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Whats wrong with the GPU I have? Its been decent for my gaming needs, why cant it work with hw acceleration?

@ginjaninja Good news; Yes you can shuffle your playlist; 1) Alexa, ask Ear Wax to shuffle playlist ?? where ?? is the playlist name or: 2) Alexa, ask Ear Wax to play playlist ?? shuffled Where ?? is the playlist name I would use #1, it flows better Also, please test the question mark mysterians again. Thank you

A new stable will be published within the next few days. Thanks a lot for your report!

How are your files and folders named?

Well, it's not. The "Versions" option is an "option" since years, if you put all movie versions in one folder and name the files different. Which was - as I wrote - never an option for me. So my organisation worked well and "Blade Runner" search found 6 entries with different titles and different covers (DVD, Bluray....). Now - obviously versions are also found via movie-id, what really makes sense and is great (as working under infuse front-end), but right now my library is kind of messed up, without showing the differences, if I select a movie with different formats or versions in my library.

Well this is your issue, your hardware can't hack it, when it needs to transcode. File played : F:\\TV\\The Rookie\\The Rookie Season 2\\The Rookie S02E18 Under the Gun [1080p x265 q22 S85 Joy].mkv Its reverts to software because of you GPU can do what is needed. >>>>>> Processing Plan Name CanDoInHW WillDoInHW Reason DX11VA AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT - H.265 ... >> True True Hardware Codec VideoInput >> False False The sw pipeline builder does not support hw accelera... Scaling >> False False ColorConversion >> False False VideoOutput >> False False Not a hardware encoder x265 >> False False Software Codec >! ThrottleByStreamBufferSize: WARNING - Playback position too close to transcoding position: PlaybackPosition: 00:00:03 - TranscodingPosition: 00:00:06 - ThrottleBuffer: 3s 17:35:48.027 elapsed=00:00:18.85 frame= 181 fps=9.6 q=20.3 q=-1.0 size=N/A time=00:00:07.00 bitrate=N/A throttle=off speed=0.372x 17:35:48.081 elapsed=00:00:22.53 frame= 182 fps=8.1 q=23.7 q=-1.0 size=N/A time=00:00:07.04 bitrate=N/A throttle=off speed=0.313x 17:35:48.688 elapsed=00:00:23.10 frame= 187 fps=8.1 q=24.6 q=-1.0 size=N/A time=00:00:07.25 bitrate=N/A throttle=off speed=0.314x The values marked in RED should be above 1 just to keep up.

Well I guess devs will need logs. Read this carefully and do all steps.

@crusher11is right Its all about the naming.

Well, you did one smart thing. Having your OS and data on two different drives means you can change OS or start over without losing your files. Part one is to mount the drive through fstab - or alternately through the Disks App. Read through the mount options. Disks will want to mount to the UUID name for the disk. Change that to a friendly name by clicking on the two gears icon and choosing "Edit mount options". You may need to run Nemo as Sudo and create the "mounted at" directory. Create it in the /MNT directory and give it root permissions. Then use mount -a as sudo to mount the drive. Then follow this guide to set permissions to allow Emby to see the files. One last note, get Emby to back up to your data drive, so if the OS has a problem you have a copy of your backups.

It works fine already.

I installed Emby for Android and I get the same result, op option to adjust subtitle timing. Something strange is happening with this version when I connect to my public facing server. I can log in, but get this error on anything I try to play: object reference not set to an instance of an object. Attaching screen shots showing Emby for Android on my Android TV for bothy Home private server and my public one.

Also why would I be trolling especially since it is shown in hwinfo64?

Re-Organizing all my library is still not an option for me, cause of folder structures and strict common naming formats in my lib since beginning. DVDs or Bluray's or TV-Recordings are all located on different "places". That's why I love that "Versions" are now supported, and hope that "Title-Switch" or Info will follow...... (please don't tell me I have to switch back my library to a previous version of emby-server)

I recently started moving my books over to Book Orbit (mostly just my audio books for now) but after seeing the ease of adding books and the metadata "just working" I have to believe it is something that Emby could do so I dont have to run two apps. Alternatively, maybe just an integration with Book Orbit so that my libraries there can be access via Emby?

No throttling in UK. GIG1 connection (actually around 1170mbps as over provisioned) with 107mbps on average upload using DocSIS 3.1. Client devices using full fibre from 3 other ISP's (symmetric on those) and these have superb ping and jitter times. Not ISP crap routers either. It has never detected WAN speed correctly in any Emby version for years. Always have to set a static value and then everything direct plays (media is compatible on all devices without transcoding). Without setting fixed speed of say 30mbps, an 11mbps TV Show will try at transcode at 4mbps (with nothing else using the upload).

Hi. This is just a naming issue. If you name your versions properly, you will see them in the drop down. Movie Naming

Ja, alle meine Filme haben einen eigenen Ordner. Ich habe es nun mit 1 Film ausprobiert., meine Urlaubs-Version umbenannt und sie ins Verzeichnis der 4K-Version kopiert. Es funktioniert in Emby, Jellyfin und Plex. Es ist nur etwas irritierend, dass die Cover in Emby nun in der linken oberen Ecke eine Zahl für die Anzahl der Versionen haben.

I missed this one. Yes i can play tracks. I wonder the value of making artist mandatory?.sometimes it nice to hear covers you were not expecting. I do think it would be great if tracks where artist and albumartist match take highest priority (as a very rough approximation for a studio album unless emby introduces support for this schema in future). noted regarding repeat My use case for shuffling playlists is i have a 1000 track playlist which is not ordered to any purpose, its a collection of tracks i shuffle randomly in the car. Hearing it from the beginning every time is not its intention. "open ear wax" was a mistake on my part. Command Alexa ask ear wax play artist questionmark and the mysterians Response There was a problem with the requested skills response Log 2026-06-06 12:44:31.641 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3N47R8UP4:00000001: 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: ‌54.195.177.241‌, UserAgent: 2026-06-06 12:44:37.116 Info SqliteItemRepository: Interrupt query due to cancellation. 2026-06-06 12:44:37.116 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 0: interrupted; [] 2026-06-06 12:44:37.116 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 12:44:37.116 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 12:44:37.117 Info ItemsService-0HNM3N47R8UP4:00000001: http/1.1 Response completed after client disconnected to ‌54.195.177.241‌. Time: 5476ms. 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 12:44:37.147 Debug ItemsService-0HNM3N47R8UP5:00000001: 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: ‌54.195.177.241‌, UserAgent: 2026-06-06 12:44:39.612 Info SqliteItemRepository: Interrupt query due to cancellation. 2026-06-06 12:44:39.612 Debug App: Sqlite: 9 - statement aborts at 44: 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 12:44:39.613 Info ItemsService-0HNM3N47R8UP5:00000001: http/1.1 Response completed after client disconnected to ‌54.195.177.241‌. Time: 2466ms. GET https://‌xxx.xxx.xxx‌/emby/Users/ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicArtist&SearchTerm=question mark mysterians&UserId=‌ba605147d56742b1b91f1e90f91db45c‌&api_key=‌c8c89131fa594134b37205e7dcd8c7e0‌. those sqllite errors look menacing Command Alexa ask ear wax play artist megan thee stallion Response The requested media megan thee stallion could not be found in the library..

So.... anyone have any ideas? I changed the settings back to default, no dice. I created a new server from scratch on an alternate login, no dice. Is this simply a bug with the macOS Emby server?

@ginjaninja Please try the artist ? and the mysterians again.. Thanks

Not sure if I should make this it's own thread but I'll just start here. I updated TrueNAS Scale from Electric Eel (24.10) to Fangtooth (25.04) and currently Emby cannot detect my A770 for hardware acceleration. On Electric Eel, it was working just fine. Checking the hardware detection logs, I get an error for “Failed to open the drm device (null)”. I'm pointing my finger more at TrueNAS being the culprit, but checking if anyone here might have a workaround or solution. There's currently a workaround using shell commands for nvidia cards but doesn't really help much for Intel cards. hardware_detection-63916292682.txt

Thanks Luke this forum has been very helpful, but as I keep my media files on a separate hard drive I would prefer to have Emby use that. Problem is I couldn’t get Emby to “see” them. I’d like to not have to store these very large files on my main HDD.

@ginjaninjayou can play a single track. Request a specific track by a specific artist. Alexa, Ask Ear Wax to play song X by X Alexa, Ask Ear Wax to play track X by X I dont understand the purpose of shuffling a user defined list of tracks, the main purpose of the list of tracks, in the order you want to play them. Now you want to shuffle them, you could, just open the playlist and move tracks around. What order would Ear Wax be shuffling a playlist in? Help me understand Alexa Ask Ear Wax to Shuffle Album American Beauty Alexa Ask Ear Wax to repeat queue X times.. Where X <= 10 Alexa Ask Ear Wax to repeat track X times.. Where X <= 10 Alexa Tell Ear Wax repeat off The answer to your question of why the Alexa ecosystem supports "Alexa, Next... I dont know.. I am still scratching my head over that one. This is interesting; FWIW i cant "ask ear wax" on my android phone alexa client This works on my android phone and my Sony wireless headsets and another beta testers Denon alexa enabled/inside speakers Regarding , Alexa ask ear wax play artist megan thee stallion, please try it again Regarding, shuffling the current queue, if you haven't heard/played the entire queue, how do you know it was shuffled? My last question, do you actually say Open Ear Wax? if so, why?

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