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With a chapter per episode? With separate art, and and descriptions and even pages for each chapter? I don't think the comparison matches up. About the only comparison that would fit is the ability for Emby to remember what chapter you last listened to, and where you are in the current chapter. But that is a barebones requirement for any proper audiobook player.

Just read about the Zappiti out of business stories and feel for you and others and their loss. Some spent $4000 on hardware and service in the beginning of 2023 and they now own a boat anchor what an expensive education. You didn't mention your server hardware nor your playback hardware and your operating systems. If you want more help post your topology as well as your hardware / software setup.

I am running an Emby server on my QNAP NAS and paid for that with a life time license. Have an additional server on my Intel NUC PC which is covered by the license. Since the Devs here have done a marvelous job for decades and actively monitor this forum, I reward them for that with purchasing a license. Now that this is out of the way lets go on to the clients. When the Zappiti software was free I ran it on a Dune device for a few years and it was decent, but when they went to their own hardware and no longer made the software available plus closed down the support forum I left. The Emby browser client is free and I only use it for maintenance and for the arrangement of my content as well as the library layouts. I run Emby clients on my Windows laptop, my Roku Ultra, my Galaxy tablet and my Google TV device. All of them perform to my satisfaction and the eye candy is excellent. However the best layout for my liking and content detail plus feedback is through the Windows Media Center (WMC) client and the Throgmorton themes. Having said that this is now a dead end as WMC plus the Throgmorton themes are no longer maintained, developed and the latest Emby servers no longer support WMC. In my personal experience I have found that with my weekly viewing routines the clients that are developed and maintained by Emby are excellent and more then enough because of their pleasing nature. I haven't turned on my Intel NUC and the best eye candy display in over a year. The streaming devices I have plus the provided clients from Emby are excellent in their ease of use, navigation, their organization and display of details. However for these clients you need a license and the Devs absolutely deserve this since this has been their baby for decades ever since I started to support them when Emby was known as Media Browser.

Maybe with a bunch of really fast SSDs.

Hi. The issue there is that would be ambiguous. An item can belong to multiple collections and playlists so there is no way to derive access control from that structure. An item could be in one collection that is blocked and another that is allowed. So, I'm just trying to provide a way to get to what you really want within the system. Thanks.

Well, looks like issue re-appeared with Downloaded items (IOS, IpadOS) and Android TV client. Track art is fine, but Album art is sporadically missing. Re-tagging/re-scanning, did not help in this case... Embyserver.txt

Let me tweak my response. I think being able to give users specific access to collections or playlists would be helpful to me. If the Devs or others disagree, please disregard.

The Custom Rating field is used for parental controls only. So if you enter a Custom Rating on an item that is what will be used to compare to the max rating you set for access control.

Honestly, I am done pulling log files only to get no response on the issue.

Agreed, which is why we have the Custom Rating field. If your real issue is easier bulk metadata editing, then that is a different issue.

Also having this issue. Appreciate that you all are looking into it for us, so thank you!

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

Thanks for reporting back.

Hello! Whenever I try to play a high-bitrate file on my device, the playback doesn't want to start. If I just randomly jump to any point in the movie, it starts buffering and stuttering the playback. I thought this was a bandwidth-issue, since I am on WiFi, but when I disable the automatic transcoding in the options for the user, the file plays perfectly. So I thought, okay the problem is the transcoding. But why does Emby try to transcode the file if it plays without transcoding just fine? I thought transcoding only activates when it's needed, but if the file plays fine with transcoding disabled, why does Emby think it needs to do that? I can't just disable transcoding, because when I'm away from home, I sometimes watch stuff as well and then I need the transcoding feature. Thank you for your help!

Ok, maybe I don't understand the custom rating then. Are you saying that if I enter a custom rating, then filter by rating or create a playlist by rating, that Emby will look at my custom rating and ignore the default rating? If so, that would be excellent

Hi. You don't have to do that. Just fill in the custom rating on the outliers...

I'm not saying your suggestion won't work. But I am saying that it is much more complicated to rate EVERY piece of media I have just to fix a few outliers, than it is to just fix a few outliers and then use the default parental guidance ratings otherwise.

PG for a Disney cartoon and PG for Monty Python and the Holy Grail are two very different things. The parental rating system is far from flawless. Emby makes it hard to adjust metadata for items in bulk. Collections and Playlists are my easiest options, hence my suggestion.

So the do skip plugin is what is making it not update? I reselected the guides and the live tv setup and it worked. This is prior to seeing this about removing comskip. If it does it again I will remove comskip and see if that does the trick. Is there any other plugin like comskip that does the same thing?

@Luke I mentioned this in another thread a couple of weeks ago, but I too am losing my downloads on my android phone. Had re-downloaded the albums, but alas, when I checked again today, they have all gone again. I use my phone in the car to stream the downloads to the stereo rather than having a data connection through emby.

Hi. I believe billing support already answered your questions but a quick repeat here for others: 1) That message shows when you are within 3-5 devices of the limit 2) Just cancel your current sub and start the new one you want. Then you can email billing support to adjust any prices that may be necessary. Thanks.

Hi. If your IP address has changed, try restarting your server.

Hi. Try removing the ComsSkip plug-in.

Hi. Just FYI, this is what the "Custom Rating" field is designed for. You can enter your rating there and, since no provider will have that, it should never get overwritten.

New user A has been added, and access permissions to some media libraries have been assigned to user A. Then media library B was added, and by default, user A did not check access to media library B. But user A can search for or see the content of media library B through recommendations from other media. This makes user A's access to new media library B invalid. However, without any modifications, go to the configuration page of user A and click save. User A is unable to search for media in new media library B. It is speculated that when adding media library B, the accessible media library permission table for user A was not updated simultaneously. You can test it, my server version is 4.9.0.16. I didn't save the log. After testing, it was easy to reproduce the problem.