Collection Artwork and and description

[thecrazykaktus]

Hello everyone,

Since I'm still relatively new to Jellyfin, I have a question.
I have a lot of film collections. Unfortunately, the correct cover is not chosen when summarizing the collections.
Can someone tell me how I can change this and where?
If I go to the three points in the collection and say change image, nothing is offered to me.
However, everything works for individual films.

[TheDreadPirate]

When you are editing images you have to provide one. It won't automatically give you options based on the contents of the collection.

[jimmyjammy]

I just wrote this in another post & it might help.

"Putting your image (folder.jpg / cover.jpg) in your actual media folders will not work. Jellyfin seems to store the images in it's local database. On a Mac this is located at ~/.local/share/jellyfin/data/collections. Am not familiar with Docker but finding that folder should not be hard. There you will find separate folders for each collection eg. "The Mummy (Universal) [boxset]" & in those folders you will find the actual images being used & a .xml file for the collection. Replace the images with the same naming convention ( mine are folder.jpg ), rescan your collections library & then refresh your browser window & you should see the new images. You can also add nice backdrops into these folders by naming an image "backdrop.jpg". Alternately you can download an image you would like to use, right click the collection & choose "edit images" then select your downloaded image & it will replace the existing image with the new one. The TPdB (https://theposterdb.com) is a great place to find collection images although it seems to be down temporarily but the TMdB also has "collection" images available on their site. Jellyfin defaults to one of the movie posters if no images are available which explains why you are seeing that. Disabling scrapers negates Jellyfin from identifying your collections - I would reenable them & then use "identify" in order to get images & metadata.
Hope this helps !"

Cheer! jj

[McCordRM]

Is there a way to have it create a folder without [boxset]? So just The Mummy Collection? That's how I have my stuff stored. It would be nice to just copy over the movie set folder with all the collection artwork directly instead of needing a second copy of the folder structure with [boxset] added.

[theguymadmax]

Is there a way to have it create a folder without [boxset]? So just  The Mummy Collection?  That's how I have my stuff stored. It would be nice to just copy over the movie set folder with all the collection artwork directly instead of needing a second copy of the folder structure with [boxset] added.

I just tried to add a folder without the word [Boxset] appended to the folder name and the collections library picked it up. What happened when you tried it out? Did you have errors in your logs or did the collection not show up in the library?

[McCordRM]

No, I hadn't tried it. I came across this thread from a google search and noticed the "fix" by Jimmy was to put images in the [boxset] folders.

[McCordRM]

I had to create a folder (for Kodi) specifically for Collection Artwork. In each folder (13 Ghosts Collection, for example) there is the NFO file that reads:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<collection>
  <title>13 Ghosts Collection</title>
  <plot>13 Ghosts Collection</plot>
  <thumb>thumb.jpg</thumb>
  <fanart>fanart.jpg</fanart>
  <tmdbid/>
  <uniqueid default="true" type="tmdb">0</uniqueid>
  <genre>Horror</genre>
  <dateadded/>
  <lockdata>true</lockdata>
  <user_note/>
</collection>

The image files in each directory are:
folder.jpg
poster.jpg
fanart.jpg
thumb.jpg


As opposed to the XML file created by Jellyfin in the [boxset] folder:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Item>
  <ContentRating>Rated PG</ContentRating>
  <Added>03/10/2025 15:22:35</Added>
  <LockData>true</LockData>
  <LocalTitle>13 Ghosts Collection</LocalTitle>
  <DisplayOrder>PremiereDate</DisplayOrder>
  <CollectionItems>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>D:\02-Sets\13 Ghosts Collection\13 Ghosts (1960)\13 Ghosts (1960).mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>D:\02-Sets\13 Ghosts Collection\Thir13en Ghosts (2001)\Thir13en Ghosts (2001).mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
  </CollectionItems>
</Item>

**EDIT**
I copied my own directory 13 Ghosts Collection into the Collections folder. Jellyfin used my files, but then it showed 2 collections for the movie set. Mine, with zero movies assigned to the collection but with images, and the other one. I copied the XML file from the [boxset] directory into my collection directory, and then deleted the [boxset] directory that Jellyfin created, and now it works like a champ.