Manual Box Set's Enhancement

[kingy444 117]

The Auto Box Set feature works fine when movie directories are altered or moved for whatever reason.

 

Manually created collections however do not work the same way. I was thinking if the collection.xml that contains the entry was enhanced to allow for a imdb,tmdb entry then the system could automatically update when a movie directory changes.

 

In effect, rather thant CollectionItem/Path being the identifier - if we utilised CollectionItem/IMDBID it wouldnt matter where the file resides in the library.

[ebr 16184]

I'm afraid that wouldn't work for a lot of situations as some people have different versions of the same film (Director's cut, re-master, etc.) which they assemble into collections.

 

Also, we cannot guarantee that every item will have such an identifier.

[kingy444 117]

I'm afraid that wouldn't work for a lot of situations as some people have different versions of the same film (Director's cut, re-master, etc.) which they assemble into collections.

 

Also, we cannot guarantee that every item will have such an identifier.

 

That makes sense to - what about directly modifying the metadata of the child item, rather than the collection.

 

So anything you assign to a manual collection is assigned a unique value on its own metadata, which autobox sets would then respect.

 

What i am thinking is extending either the functionality of the "The MovieDb Collection ID" field to accept multiple comma separated values or adding an entire new 'external id' field where this could be stored.

 

I know this would work fine in the situation where you save meta into folders (as I do) - not sure how emby would treat it with central meta

 

So anything you assign to a manual collection is assigned a movieid unique

[ebr 16184]

As you surmised, that information would not survive the situation you are trying to account for unless the metadata was saved locally (which is off by default).