Nested Collections

[Landoman 33]

On 05/10/2026 at 16:33, mrmixed said:

Absolutely agree, and I didn't mean to suggest that it was a full alternative; folders in this case are just a potential workaround to allow you to configure a nested navigation through your titles, provided you are ok with each title appearing only in a single location.  But a nested Collection enhancement certainly would allow for cross-linking and other more complicated (and useful!) setups.

I can create a folder in windows. I can then create a shortcut to a tv show, movie or anything else as its just a url link. I can create as many folders as I want.
I could do this but it would be a lot easier just to do it in emby.

[libaroba 3]

I want this feature so much, it would be very useful for large collections and movies that belong together. It's sad that it was once supported but removed for some reasons that I don't have usecase for. I dont want to use it instead of tags or genres. I see that the problem was with parental control or shuffle. I just don't see a usecase where I would have an collection with subcollection of kids movies and then some not kid appropriate subcollection within that collection I would want to hide. 

My usecase is purely to manage large franchizes or to structure movies where there is complicated watching order due to reboots where I would probably not be selective for parental control and whole collection with subcollections could be hidden for kids. The problem that shuffle mode is complicated to implement with subcollections? I don't care, I dont use shuffle for movies, why would I... I think the main problem is that people would like to use the collection as genres or tags. I just want to group movies from same franchise so the root of the library is not cluttered and order the movies within collection if reboots or some eras happen in the franchise.

I.e. something like Halloween/Original, Halloween/H2O Canon, Halloween/Blumhouse Trilogy, Godzilla/Showa, Godzilla/Reiwa, Godzilla/Monsterverse, ...