Collections for Audio-Books

[CChris 59]

Currently, it is not possible to Group Audio Books into Collections.

 

e.g.:

 

Star Trek

 

    Voyager

        - Book 1

        - Book 2

        - Book 3

        - ....

 

    The Next Generation

        - Book 1

        - Book 2

        - ....

 

Since there are a lot of Audio-Books available, which belongs to series, it would be nice to have such a "collection" feature available - similar to the collections for movies.

 

This could also be an interesting feature for the "books" Library...

 

 

[CChris 59]

maybe, there should also be a discussion about the folder structure for such options...

I just thought, that there are different options (for audiobooks, as well as for books):

By Series / Collections
like in my example above, where different books are part of a collection - but have different authors.

The second option would be, folders by author:

Michael Crichton
   - Sphere
   - Jurassic Park
   - ...

H.G. Wells
   - The War of the Worlds
   - The Invisible Man
   - The Time Machine
   - ...

I'm not sure, if the AudioBook / Book library does support such folder structures at all...
 

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Are you asking for a Collection tab when in your audiobook library?

 

I can create Audiobook collections - although i have to do it manually

 

And access them via the collections library

[CChris 59]

Are you asking for a Collection tab when in your audiobook library?

 

I can create Audiobook collections - although i have to do it manually

 

And access them via the collections library

Can you please explain, how you are creating these collections?

Althought, a Collection Tab, like it's already available for movies would be a nice feature

[PenkethBoy 2068]

As with most media - go to the ... menu / or right click in web app and Add to collection should appear as one of the options

[CChris 59]

Ah Okey.
Yes, I already found this.

 

But this would only list the books as a collection within the collection tab... right?

 

I just thought, that it might also be an Idea to allow "grouping" within the libraries itself (this would also affect movie library)

e.g.:

Movies:

Film_group_1
    Film_1
    Film_2
    Film_3

TV Shows:

TV_Show_Group 1
    TV_Show 1
         Season 1
         Season 2


Audio Books:

AudioBook_group 1
       AudioBook 1
      AudioBook 2

I'm not sure, if emby already allows such kind of folder structure - and I know, this would be an issue with assigning Meta-Information to the group itself...
 

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Not sure i'm 100% understanding

 

But if you go to into your Audiobook Library - "albums" tab

 

then go to the ... menu next to "filter" - and turn on group items into collections

 

Any Audiobook thats in a collection will then be grouped - so you have albums and Collections shown together - i.e. audiobooks you have manually added to a collection

 

This works for other library types - so movies etc

 

So i think this does what you are trying to explain

 

The above is not dependant on folder structure

 

There used to be a way of doing it by folders (for movies at least) but that got dropped in the last beta cycle it was too hard to support and error prone

[CChris 59]

Yes, sure.
But - while you have a link to "collections" available in your movie library, you don't have such a link in your AudiBook Library.
Also, if you go to "collections" from your main Page, then your AudiBook Collections will also be shown within all the movies.

My Idea was something like this:

1) Collections, User can create - with any kind of content (as already available with the "add to collection" feature)
2) Movie Collections, as it's working right now with the AutoBoxSet plugin - only for MovieLibraries... (a user can add such a MovieBox Set to his private collection)
3) Collections, like it is available for Movies within other Libraries (e.g. AudioBooks) - a User can also add such a Collection into his private collection

You know, what I mean?

[Happy2Play 9780]

The Collections Library displays all collections on the server, not restricted by parentid (ie libraries)

 

There currently is no such thing as a User collection.  Collections apply to all users.

 

So there would need to be a complete revamp of the Collection system to have "System Collections" (ie Collections/Boxset) and "User Collections/Lists" private to each User. 

 

 

I'm not sure, if the AudioBook / Book library does support such folder structures at all

Folders Tab does use your file system structure