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Hi I'm currently looking for a configuration to build a medium (all is relative) server for Emby with 6/8 mechanical drives 3.5" and 2 SSD or NVME for OS. I investigated already second hand servers but I'd like also to check what can be done with a hand-build configuration. Is it me or it's difficult to find now empty chassis (small size like 1/2U) to build its own server ? Vincèn

ah...in my response I hadn't considered the server access sellers and the support angle, I'm aware of that side of course and they are pretty easy to spot. I also think there are wannabe sellers, or even someone recently who sounded as if they had inherited a server lol As for the helping burnout, in some way it's probably because emby as a project is pretty much solid for the core functionality. Yes there are nice to have's and some of us want a particular feature, but there is more than enough which is stable and feature-complete, and where not there are easy and well understood hacks and workarounds. Things were a lot more fun when trying to get emby working on a Synology NAS and then within Hyper-V, I think I spent most of my time tinkering than actually watching anything, now it is the other way around. Helping is difficult as people with simple issue who don't want to invest their own time in simple investigation and reading are tiring. I don't want to deal with them at work, why would anyone want to do this out of work... But hey we are all still here because Emby is an amazing piece of work, I don't even class it as a product.

@user24When you have a minute, send me in PM few mp3s that have all the tags embedded, in particular that ROONALBUMTAG (as said, I know zip about music and I'm not too keen to educate myself, as I'm perpetually lacking time for all of my own inteterests to begin with) together with screenshot/description of your library structure, I have an idea and wanna try something that might spare you few months of manual tagging within Emby.

Muss das Thema wieder hervorholen, da jetzt schon einige neue Versionen der Beta angeboten wurden, aber keine davon zum Laden angeboten wird. Wie man hier sieht, steht aktuell ein Update auf die 4.10.0.8 an (ich bin immer noch auf der 4.10.0.4). Wenn ich mir aber die aktuelle laden möchte, wird mir hier weiterhin die 4.10.0.4 angeboten. Weder die 4.10.0.5, noch die 4.10.0.6, oder die 4.10.0.7 und auch nicht die jetzt aktuelle 4.10.0.8 wurden hier zum Download angeboten. Es wird immer nur die 4.10.0.4 zum Download angeboten.

Well, thanks to some great help from @GrimReaper I've managed to use JavaScript to turn the Artist Albums pages into more of a Discography page, where you can Group and Sort Albums by either Release Type (from custom album tags) or Decade (from standard year tags). Does this automatically fetch Release Types from MusicBrainz? - No Does this automatically import embedded metadata from RELEASETYPE tags? - No Does this automatically Group and Sort by Album Release Types from your Emby Album tags? - Yes Does this automatically Group and Sort by Decades from your Album years? - Yes Here's a couple of screenshots: While this only works with the Web Client, it does give a good feel for what a potential native Emby implementation could be. It takes a bit of Album tagging work to set up for your preferred Release Types page view, but the Decades page view doesn't need any set up at all! For anyone wanting to experiment with it for themselves the detailed technical information is here: While it's not the magic automatic solution, perhaps we just need ROONALBUMTAG importation from Emby (as a faster first step) to make something like this easy to use. I'll be most interested to know if this is similar to what other people are wanting? Cheers!

Bummer, because that's a great suggestion. I'm guessing then since both apps, Sonarr and Radarr, can import IMDB watchlists that they are doing it the unauthorized way. I doubt they are paying for the API.

Is it time to explore this either in Emby core or as a plug-in if possible? https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability

I had a Logitech 5.1 years ago but not as fancy as that one, if it works it works I'm very lucky I have made my main lounge into my cinema room and I get to use it everyday without the family complaining too much...I even watch my daily youtube on my projector setup. But our eyes and ears do get used to it, they build a tolerance just like eating spicy food!! Whenever I've been away for a few days and I come back it's a bit overwhelming and a new experience again. I've never asked my neighbours how they feel, no one has complained yet

Are you dropping you laptop in the river Don't do that But where should that be stored if not there

Attached file with the latest changes. Feel free to use as is, or modify to suit your own set-up. There are some tips in earlier posts on how to install it. The script should also run via browser extensions, such as Tampermonkey. There are also tips above on how to add your own custom Release Types and change the style to your own liking. Thanks again to @GrimReaper for creating the original script(s) therefore he receives the Solution accolades!!! For anyone interested in music Release Types, in general, there is a good topic here to contribute to: albums_groupby.js

I'm still using this with my shield, Logitech Z906 - 5.1 Then again my wife is deaf on 1 ear, and as long it sooths my needs its great. Neighbors sometime still complain about the sound

Unfortunately you have not missed any developments on this, muchless any movement in years or if at all. We still also have the issue of searching in settings and only getting media results. It's a sad state as far as I'm concerned, hence why it's one of many reasons that I have moved to Jellyfin.

This is pretty interesting. What immediately comes to mind is the idea of populating a few mkv-tags along the way, basically the stuff that mkv-tag-manager does. Okay, I know the way out.

I tent to agree. Most new user are Emby server users that don't own and have installed there own servers. Asking 1 time questions about there experience / failed attempts to connect to, what they call there own server, and never again reply. Share sellers redirecting there support to this forum or just don't care. Sadly this started after the big purge, where the forum was deleting old unused accounts with on forum activities, meaning 0 posts or replies. As a result share sellers are making them ask 1 question, most topic "KJHJKHK" Body "djfhk" 1 thing I have noticed is that some of the old account / helpful people have stopped helping new people, sadly I'm 1 of them. I have hade enough of people asking for help directly via PM or getting a smirky reply they cooked up via some AI. Or they never get back to you if that helped them Then there is the other people asking for help that don't want to supply logs or read the linked "how to guide" and supply where that fail them. So spending 1 - 2 hours trying to help them is going unanswered, and right now I feel like I'm waisting my time.

Hi Would it be possible to have filters preference on the user profile? It seems to be in a cookie at the moment. I often change computers and clear cookies and it's annoying to always setup my filter preferences. Thanks

Agree, that would be the best way to handle that. I’ll see what i can do. Hard. Very hard… The API for IMDB is EXPENSIVE and not something any individual want to pay. A quick google search says around $150,000 per year… So the alternative is to scrape their website, but that is breaking ther Terms of service. Even so, I’m not willing to put down the time and effort to create that function. What you could do if you are having trouble with Trakt itself, is to use MDBList. MDBList can fetch list from trakt directly within its own filters. Search the public lists and you will probably find someone who has already created one that is available. I’m curently working on some bug fixes and a new cleanup function (remove tags and collections on the server). I’m expecting to finish this update within a day or two. After this I’m gonna look into adding support for more external sources.

Just checking back on this. Luke, were you able to determine anything in the logs that would be causing some of my movies not being able to play?

There is no evidence of database issues in the emby server log Looking at the libraries, only odd thing is you have the same media twice in 2 different libraries Library: Yoga & Mindfullness Configured paths: /volume3/Mindfullness Library: Mind Fullness Configured paths: /volume3/Mindfullness Is ir possible you have Cinema Intros enabled and before the movie plays, other media is played ?

IMDB's API costs tens of thousands of dollars, I believe.

Which Denon have you gone for? I have the X3800H. I was always running Onkyo, always loved the industrial look and cost/performance.

Hello, Is there some file association to be done somewhere to solve this? .ac3 external files appear in the list but .eac3 don't (they show only when muxed into video file). Thanks in advance!

Nothing wrong with a rant lol! The artists intent is a funny one, I'm not sure what it is they are going for. I never feel they make best use of the rear/side channels in 5.1, never mind Atmos and beyond. My own preference is I want to hear effects, if I've gone to the trouble of having so many discrete speakers then I want to hear them. I want them to pop. When there's an explosion I want the room to shake. It adds to my immersion as it makes feel like an experience. In my layman's experience sound mixes seem to be for the lowest denominator which is TV speakers. However, recent TV shows on the major streaming apps are a lot better, I guess they are selling HDR and Atmos as a feature so are more inclined to experiment. And every so often you come across a film with a great sound mix too. I wonder if the 'old' mastering skills were driven by limitations in hardware as well as bandwidth/dynamic range of vinyl/tapes etc. But conversely we now have far more dynamic range but maybe less skill or effort in mastering, which still delivers a superior result (mostly) but imagine how much more they could do.

Wondering how hard would it be to add in support for IMDB lists? I've been having issues with trakt.tv lately where it won't even load the webpage for me anymore.

Just to be clear this is not meant to be criticism against the emby project or any individuals involved with emby as developers or as users! I started my emby journey back when it was Media Browser and my users peaked just before Covid took over and strangely it went downhill after that and I shut my server down for maybe 3-4 years. Maybe a year ago I started my server back up, mainly for my own 'enjoyment'. I was curious where the project had got to, what the community was up to and to be part of the community again to help out. What I found was not much had changed, my premier key still worked, everything materially looked and felt the same. It was as if I had never left. I think I had expected it to be 'shinier' in some way. I will say the HDR and Atmos support was probably the biggest thing I noticed, I don't doubt that was a big effort. I'm unsure if my media presentation eye has been dumbed down by commercial apps or emby has improved - I can't tell but I've applied minimal customisation to my media views, where as I remember back in the day I had a certain amount of tinkering to get it looking right. Now to the forum, I would have expected a lot more participation. I feel outside the regular names I see participating there is very little going on, maybe it's the limited number of sub-forums I look at!? It makes me question how active the user base is now, or how has it changed? Also the people requesting help has me questioning my sanity sometimes, like it takes a certain amount of knowledge and experience to even know about emby, nevermind go to the trouble of installing it and getting it half way there. Sometimes I get the feeling people are data mining, that their issues are fake and they are just obtaining information about what emby is being used for. Just to ask the question you've managed to install emby on some hardware and are using the internet to register with a forum, the last thing I expect is to explain how to operate a mouse.... When stuff doesn't make sense it leads me to think there's something else going on, or maybe I'm just paranoid!! Anyway, that's my mini-rant over with, would be interested in what others think.

please see also my (dutch) topic: https://emby.media/community/topic/147091-strange-behaviour/ - I will first try to recreate the 'thuis' user, because the problems almost always occur under this user.