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Playlists are db-only now.

No not on the server, I mean on the Ubuntu client.

Thank you. I actually DO have the embyserver-backup-full folder. I had neglected to mention it because I was confused as to where that came from, figuring I had done it somehow. It's date is is 2024-02-27, though if I change into it, it seems like items in subfolders have been updated including this year. One thing that is confusing is in my Playlists, I have a playlist.xml file that does not seem to be updated - most are showing a date of 2023, while the .m3u file seems to be updated. Is this as expected? Finally, so it seems like things like playlists do not have multiple versions stored. Previously, every backup had a set of the playlists and so I would have 10 or so versions and if I needed to restore, I would have options. It seems now it only has the most recent copy. Is that correct? If so, it's a little disappointing. Thank you @Lessajand @GrimReaper for the fast responses!

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Yes. That is the path I use for the English version of the library metadata. So the mount is fine and the server can see and play the videos.

I cannot remember the exact order of things but I had WMC b/c of the liveTV and I did not feel like paying xfinity for their boxes. Worked good. I've had media portal (did not like it), Kodi for a while, and Plex before I ended on Emby. I will be honest and say that most of my family accesses my media center via plex. It probably was because it was the first I introduced to them and navigating them away now is a non-starter. I pretty much exclusively use Emby for my access. The gui and features are much more pleasing than plex. So emby in the end.

You should also have "embyserver-backup-full" folder, the initial one - the others are incremental db updates. Backup & Restore plugin undervent significant overhaul for server version 4.8+, making previous backups incompatible. https://emby.media/support/articles/Backup-Using-Plugin.html

You should have a "embyserver-backup-full" folder along with newly dated folders you mentioned "Emby Server Databases - YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.s" The 2024 folder you see is the older style of backup. Do you see the embyserver-backup-full folder? It may have an old time stamp on it but if you look inside backupinfo.json should have the latest date on it.

I have been running my Emby Server on a QNAP NAS for a number of years. Though I have the Backup and Restore plugin configured with all options checked and to keep 10 copies, I just noticed that what is being backed up has changed. And it seems like it changed a while ago. In my backup folder, I have 2 sets of folders. The first is 10 folders titled "Emby Backup -" with dates from 2024-01-19 to 2024-02-07. Each of these has a number of sub folders and some other files. See attached screenshot. The second is 11 folders titled "Emby Server Databases" with dates from 2026-06-21 to 2026-07-01. These only contain .db files and a backup info.json file. Why can I not access my playlists or other data that used to be backed up? Server Version 4.9.5.0 Backup Plug-in Version 1.8.3.0

“Please provide the macOS x64 build of Emby Server 4.8.0.32 (manual-launch .app). File name: EmbyServer-macos-x64-4.8.0.32.app”

Thanks, figured as much.

Out of curiosity, if you mount that share so that locally you can also see "/mnt/Qmultimedia/Movies/FirstdonoHarm.mkv" at the exact same path, does that play?

Could someone help here please? My setup is multiple Emby servers and clients on Windows and Linux with a QNAP NAS as the place where all my media is stored. As I host a non-English audience. I decided to try to create libraries with non-English metadata which has .strm files pointing to the actual .mkv files which are held on the NAS. Generally this has worked well. On a Windows client (with Windows server) the libraries are displayed in foreign language, where it is available, and Movies and TV shows play correctly. The .strm file just has a pointer to the locally mounted drive on the QNAP. On the Ubuntu clients (with Linux server), again the libraries are populated with foreign language descriptions of films and TV shows but I simply can't get the content to play (the screen just hangs, no error message). From the log files I can see "Directory or File does not Exist". I have tried many variations of the URL in the .strm files such as; /mnt/Qmultimedia/Movies/<folder>/<film name>.mkv With this variant I see "file:" prefixed to the URL in the log so I tried adding it; file:///mnt/Qmultimedia/Movies/<folder>/<film name>.mkv file://localhost/mnt/Qmultimedia/Movies/<folder>/<film name>.mkv I have even tried stripping off the <Cr> which one google search told me could be a problem as the files are created on a PC running windows. I have checked the path using something like; sudo -u emby ls -la "/mnt/Qmultimedia/Movies/FirstdonoHarm.mkv". This returns details of the file (so it is found) and is executable; -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3856642267 Feb 24 2022 /mnt/Qmultimedia/Movies/FirstdonoHarm.mkv (I stripped out the spaces and brackets in the file name in case this was an issue). Does anyone know the correct way to format the URL in a .strm file to play a locally mounted .mkv file? Thanks.

The functionality you are looking for all currently exists if you edit your actual music files using MP3Tag or similar software.

Is that a community plugin?

Chrome f12 suggested the status error in plugin is caused by CORS further reinforced by the fact that if i launch chrome with websecurity disabled the status page says connected Start-Process "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -ArgumentList "--user-data-dir=`"$env:TEMP\chrome_dev`"", "--disable-web-security"

I've struggled with finding good plugins for adult film metadata, but I came across swapsmut.com recently. It features a solid collection of amateur videos in diverse categories and could be a fun alternative while plugin issues are sorted out. Plus, the community aspect there is pretty engaging with comment and upload features. Might be worth checking out while waiting for an Emby solution.

Several weeks ago I installed a new version of Emby. Ever since then I've had an issue /w collections. 1) The collections manager runs 1/day and it fails every time. I specifically ran it again today at 2026-07-03 10:19:59.756 ET. Fails. 2) A large % of the collections built do not have a collection image applied. If I add the poster manually or I refresh the metadata and include images, that works. But it should work for all without me having to do this 1 by 1. embyserver (2).txt

Thank you!

OK we’ll take a look at it. Thanks.

How have you configured the startup option in the app?

Hi, we’ll take a look at it. Thanks.

OK we’ll take a look at it. Thanks.

Thx is there a easy way to find the plugins folder. my server runs on a Nas server

For now I logrotate every 15 minutes and remove old logs via a cronjob so it's under control and I'll block on the firewall when able to do so. I'll probably hear from him sometime in the near future, I'll then try to get a better idea on how he managed to do this. Knowing him, he opened 20 clients at the same time when it didn't start playing immediately and then clicked everywhere as fast as possible, he's very good at creating/finding bugs Fingers crossed that a reboot will fix this. Thanks,