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Exciting Additions Coming Soon in Emby Server 3.6

Luke

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Hi Team,

 

As many of you know, we are currently working hard on getting Emby Server 3.6 released. We would like to take this opportunity to give you some advance information on some of the changes that are coming.

 

New Levels of Performance
Emby Server, as well as all Emby apps will perform faster than ever. The server can now easily scale to massive libraries, and the faster speed and reduced loading times will probably be the first thing you'll notice after upgrading to 3.6.

 

Live TV Guide Data Now Included with Premiere
Emby will be gradually switching from Schedules Direct to Gracenote for Live TV guide data. What does this mean? This means if you're in the USA, Canada or UK, you'll no longer need to setup an account with another website nor pay someone else for this data. You'll simply enter your zip code into Emby, select your channel lineup, and we'll handle retrieving your guide data.

 

We believe this will provide a better experience for Emby users with fewer setup steps. The data from Gracenote is also quite a bit richer, and we will be looking at how we can take advantage of that to bring new Live TV features to Emby. Going forward, Live TV will require Emby Premiere in the web app, where previously this was not the case.

 


How to Migrate From Schedules Direct

If you are setting up the server fresh, then you should use our new Emby guide provider, which will be the default. If you are already using Schedules Direct, then you can continue to use it through the remainder of your Schedules Direct subscription. Schedules Direct has pledged to continue to honor your subscriptions, and we thank them for that.

 


New and Improved Hardware Acceleration
We have revamped hardware acceleration on all supported platforms for Emby Server. This includes Windows, Linux, Android, NAS devices, and MacOS. We've added some sophisticated hardware detection that allows us to know exactly what your hardware supports, and with this information we can fine tune the transcoding processes to get the most out of your hardware.

 

This has truly been a massive effort and will continue to be a massive effort going forward into the future. For this reason, hardware acceleration will now require Emby Premiere on most platforms. On some platforms such as Nvidia Shield and certain NAS devices, it will be included freely out of the box.

 

A Long List of Improvements and Bug Fixes
Stay tuned for the announcement of Emby Server 3.6. It is packed with new features, bug fixes, improvements to existing features, and more.

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troyhough

I am confused. Working on a Mac, I currently am running 3.68 server, is there a 4.0 version for Mac--where?

thanks

 

Pretty sure the latest stable ios server is 3.5.3.0 and latest beta is 3.6.0.83

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Bill Mini

4.0 Stable has been released today!, It's still a beta, hopefully the last one before stable.

I am on server 3.6.083. Does 4.0 apply to this server? Or are they referring to different things?

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fathibn

Hi all and happy new year,

I am waiting for the new levels of performance the 3.6 stable release will bring and now I see there is a 4.x branch. Will 3.6 stable see the ligth ?

 

TIA

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batcave7

On the Synology beta question from Dec. 28th, was that answered?  Is there a beta release of 3.6 for those of us running a Synology NAS?

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Maximus Naxsus

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@Luke Perhaps make another blog post and mention the 4.0 version number and some more details as a sneak preview? I'm currently very interested regarding Emby as and Music streaming/managing options :-)

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