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Yeah a good GUI was exactly what I felt was missing from existing plugins. If you have any feedback, good or bad, just let me know I’m vibe coding this 100% so I’ll just tell Claude to fix it in between diaper changes. I’m thinking of implementing another project I have made into the plugin as well where you can use a m3u file and create .strm files for all movies and series. https://github.com/soderlund91/strmcreator But I’m unsure how it works with other providers, and might be better to keep them apart.

@MarvinB@hatharry Interesting Emby Alexa also exhibits cross contamination of commands. at least for ("Alexa next" on Echo A affects Echo B). Alexa is trying to be helpful it seems. If you only have intention of one session across whole account/house i guess this could be useful. Maybe Alexa 'design principles' expects people to switch alexa account (potentially supported by multiple emby skill account linkings 1 for each user) before playing music (but in practise who wants to do that...). Better to to fit in with Alexa than fight against it, if only we knew what Alexa was thinking...

Oh, das habe ich mit Jellyfin verwechselt. Bei Emby ist keine Zahl. Aber zu Emby habe ich noch eine Frage: Wie entscheidet Emby, welche Version standardmäßig abgespielt wird? Ich habe es bisher nur mit 1 Film getestet, aber da ist immer die Urlaubs-Version vorausgewählt. Dies ist aber die qualitativ schlechtere Version. Ich hätte halt gerne als Standard die hochwertigere Version.

Regarding functionality, everything worked as intended. I guess it's just visual.

Thanks for feedback....Hmm that looks dangerous better get onto that. The settings are only changed when 'save' or 'run now' is clicked is my understanding, so i am hoping that is just a visual anomaly, but special care required for now. The Run Now Status progress button is doing some page refreshes ...will look into. and i was so please with that progress ui element..i better not have to remove it.

Ja. Man muss nur aufrpassen, wenn keine Folge gewahlt ist wird die ganze Serie gelöscht. Ist eine Folge angewählt wird nur die Folge gelöscht. Hier könnte man sich schnell verklicken.

Thank you! Works like a charm, incl. the fancy switch jumping during Task running Is this intended? 20260607-0958-02.6178079.mp4

Right now I have 14,883 possible duplicate People profiles showing in my People folder. A lot of them have wrong information, duplicated information, or look like old/bad profiles that are just sitting there doing nothing. Emby could be using a profile with outdated info, missing info, or just plain wrong info, while the correct profile/folder is sitting right next to it. I know some of these are probably not true duplicates. Some are likely different people who happen to share the same name. I understand that part. What I am trying to figure out is why Emby created so many of these People folders in the first place. These are not just empty folders. They have pictures, NFO files, and profile data. Right now I am trying to do two things: Remove old, bad, wrong, or duplicate profiles. Understand why Emby created this many People folders, so when I do clean them up, I don't end up having the same problem happen again.

Is the end goal to ensure your library metadata is right/deduped or the metadata folder on filesystem? I would be tempted to focus on getting the library metadata correct and trust that emby will sort out the filesystem (apart from wasted space, does it matter?). That wont clean duplicates on the filesystem but at least your library will be 'correct'. I dont recall the api exposes the filesystem related metadata links, i think you just have to trust Emby in that regard..

@Luke ?

Yes it is quite large.... Its fine I will keep it at the default, but I have no issue with rate limiting, but I am in no rush, will let it just do its thing But so far so good and it does help that it has its own gui, at least I can now see what it is doing!

I guess I'm not smart enough for something like that. The way I see it, the server or the app checks in with you every x days to see if the license is valid. And I could only get around that if I “redirect” the request and then answer it myself. But I can redirect the request and fake the response for all devices. Which is, of course, easier if only the server needs the OK to crack it. Otherwise, I’d have to adapt every app, and I can’t access many of them. Even if I don’t understand exactly what smart people do, I get that it’s apparently difficult. I still find it very annoying that every device has to be connected to the internet, especially since the operating systems don’t always have my best interests at heart. I could imagine other solutions, such as having only the server and the app together confirm the license. For example, the server sends the request and needs a random number from the app for it.

I am working on a small helper app for my Emby People metadata. The app scans the Emby metadata/people area and looks for possible duplicate person profiles. The goal is not to blindly delete anything. The goal is to help review possible duplicate People folders before doing anything risky. Right now the app is looking for duplicates by things like: Same normalized person name Same TMDB person ID Same IMDb person ID Linked duplicate chains, where one profile matches by name and another matches by provider ID Skipped/problem profiles with missing or unreadable info The issue I am trying to solve is duplicate People folders like this: Vin Diesel Vin Diesel-tmdb-12835 or cases where one profile has provider IDs and another is name-only. My concern is this: If I delete the “bad” / name-only People folder, will Emby just recreate it later from movie/show/episode cast metadata? From what I understand, the person profile NFO itself does not store credits/media links. The media item metadata is what contains cast/actor information. So deleting a People folder may only delete the stored person metadata/image folder, but it may not fix whatever source caused Emby to create that person entry in the first place. I am trying to find the safest and most Emby-correct cleanup path. Questions for the Emby dev team: Is the correct preferred People folder format still like this? Person Name-tmdb-123456 Person Name-imdb-nm1234567 Should TMDB ID be treated as the preferred primary person ID, with IMDb as fallback? If a duplicate name-only People folder exists beside a provider-ID folder, what is the safest way to remove or merge that duplicate? Does Emby recreate name-only People folders when media NFO/cast metadata does not include a provider ID? If local NFOs are used, should the fix be made in the movie/show/episode NFO actor entries first, before deleting any duplicate People folder? Is there any safe way through Emby API or metadata refresh to tell Emby that one person profile should be treated as the correct one? Is there a recommended process for cleaning duplicate People records without damaging existing images, locked profiles, or manually edited person metadata? What I am trying to avoid is building a delete/cleanup feature that appears to work, but then Emby recreates the same duplicate People profile on the next scan because the source metadata still points to a name-only actor entry. Any guidance on the correct order of operations would help. For example, should the safe process be something like: Identify the good provider-ID People profile. Check movie/show/episode cast metadata for name-only actor entries. Correct actor/provider IDs in the media NFOs first. Refresh/rescan Emby. Only delete the duplicate People folder after Emby stops recreating or using it. I would appreciate any clarification on how Emby decides when to create a new People folder versus reuse an existing People profile, especially when one profile is name-only and another has TMDB/IMDb IDs.

Yes, after some investigating still happens. I think when anything is being transcoded (audio mostly from what I've seen)

Sorry for not being more clear on that. It is a regression (I think) with the latest Edge update. It has nothing to do with Emby. After updating to v149 of Edge, the Favorites drop down shows this: All custom icons are gone.

Mmmm... I'm not sure what detail screen you refer to. When playing the video, it shows amount of time played and time remaining. If I go to the server and inspect the videos, perhaps here is what you mean? As a comparison, if I look at a movie, I see the total runtime and the time it will end if starting at that moment. I see no such detail when looking at any TV episode. I just double checked and I do get a resume option for movies.

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred: How to Report a Problem Thanks!

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

Hi, this is because the apps don't have this information in their downloaded database. It is something we'll have to look at implementing. Thanks for reporting.

One does not need to do that.

HI, it's if an artist is tagged as an artist but not as an album artist.

Hi, what are the globe icons that you're referring to?

HI, we should have our app update out soon. Thanks.

I was just double checking.

Does the detail screen for this video show a known runtime?