Support for Mixed Libraries (CollectionFolder Type)

[Riptide126]

I'd like to request support for libraries with the "Type": "CollectionFolder" metadata (aka mixed libraries). This is used when a single library contains both movies and TV shows — for example, I have all my anime movies and series in the same library.

Currently, Watchstate only supports libraries marked as type "movie" or "tvshows". Attempting to use a mixed library results in:

Library type 'unknown' is not supported.

I prefer keeping my anime content in one combined library for organizational purposes, and adding support for this would help users like me who use Jellyfin/Emby this way.

Suggested solution:

Add support for parsing libraries with "Type": "CollectionFolder" and handle both movies and TV shows under the same logical grouping.

Thank you!

[arabcoders]

Hello,

Thanks for your suggestion, we are in feature freeze as we prepare to tag v1.0 sadly we won't be able to get this feature in. However, i do plan to expand support for this kind of library hopefully in v1.x.0 release. Unfortunately, I don't have an estimated time frame for when this will happen.

Edit:

Thankfully, the implementation was rather easy to support, as such it has been added to the dev branch and will make it in v0.4.x

[Riptide126]

Ok sounds good, if you do at some point have a timeframe for when this would be implemented I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your response!

[arabcoders]

Ok sounds good, if you do at some point have a timeframe for when this would be implemented I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your response!

Sure i will post an update to this discussion when i have estimated timeframe.

[arabcoders]

Lucky for you, supporting the CollectionFolder type was easier then expected. please try switching to dev container and test it out

[Riptide126]

Ok let me take a look

[arabcoders]

It seems everything went well. closing the request.