FR - Server - Link Movies and Their Soundtracks if both Availible

[Cerothen 97]

I was updating meta data for some of my soundtracks today in Emby and thought it might be interesting if provided a link between the soundtrack and the movie where if you were looking at one you could quickly click to go to the other. I don't know if the current structure would facilitate this seeing as even the metadata for people is separated when it comes to music and movies/series:

 

Its not really a priority item or anything just thought it would be something that could be neat for people that typically keep both the album and the movie (and it might raise the awareness for users of the system that the content is available, say if they just watched interstellar and said "Wow I liked that music quite a bit", oh look the movie soundtrack is already in here).

[ebr 16169]

We actually had that about a year ago but it produced some issues and we haven't brought it back yet.

[Cerothen 97]

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Thanks for the update. If it was once there hopefully we can see it again one day however it shouldn't be to much of a priority it would just be one of those nice little things.

 

As always thanks for the effort on the great media server.

[Dibbes 514]

Hi

 

Was there any further thought given to this?

 

Cheers

[Luke 42077]

It is a possibility for the future, thanks !

[Luke 42077]

I would suggest using Collections to handle this.

[Dibbes 514]

I would suggest using Collections to handle this.

 

How?

[Luke 42077]

Add both the movie and the album to a collection.

[Dibbes 514]

Add both the movie and the album to a collection.

 

I tried this for a few days and this isn't it... it kind of defeats the purpose of having a movies library...

 

I'm only looking for a OST play button on the movie page when an OST folder is present, nothing more difficult...

[MBSki 1114]

On 9/28/2018 at 11:27 PM, Luke said:

Add both the movie and the album to a collection.

This would work except the movies and albums aren't grouped by media type anymore. Allow a view to group the media types so we can see Movies separate from TV Shows and separate from Music and collections would work for this FR, at least for me. 

[Louis93 3]

Maybe it could work if there would be an entry field for either an IMDB id and/or TheMovieDb Id in the album metadata, and a MusicBrainz Id and/or TheAudioDb Id in the film metadata? That way they might get linked? Or maybe setting up an entry field for custom id (or link id if you will), which the user can use to link different things from different libraries together by putting the same custom id in the metadata? Just thinking out loud here, might sound stupid ;)

[Guest]

There are Album and Album Artist Tags in MKV and MP4 metadata.

[Dibbes 514]

Was this ever looked into? It could follow the same logic as extras, etc.

/Movies
   /Home Alone (1990)
      Home Alone (1990).mkv
      /Extras
         deleted-scenes.mkv
      /Interviews
         interview1.mkv
      /OST
         track01.flac
         track02.flac
      /Trailers
         trailer1.mkv

Edited September 3, 2025 by Dibbes

[Luke 42077]

22 hours ago, Dibbes said:

Was this ever looked into? It could follow the same logic as extras, etc.

/Movies
   /Home Alone (1990)
      Home Alone (1990).mkv
      /Extras
         deleted-scenes.mkv
      /Interviews
         interview1.mkv
      /OST
         track01.flac
         track02.flac
      /Trailers
         trailer1.mkv

Not yet but I don't think this suggestion makes sense. I think it makes more sense to have a music library and be able to link the two.

[Dibbes 514]

5 hours ago, Luke said:

Not yet but I don't think this suggestion makes sense. I think it makes more sense to have a music library and be able to link the two.

Would that put an OST button (next to Trailer), or a bar below around the extras or something within the details screen?

Edited September 4, 2025 by Dibbes

[Luke 42077]

Probably similar to extras. I don't think we'd be able to reserve the space for another button.