Team,
Today, we're going to show you how you can be the master of your domain with Emby Users. Why create separate user accounts for each member of your household? Because users can have their own personalized media libraries, user data, recommendations, parental controls, security settings, and more. Users are managed by opening the server dashboard and navigating to Users.
Users
Users are generally intended to be people who don't already have an online Emby Connect account. This i
A new release of Emby for LG is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
New Video OSD
The new on-screen display provides a cleaner design while still giving you access to the most important information and controls.
Other Improvements
Various subtitle fixes for WebOS 1 & WebOS 2 devices
Add "Are you still watching?" feature
Emby for iOS 1.8.3 has been released and includes compatibility updates for iOS 13. Here are some other highlights:
Collections now shown in search results
New Video OSD
You asked for bigger buttons that are easier to tap, and now you have them. Additionally the entire presentation has been cleaned up in order to make it as easy and intuitive as possible.
Emby for Android 3.0.73 is rolling out and contains a number of important fixes and improvements. Here are the highlights:
Fixed downloading to external SD cards
Improved download reliability
Improved reliability of camera upload feature
Fixed audio/video sync for certain videos
A new release of Emby for LG is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
New Detail Screen Button Design
A new and improved detail screen design matches our layout in other Emby apps and makes the most important features easier to find.
Other Highlights
Improved subtitle playback
Improve sorting and filtering to match capabilities of other Emby apps
Improve navigation performance
Tags now displayed on detail screens
Emby Server 4.2.1 is currently rolling out to address a few small issues with our 4.2 release. Here are the highlights:
Fix guide tab button colors on light themes
Fix refresh progress display of individual libraries
Fix collections not getting an image when locked
Fix sync using path substitution when it should not be
Fix crashes on Linux due to network event binding
Fix more button on live tv setup page
Fix erroneous constraint on sync table for new installations
Fix ffprobe cr
Emby for iOS 1.8.0 has been released and now supports iOS home screen shortcuts.
On supported devices you can now tap the icon and apply a little touch pressure, and you'll see a menu allowing you to jump straight into various sections of the app.
Other Improvements
Improve shuffling from list screens
Improved Performance The entire server and all apps will perform better than ever before. This includes general navigation, and in some cases starting media playback.
Faster Live TV Guide Refreshes The guide refresh process on the server will be much faster now, and in many cases will now complete in several seconds or less.
Improved DVR Recordings Reliability is improved, and we now have timestamp correction which will help make the recorded files more playable across a broader range of
A new update for our Apple TV app has just been released which makes the app compatible with both tvOS 12.4 and 13. As a bonus, you also get all of the following : Brand New Home Screen
We've entirely re-written home screen. This gives you top level access to your Favorites, and an improved search.
In addition this new home screen includes the following improvements:
High quality images on Apple TV 4K
Better refreshing when content changes
Faster loading compared to the old s
A new version of our Roku app has been rolling out and, in addition to several other quality, consistency and performance improvements, the app now supports a full array of language translations - even more than the Roku devices themselves do!
The default setting will follow your Roku device setting but, if you'd like a different language that the Roku itself doesn't support, you can select it in the options. Our translations are an ongoing community project. If you'd like to help, just
Please see our community for details: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/74969-samsung-tizen-install-from-usb/
If the app is not in the app store in your country, or if you'd like to try preview builds, you can now install from a USB drive.
An update for Samsung Tizen devices has been released. Here are the highlights:
Improve app performance
Expanded sorting and filtering options
Improved subtitle support
Support multi-version movies with version selection prior to playback
Improved uniform design with other Emby apps
Install from USB Now Available
Please see our community for details: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/74969-samsung-tizen-install-from-usb/
If the app is not in the app store i
We're currently rolling out a few TVOS 12.3 fixes to our Apple TV app. Here are the highlights:
Resolve home screen refreshing content every 15 seconds
Resolve random stutters and skips during video playback
A new version of our Fire TV and Android TV app will be rolling out soon and it now allows you to take advantage of the new thumbnail generation available in Emby Server 4.1+. If you enable this new feature in the server, you will then be able to visually seek your content with thumbnails in the Android/Fire TV app.
Note: This feature requires that the new server thumbnail generation feature be enabled at an interval less than just chapter points and that it has completed successfully
Emby for iOS 1.7.7 is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
Fix Chromecast disconnection when opening server dashboard
Add subtitle color options
Improve Hebrew and Arabic subtitle support
A new version of Emby for Roku has been rolling out this week and it provides some nice enhancements as well as minor bug fixes. The update should be coming to your Roku device soon!
New on-screen mini-guide
During live TV playback, you can now bring up a small version of the guide and move around and find other programs to watch easily. You can set programs to record or cancel them, or switch to a new channel. Pressing the "play" button on your remote will tune directly to the sele
Emby for iOS 1.7.6 is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
Improve hevc playback
Support physical volume buttons for Chromecast
Improve Chromecast re-connection
Add support for external displays and airplay
Respect users WiFi only download setting
Update splash screen
Improve app navigation performance
There is a new ListenBrainz plugin available for Emby Server. Music fans will want to check this out in the Emby plugin catalog.
The ListenBrainz project is similar to the original AudioScrobbler®. Unlike the original project, ListenBrainz is open source and will publish its data as open data.
A team of former Last.fm and current MusicBrainz hackers created the first version of ListenBrainz in the space of a weekend. Since the original project was created, technology has advanced at an i
If your library contains folder format media - this is only old disc style VIDEO_TS and BDMV folders - then be on the lookout for this new release and update as soon as possible.
If your library does not contain that kind of media or you do not allow delete privileges for your Emby users then none of this applies to you and you can continue on your way...
The issue
With only these old-style disc rip formats it is possible that using the Emby UI to delete one of them could potential
In keeping with our goal to be the best personal media server on the planet and, in order to avoid any confusion or apprehension for new users, we've decided to increase our base Emby Premiere license device limit from 15 to 25 devices. We know from the fact that not many people buy the larger licenses that 15 is usually enough, but there have been questions many times from new users because it may not appear that it was adequate for some households. We feel increasing the base license to 25 w
Emby Server 4.0.2 is currently rolling out to address a few issues we've uncovered with the new 4.0 release. Here are the highlights:
Resolve slow scans for movie libraries
Various fixes for mixed content detection
Fix multi-version movie support for mixed content libraries
Fix season shuffle
Fix hevc main 10 stream copying not happening
Fix continue watching not respecting sub-folder access
Fix shared user data for duplicated movies
Improve image language prioritization
Fix li
We're pleased to announce Emby Server is now available for NVIDIA Shield.
Please see the Emby website to learn how to download and install Emby Server onto your Shield:
https://emby.media/server-android.html
Once installed, the on-screen interface will direct you to the Emby web app to run the server startup wizard.
