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i dont think its possible to play tracks....."Ask ear wax to play song|track songname" would be nice. this is how emby does it. 2026-06-06 11:15:55.466 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E96:00000002: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌3.216.94.180‌. Time: 3ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/6cc6d0fa039849af8147592f5da46188/Items?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&Fields=Id,Name,AlbumArtist,MediaType&SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&Recursive=true&ArtistIds=&ParentId=&SearchTerm=WAP&IsFavorite=&Limit=400&EnableTotalRecordCount=false&EnableImages=false&EnableUserData=false. Adding shuffle to playlists would be great. Emby does with by interfchanging play keyword with shuffle keyword....eg Alexa ask ear wax shuffle the playlist car But given that Ear Wax seems to have tighter control over the ongoing session as shown by "what is playing" could the command be issued after playback has started as well? Eg Alexa Ask Ear Wax play Album American Beauty. and then "Alexa [ask ear wax] shuffle" OR "Alexa [ask ear wax] shuffle loop" (and ear operates on the current queue)

• Open Ear Wax successfully. Yes. have to carefully annunciate "ear wax" and not let it slip into "earwax" - but thats just Alexa. its more reliable than "M B Home" for me. Alexa needs such an unnatural pause between syllables (words). Alexa thinks Amazon music is intended 1/20 thats just alexa. Anything that can be done to keep in the ear wax skill open once started for as long as possible so the skill does not need to be reinvoked would be a god send. Could Ear Wax be registered as an actual Alexa music service (like amazon music.spotify) and and could that improve interaction? To get your Alexa skill to appear in the native "Link New Services" list inside the Alexa app's Music & Podcasts settings, your skill must be officially certified and published using the Amazon Music Skill API.Standard custom skills (even those that stream audio) only appear in the general "Skills & Games" store. Only skills built strictly as native music providers can occupy a slot in the dedicated native services menu. FWIW i cant "ask ear wax" on my android phone alexa client • Play random music using “select some tunes.” "Alexa, ask Ear Wax to play some music" works... • Play at least three music families: Jazz, Pop, and Rock. OK • Play at least three artists, including one multi-word artist name. Command "Alexa, ask ear wax to play Artist questionmark and the mysterians" (this search would return no results as the artist is '? and the mysterians'**) response "There was a problem with the requested skills response" log 2026-06-06 10:04:53.457 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E1F:00000001: http/1.1 GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&SearchTerm=question mark and the mysterians&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌. Source Ip: ‌54.217.47.94‌, UserAgent: 2026-06-06 10:04:58.732 Info SqliteItemRepository: Interrupt query due to cancellation. 2026-06-06 10:04:58.732 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 0: interrupted; [] 2026-06-06 10:04:58.732 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 5: interrupted; [SELECT rowid, rank FROM 'main'.'fts_search9' ORDER BY bm25("fts_search9") ASC] 2026-06-06 10:04:58.732 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 54: interrupted; [with WithAncestors AS (SELECT itemid FROM AncestorIds2 WHERE AncestorId=57475 ),WithItemLinkItemIds AS (select ItemLinks2.LinkedId From ItemLinks2 join withancestors on withancestors.itemid=itemlinks2.itemid where ItemLinks2.Type in (0,1,5))select A.Id,A.Name,A.RunTimeTicks,A.Images,UserDatas.IsFavorite from mediaitems A join fts_search9 on A.Id=fts_search9.RowId and fts_search9 match @SearchTerm left join UserDatas on A.UserDataKeyId=UserDatas.UserDataKeyId And UserDatas.UserId=17 where A.Type=13 AND A.Id in WithItemLinkItemIds ORDER BY Rank ASC] 2026-06-06 10:04:58.733 Info ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E1F:00000001: http/1.1 Response completed after client disconnected to ‌54.217.47.94‌. Time: 5275ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&SearchTerm=question mark and the mysterians&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌. 2026-06-06 10:04:58.765 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E1G:00000001: http/1.1 GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&SearchTerm=question mark mysterians&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌. Source Ip: ‌54.217.47.94‌, UserAgent: 2026-06-06 10:05:01.185 Info SqliteItemRepository: Interrupt query due to cancellation. 2026-06-06 10:05:01.185 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 0: interrupted; [] 2026-06-06 10:05:01.185 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 5: interrupted; [SELECT rowid, rank FROM 'main'.'fts_search9' ORDER BY bm25("fts_search9") ASC] 2026-06-06 10:05:01.185 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 54: interrupted; [with WithAncestors AS (SELECT itemid FROM AncestorIds2 WHERE AncestorId=57475 ),WithItemLinkItemIds AS (select ItemLinks2.LinkedId From ItemLinks2 join withancestors on withancestors.itemid=itemlinks2.itemid where ItemLinks2.Type in (0,1,5))select A.Id,A.Name,A.RunTimeTicks,A.Images,UserDatas.IsFavorite from mediaitems A join fts_search9 on A.Id=fts_search9.RowId and fts_search9 match @SearchTerm left join UserDatas on A.UserDataKeyId=UserDatas.UserDataKeyId And UserDatas.UserId=17 where A.Type=13 AND A.Id in WithItemLinkItemIds ORDER BY Rank ASC] 2026-06-06 10:05:01.186 Info ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E1G:00000001: http/1.1 Response completed after client disconnected to ‌54.217.47.94‌. Time: 2421ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&SearchTerm=question mark mysterians&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌. Command Alexa ask ear wax to play artist this artist does not exist response The requested media artist this artist does not exist cannot be found in your library (correct**, so what made questionmark and the mysterians fall over so badly) Command Alexa ask ear wax to play artist mysterians Response Playing Artist ....and the mysterians (the question mark is not vocalised, perhaps a necessary evil for punctuation) Command "Alexa ask ear wax play artist megan thee stallion" (This artist/content does exist see below) "The request media megan thee stallion could not be found in the library" (the m b home skill finds and plays) 2026-06-06 10:23:04.493 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E47:00000001: http/1.1 GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&SearchTerm=megan thee stallion&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌. Source Ip: ‌54.217.47.94‌, UserAgent: 2026-06-06 10:23:07.844 Debug SqliteItemRepository: ItemsService.GetItems.GetItems query time (slow 6x): 3350ms. Query: with WithAncestors AS (SELECT itemid FROM AncestorIds2 WHERE AncestorId=57475 ),WithItemLinkItemIds AS (select ItemLinks2.LinkedId From ItemLinks2 join withancestors on withancestors.itemid=itemlinks2.itemid where ItemLinks2.Type in (0,1,5))select A.Id,A.Name,A.RunTimeTicks,A.Images,UserDatas.IsFavorite from mediaitems A join fts_search9 on A.Id=fts_search9.RowId and fts_search9 match @SearchTerm left join UserDatas on A.UserDataKeyId=UserDatas.UserDataKeyId And UserDatas.UserId=17 where A.Type=13 AND A.Id in WithItemLinkItemIds ORDER BY Rank ASC 2026-06-06 10:23:07.845 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E47:00000001: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌54.217.47.94‌. Time: 3352ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&SearchTerm=megan thee stallion&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌. 2026-06-06 10:23:07.891 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E48:00000001: http/1.1 GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&ArtistIds=360177&SortBy=Album,SortName&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&Fields=Album,AlbumId,Artists,ArtistItems,BitRate,Container&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌&Limit=2. Source Ip: ‌54.217.47.94‌, UserAgent: 2026-06-06 10:23:08.016 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Folder 372792 \\x99\x99a\Music\Compilations\Now That’s What I Call Music!\Now That's What I Call Music! 107 2026-06-06 10:23:08.016 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById MusicAlbum 360126 Now That's What I Call Music! 107 2026-06-06 10:23:08.016 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E48:00000001: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌54.217.47.94‌. Time: 125ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&ArtistIds=360177&SortBy=Album,SortName&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&Fields=Album,AlbumId,Artists,ArtistItems,BitRate,Container&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌&Limit=2. { "Items": [ { "Name": "Megan Thee Stallion", "ServerId": "fccaa6f897f140dbb689938224ae1938", "Id": "360177", "RunTimeTicks": 1626122450, "IsFolder": true, "Type": "MusicArtist", "UserData": { "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0, "PlayCount": 0, "IsFavorite": false, "Played": false }, "ImageTags": { "Primary": "ea20074abe4ab4d4058b6a4ff6559e61_638544064451567131", "Logo": "03a84d0a88975ad45308ae0e2ec48459_638544064452348432" }, "BackdropImageTags": [ "51b2968fefc69d03c21ae631404a31a7_638544064453129670" ] }, { "Name": "Martine Theeuwen", "ServerId": "fccaa6f897f140dbb689938224ae1938", "Id": "263642", "RunTimeTicks": 11626318250, "IsFolder": true, "Type": "MusicArtist", "UserData": { "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0, "PlayCount": 0, "IsFavorite": false, "Played": false }, "ImageTags": { "Primary": "c3f6ca75e4ac1e61ee175ed2f99d9d8f_638096971922533177" }, "BackdropImageTags": [] }, { "Name": "Thee Maddkatt Courtship", "ServerId": "fccaa6f897f140dbb689938224ae1938", "Id": "275852", "RunTimeTicks": 2792681280, "IsFolder": true, "Type": "MusicArtist", "UserData": { "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0, "PlayCount": 0, "IsFavorite": false, "Played": false }, "ImageTags": {}, "BackdropImageTags": [] }, { "Name": "Megan Washington", "ServerId": "fccaa6f897f140dbb689938224ae1938", "Id": "370728", "RunTimeTicks": 2167379590, "IsFolder": true, "Type": "MusicArtist", "UserData": { "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0, "PlayCount": 0, "IsFavorite": false, "Played": false }, "ImageTags": { "Primary": "875da71750f9a82b4e3ade49d1085b48_638029154795437655", "Logo": "54d980669f6eb89c656e39dd853a1324_638096591208724801" }, "BackdropImageTags": [ "79ddf5aea2d039cd8d7cc122f56f9145_638096591209173756" ] } ], "TotalRecordCount": 4 } { "Items": [ { "Name": "WAP", "ServerId": "fccaa6f897f140dbb689938224ae1938", "Id": "375219", "Container": "mp3", "RunTimeTicks": 1626122450, "Bitrate": 320561, "IndexNumber": 22, "ParentIndexNumber": 2, "IsFolder": false, "Type": "Audio", "ParentLogoItemId": "255358", "ParentBackdropItemId": "255358", "ParentBackdropImageTags": [ "8e00f160bb7fdab56619d2d4f222f4fa_637480562752644916" ], "UserData": { "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0, "PlayCount": 0, "IsFavorite": false, "Played": false }, "Artists": [ "Cardi B", "Megan Thee Stallion" ], "ArtistItems": [ { "Name": "Cardi B", "Id": "264892" }, { "Name": "Megan Thee Stallion", "Id": "360177" } ], "Composers": [ { "Name": "Ayo the Producer", "Id": "360178" }, { "Name": "Cardi B", "Id": "264892" }, { "Name": "James Foye III", "Id": "360179" }, { "Name": "Megan Thee Stallion", "Id": "360177" }, { "Name": "Frank Ski", "Id": "360180" }, { "Name": "Jordan Thorpe", "Id": "360181" } ], "Album": "Now That's What I Call Music! 107", "AlbumId": "360126", "AlbumPrimaryImageTag": "b640136aad23a8d7eca9954f676c359f_638543355285764869", "AlbumArtist": "Various Artists", "AlbumArtists": [ { "Name": "Various Artists", "Id": "255358" } ], "ImageTags": {}, "BackdropImageTags": [], "ParentLogoImageTag": "07254a8b3bbed77d97558f25a72c8432_637475500989578660", "MediaType": "Audio" } ], "TotalRecordCount": 1 } Log for m b home skill (note the ancestor id 57475 is the location of the artist/content...300966 is audiobooks). 2026-06-06 11:04:01.893 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E8L:00000002: http/1.1 GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/6cc6d0fa039849af8147592f5da46188/Items?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&Fields=Id&SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&Recursive=true&SearchTerm=Megan thee stallion&Limit=1&EnableTotalRecordCount=false&EnableImages=false&EnableUserData=false. Source Ip: ‌3.216.94.180‌, UserAgent: node-fetch/1.0 (+https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch) 2026-06-06 11:04:06.219 Debug SqliteItemRepository: ItemsService.GetItems.GetItemList query time (slow 6x): 4325ms. Query: with WithAncestors AS (SELECT itemid FROM AncestorIds2 WHERE AncestorId in (57475,300966) ),WithItemLinkItemIds AS (select ItemLinks2.LinkedId From ItemLinks2 join withancestors on withancestors.itemid=itemlinks2.itemid where ItemLinks2.Type in (0,1,5))select A.Id,A.Name,A.RunTimeTicks from mediaitems A join fts_search9 on A.Id=fts_search9.RowId and fts_search9 match @SearchTerm where A.Type=13 AND A.Id in WithItemLinkItemIds ORDER BY Rank ASC LIMIT 1 2026-06-06 11:04:06.219 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E8L:00000002: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌3.216.94.180‌. Time: 4326ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/6cc6d0fa039849af8147592f5da46188/Items?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&Fields=Id&SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&Recursive=true&SearchTerm=Megan thee stallion&Limit=1&EnableTotalRecordCount=false&EnableImages=false&EnableUserData=false. 2026-06-06 11:04:06.303 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E8L:00000003: http/1.1 GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/6cc6d0fa039849af8147592f5da46188/Items?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&Fields=Id,Name,AlbumArtist,MediaType&SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&Recursive=true&ArtistIds=360177&ParentId=&SearchTerm=&IsFavorite=&Limit=400&EnableTotalRecordCount=false&EnableImages=false&EnableUserData=false. Source Ip: ‌3.216.94.180‌, UserAgent: node-fetch/1.0 (+https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch) 2026-06-06 11:04:06.442 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3H17K1E8L:00000003: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌3.216.94.180‌. Time: 139ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/6cc6d0fa039849af8147592f5da46188/Items?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&Fields=Id,Name,AlbumArtist,MediaType&SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&Recursive=true&ArtistIds=360177&ParentId=&SearchTerm=&IsFavorite=&Limit=400&EnableTotalRecordCount=false&EnableImages=false&EnableUserData=false. 2026-06-06 11:04:07.586 Info UniversalAudioService-0HNM3H17K1E8M:00000001: http/1.1 GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Audio/375219/universal?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&DeviceId=0fe9d3f28b5c0248f0a15e0018033f22&StartTimeTicks=0&MaxStreamingBitrate=384000&Container=mp3|mp3,m4a|aac,mp4|aac&TranscodingContainer=aac&TranscodingProtocol=http&AudioCodec=aac&MaxAudioSampleRate=48000&MaxAudioBitDepth=16. Source Ip: ‌192.168.4.2‌, Accept=*/*, Host=xxx.xxx.xxx, User-Agent=Echo/1.0(APNG), UniqueIdentifier=55443, Icy-MetaData=1 2026-06-06 11:04:07.587 Debug UniversalAudioService-0HNM3H17K1E8M:00000001: GetPostedPlaybackInfo request: {"Id":"375219","MaxStreamingBitrate":384000,"StartTimeTicks":0,"DeviceProfile":{"SupportedMediaTypes":"Audio,Photo,Video","MaxStreamingBitrate":8000000,"MusicStreamingTranscodingBitrate":256000,"DeclaredFeatures":[],"DirectPlayProfiles":[{"Container":"mp3","AudioCodec":"mp3","Type":"Audio"},{"Container":"m4a","AudioCodec":"aac","Type":"Audio"},{"Container":"mp4","AudioCodec":"aac","Type":"Audio"}],"TranscodingProfiles":[{"Container":"aac","Type":"Audio","AudioCodec":"aac","Protocol":"http","EstimateContentLength":false,"EnableMpegtsM2TsMode":false,"TranscodeSeekInfo":"Auto","CopyTimestamps":false,"Context":"Streaming","MinSegments":0,"SegmentLength":0,"BreakOnNonKeyFrames":false,"AllowInterlacedVideoStreamCopy":false,"MaxManifestSubtitles":0,"MaxWidth":0,"MaxHeight":0,"FillEmptySubtitleSegments":false}],"ContainerProfiles":[],"CodecProfiles":[{"Type":"Audio","Conditions":[{"Condition":"LessThanEqual","Property":"AudioSampleRate","Value":"48000","IsRequired":false},{"Condition":"LessThanEqual","Property":"AudioBitDepth","Value":"16","IsRequired":false}],"ApplyConditions":[],"Container":"mp3|mp3,m4a|aac,mp4|aac"}],"ResponseProfiles":[],"SubtitleProfiles":[]},"EnableDirectPlay":true,"EnableDirectStream":true,"EnableTranscoding":true,"AllowInterlacedVideoStreamCopy":false,"AllowVideoStreamCopy":true,"AllowAudioStreamCopy":true,"IsPlayback":true,"AutoOpenLiveStream":false} 2026-06-06 11:04:07.587 Info UniversalAudioService-0HNM3H17K1E8M:00000001: GetPostedPlaybackInfo request. IsPlayback: true, isInLocalNetwork: True 2026-06-06 11:04:07.587 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Audio 375219 \\x99\x99a\Music\Compilations\Now That’s What I Call Music!\Now That's What I Call Music! 107\D2_22. WAP - Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion.mp3 2026-06-06 11:04:07.588 Info UniversalAudioService-0HNM3H17K1E8M:00000001: User policy for Cartman. EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableTranscodingQuality: True 2026-06-06 11:04:07.588 Info SessionManager: Setting _lastPlaySessionId for session 22f708ea5948df5d065485a3733997fc to baaa59d0c22e446d907da54fa075a5b8 2026-06-06 11:04:07.588 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Audio 375219 \\x99\x99a\Music\Compilations\Now That’s What I Call Music!\Now That's What I Call Music! 107\D2_22. WAP - Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion.mp3 2026-06-06 11:04:11.734 Info SessionsService-0HNM3H17K1E8N:00000001: http/1.1 POST https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Sessions/Capabilities/Full?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&Id=22f708ea5948df5d065485a3733997fc. Source Ip: ‌3.216.94.180‌, UserAgent: node-fetch/1.0 (+https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch) 2026-06-06 11:04:11.736 Debug AuthenticationRepository: UpdateCapabilities id: 188 2026-06-06 11:04:11.736 Info SessionsService-0HNM3H17K1E8N:00000001: http/1.1 Response 204 to ‌3.216.94.180‌. Time: 2ms. POST https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Sessions/Capabilities/Full?api_key=‌ae701068aab94a97abb7dee7f6045cfd‌&Id=22f708ea5948df5d065485a3733997fc. 2026-06-06 11:04:28.526 Info SessionManager: PlaySession 66c7c2b6d6d7493ca78da01384778022 has gone idle while playing So falling over for some artists (or some content of artists). • Play at least two albums. Fine. • Play at least two playlists, including one multi-word playlist name. Fine. • Ask “what is playing” after a song starts. Fine. • Skip to the next song. Fine @MarvinBas a point of learning/awareness, do you know why the Alexa ecosystem supports "Alexa, Next" whilst playing an [ear wax] playlist, but not "Alexa, what is playing" and instead you have to go 'back to the beginning' and say "Alexa, Ask Ear Wax What is Playing". Do simple commands like 'next' get downloaded and cached in memory? • Stop playback. Fine

Hi, just upgraded (and jumped over some versions) to server version 4.9.5.0 And as I previously didn’t put different versions of movies or different resolutions of a movie in one folder – cause of structure reasons - I’m really very, very happy that at this point emby obviously made a move to support versions based on movie-id. (one thing I liked very much with infuse). Thank you! But: Although Emby switches (based on version selection) length, language and subtitle fields accordingly, the title (from nfo) stay’s the same, which unfortunately doesn’t allow me to select the version I wanna watch. Enclosed screenshots for example „Blade Runner“ – I have different versions and cuts of the movie. Right now there's no way to select the "Final-Cut" or the "Working Print".... I hope you can implement a kind of „Title-Switch“ soon. (And in this case "remembering" the watched/started version of the movie would also be very, very welcome;) __________ I also figured out that obviously „new added versions“ of an existing movie are not visible/shown as „new movies“. Maybe I missed: Is there any option to switch this on or off? (Example: Some movies I already own, I re-buy on bluray or UHD or get a new remastered version, but this "new entry" is not shown) Thank you so much for all the great work, I’m a big big Emby-Fan and very happy user.

Intel Arc B580 (Battlemage) - ffdetect crashes with exit code 135 (SIGSEGV) - Hardware transcoding not working on Unraid Hardware: Dell R740xd Intel Xeon Gold 6138 Matrox G200eW3 (onboard, card0) – native on motherboard Intel Arc B580 (PCIe, card1/renderD128) Unraid 7.3.1, kernel 6.18.33 Resizable BAR enabled in BIOS Problem: Emby 4.9.5.0 does not detect the Intel Arc B580 for hardware transcoding. Hardware Detection page shows no GPU adapters. Both VAAPI and QuickSync detection fail. Key finding from hardware_detection log: ffdetect version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25_p4 crashes with exit code 135 (SIGSEGV) for both VAAPI and QuickSync detection ExitCode: 135 (VAAPI) ExitCode: 135 (QuickSync) This is a segmentation fault – not just a "device not found" error, but a full crash of ffdetect when attempting to initialize VA-API with the B580. Additionally, the /dev/dri devices inside the container show group owner dialout instead of video: crwxrwxrwx 1 root dialout 226, 0 Jun 6 card0 crwxrwxrwx 1 root dialout 226, 1 Jun 6 card1 crwxrwxrwx 1 root dialout 226, 128 Jun 6 renderD128 What I have tried: Extra Parameters --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri --group-add 18 – no GPU detected Installed intel-media-driver (iHD_drv_video.so) manually inside container – still crashes vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD128 inside container returns vaInitialize failed with error code -1 Tested with official emby/embyserver and emby/embyserver:beta images – same result, exit code 135 Tested with Ubuntu 24.04 intel-media-va-driver 24.1.0 – iHD_drv_video.so init failed error code 18 Tested with Ubuntu 25.04 intel-media-va-driver 25.1.2 – iHD hangs at Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22, never returns Tested with Jellyfin-ffmpeg 7.1.3 – same iHD init hang for B580 chmod 777 /dev/dri/* and setfacl -m u:99:rw /dev/dri/* – no improvement What works on this system: FileFlows with Jellyfin-ffmpeg 7.1.4 successfully uses hevc_qsv with Intel Arc A310 (Alchemist) Plex successfully detects B580 but transcoding fails at stream start Conclusion: The root cause appears to be that ffdetect 5.1-emby_2023_06_25_p4 crashes (SIGSEGV, exit 135) when trying to initialize VA-API for Intel Arc B580 (Battlemage/Xe2). This is likely because the iHD driver bundled with ffdetect does not support Battlemage architecture. Question: Is there a planned update to ffdetect/ffmpeg with B580 support? The Emby forum thread #135987 mentions a fix was added in 4.9.2.1-beta but we cannot confirm this is present in the current release. Is there a workaround to manually replace the ffdetect binary or iHD driver? EDIT Root cause identified: The SIGBUS crash is a confirmed bug in Intel's iHD driver for Battlemage/B580. A bug report exists directly at Intel's media-driver GitHub (issue #1927 and #1893): "Running vainfo on Intel Arc B580 (Battlemage G21) with the iHD driver results in a SIGBUS crash during heap initialization in RenderHal_Initialize. The issue appears in memset() during state heap interface setup." The fix requires intel-media-driver version 25.3.2 or later (commit e46f78c35dfd11d7d95addf7b0b68685a2010fae). None of the tested Emby containers include this version. References: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1927 https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1893 Updated question: Does Emby plan to update the bundled iHD driver to version 25.3.2+ to fix the SIGBUS crash on Intel Arc B580 (Battlemage)? Is there a workaround to mount the host iHD driver into the Emby container in the meantime?

@Asdepique777I made it work with the 2:3 aspect, not done yet as i basically just forced the aspect. Picture from my test server: Might have something tonight or tomorrow.

Hi Luke Yes, I'm on 4.9.5 but the issue is still there. It did it again last when starting to play a recorded movie. Thanks, Warren.

Tu es sur que le serveur tourne toujours ? il a pas changé d'ip ? a-t'il une IP fixe dans ton réseau local ou DHCP ?

I’m currently wrapping up the first release version. As soon as it’s ready, I’ll post it here.

This is an ongoing problem for me, to the point that Emby media player has always failed on the first start attempt but comes right on the second. However it won't complete a full start at all today just the black logo screen. Was there ever a resolution for it? My Emby sever is on a NAS and all devices accesss it by either wifi or cabled LAN. Emby runs perfectly fine on all other devices, including remote streaming, except on this particular Windows 11Pro PC (which is running NVDIA graphics card, which looking over posts seems to be a recurrent thread).

@nypauliehas this helped?

OK if you can provide screenshots and sample data then I can probably give a better answer. Thanks.

Hi. Can you try searching for our standard android app (Just "Emby" on Amazon and "Emby for Android on Google) on the same device's app store and see how that compares? Thanks.

@WDPR4100

One doesn't need to - but if you (personally, I'm quite anal when it comes to curating my collection, and I suppose I ain't the only one) want infinitely more control, more providers and more granulation in metadata/artwork fetching (to name just a few), TMM is leagues ahead. And that's OK, it is purposely built software for that exact functionality - Emby has a lot more on its plate.

Just out of curiosity, why would one need to use TMM in addition to Emby?

换成了4.9.5.0就好了

I'd approach this with a hybrid model instead. collections can be server wide, but with a flag to make it private, then a list specify users. two fields in the database required. `private = true/false` `collection_users = [List]` -- i.e. `["user1","user2","user3"]` these can be replicated and pushed down to the local .nfo's as well for permanent storage outside the DB, similar to how <locked> works. making them exactly like playlists (only personnel to each users), hurts the uniqueness of collections, being that that are curated by the server owner. above recommendation lets collections continue to be server admin managed, but allow for user targeting.

getting the same issues. there really is a simple fix here. just give us download start, stop, pause buttons. for direct transfer, original quality, content, there really should be zero issues with this. transcoded/converted content. do that on the server and cache, when ready, try to push to device. if it fails, wait until user opens app and hits "download NOW", then force start the transfer. easy solve. and most of peoples issues will go away. we don't care about background sync or whatever. we just want to be able to start a download NOW, and be able to monitor it's progress. triage this first. worry about background sync and transcoding later.

Serious, its what I was able to afford, i am on ssdi disability

Radeon RX 9060 XT ?? Are you serious, or just trolling?

Some logs from when I was noticing problems as it is playing fine right now, note I have a VPN(ProtonVPN) and I have a tunnel setup to go to emby but it shows the ip for the vpn. When I turn off VPN and stop qbittorrent and then restart emby it plays fine, not sure if its the vpn, downloads, etc embyserver (13).txt ffmpeg-transcode-13195652-ad0b-49fe-b74c-d5aea8a61e49_1.txt

Here are my latest logs hardware_detection-63916280929.txt ffmpeg-directstream-38ecaa04-7d0f-4d17-b878-516cd6635bf8_1.txt embyserver (14).txt ffmpeg-transcode-1f0050f6-e3b6-4218-9490-1139d15ca793_1.txt

It could also be that the "F" in your processor name doesn't support HW acceleration. Software transcoding may also be your problem. Before you buy new equipment, please upload your logs...

Your drive has bad sectors and is starting to fail. Instead of buying from Amazon I would suggest goharddrive or ServerPartDeals. They both sell refurbished drives with 2-5 year warranties. 12TB with 5 year warranty "only" $320 (they used to be $75 before the AI/Surveillance Centre Apocalypse) 24TB with 5 year warranty for $560 I have personally bought from goharddrive in the past, and lots of users on reddit do as well. If you can come to Canada, you can get drives for cheaper shipped out of the states..24TB external for $660 CDN, or $474 USD..

I am dealing with issues with a old USB HDD where some MKV files have been having stuttering when playing on my Google TV 4K box. System Info: in My Gaming PC file Intel i5-13400F with 32 GB DDR4 C Drive 1 TB NVME D Drive 4 TB NVME E Drive 1 TB SSD F Drive(where my media is) USB External WD WD50NDZM 5 TB HDD WD MyPassport 260D USB External 5 TB HDD Model WD50NDZM I am looking to get a new HDD as I feel this one might be having issues due to age and the casing has a crack in it sadly. Looking at these two HDD's and wondering which one would be the better option: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW8ZW47C/?coliid=I1XTYFCNVVVQN3&colid=2LCEWMVHVJCO6&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it or https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084ZTSMWF/?coliid=I3D0ZS2HARWF80&colid=2LCEWMVHVJCO6&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it Or is the problem that I am using a HDD instead of a faster SSD? My Gaming PC.LOG