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This was super helpful info, thank you! I solved my issues by replicating your folder naming system, and by just removing all the weird extra stuff entirely. Even after correcting the folder names and file names, the presence of all the oddball extra content in the "Extras" folder seemed to break everything no matter what I did. Only by removing that folder from Emby's domain did things start working properly for the miniseries episodes + four seasons of normal episodes. I did use the handy FileBot app to correct the filenames of (nearly) all my BSG content, which definitely helped with getting the miniseries and mainline episodes to be recognized, but yeah, nothing I've tried at all has worked with the extra content, and even attempting to include it weirdly breaks everything else, so I'm just not gonna worry about it. Thanks for your helpful info and (especially) screenshots!

我只有一台MacBook air，可是我不会搭建影视库，是还需要其他设备么 就是这个文件里面的我该怎么怎么办呢，我特别想用这个软件，希望你可以帮到我。谢谢 文字文稿1.docx

Will DV support for ATV ever be implemented? Thanks!

Nope, Linux

So basically what I'm seeing is... Roku has an issue with the alphapicker; no other devices that I've tested, firestick and onn 4k streaming has this issue. Nothing can be done to fix this. I need to tell ALL my family to drop Roku and Roku TV and use a Google TV or Android TV device?? I myself have no issues switching to another device, but doubt my family and friends will...so like I said sad to have to go back to Plex....grrrr I do thank all who tried to help

Well i use m4a containers. And emby is not recognizing Series tag or part tag. Series + part tag should become a series in parts.

Good afternoon I believe i fixed the issue, jumped onto Emby on Roku TV and checked the playback setting and for some reason it was on 1080P FHD - 4Mbps but once i switched it to 2160P 4K(UHD) - 110 Mbps i played 2 episodes of breaking bad and so far no issues have showed up.

Hello, I hope you are well, I am not very well... To explain quickly, I lost my data due to a format (done by someone else, a technician...) when I should have just reinstalled Windows. He used a custom script, but the script formats all the drives it sees, even though I had specifically mentioned that I only wanted to format my C drive, well, here we are... After 3-4 days I managed to recover a lot of data, but not everything, using MiniTool Power Data Recovery. Fortunately, I was able to restore the Emby server, so I have access to everything that was there before, because it keeps a cache (which is great !). So I was able to see how many movies, series, I had before the incident, etc. What I would like to do now is compare my new Emby (I reinstalled everything to start fresh) with my old one to see what is missing. I looked in the database (library.db) with a software called DB Browser, but found nothing. Can you help me, please ? Thank you VERY much in advance, and have a nice day.

The problem is, is that the tagging for mp4/aac is around MUSIC when it was originally defined. To use embedded ID3v2 tags for TV Shows, Movies and Audiobooks, you have to re-assign fields. There is no international standard as such on this, and Apple invented new tags for them to handle TV show media content specifically which I steer clear off APART from ITUNESMEDIATYPE because quite a few players recognise that tag. I decided some years ago, that the compromises were minor over not doing this method, compared to some other techniques and is inline with what BBC/Audible and Apple have done overall if you looked inside a vanilla file that hadn't been altered by some DRM removal software. I have 1000's of files now and they play nicely in genre categories. Meanwhile, no standard has been extended/amended/created to fix the scenarios presented, and that is why the Emby team have a hard problem here and stick to the more Music tag way with re-assignment (like ARTIST=Author). Teh meta tag SERIES is not used really, BUT EMby could make use of that tag to satisfy both of us. It could work for both of us (and others).

Had no idea that getting an app update approved can take over 2 weeks.

No, only by dropping the quality

Here's a link to the previous thread which detailed my manual install. It's at the bottom marked as the answer.

and can we make the LG TV transcode on demand?

Yes doing it your way is kind of a hack, that might brake down to road. I will continue to use ABS But thank you for the suggestions

I just use variant of music and it works for me. Similar to what iTunes, Audible and the BBC do. They are quite similar. Yours looks OK, the only thing to make it work is I would use ALBUM/ALBUMSORT as "The Chronicles Of Ynis Aielle: Bastion Of Darkness". That's the only change I see. Your GENRE has two in it, but systems see that as one genre as you don't have a valid separator between the two. Again, a personal thing. You could have had just "Science Fiction/Fantasy" and that would be seen as two genres. Perhaps you wanted a genre called "Science Fiction & Fantasy" though. I do agree with you in that, when you have sub books from one detective for example, it does get tricker. I wanted to have AGATHA CHRISTIE as the author for example to see that in Emby. MISS MARPLE has many stories, and each of those is in multiple episodes for me. This is how I did it by using ALBUM like "Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors", and "Miss Marple: The Body In The Library" - each of this stories can either have just one m4b file or multiple ones to complete the story as this format allows it and looks seamless in Emby. Which is why I am *mostly* happy about Audiobooks in Emby but do realise some improvements can be made as detailed in earlier posts...

Ok so here is a series " The Cronicles of Ynis Aielle" containing 3 audiobooks. Audiobookshelf : Emby : Library and folders. And meta tags SO you are telling me I should break everything else to get Emby to work. You are way off.

I have series. It all depends on what you decided for your naming structure. Collections of authors or books are probably an area Emby could improve upon if you want to curate lists. I use the ALBUM tag for series identifier e.g. "Series 1" for Radio series. ARTIST is the show's name e.g. Dad's Army as probably more important as various writers used for each episode potentially and their names are not "famous" like a well known author is. For AUTHORS who write BOOKS, I use an example as follows if it has multiple episodes to cover a story, Episode 1 here: ARTIST = Agatha Christie ALBUM = Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors TITLE = Episode 1 (or an actual title for the episode if it has been titled by publisher, like "At The Vicarage") DESCRIPTION = some description of the episode LYRICS = production notes, cast names, producer name, extra copyright info, any special notes like technical source/quality issues. (optional field) YEAR = YEAR of production e.g. 1992 (or the absolute full date and time if required.) TRACK = 01 GENRE = Mystery ITUNESMEDIATYPE = Audiobook (or some meta editors value = 2) COPYRIGHT = Publisher copyright. e.g. 1992 British Broadcasting Corporation. GROUP - Emby makes no use of this, BUT it could be made to specify sub-genres of the main genre DIRECTOR - If you want to record the director name Embedded covert art of 500x500 96 dpi where I agree some improvement could be made is PUBLISHER. Sometimes, I have a BBC version and another version from another publisher of the same book. This bit does get harder as Emby can't use grouping by PUBLISHER tag. I normally use something in the ALBUM tag to differentiate at the moment. I use MP3TAG application and initially setup the left hand panel with specific fields. This app is superb at handling bulk media changes and things like a tag field to filename, auto track numbering etc. In the folder layout structure, I typically have FOLDER.jpg as the show or Author cover art, with logo.png, clearart.png, banner.jpg, backdrop.jpg. In sub-folders like books or series; I have FOLDER.jpg again specific to that book or series, a backdrop.jpg if I want one different to parent folder.

You can try to put the file on a USB device, connect it directly to the TV, then try and play using the TV's built in media player app. I suspect that it won't play (probably due to the way it has been encoded). If the client/server knows that the format (mkv/h264/ac3) should be supported by the TV, then we pass the file directly to the TV to play it. If for some reason the TV reports an error (this is happening in your case) then we try and stream the file in a compatible format, and if that reports an error then we try a full transcode. In your case, when we try and stream it the TV is not reporting an error, but it is also not playing so we never get to step 3. I'm suspicious that the issue is in the video stream, which is why reducing the quality and forcing it to transcode resolves it for you, You can try and download MkvToolnix, open the media file, select all the streams and write them to a new file. This won't change any of the streams, it will just rewrite the container structure. This fixes some issue, but as I suspect your issue is in the video stream then it probably won't resolve it. in that case, you will need to reencode the file using something like Handbrake. This won't be a quick process, and I would suggest that you may need to try and find another source and test the files as reencoding all your files might not be practical.

"the rationale with going with a separate extension could very well have to do with having a different extension handler and/or mode for apps like iTunes to handle/present chapter data in those files." and Emby actually works better when they are .m4b as well, as you don't then get recommendations from the MSUIC library and only other m4b files. It's just the container format for the codec. They could use the ITUNESMEDIATYPE metadata tag to determine if set to "Audiobook" (value=2) as well, but that tag was an Apple specific tag.

@unisoftCan you tell me how to meta-tag my audiobook series, so that I can create book series. Without having to create playlistes ?

Hi Luke thanks for the reply. For example, when it comes to Discord notifications from other ARR's, we receive a detailed notification like this: A poster Overview Rating Genres Quality Codecs Group Size Languages Subtitles Links Release I'm not sure if the same kind of notification can be created for Emby and Slack. It would be nice to display these details.

and yet you still fail to answer why the Emby team have to generate a load more work to make Audiobooks, podcasts and radio shows "Special" for you. By all means, as I pointed out some improvements can be made, but whether you like it or not, audiobooks are glorified audio tracks and Emby already can handle that - it just needs some refinement to improve it. Most of the time, people on here shouting the odds, because they don't tag their media. Mine is all tagged and Emby works generally well for audiobooks. I don't want to separate what you call Radio Shows because it makes no sense, I am quite happy to have existing genres for content types of my .m4b files. Many of those 'shows' are sold on Audible anyway - just combined into one m4b file (at poor bit rate) so American Audible are certainly happy for them to be labelled as "audiobooks"

"They were neither the first nor biggest early mover of digital downloads and distribution of non-musical audio format. " - what on earth are you talking about???????? misinformation at best. Before digital, they released on CD as audiobooks. Radio Shows and Audiobooks were originally part of BBC iPlayer (2007) until broken into separate BBC Sounds later. You do know the BBC been operational starting with Radio since 1922, right? Your 'better way' so far looks like a computer app UI. If I wanted a computer app UI, I would use such an app. Emby has to work on TV's using 10 foot interface guidelines. Other codecs are not universally available in devices like MP4 and previously, MP3. The codec is fine, its the bit rate they encode at that affects the quality that is subject to Amazon/Audible specifications. HE AAC exists as an alternative is is fairly widely supported too.

it's not only this file, all my Disney and Pixar are not working the problem, is that i can't figure why it's not reading the file. To make it work , i have to downgrade the quality to 720p 1mbts and with transcoding it's ok

Hi again, something else I just thought of... If Songs Count and Albums Count were optional viewable Fields, then they would make worthwhile Sort By selections, as well. I likely wouldn’t use these as standard Sort By views, but there are numerous times when I have quickly wanted to see (e.g.) an Album Artist list arranged by Albums Count, or a Composer list arranged by Songs Count. (Example image below.) Presently, the only Sort By choices for Album Artists/Artists/Composers are Date Added, Random and Title. Having these two additional selections would be very helpful. (Sorry for not including this as part of the original feature request.)