tuvx 14 Posted July 11, 2020 Posted July 11, 2020 Over the last month, my custom genre posters have been deleted. I have gone back and reverted them by "uploading" the custom pictures, but within a week or so they revert back to the "tiled" movie poster. 1
seanbuff 1316 Posted July 11, 2020 Posted July 11, 2020 Hi, it's a known issue with the current beta and has been reported a few times. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/85196-library-main-dynamic-image-never-updates/&do=findComment&comment=885153 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/88023-where-have-all-the-genres-gone/ Hopefully the devs can get it sorted sooner rather than later. 1
moviefan 187 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 This isn't just impacting beta anymore. Happening in stable now as well. Any update on a fix?
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 12 minutes ago, moviefan said: This isn't just impacting beta anymore. Happening in stable now as well. Any update on a fix? Only the database hack shown here. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/85196-library-main-dynamic-image-never-updates/&do=findComment&comment=889748
moviefan 187 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 Sigh. We need to hack the database to get the program to work? What version can I downgrade back to not be impacted by this?
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 It works, just not the way you want it, as customization of these images were taken away, to give dynamic images per genre instead of static images. That is why old databases still work and new ones don't do to this change. So all we can do in a new database is hack it to be like old.
moviefan 187 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 But, customization of these images wasn't "taken away." They can still be customized, via the WebUI - the way that @Luke and all of the other admins have been pushing us to use for picture customization of everything for the last few years. And then Emby overwrites them. To me, this is not working correctly. The auto generated images don't look that nice - and especially when viewed from ten feet away on a TV screen all just look the same and are hard to tell apart. This is a really poor decision is this was intentionally thought through by Luke. Within that thread Luke seems to be surprised that this is impacting images which were customized via the Web so perhaps that wasn't intentional? Lastly, I don't understand how to "hack the database." How do I give the database a path for those images?
seanbuff 1316 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 38 minutes ago, Happy2Play said: That is why old databases still work and new ones don't do to this change Mine is definitely an old database, and does not work. I find it surprising that this defect has made its way to Stable, not acceptable imho.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) Basically Emby has killed all the custom images via metadata folder and none of them work any more. (People, Genre, Studios, Views, Year, MPAA Rating) Some have different methods now. Edited July 20, 2020 by Happy2Play
moviefan 187 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Happy2Play said: Basically Emby has killed all the custom images via metadata folder and none of them work any more. (People, Genre, Studios, Views, Year, MPAA Rating) Some have different methods now. But I am not trying to use the metadata folder. I am customizing them via the WebUI. And then Emby is overwriting them. This should be easy to stop. The one thing that Emby has always been better at than Plex, etc is its customization. Please don't start taking these aspects away. Can someone tell me which version this was changed in so I can downgrade back to the previous one?
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 4 hours ago, moviefan said: But I am not trying to use the metadata folder. I am customizing them via the WebUI. And then Emby is overwriting them. This should be easy to stop. The one thing that Emby has always been better at than Plex, etc is its customization. Please don't start taking these aspects away. Can someone tell me which version this was changed in so I can downgrade back to the previous one? Yes Emby would have to go back to using a dedicated folder to maintain these specific images to know not to change them. The dynamic image process will only then know not to change them. Downgrading would more then likely break all clients except the web client as this change was over a year ago.
moviefan 187 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 5 hours ago, Happy2Play said: Downgrading would more then likely break all clients except the web client as this change was over a year ago. Maybe in beta this change was made a year ago? This only started happening over the past month or so for me. And I have not been using a. dedicated folder for quite some time. @Luke can you please explain the rationale here? You have decided that your users can't customize images like these anymore? Why?
moviefan 187 Posted July 21, 2020 Posted July 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Luke said: It wasn't intentional, sorry. Thanks for confirming. So, is it something you plan to address in a future version?
tuvx 14 Posted July 24, 2020 Author Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) Does the removal of about 30% of my actor images have anything to do with this issue? Edited July 24, 2020 by tuvx
seanbuff 1316 Posted July 24, 2020 Posted July 24, 2020 6 minutes ago, tuvx said: Does the removal of about 30% of my actor images have anything to do with this issue? No, that is a separate issuehttps://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/88138-bug-report-incorrectinvalid-tmdb-links-cause-missing-actor-pictures-and-errors-in-log/ https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/85812-artistsactors-images-disappeared-randomly/
moviefan 187 Posted September 23, 2020 Posted September 23, 2020 Any chance this has been addressed in 4.5? Don't see anything in the release notes.
tuvx 14 Posted September 29, 2020 Author Posted September 29, 2020 Really wish this would be addressed. The "dynamic" images are horrible and give no clue as to the content included.
seanbuff 1316 Posted September 29, 2020 Posted September 29, 2020 100% agree, the dynamic images are hideous. Not sure what the delay on fixing this one is.
fonzie 22 Posted November 18, 2020 Posted November 18, 2020 Would also like it if this were addressed. Thank you.
rodainas 191 Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 Agree, I would like this problem to be fixed too.
moviefan 187 Posted December 22, 2020 Posted December 22, 2020 Bump. New versions keep getting released and this doesn't appear to mentioned anywhere. It's gotta be an easy fix no?
seanbuff 1316 Posted December 22, 2020 Posted December 22, 2020 @Luke can you bump this up on the priority list please? Displaying the ugly Genre page just brings down the overall aesthetic look of an otherwise well presented UI.
aspdend 177 Posted December 26, 2020 Posted December 26, 2020 @Lukei agree, this needs to be addressed to de-ugly my setup and increase the WAF!
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