dashes from the names of the image files.  Emby uses the dash in defining file names.  I am guessing this could be upseting the ID of the images.

Hi there!

Thanx for the tip, will give it a try

So like "Collectionposter.jpg" for example?

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Edited 5 hours ago by MediaIntelNUC

[visproduction 363]

Just avoid the dashes.  Spaces might be fine.  The media thumbnails all get either just poster.jpg and landscape.jpg or if there is a second media in a folder, then the poster becomes something like "Rocky (1976)-poster.jpg".  Dashes are also used to show difference in media resolutions so that:

Rocky (1976) - 720P.mp4

Rocky (1976) - 1080P.mp4

Gets listed in the pulldown as just 720P and 1080P.  The part of the file name up to the dash is removed for the pull down list.  This was also causing the player screen to not show the full title in the lower left on mouseover, when there was multiple dashes.  That has been fixed.  There is code to truncate from the dash for listing different resolutions in the Video pull down selection for the media page.  The code that does that might be truncating your file names for the Collection images.  It shouldn't do this, but the file name might run through the code, by mistake, that removes the first part of the file before the dash.  It is just a guess.  It's an easy bug to miss.  You would have to use dashes in testing in order to see the problem.

Hope that helps.

Edited 1 hour ago by visproduction