What does the Data/Collections folder contain

[JohnnyM 40]

Could someone give me an example of what they have in their User/AppData/Roaming/MediaBrowser-server/data/collections folder contains and what is in your collections.xml file.

 

I am trying to figure out a work around to a problem I am having.

 

JohnnyM

[yardameus 221]

I believe that is the boxset folder for the metadata.

[Happy2Play 9780]

What problem are you having?  That location is the location where images and metadata are stored for your collections.

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Item>
  <ContentRating>PG-13</ContentRating>
  <Added>1/30/2016 10:35:04 AM</Added>
  <LockData>false</LockData>
  <LocalTitle>Alex Cross Collection</LocalTitle>
  <DisplayOrder>PremiereDate</DisplayOrder>
  <TMDbId>142680</TMDbId>
  <CollectionItems>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>Z:\ServerFolders\Videos\Movies\Along Came a Spider (2001) [Thriller]\Along Came a Spider (2001) [Thriller].mp4</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>Z:\ServerFolders\Videos\Movies\Alex Cross (2012) [Action-Adventure]\Alex Cross (2012) [Action-Adventure].mp4</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>Z:\ServerFolders\Videos\Movies\Kiss the Girls (1997) [Thriller]\Kiss the Girls (1997) [Thriller].avi</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
  </CollectionItems>
  <Shares>
  </Shares>
</Item>

 

Edited April 5, 2016 by Happy2Play

[JohnnyM 40]

Could I see what the contents of the collection.xml file looks like.

 

I am trying to make a collection of all the Best Picture winners. These are spread over various drive and some are part of a collection themselves like "The Godfather"

 

Thanks

 

Johnny M

[FrostByte 5392]

I did something similar and created a "ImDB Top 250" collection which contains a lot of movies that are in other collections also.  All I did was navigate to the first movie, select "Add to Collection" and create a new collection.  Then I just kept adding the next movie to that collection.

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

I did something similar and created a "ImDB Top 250" collection which contains a lot of movies that are in other collections also.  All I did was navigate to the first movie, select "Add to Collection" and create a new collection.  Then I just kept adding the next movie to that collection.

I did the same. Actually have several custom collections... Marvel Movies, DC Movies, Disney Live Action, and more. Quite easy enough to build them in the web client. Items can be in more than one collection as well. Here is a sample collection XML:

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Item>
  <ContentRating>PG</ContentRating>
  <Added>12/19/2015 6:10:41 AM</Added>
  <LockData>false</LockData>
  <Overview><![CDATA[Collection of the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs animation movies]]></Overview>
  <LocalTitle>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Collection</LocalTitle>
  <DisplayOrder>PremiereDate</DisplayOrder>
  <TMDbId>177467</TMDbId>
  <CollectionItems>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>G:\Animation\Sony_Pictures\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009).mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>G:\Animation\Sony_Pictures\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013).mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>J:\Animation\Sony_Pictures\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009).mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>J:\Animation\Sony_Pictures\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)\Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013).mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
  </CollectionItems>
  <Shares>
  </Shares>
</Item>

Edited April 5, 2016 by Koleckai Silvestri

[Happy2Play 9780]

XML is in my Spoiler also.  You know you cad hold left click and it will bring up the multi-select screen to make collections.  Or as FrostByte stated add first one to create a collection then build off of it.

Edited April 6, 2016 by Happy2Play

[JohnnyM 40]

Thanks to all for the help!!

 

I think that will solve my problem.

 

Johnny M

 

Tried using the web client and It is doing exactly what i want.

Edited April 6, 2016 by JohnnyM