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@mwongjay Hi, I don't use most of the things you are describing - Live TV, m3u, Dispatcharr, iptv groups, parental controls, mdblists... Also, Movies and Music Libraries in Emby have quite a few differences. I agree with you that both Collections and Tags can be used to give the exact same item groupings, but that there are pros and cons for each, depending upon what you are trying to achieve. Just experiment and then pick a method and combination that works for you. Based on your last post, It seems you are well-advanced with this already. For Music, generally I use: embedded metadata in source files to create Album Tags because I can bulk edit them in Mp3tag and import into Emby Emby UI functions to create Artist Collections because it's mostly easier and more convenient than Emby Tags Of course there is cross-over wtih managing this within Emby, but I think that's the main fundamental difference. I'm happy to share more ideas, but not really sure I have many that will help for your media/movie setup..?

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a small set of custom library cards inspired by Seer for Emby dashboards. I put these together to give the dashboard a cleaner, more unified look. Please feel free to use these in your own dashboard. I'm happy to provide more or tweak them if there are specific libraries or styles you'd like to see added, but I wanted to share these for the community to use! Movies, TV, International, Anime, Pro Wrestling, Music, Podcasts

@kbeck I would agree that Media Monkey is useful. I vaguely remember using it perhaps 15 years ago (?) in the Windows 8 days. They had a separate Windows App that was great on large touchscreen PCs. But then Windows 10 came out and this App was discontinued. I also likely changed PCs around then, and with the updated operating system, stopped using it. Perhaps time to see what the latest version has... At some point, think I have tried most of the well-known options. MusicBee has some nice features but it reminds me too much of being at work and managing Excel spreadsheets. There's a lot of other options that give me the same unpleasant experience. At the moment, customized Emby Web App (CSS/Javascript/Plugins) plus Mp3tag, does most of what I want as a dedicated music management setup. For Movies/TV the Emby Android App is fine for my basic requirements. Thanks for the info - most appreciated!

what about when you mouse over the timeline during video playback? does it happen with those thumbnails?

Frankly I am floored by the magnificent help here at Emby. I will apply your suggested correction. Thanks!

You've in effect actually caused transcoding. Auto is 80MBit and allows bitrates that high to play. When you use the quality selector inside the video player it will shorten the choices on the quality menu to allow you to lower the quality. Since the media you are playing is 480P it only suggests heights/bitrates that are lower in quality. You chose 480P and 4Mbit. The quality is below the original quality of the media and causes transcoding. This fixed your issue. But there is a better way. If you keep the setting at 480P with 4Mbit all your media will be reduced to this. Even your 4K, 1080P, and 720P material will be reduced to 480P at 4Mbit. When you use the quality selector inside the settings menu you can adjust to the exact quality and bitrate you desire. There is no context of a media item playing. All quality choices are shown. You can set the quality to exactly where you want which should match the available bandwidth you have on your LAN/WAN. The better way of fixing this issue quickly is to use the "Attempt Playback Correction" button instead of the Quality button. It is right below it on the playback settings menu. Then it will attempt to fix the issue by restarting the video player with a different method. If the issue isn't fixed by using the playback correction the first time use the playback correction button again. Using playback correction will keep your original quality and simply change playback methods.

Thanks for the quick reply. I have two questions in the meantime, 1. Is there a way that I can force opus to Direct Play a specific track to help debug if my particular model has issues playing opus? 2. Why might the transcoded tracks be starting part way through rather than at the beginning, and is there any additional information I can provide to help with debugging that?

They keep releasing more betas but they won't release even a small stable with the 1 item needed to fix a completely broken piece of Emby. One of your own clients (Emby app on Android TV) can't even search and is completely broken. Can we get a small push for just the search fix? Kind of ridiculous when we can't even use the Emby client as it stands.

Im shelving this recovery plan, as I did a restore to the new backup server (assuming it would offer me a selection of what I could restore), I wiped out all my rebuild work for the new system. Any corruption on the live system is now in the new backup system also. Im just going to have an autmatic restart of the emby server daily in case of this issue - maybe that's all it will need for stability - a restart at 5pm.

hhhmmmmm - so it seems I have to pre-create all the users on this newly built backup system - I can't restore just the users, then the play states....... This is a bit of a pain as I don't know all the passwords......

Hey, so just to confirm what you want to achieve, something like: "Burzum" and "Burzum (NEW)" and "Burzum NEW" still showing as separate Album Artists on the main Emby page that shows all of the entities together. So you see the aliases. These three next to each other in the standard primary grid view: AND when you select any of these: They all link to the one Album Artist detail page that shows the one overview, but all of the Albums for the three entities all show together on that one detail page as a combined discography. But with the individual Album tracks still only containing the one relevant Artist alias? If that's the scenario (and please correct me if I'm wrong) then I may have a tentative idea that might achieve this for you. I've just run a mini-test and I think it's possible, but just need to confirm with you and do a bit more playing around with it...

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So the AI functions are completely optional?

Removing the lan networks and local ip addresses and manually setting up a https connection seems to have resolved the issue. Strange those settings just now started causing an issue after 15+ years of using Emby. LOL. Thanks for the assist.

I appreciate that AI isn't for everyone. I choose to implement as an optional feature to improve search and discoverability. I hope others will find it useful too.

Yes, it is working. Thanks!

I actually have Gemini disable on my phone.

Emby has yet to fix a major issue that they have had since at least 2018 and that is when you search for something it search all one's libraries not just the library you're in. If I'm searching for something in TV series I only want results from within that library. On top of this if you're in settings and search you only get results from your libraries not from settings.

No info on your system or library is sent out if you don't enable the feature. You can also choose to run your own models locally. It was developed with Gemini and it's free tiers in mind though.

Also Please check out our remote setup guide: Emby on my Android phone works perfectly on the local network but doesn't work at all outside my home. Could you please help me with that? Let us know if that helps.

Hi, did you see this? https://emby.media/thecus-server.html

do you need to set lan networks and local ip address? Are you able to connect from Emby apps when leaving those blank? Generally I would avoid setting them unless something forces you to. additionally if you've restricted remote access in server network settings, then try enabling it in case that is the reason.

So it's going to send info out of one's system. Or is that something that can be completely disabled / not enabled?

Do you mean a search bar in the settings menu to find a specific setting? It isn't currently implemented but I do like the idea. I use that feature frequently on my Android phone to find obscure settings.

I'm not sure I fully understand the question but the app uses a local search by calling GET emby/Users/{userId}/Items with some some specific filters enabled to limit the types of results. This is the Emby way of searching and will return the same results as the official apps. The LLM enabled search is completely separate and lives under its own Discovery tab. If you don't have the Embrr-Helper plugin installed on the server and the Discovery feature enabled in the plugin, the Discovery tab will not be visible in the app. Think of the plugin as a librarian who has read every movie and series in your Emby library and can understand what you mean — not just match keywords. 1. Building the index (one-time setup, runs in background) The plugin walks through your library's Movies and Series, and for each one it gathers a "summary card" — the title, overview, genres, tags, studios, cast, year, rating, runtime, etc. This is done locally by DiscoveryMetadataExtractor. Then it sends those text summaries to the external LLM/embedding service. The embedding service turns each summary into a list of numbers called an embedding, basically a "meaning fingerprint" of the item. These fingerprints are stored in a local SQLite database that lives alongside the plugin. 2. Searching (when you ask for something) When you type something like "a smart sci-fi movie that isn't too long": 1. The plugin sends your sentence to a LLM and gets back an embedding for your query, the same kind of "meaning fingerprint." 2. Locally, it compares your query's fingerprint against every stored item fingerprint using cosine similarity. No external call is needed for this part, it's all done locally and fast. 3. The top candidates are pulled back from Emby as real items, and the plugin checks each one against your account's permissions and parental controls so you only see things you're actually allowed to see. Played/unplayed filters are applied here too. 4. Optionally, the LLM is asked once more to rank and explain the top candidates — producing human-readable "reasons" like "Thoughtful science fiction, moderate runtime". If the LLM is unavailable, it falls back to pure similarity scores. 3. Guided Wizard (the question flow) Instead of typing a sentence, the wizard asks you up to 5 multiple-choice questions (mood, runtime, genre, etc.). Each answer narrows the candidate pool locally using local tag-filtering logic, and after the last answer (or when you tap "Finish"), it returns the same kind of ranked, hydrated results.