Tired of the same old re-hashed ancient theme put in a new package? Enter Square a new theme built for Media Browser Classic (MBC) from the ground up.
Square is modern, intuitive, has media center live TV integration*, various built-in apps, and places media at your fingertips plus much more. With support for upcoming TV, intelligent home screen, chapters, multi-users, media folder filtering, and on and on Square leverages the latest from the MBC world for a richer, better media experience.
This is an exciting server release that brings numerous new enhancements, including live tv to our web client and api. All of our app developers have committed to supporting live tv, so look forward to seeing it in all of your apps.
Live TV
We now support live tv through the use of a modular service provider system. You'll need to install a service provider plugin, and at launch we have one, ServerWMC. We'd like to thank krustyreturns for being a part of this.
A next pvr plugin is al
Media Browser 3 Chrome Extension Gives You Quick Access to MB3 Notifications and Features
I am pleased to announce the Media Browser 3 Companion for Chrome. With this extension, you can quickly access status updates, latest news, and other important MB3 features without the need to load up the MB3 web client.
Features include:
Notification status icon displays number of unread notifications
Click status icon to review notification details including: new plugins that are available for
Highlights:
Updated web interface design
More metadata fine tuning
Out of the box studio & genre images
Updated Web Client & Dashboard Design
The web interface has embraced flat UI. Large rounded elements have been replaced in favor of a new smaller, sharper design.
New Mobile & Tablet Layouts
You'll find it much easier to navigate now.
Redesigned Search
The new slide out panel removes clutter from the header and is mobile & tablet frien
Today I'm pleased to announce that Media Browser for Roku is now available in the Roku store. The channel is available for all current models of the Roku devices.
https://owner.roku.com/add/mediabrowser
Features:
Browse your entire Media Browser collection
Stream movies, television and music
A new server beta has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release, but does bring some new features. Among the new features are:
Support for episodes directly in series folders
Added movie/series management filters
Added natural numeric sorting capabilities
Added server-side series display settings
Exposed new fields in episode editor
Important Note: This release will trigger a re-scan of your library, and it will update almost every plugin. So please be patient.
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UPDATE: prices are now back to normal I'm afraid.
Tis the season to be jolly, goes the song, and all of us here at Media Browser wish all our users a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays whatever your plans may be.
To celebrate, we're making selected Media Browser apps available at a discounted price:
Windows Phone - Was $4, now $2.49.
Windows 8 - 30% off
So if you've been on the fence about jumping into either of these apps, now's the time to go for it.
So whatever your plans
The waiting is finally over, The moment "Soon" is now.
The Windows 8 client is now available for download.
Get it here:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/media-browser/ad55a2f0-9897-47bd-8944-bed3aefd5d06
Breeze is a breath of fresh air and is the fastest theme available today and is in the MB Store right now.
Beautiful glass panels and silky-smooth animation make Breeze a delight to use.
For more details check out http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/2721-breeze-theme-for-mbc/
New, much easier way to switch user profiles in MB Classic
Starting with version 3.0.100.0 it will be much easier to manage a mult-user profile setup with MBC. As each theme gets it implemented, you should have an easy button somewhere on the interface to allow you to select a different user profile than the one you are currently within.
The below images show where this button is in chocolate and the default theme. Subdued also implements this new feature. If you don't use one of th
Version 3.0.96.0 of MBC brings chapter viewing and direct playback to themes that are modified to support it.
Currently default, Chocolate and Subdued support chapters with more themes coming. Legacy themes may never support this functionality so this may be a good time to investigate a new theme.
Good news for all you kindle owners. The Android client has been approved for distribution on the Kindle store. Now let's see what awesome features I can add as we go forward from here.
ThemeVideo Backdrops
Bringing ThemeBackdrop Videos and Audio to MBC for All Themes
Hey All, i just wanted to introduce the ThemeVideo Backdrops plugin for Media Browser Classic, you may remember something like this back in the days of MB2 and well, we have brought it into the world of MBC.
A massive effort has come from @Cheesegeezer on this so please make sure you give him a like for this one. A massive thank you to you Cheese, it wouldn't have happened without you!
Just a heads up that with the upcoming release of MBC to the public, The Mediabrowser-Classic Theme - Subdued now has the new changes implemented for Chapter selection on the Final Details Page.
Today I'm pleased to announce that the MediaBrowser client for Android has been released to the Google Play store. The app is available for all devices running Android OS 4.0 (ICS) or newer.
Application Features:
Browse your entire MediaBrowser library
Stream Music, movies and TV from your library
Remote play to other MediaBrowser clients
Open Books (Requires MB Bookshelf server plugin and document readers installed)
This is a very minor release with some enhancements required for the upcoming preview build of Media Browser Theater.
We now retrieve all Music Brainz Id's directly from Music Brainz. No other source is used for this information, (aside from saved xml). This should result in better matches.
Soundtracks can now be used as theme songs
Soundtracks can utilize theme videos from their linked movie, series or game
TV specials can now be displayed directly within seasons
Search now suppor
3.0.5061.25570 has been released into the wild. This brings a number of enhancements:
Manual image downloads
Rate and review plugins in the catalog
Improve movie/series searches using non-standard naming
Ignore xbmc .actors folder
Resolve image downloading issues with previous release
Limit users ability to remote control other users
Manual Image Downloads
Rate and Review Plugins
Remote Control
A new beta release has been pushed out. Your server will update sometime this week depending on your automatic update settings, and our update staggering. This release is mostly about metadata and bug-fixes. The highlights are:
Support for missing and unaired episodes
Support all Plex/Xbmc image file conventions
Support combining multiple backdrop sources
Support automatic updates from themoviedb.org
Numerous subtitle fixes
New sidebar indicators in editing area
Full changeli
A couple of weeks ago, we were really excited to announce our first app was out in the wild on iOS. Today, we're just as excited to announce the general availability of Media Browser for Windows Phone.
This app is available for both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8, although it should be noted that currently, video streaming is only available on Windows Phone 8.
What can you do with this app? Well:
Stream your videos (WP8 only)
Stream your music
Browse your collection
Start a v
We've updated our Chromecast app. To receive the update, simply power cycle your Chromecast device and reconnect from the casting app.
The following changes and fixes have been made:
Audio pop resolved when transcoding video
FLAC direct play support has been added for Chromecast Audio devices
New beta packages are available on our Open Build Service page:
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aemby&package=emby-server-beta
Important: This is a beta package and should be used for testing only. Once this goes stable we'll have separate stable packages.
Other Linux Package Improvements
We'll have a separate post about this, but our linux packages are seeing a lot of improvements as well. Notably:
Added support for openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap
RUSH Theme for MBC is now available to the general public. From the author of previous themes Neo, Pearl, Rush is probably one of the fastest themes available.
For more details checkout the link below:
http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/2492-rush-theme-for-mbc/
New Release (1.0.2.1)
In the latest release of the TV and Movie Theme Video/Song Plugins, a new filter has been added to prevent the download of a theme if its not wanted it in your collection.
When the plugin downloads a theme in the future, a new filter item will automatically be added to the plugins configuration page. If that theme is then deleted from your collection, the theme will never be downloaded again.
If you change your mind, simply enter the plugins configuration pa
This is a maintenance release designed to address a few issues. Here is the change log:
Playback improvements (hevc fixes amongst others)
Custom libraries can now be selected from the main menu
Support for https
Disable WakeOnLan for background tasks
Sync fixes
Get it now on the Microsoft Store:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/media-browser/ad55a2f0-9897-47bd-8944-bed3aefd5d06
Happy new year from the Emby team
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