Collections "cross contamination"

[PaulE123 20]

Hi all,

I've set up a separate 4K movie library in Emby (Beta server v4.6.0.43), because I want to control access to who can/can't access it. I figured I have to do this because if I add these movies as alternate versions using the " - ." naming convention, then the files will appear for anyone with access to my main Movies library. However, because I want these 4K movies to display as collections, when I turn this setting on in the 4K library, then there are collections forming consisting of films that AREN'T included in this library. Ie, say I've a 4K version of Batman Begins (and no other 4K Batman films), when I turn on the collections setting in the 4K library, the collection is formed using my 4K Batman Begins, my 1080p Batman Begins, the 1080p Dark Knight, and 1080p Dark Knight Rises.....even though ALL of those 1080p films aren't included in my 4K library.

From what I read, its because the Collections mechanic is library agnostic, to allow for Collections of any & all content. Is there any way around this, ie, to show collections that only relate to specific libraries?

Many thanks

[Deathsquirrel 745]

You don't need a separate library to solve the user access issue.  Move your 4K titles into their own folder structure.  So you might have \\Server\MoviesSD, \\Server\MoviesHD, and \\Server\MoviesUHD for example.  Add all three of those shares to the same library.  If you edit your users and click the access tab you'll find you can restrict a user from seeing the contents of a specific folder you've added to a library.  Users that shouldn't see 4K titles would have the \\Server\MoviesUHD share unchecked.

As far as I know the answer to your posted question is no, but this should render it irrelevant.

[PaulE123 20]

Oh, fantastic, I'll try that over the next few days. Thanks so much for the help! 

Edited May 23, 2021 by PaulE123