Erik 120 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) Hello, What is the best way to organize a movie to have a colour and old black & white versions of the same movie? is there a [ ] convention on the folder, or a metadata tag or something? Thanks, Erik Edited December 21, 2014 by Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltruncale 5 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I believe it would be to use Collections, however I'm not sure how to setup Collections, seems the way to go though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik 120 Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Thanks for that. However, the problem is with the fact that MBS sees 2 different movies for display purposes, but treats them as the same movie for watched status, resume and such. The structure I used is: Movies\Miracle on 34th street (1947) [Colour] Movies\Miracle on 34th street (1947) [b&W] As MBS ignores the [] it takes it as the same item for the internal database. So, @@Luke what method should be used to deal with this? Should I change the name of the item in the metadata editor to have colour / B&W so it sees them as separate items or what is the procedure? Thanks, Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36992 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 the multi-version grouping is designed to display one visual item and allow clients to select the most efficient one. generally it is used for storing the same content in different resolutions, containers, 2d/3d, etc. You could use that for this but I think there are going to be times when you want to see one version or the other, so my suggestion is have them be two separate movies and use a collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik 120 Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Thanks Luke. Just to clarify each movie version is in its own folder so they are different movies. And that's how they show up in the web client (I did not make them a collection). But as I said MBS changes the wayched status on both when one is changed. Should I rename the movie titles now thy I have he metadata in order to isolate them? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 36992 Posted December 22, 2014 Solution Share Posted December 22, 2014 user data is keyed off of things like imdb/tmdb id to make the data more portable. that's why that's happening. unfortunately we don't currently offer configuration for that. something to think about for later though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik 120 Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 No problem. Not a big deal, my wife likes the B&W one, kids like the colour one... Not likely to have another instance of this for me personally. Thanks again, Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotj 6 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 (edited) I was thinking about this yesterday, because there are two distinctly different versions of Anchorman 2. I'm going to set up a second entry in TMDb for the newer version of Anchorman 2, called "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Super Sized Version. I'm pretty sure this will work in TMDb, not sure if you can get away with making a separate entry for the color version, but maybe? I know it's a lot of work to fully populate a new movie in TMDb, but wanted to throw that option out there. I wish there was a way to copy a movie and paste it into a new entry, sure would make what I am about to do a whole lot easier. Edited December 23, 2014 by tornadotj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1977 67 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I doubt you will "get away" with adding two versions of Anchorman 2 (let alone color and bw versions). There used to be two versions of Apocalypse Now (original and Redux), which are distinctively different, but even these had been removed and now just one version left. This is a pity, but it is how it is. With regards to MBS, I don't think this is a major issue. You can manually rename the b/w version. Only issue is watch tags, but something to live with. Out of curiosity - how is the NFO updated in this cases once the movie is watched? Are both NFO files being updated if the movie exists twice or only the one, which was actually watched? If only one, how does MBS deal with this consistency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotj 6 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 That kind of stinks, but I guess it is what we will have to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MndWrp 99 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I think there really should be a feature allowing you to have multiple movie versions. I would definitely use that! Collections work ok for this but ultimately an official 'mb3' way would be nice. Maybe something like have a main one and display the alternate versions as an additional menu item like extras or trailers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
embolon 0 Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Had a B&W and colored version of Casablanca. I would also hope to see a more native feature to support multiple version of the same movie in emby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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