poster.png not used when one show

[jriker1 21]

I have folders of YouTube episodes broken down by the YouTuber.  In each YouTuber folder there is a poster.png file to show as the "folder" to click on.  When there is only one video left in the folder, the name of the YouTuber and poster.png go away and it just shows on the main screen the video and it's name not tied to the folder it's in.  Is there any way to change that logic?  So in the below are a bunch of YouTubers with more than one video in each folder, and two that only have one left so show the video and it's name not tied to anyone:

 

Thanks.

 

JR

[Carlo 4561]

What kind of library did you set this up as?

[Happy2Play 9785]

Pretty sure this fall under the library setting <CollapseSingleItemFolders>true</CollapseSingleItemFolders>.  There is a server setting to allow the library setting to work and these are destructive library settings.

[jriker1 21]

Sorry for the delayed reply.

 

For library it's considered Mixed Content

Realtime monitoring is enabled

Metadata reader NFO is checked

Minimum automatic collection size is set to 2

Episode Image Fetcher checked Screen Grabber

Movie Image Fetcher checked Screen Grabber

Save art into media folders is checked

Generate video preview thumbnails is set to Never

 

So the odd part is there is a folder for a set of videos from YouTube, and when one video exists left in that folder it just shows a thumbnail from the video.   Plus think maybe when you delete that video Emby deletes the whole folder physically.

[Luke 42086]

Hi there, how are your files named and organized?

[jriker1 21]

I have a folder called YouTubeShows which I point Emby to.  Then in there is a list of YouTubers Folders:

 

So note I had one there called The Tim Tracker and watched the last one a few minutes ago.  When I deleted that file, the folder is gone.  It will be recreated the next time my downloader finds a new upload from them and stick the video in it.  The actual video filenames are whatever they are from the site and I drop in a nfo file as well as part of the download.  So for example for AllEars.net:

 

 

Never really expecting Emby to do anything with it though it creates a poster file for each.  There is a thumbnail stored in the MKV.

Note here is what the "group" looks like at least from the Emby Website:

 

Now if I go into one of those folders and delete all but one video and the original Poster file:

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I guess you can say that folder goes away in the interface, the poster file isn't used, and it switches to just the video and a thumbnail from the video:

 

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by jriker1

[Luke 42086]

Hi, this is due to a quirk with Emby folder browsing where folders that have only a single video get replaced by the video itself, so what you're looking at is the image for the video and not the folder.

This is something that we may be changing in future updates.