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can you please add a Christmas genre folder somewhere it would be most helpful.

Happy2Play
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can you please add a Christmas genre folder somewhere it would be most helpful.

 

Sorry your media has to have a Christmas Genre assigned to it.  Then when you click the Christmas genre all the media with that genre will appear.

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Do you have any media with the Christmas genre?

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can you please add a Christmas genre folder somewhere it would be most helpful.

Just add "Christmas" as a genre to the movies you feel are "Christmas" related, then you will have a "Christmas" genre displayed.

Deathsquirrel
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I did this with a collection instead of a genre since that's easier.  I created a Holiday Movies collection and just add anything to it that we only watch at this time of year.

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I did this with a collection instead of a genre since that's easier.  I created a Holiday Movies collection and just add anything to it that we only watch at this time of year.

 

That wouldn't show under a Movie genre though, would it ?

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I did this with a collection instead of a genre since that's easier.  I created a Holiday Movies collection and just add anything to it that we only watch at this time of year.

 

 

I think I did that a few years ago but found out there was a limit on how many movies you can add to it. I have tooooooooons of christmas movies so I just manually added a Holiday genre and also a holiday tag so it would play a custom intro christmas intro before hand.

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i added a Christmas genre tag to several movies but im not seeing the listing in genres. 

 

i restarted emby and did a re scan. i must have missed a step?

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i added a Christmas genre tag to several movies but im not seeing the listing in genres. 

 

i restarted emby and did a re scan. i must have missed a step?

 

Can you explain exactly what you added, and where?  Thanks !

Happy2Play
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i added a Christmas genre tag to several movies but im not seeing the listing in genres. 

 

i restarted emby and did a re scan. i must have missed a step?

 

Did you remember to hit Save after adding the Genre?  Could you verify the genre appear when you select Edit Metadata on a movie.

 

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i verified the metadata was saved 

still not seeing the genre. weird.

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Do you see the genre when you go back in and edit again?

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Ok, the current 3.5.3 release requires that you run a library scan after adding new Genres. It's not ideal, I realize, but with the upcoming 3.6 release this won't be necessary anymore and it will all just work on the fly. Thanks.

Deathsquirrel
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That wouldn't show under a Movie genre though, would it ?

 

Nope, but it gets me a grouping I can use with less effort.

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Ok, the current 3.5.3 release requires that you run a library scan after adding new Genres. It's not ideal, I realize, but with the upcoming 3.6 release this won't be necessary anymore and it will all just work on the fly. Thanks.

I can confirm that adding a genre under the current beta server is instant, as I did the same thing yesterday.

 

One point to note that I found, is that you have to lock the genre data, otherwise if the item is refreshed, the genres get reset to the defaults, i.e. without the "Christmas" genre.

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paulsalter
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I can confirm that adding a genre under the current beta server is instant, as I did the same thing yesterday.

 

One point to note that I found, is that you have to lock the genre data, otherwise if the item is refreshed, the genres get reset to the defaults, i.e. without the "Christmas" genre.

Thats how i did mine yesterday

Went through my Christmas movies, added the Christmas genre then locked that field

Christmas genre appeared instantly with all movies in it

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