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Okay the mystery continues. It does seem that a lot of the incorrect or overridden metadata was from earlier imports, but it took several database vacuums and restarts before a new import didn't show that previous, incorrect information. However. There is still inexplicable inconsistency in import dates in some files. I did the Emby dance, removing entire directories out of the library, scanning, scanning again, restarting the server. So then none of those albums appeared in my music library. Great. Then I move those multiple directories back into the library directory and scan. But some metadata is incomprehensibly wrong again: some of the albums (all perfectly structured, each in their own directory, newly imported) show a December (!) import date; while another album/directory (within the same higher level directory!), shows an import date of June(!); and one other shows correct August import date. See images below. Where is Emby getting this incorrect, inconsistent metadata, and why?!

I am sure this has been asked somewhere but I cant locate this issue. Hers the deal: Emby server setup and working perfect. Under Library's. i have two movie folders added: movies A and movies B. I want to know if there's a way to combine both folders into one. So on the client side someone clicking Movies only see all the contents instead of A and B. Thank You for any suggestions.

Of interest: https://subtitletools.com/convert-sub-idx-to-srt-online 2 free conversions per 24 hours

str subs still broken. with latest emby version and lg app. Any plans to fix it ? they got broken after emby server version 4.9.1.80

I just would have been interesting to know before buying the 425+

Hi, best thing to do is try it and report your experience.

Trakt Air Dates 7.0.0.0 Everything that's changed since 5.0.6.0. Corrects US/Canada TV episode air dates so they land on the right local calendar day for viewers further east (UK/Europe). No port changes, no listener, nothing to type, nothing to maintain. Corrected dates are written into Emby's own database, so every client sees them natively — web, iOS, tvOS, Android — on whatever port your Emby already uses. Installation instructions are at the bottom. New Automatic coverage. The plugin covers every show in your library that Trakt has an upcoming episode for, and re-works that list on its own as seasons start and finish. There is nothing to configure. Correct broadcast times, in Emby itself. Trakt carries real timestamps; TheMovieDb stores a bare date with no time, which is what puts US shows on the wrong day. The corrected dates go into Emby's database rather than being patched on the way out to a client. Series matched by TMDB id, not by name. Renaming a show in your library can no longer silently un-cover it. Status on the settings page — which shows are covered, when the last correction pass ran, and a read-only probe of what the plugin can see. "Trakt Air Dates" now appears as a metadata downloader. You'll find it under Library → Metadata → Series Metadata Downloaders, alongside TheMovieDb and TheTVDB. That's how it supplies episode lists with real broadcast times. It deliberately ranks below TheMovieDb and supplies nothing else — no titles, no artwork, no overviews. Those still come from your normal downloaders. Removed The native app listener, along with its port setting and status line. It used to serve corrected dates by proxying Emby, which required moving Emby's own port. That's no longer needed, and removing it takes several problems with it: the Emby iOS app could never sign in through it, clients drifted back to Emby's real port, and it was the single hardest part of the setup to get right. The "Series to apply it to" text box. Coverage is worked out automatically. The /TraktAirDates/Upcoming diagnostic endpoint, which existed to show what the listener was serving. Emby's own Upcoming view is now the diagnostic. Fixes Emby 4.10 compatibility. On 4.10 the plugin could empty the Upcoming view for the entire library — Emby calls .Where() on a metadata provider's return value without a null check, throwing in TvShowsService.GetAllEpisodes. The plugin no longer returns null. Shows starting more than five weeks out never appeared. Trakt's calendar endpoint accepts a maximum of 33 days per request and silently truncates anything longer — the plugin asked for 91 in one call and got 33 back with no error. It's now fetched in 33-day pages and merged. On a 200-series library this took coverage from 13 shows to 25. Specials (season 0) were filtered out of Trakt episode lists, silently hiding real upcoming episodes. Trakt rate-limiting. Provider calls are serialised with a minimum gap — a library refresh previously fired roughly two calls per series as fast as Emby could iterate. Rate-limit responses are now identified as such in the log. Performance 24-hour disk cache for episode lists. A warm library refresh makes no Trakt calls at all. Only successful answers are cached, never failures. Saving the settings page clears it if you want fresh data immediately. Covering an entire library was measured at 25.7 seconds on every Upcoming call, against 0.015s for a sensible list. Automatic coverage keeps the list naturally small, so this no longer arises. Known limitations If Trakt has no upcoming episode for a show, it won't appear in Upcoming. Trakt takes its data from TheMovieDb, so the fix is to add the missing episodes at TMDB — they then flow through to Trakt, to this plugin, and to everyone else. The plugin can correct a timezone problem; it can't invent episodes nobody has published. Two free API keys required: TMDB (country of origin, looked up once per show and cached permanently) and Trakt (broadcast schedule). This product uses the Trakt API and TMDB but is not endorsed or certified by either. Installation No port changes, no listener, nothing to type, nothing to maintain. Corrected dates are written into Emby's own database, so every client sees them natively — web, iOS, tvOS, Android — on whatever port your Emby already uses. Step 1 — get your two free API keys TMDB: themoviedb.org → Settings → API → use the API Key (v3 auth) value. Free, instant, no approval. Trakt: trakt.tv/oauth/applications → create an app → use the Client ID only. Free, instant, no approval. No login or OAuth is needed. Step 2 — stop Emby Server Emby rewrites plugin files on shutdown, so copying a plugin into a running server can lose the change. Stop it first. Step 3 — copy TraktAirDates.dll into your plugins folder The plugins folder sits directly inside Emby's data folder: Windows — C:\Users\{you}\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\plugins macOS — /Users/{you}/emby-server/plugins or /Users/{you}/.config/emby-server/plugins Linux — /var/lib/emby/plugins Docker — /config/plugins inside the container Synology (DSM 7) — /volume1/@appdata/EmbyServer/plugins QNAP — /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/EmbyServer/programdata/plugins Not sure which applies to you? Start Emby, go to Dashboard → the 3-dot menu → Get Server Info. It tells you your data folder; plugins is directly inside it. On Linux, Docker or a NAS, make sure the file is readable by the user Emby runs as. If the plugin doesn't appear in the list after restarting, permissions are the usual reason — chmod 777 TraktAirDates.dll in that folder settles it. Step 4 — start Emby Server Step 5 — enter your keys Dashboard → Plugins → Trakt Air Dates Paste the TMDB API Key and the Trakt Client ID Tick Enable corrections Tick Supply episode lists from Trakt Leave Work this out for me on Save Step 6 — check the metadata downloader is enabled Dashboard → Library → your TV library → Manage → Metadata Under Series Metadata Downloaders you should now see Trakt Air Dates listed alongside TheMovieDb. It needs to be ticked — that's how the plugin supplies episode lists. Leave TheMovieDb above it; Trakt Air Dates supplies air dates only and nothing else. If it isn't ticked, the plugin will look installed and configured but won't correct anything. Step 7 — wait a few minutes The first pass looks up each show's country of origin and works out which shows are airing. When it's done, Shows Being Covered on the settings page lists them. Then check your Upcoming view. Currently still testing for bugs before I release Trakt Air Dates. New feature. TraktAirDates-7.0.0.0-Release-Notes.pdf

Last Update, it's working in chrome. I am not sure if it's something I did or just an amazingly fast response from developers. Screencast_20260815_145106.webm I'd be excellent if the animation only happended when hovering over the thumbnail. But this is already very good. I share bellow how to swiftly generate the gifs, using the script preview.sh in a folder with season subfolders but I recommend testing it on an isolated folder to avoid loosing data on unexpected behaviour (like the removal I included of previous thumb files or posters, that could explain why I couldn't make it to work before) # Create -thumb.gif and -default.jpg images for all videos in subfolders for extension in mp4 m4v avi mkv do for file in ./*/*.$extension do base=$(basename "$file") folder="$(dirname "${file}")" .preview.sh "$file" "$folder" done done #remove *.-thumb.jpg and -poster.jpg files in all subfolders rm -v ./*/*-thumb.jpg rm -v ./*/*-poster.jpg and here's the modified script that: Removes auxiliary files created Produces files 'video_name-thumb.gif' and 'video_name-default.jpg' in accordance with image naming documentation It's compatible with both regional configurations for decimals '.' vs ',' works with output folders different from "." (there was a bug) #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail # Usage: ./preview.sh <input-video> [output-directory] [max-total-length] # $1 = input video path (required) # $2 = output directory (optional; default = current directory) # $3 = max total preview length in seconds (optional; default = 6) if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <input-video> [output-directory] [max-total-length]" exit 1 fi INPUT="$1" OUTDIR="${2:-.}" MAX_TOTAL="${3:-6}" # default max total length = 6 seconds # Verify input file exists if [ ! -f "$INPUT" ]; then echo "Error: Input file '$INPUT' not found." exit 1 fi # Create output directory if needed mkdir -p "$OUTDIR" # Extract filename components FILENAME="$(basename -- "$INPUT")" # e.g. video.mp4 NAME="${FILENAME%.*}" # e.g. video EXT="${FILENAME##*.}" # e.g. mp4 # Compute per-clip length = MAX_TOTAL / 3, rounded to 3 decimals CLIP_LEN=$(printf "%.3f" "$(echo "$MAX_TOTAL / 3" | bc -l | sed -E 's/\./\,/')" | sed -E 's/\,/\./') # 1) Query total duration (in seconds) via ffprobe duration=$(ffprobe -v error \ -show_entries format=duration \ -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 \ "$INPUT") # 2) Calculate 20%, 50%, and 80% start times (rounded to 3 decimals) start1=$(printf "%.3f" "$(echo "$duration * 0.2" | bc -l| sed -E 's/\./\,/')" | sed -E 's/\,/\./') start2=$(printf "%.3f" "$(echo "$duration * 0.5" | bc -l| sed -E 's/\./\,/')" | sed -E 's/\,/\./') start3=$(printf "%.3f" "$(echo "$duration * 0.8" | bc -l| sed -E 's/\./\,/')" | sed -E 's/\,/\./') echo "Source duration: $duration seconds" echo "Max total preview len: $MAX_TOTAL seconds" echo "Each clip length: $CLIP_LEN seconds" echo "Start times → 20%: $start1 s, 50%: $start2 s, 80%: $start3 s" echo # 3) Extract three sub-clips (video-only, no audio) CLIP1="$OUTDIR/${NAME}_clip1.mp4" CLIP2="$OUTDIR/${NAME}_clip2.mp4" CLIP3="$OUTDIR/${NAME}_clip3.mp4" ffmpeg -y -ss "$start1" -i "$INPUT" -t "$CLIP_LEN" -c:v libx264 -an "$CLIP1" ffmpeg -y -ss "$start2" -i "$INPUT" -t "$CLIP_LEN" -c:v libx264 -an "$CLIP2" ffmpeg -y -ss "$start3" -i "$INPUT" -t "$CLIP_LEN" -c:v libx264 -an "$CLIP3" # 4) Build concat list CONCAT_LIST="${NAME}_concat.txt" cat > "$CONCAT_LIST" <<EOF file '$CLIP1' file '$CLIP2' file '$CLIP3' EOF # 5) Concatenate into an intermediate preview (video-only) PREVIEW_RAW="$OUTDIR/${NAME}_preview_raw_${MAX_TOTAL}s.mp4" ffmpeg -y -f concat -safe 0 -i "$CONCAT_LIST" -c copy "$PREVIEW_RAW" # 6) Scale the concatenated preview to 396×704 px # (re-encode video using libx264, drop audio if any) PREVIEW_SCALED="$OUTDIR/${NAME}-thumb.gif" ffmpeg -y -i "$PREVIEW_RAW" -vf "fps=10, scale=320:180" -loop 0 "$PREVIEW_SCALED" # 7) Compute thumbnail timestamp: midpoint of the combined preview # Combined preview duration = MAX_TOTAL → midpoint = MAX_TOTAL / 2 MIDPOINT=$(printf "%.3f" "$(echo "$MAX_TOTAL / 2" | bc -l| sed -E 's/\./\,/')" | sed -E 's/\,/\./') THUMB="$OUTDIR/${NAME}-default.jpg" ffmpeg -y -ss "$MIDPOINT" -i "$PREVIEW_RAW" -vframes 1 -q:v 2 "$THUMB" echo "Done:" echo " • Extracted clips (video-only): " echo " $CLIP1" echo " $CLIP2" echo " $CLIP3" echo " • Concatenated (raw) preview: $PREVIEW_RAW" echo " • Final 396×704 px video preview (video-only): $PREVIEW_SCALED" rm -v "${CLIP1}" "${CLIP2}" "${CLIP3}" "${CONCAT_LIST}" "${PREVIEW_RAW}" For more advanced users: add the script to your source_path a with an alias like 'preview' so you can just keep it in one place, instead of moving it arround for every run. In which case you'd have to replace the line .preview.sh "$file" "$folder" to preview "$file" "$folder" in the double loop for calling it.

Ich habe jetzt die "The Equalizer Filmreihe" und die "Extraction Filmreihe" meinem Hauptserver hinzugefügt. Auch hier werden plötzlich keine Bilder mehr den Filmreihen hinzugefügt (Siehe Bilder). An diesem Server wurde seit Monaten keine Änderungen an den Bibliotheken vorgenommen, es hatte ja vorher schon funktioniert. Somit tritt das Problem auch auf meinem Haupserver mit derselben Emby Beta Version auf und ist wohl ein Bug in der Beta. Das könnte auch schon länger nicht mehr funktioniert haben. Es fällt ja erst dann auf, wenn wieder mehrere Filme die zu einer Reihe gehören hinzugefügt werden. Die Sammlungen scheinen nicht auf die ID der Filme zuzugreifen. I've now added “The Equalizer Movie Series” and “Extraction Movie Series” to my main server. Here, too, images are suddenly no longer being added to the movie series (see images). No changes have been made to the libraries on this server for months, and it had been working fine before. This means the problem is also occurring on my main server, which is running the same Emby beta version, so it’s likely a bug in the beta. It might not have been working for quite some time. You don't really notice it until several movies from the same series are added again. The collections do not appear to access the movies' IDs.

Okay, you're still on .51. As mentioned above, the beta should solve this for you. The latest beta is .55.

Habe ich natürlich auch schon alles getestet, ohne Erfolg Ich teste das aber wie gesagt später nochmal mit einer neuen Filmreihe auf meinem Hauptserver, der Synolgy. Sollte es hier richtig zugeordnet werden und die Bilder geladen werden, wissen wir das es nicht an Emby liegt, sondern wohl an dem Gerät wo der Server darauf läuft. Ich gebe hier natürlich Bescheid... Of course, I've already tested all of this, without success But as I said, I'll test it again later with a new movie series on my main server, the Synology. If the files are assigned correctly here and the images load, we'll know it's not Emby's fault, but rather the device running the server. I'll let you know here, of course...

Hi Team, I am using "toast" messages in my plugins more and more and i am unable to get control over their timeout. public class MessageCommand { public string Header { get; set; } public string Text { get; set; } public long? TimeoutMs { get; set; } } I have upped the timeout to 15000 ms and the most i get is 3 seconds (which is better than default but not 15000 ms) . tested on on Android and Webclient (4.10.0.25 alhtough not a recent issue). I mention it as a potential issue although 3 seconds is probably enough for my needs. What spurred me to raise this, was a user complained that they recieved as message of what i assume was from me restarting the server, but it went so quickly they couldnt read it so rang me (they were on webclient on internet over 1Gbit connection end to end, playing a show). Perhaps even the inbuilt messages are not getting enough screentime love?

I'd definitely appreciate the option to exclude libraries from the screensaver. While creating a restricted user account is a workaround, it's no use when we want to watch films but dont want the backdrops as a screensaver.

Is it safe to upgrade my F4-425 to TOS7? I don't use hardware transcoding. Or should I wait and check back in a couple weeks?

Is TMDB meta-downloader enabled in your Collections library (Settings>Library tab in the sidebar>edit Collections library)? If it is, try unticking/ticking it back again and then refresh one collection, see how does that compare.

Ich dachte eigentlich, dass ich das mit meinen Bildern und meiner Beschreibung dazu ziemlich genau erklärt habe Es ist völlig egal ob ich einzelne Sammlungen oder alle die Metadaten aktualisiere oder bei allen, das Ergebnis bleibt dasselbe, die Sammlungen bleiben ohne Bilder. Ich habe auch die Film Bibliothek komplett entfernt und neu angelegt, auch hier werden zwar in der Biblothek alle Bilder und Beschreibungen gefunden, diese werden aber nicht für die Sammlungen genutzt, die bleiben leer wie in meinem Bild in Post 1. Auch ein kompletter neuer Suchlauf der Bibliothek mit dem erneuern der Bilder und Metadaten, bringt hier nichts. Ich habe das ganze nur auf einem neuen Server getestet, weil in meinem anderen Forum, wo ich noch aktiv bin, dort ein User genau dasselbe Problem gepostet hatte. Ich konnte das dann nachstellen um es dann hier zu melden... Wie gesagt, auf meinem Hauptserver der Synology sind diese Bilder bei den Sammlungen alle vorhanden, dieser läuft aber schon ein paar Jahre. Ich gehe aber davon aus, das wenn ich neue Filmreihen hinzufügen würde, diese auch keine Bilder mehr bekommen würden, was ich aber erst testen kann, wenn ich eine hinzufüge. Ich versuche das aber auch noch nachzustellen. I actually thought I’d explained this pretty clearly with my screenshots and description It doesn’t matter at all whether I update the metadata for individual collections or for all of them—the result is the same: the collections remain without images. I also completely removed the movie library and recreated it; here, too, all the images and descriptions are found in the library, but they aren’t used for the collections—they remain empty, just like in my screenshot in Post 1. Even a complete re-scan of the library, with the images and metadata refreshed, doesn’t help here. I only tested this on a new server because a user on my other forum, where I’m still active, had posted about the exact same problem. I was then able to reproduce it so I could report it here... As I said, on my main Synology server, these images are all present in the collections, but that server has been running for a few years now. I assume, however, that if I were to add new movie series, they wouldn’t get any images either—though I can’t test that until I actually add one. I’ll try to reproduce that as well.

Patience grasshopper. It's only been eight months.

Dear all, It is known that the original Synology i915 drivers do NOT support transcoding any more. However, there is a workaround - either to be installed manually or even via the community package center (Package name: Transcode for x25) or via a script. For more information, see Github: https://github.com/007revad/Transcode_for_x25 There is only Plex and Jellyfin mentioned which definitely will use this drivers for transcoding. Does anyone have experience with these drivers and Emby? @ Developers: any comment on that? Regards, Jens

Ich habe jetzt die „Version 4.10.0.25 beta“ Installiert und mal ein wenig mit der neuen Einstellung der Startseite gespielt ... es ist wirklich faszinierend, was alles möglich ist. Man muss aber auch dazu sagen, dass man die neuste Android App Version auf seinem Gerät installiert haben sollte, damit alle Einstellungen auch den gewünschten Effekt zeigen. Hier meine Ansicht im Browser: Auf meinem Fire-TV 4K Stick sah es aber mit der alten App Version 2.1.xy leider so aus: Die Änderungen wurden ebenfalls nicht übernommen, auch nach einem Neustart des Sticks keine Veränderung. Ich habe dann die Aktuelle Emby für Android (nicht TV) 3.5.37 Installiert ... und siehe da zuerst: Dann noch ein wenig mit den Einstellungen experimentiert ... Et voilà! Beim Runter Scrollen wird dann schön Reihe für Reihe ... alles so angezeigt wie im Browser Voreingestellt! Nun brauche ich auch die lange von mir gewünschte Funktion zur Ansicht der Bewertungen unter den Filmen in der Hauptansicht nicht mehr! Es wird mir alles angezeigt, sobald ich einen Film oder Serien in der Vorschau Markiere. Das ist wirklich Wunderbar Diesen Schalter habe ich gefunden, dieser muss zwingend auf „On“ sein: Er ist nur über den Browser am PC zu finden, im Stick-Menü habe ich ihn nicht (Keine Admin-Rechte am Stick) gefunden. Nun müssen nur noch alle Familien Sticks ein Update haben, dann ist alles wunderbar. @Emby Team ... Danke für eure Arbeit!

Hello, thanks a lot for your answer. In the browsers (Chrome or Firefox) the trailers are very good. In the app only, the trailers are just ignored. Strange, isn't it ? I should mention that I have an Emby Premiere subscription.

What client? What device? What server version? Y'know, anything that might give a clue what you are even using... Paul

I have no experience of NASes, but I would assume that they would have at least some firewall capabilities available, as virtually all operating systems do. In my case, my main firewall is in my router - but that is of a type aimed at SMEs rather than domestic use (the simpler domestic routers may simply rely on IPv4 NAT for security, though that's not good enough if you have IPv6). Paul

Hi I'm a complete noob here so bare with me will I learn. I'm having crashes trying to play dvd files. second, crashes during closed captions on/off toggle, also changing aspect ratio or quality. Please help, thanks

Hi, here's a better detail on two different plateforms: Chrome Navigator When I access the emby application on my computer using the chrome navigator. I go to the folder, or the films & movies, Indicate the menu to show thumnails of elements in the folder. Then I hover over the film with that has the movie_name-thumb.gif file in the folder but the thumbnail shown is just the first frame of the gif, no animation. Interestingly. If I left-click the movie, and then go to edit images, left-click on the thumb image, the menu displaed shows the image and it is animated. Showing that it is "technically" feasible to make it happen on the main menu. Android App It works!!! Just accessing the folder, and displaying thumbs and the gif is automatically animated. This could be annoying if many files are there since all gif woild be running. One might have to be sure to have a gif as thumb and a jpg as default to be able to chose to display the animated and static images at will going through the menus.

Name movie folders: Psycho (1960) [tmdbid=539] Psycho (1998) [tmdbid=11252] Rescan. ID Tags in Folder & File Names