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Emby Q&A Answers Part One


Thank you to everyone who took the time to ask the Emby team questions across all of the different platforms including here on the forums. There were a lot of great questions that were thrown our way and we've been excited to get the answers out to you. While some of the questions we were not able to answer, we did our best to give you the most accurate and clear answers possible.

Now without further ado, here is the first series of questions and answers for you to look over! Please keep in mind more questions and answers will be coming in additional blog posts in the coming days, so not all questions are being answered today. 

Who owns Emby?

Emby LLC owns the Emby product and is a private entity.  The owners are undisclosed but note that the development team has full control over the direction of the product.  We are not beholden to or under the influence of any investor or investment group. 

What is the history of Emby? 

Emby grew out of an open source project called MediaBrowser. Emby's origin in concept came out of that project but there is actually none of that code base still within it.  Emby ended up being completely built from the ground up to be a server-based ecosystem as opposed to just a single app as the old MediaBrowser was.  

Around 2011 what is now the core development team for Emby were contributors to MediaBrowser.  We saw the opportunity to build something more flexible than the WMC environment would allow and embarked on creating what we then called MB 3.  The core developers spent over a year furiously writing code before anything was released to the public.  It was then probably another two years of dedicated development before anything was truly usable as a system.

In 2015 it was decided that we had moved so far away from what MB originally was that we needed a new name.  A few of the devs got together and came up with "Emby". There are a few reasons behind that name but one of the main ones was that you needed something that wasn't already trademarked and domained.  Emby fit that bill and has the benefit of sounding like "MB" when you say it.

With the new name, we needed a new logo and we actually held a contest in the forum taking contributions from users and that finally landed us on the logo  you see now.

Since 2015 we have expanded the team and worked diligently to try and continue to craft the best truly personal media server system we can.  We still have a long way to go but have also come a long way to where we are.

What are the most popular Emby clients?

We do not have exact data on this, due to sideloading and the such, but through the app store platforms we can gain general ideas. Android is the most popular amongst our userbase (both mobile and TV) with iOS in second place as the most downloaded app. 

What Emby clients do the development team use most for personal use?

Our development team uses a wide variety of apps just as our user base does. We have people on the team using Android on mobile and TV, iOS, Apple TV, Roku and Xbox as well. As you can see our dev team really is as diverse as our user base when it comes to how we use the server. 

These were just a few of the questions about Emby as a product and who we are. In the next blog post we will be covering a few different things such as some of the future goals of Emby as well as release schedules and more! 

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arche

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Holy crap, has it been 9 years since the name change. I remember this like it was just the other day, not 9 years...😵

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sross44

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11 hours ago, arche said:

Holy crap, has it been 9 years since the name change. I remember this like it was just the other day, not 9 years...😵

Crazy right? Thanks for being with us for so long! 

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ng4ever

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On 3/12/2024 at 8:27 PM, arche said:

Holy crap, has it been 9 years since the name change. I remember this like it was just the other day, not 9 years...😵

Dang.

 

 

vincen

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Thanks for all that information that I was not aware (have been a long time Plex user in the past and then not very long Jellyfin before being on Emby now). It's all good out of that point:

The owners are undisclosed

which concerns me a little for future 😕

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sross44

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16 hours ago, vincen said:

Thanks for all that information that I was not aware (have been a long time Plex user in the past and then not very long Jellyfin before being on Emby now). It's all good out of that point:

The owners are undisclosed

which concerns me a little for future 😕

Why does that concern you? Anything to show you that Emby is going anywhere or that we aren't active in development or with our community? 

Rest assured, you have nothing to worry about. The Emby team plans to be around for a long time!

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Ensabanao

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Gracias por admitirme, soy novato total, y ahora con la jubilación, pues eso.....

Salud y suerte.

Félix.

 

Happy2Play

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16 hours ago, vincen said:

Thanks for all that information that I was not aware (have been a long time Plex user in the past and then not very long Jellyfin before being on Emby now). It's all good out of that point:

The owners are undisclosed

which concerns me a little for future 😕

We said the same thing when Emby v3 came out in 2018 ish.  As Jellyfin was forked back then also.

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vincen

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On 4/1/2024 at 3:19 AM, sross44 said:

Why does that concern you? Anything to show you that Emby is going anywhere or that we aren't active in development or with our community? 

That concerns me because IT history is full of companies or projects that suddenly died or got sold at a commercial company because the owner(s) of it decided he wanted to get max of money of it ! I don't say it'll happen at Emby but risk is far of insignifiant all the more without knowing who are the owners 😕

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MBAndrew

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On 4/26/2024 at 6:47 AM, vincen said:

That concerns me because IT history is full of companies or projects that suddenly died or got sold at a commercial company because the owner(s) of it decided he wanted to get max of money of it ! I don't say it'll happen at Emby but risk is far of insignifiant all the more without knowing who are the owners 😕

I don't think knowing who the owners are makes a difference. Individual owners sometimes sell their business, as do bigger companies, and sometimes big companies (e.g., Google) kill off products people like. There are no guarantees--but, presumably, the more people who subscribe to Emby Premiere, the more likely it is that whoever owns Emby will keep it going. I don't purchase many software/app subscriptions, but it is worth paying for Emby Premiere (in my opinion) both for the additional features and as a way to support the continued development of Emby.

DGMayor

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Haven't visited the forums for quite a while (because Emby just works, I don't need to!).  Been here since the old MediaBrowser Windows MCE days.   Good times!  I used to bug @ebrso much in those early days haha.

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sross44

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@DGMayorWelcome back to the forums! It's awesome to see people who have been around for so long! I'm sure @ebrmisses the constant bugging haha. 

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