Search the Community

Hi, I am in the process of setting up my first Emby server, on Linux Mint 17.2. I don't know if my problem is Linux related or what. The thing is, I have some serious trouble setting up my media libraries. I have my media stored locally on the system's main user, called "hpb". 3 main folders; "Musikk", "Bilder" and "Videoklipp". These are the normal Music, Pictures and Videos folders made by Mint. Within the Videos folder I have subfolders for movies, music videos, home videos and TV series. The TV series folder is so far empty. All folders and subfolders have 777 permissions. I have managed to make libraries for music, pictures and music videos, but I am not able to make any more. When I try to make the movie library f ex, I choose the content type and name, navigate to the Movies folder and click OK, the popup disappears, but no new library is made. This is making me kind of crazy. Also, it took several attempts to make the other libraries. Neither of them worked on first try. Any ideas? Edit: Out of desperation I tried to delete the empty TV series folder. And by some strange reason that seemed to help! I don't know why an empty folder should be a problem...

Just started using EMBY and am loving it. Trying to set up a library for my daughter so I can add the folder for specific shows I want her to see. But it doesn't appear the work.I set the content type to "TV", then... If i add this folder it works, trouble is she gets to see ALL the shows and season in the subsequent sub-folder: \\myserver\Videos\TV If I add this folder, doesn't work (i.e no shows or seasons appear): \\myserver\Videos\TV\Glee Is there something that I need to do in EMBY or do I need to change the file structure of my server and remove one level ? Thanks Stephen

Every now and then, my Emby server just hangs during the library scan because it gets stopped from somewhere, I really don't know where this is coming from, log attached. server-63582940533.txt

When scanning my library to Emby, and the server calls ffprobe to analyze the files, it seems to occasionally hang at this step, resulting in main@htpc:~/.emby-server/logs$ ps -efj | grep ffprobe main 16995 17978 16994 17978 0 11:48 pts/0 00:00:00 grep ffprobe main 26502 20731 20731 20731 0 11:22 ? 00:00:00 /home/main/.emby-server/ffmpeg/20150917/ffprobe -i file:/media/Media2/Music/Roger Waters/Ca Ira/01-06 Act 1_ Scene 2_ Honest Bird, Simple Bird.flac -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_format running forever at 0% CPU load. The library scan gets stuck there. Any ideas where this might come from?

I've seen in other threads a few different scenarios for handling library and permission setup, but I wanted to get a clear recommendation for best practices, since I'm just starting out. Is there a recommended, standard, or common way to handle permissions of shared media libraries for emby? My media library is relatively small at the moment, but I intend on growing once I have emby up and running properly. I can see advantages of putting my media library in /home/emby, or putting it in my personal home directory and simply modifying the emby user's permission to that portion of my home directory. I could also see merit in putting it somewhere impartial like /media, /share, or /var/share. I could change ownership of the folder, or I could add the emby user to the group that has permission. I am on a shared computer, but I don't necessarily want access to the media limited to one user. The idea is that eventually it will be one media library directory where we will dump the whole family's photos, music, and videos together, and emby serves it to other devices on our network. I'm new at this, so I likely haven't thought through all the implications of each option. What do most of you guys do?

Is it possible to "reset" ONLY the music library to restart with a clean fresh one? I'm having different and strange problems with my music library and I would like to do a complete refresh of it, starting with a cleant and empty one. Would removing the music library, and adding it again achieve this? I'm open to do some sqlite "surgery" with the proper guidance. I'm running Emby server 3.0.5724.6 on CentOS 7. Thanks

hi there, not sure if this is the right place to post or if it should have gone to linux or another thread. I run emby Version 3.0.5675.1 on kernel 3.2.0.88 Here my issue: For some files in my library i'm missing the mediainfo of the video file (I do have the metadata, such as episode summary etc. that is not the issue). Normally, when you browse to a video file in the webclient at the bottom you will see the mediainfo. This is not the case for me, for most I do see mediainfo, but for some it shows only "container" and "path". This becomes a problem when you want emby to transcode the file as it requires this info. When I go to the metadata manager and I do a an "advanced refresh" with "add missing data" it does its thing and the missing mediainfo appears and transcoding works as well. This works recursive to one level only it seems, e.g. so if do an advanced refresh on the structure below it works: folder1 -sample.avi [mediainfo is missing] I do an advanced refresh and: folder1 -sample.avi [mediainfo is there] What does not work is and would mean to go through each folder individually (which is too much work): folder1 (e.g. tv shows) -subfolder1 (e.g. show1) -sample.avi (e.g. episode) [mediainfo missing] Also not working: folder1 (e.g. tv shows) -subfolder1 (e.g. show1) -subfolder2 (e.g. season) -sample.avi (e.g. episode) [mediainfo missing] or also not working folder1 (e.g. tv show) -subfolder1 (e.g. show1) -subfolder2 (e.g. season) -subfolder3 (e.g. episodes in folders) -sample.avi (e.g. episode) [mediainfo missing] So how to get emby to scan and add (missing) mediainfo in a recursive manner for all subfolders and the files therein? I have a scheduled task set to scan my library every 24 hours, but this info is not being added.

I'm pretty comfortable with Arch, but Emby has put me to the test. After two days and several 6-packs of Coke, I finally got it installed and configuration up and running in Chrome. I even somehow got two forms of media added to the library from my WD MyCloud NAS. But the folder scanning is failing. In the Library section, under the Scan Library button it just always says "Last result: (failed)". Really, really not sure what is going on. Anyone have any thoughts? My latest log file is attached but it's all greek to me. emby-Log-2015.09.20.txt

Hi all, I'm facing this issue: http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/24157-webclient-recursive-library-scan-missing-mediainfo/ basically I have missing mediainfo for some files, during regular or advanced library scan the missing mediainfo is not added if you have folder within folders (so recursive). If ran on the single, individual file, then it works, but with a 50TB library that is nuts. So would it be possible to add a separate trigger to scan/add missing mediainfo in a recursive scan ?

Hi, I am currently having an issue with Ubuntu 14.04 library scanning, I am on the third attempt now and it still seems to be getting stuck, I have tailed /var/lib/emby-server/logs/ I can see the get requests and some thumbs being created but after a while it just stops for no real reason, any help would be greatly appreciated, don't want to go back to plex!!!

I'm having problems with the search function. Every time I want to search for something in my library (movie, song, tv show) the webclient goes back to home screen without showing any results. This was working for sure before but right now I can't tell when it stopped. I'm running Emby 3.0.5675.1 on CentOS 7. In Emby log, for every search I try I get this exception: 2015-07-30 22:40:24.1658 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.2502 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.3183 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.3554 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.4836 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.4948 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.5608 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.6163 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.6383 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.6651 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.7055 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-07-30 22:40:24.7214 Error - DtoService: Error getting artist *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5675.1 Command line: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/opt/Emby/server Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/opt/Emby/server Mono: 3.10.0 (tarball Sat Nov 15 03:35:34 UTC 2014) Application Path: /opt/Emby/server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: name System.ArgumentNullException at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetItemByName[MusicArtist] (System.String path, System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.GetArtist (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations.Dto.DtoService+<AttachBasicFields>c__AnonStorey6.<>m__1 (System.String i) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0It looks like a problem with some item in my library but I can't tell from the error where to look exactly. Any ideas?

As requested by xnappo a few days ago - here is my kodi log for emby. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. imgur ss of add-on/config: https://imgur.com/a/RKF7r#0 could be something very simple that I am over looking. thank you in advance. bry kodi.log

Hello, I am experiencing the issue of no updates happening between Kodi and Emby. The server works fine and I can see the updates in the web and WMC clients, but not Kodi. Is anyone else experiencing this? I don't want to have to do a full sync each time in order to see what's new. Am I supposed to turn on the Kodi "update library" option? I thought Emby took care of that.

Hi. I'm a self-confessed noob here. I did a search for my problem in the forums, but couldn't find anything, so I apologise in advance if I overlooked something. My issue is this: I have Emby for Kodi on both my win 8.1 laptop (which is where my emby server is), and my amazon fire stick. they work great. however, i like to add all movies and shows in the genesis add-on to my library, which puts them into the same folder together on the homescreen. it's just easier for navigating and makes more sense to me. this creates no problem on my laptop. local content and streaming content play just fine side-by-side together. however, my fire stick immediately throws all its toys out the pram. after adding my genesis content to my library, anything that i'm streaming to the fire stick from the emby server on my laptop refuses to play. Anything, that is, except for my music, which still plays just fine, (which makes a weird kind of sense as genesis doesn't touch my music). sometimes when trying to play movies or music, i will get an error message along the lines of, "playback failed." sometimes it's like it thinks it's playing, only it isn't. streaming from genesis still works okay. to play movies and tv from emby on my fire stick again, i have to reset its database. i am sure that there is some kind of logical explanation for this, but for the life of me, i cannot figure it out. is there some reason why this is happening? obviously the apps are fighting each other somehow, but why does it only affects my fire stick, and not the laptop? is there something i can do to make it all work? (if there are some logs that should be added to get some help, please let me know which ones and how to get at them. i have no clue.) thanks in advance.

So i did a clean format/reinstall of my laptop. so put Emby on with a fresh install... but then copied over everything from the backed-up \Emby-Server\data folders, including all the images, etc... But i deleted the library.db & refreshinfo.db so the library would rebuild... Does the server use the images that are already downloaded, or does it just download everything a fresh and overwrite whatever's already there?

I've got a problem with my Pi and the Kody App. It recognises the server but when it updates the Library it barely comes to 7 of 127 movies and then get a script error. Kodi Openelec 5.95.2 Emby App 1.0.14 Server:Linux openmediavault 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 i686 GNU/Linux Emby Server: 3.0.5641.5 kodi.log

Hello, I've created a movie library on my emby-server using the folder "\\nas\data\movies" (contains all movies for every age.) Everything works fine. Now I've created another movie-library using the folder "\\nas\data\movies\movies4kids" (contains only movies for kids) This library is always empty though the scan has finished without any problems. Does anyone know if this is per design or is this a bug? Server Version 3.0.5621.4 Thank you for your help.

In trying to fix another issue, I removed a movie library and replaced it with the same library using a UNC path rather than a local path, then re-scanning the entire library. However, this caused a problem with existing collections made up of titles from the old library. I now cannot see the original collections and when I try to re-create collections for those titles, I get an error stating the collection already exists. I tried editing the collection.xml files in AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\data\collections\ to update the local paths to the UNC location, and re-scanning the libraries, but the collections remain missing. In the server log, I get messages stating it cannot locate content for these collections at the old local path (Warn - BaseItem: Unable to find linked item at path M:\My Movies\...). Metadata manager does not show any of the orphaned collections or content either. If possible, it would be great to be able to restore the original collections, but if that is not possible, I'd be fine with deleting the original orphaned collections and re-adding the titles. Even deleting all collections and starting from scratch would be fine. Any ideas how I might do this?

I would like a way to designate a folder and everything underneath to be excluded from the "Movies" listing on the front page and designated as a new type of category on the front page. Right now, I usually use the "Folders" listing because certain types of videos we have are not really movies but are listed in the same folder. An example might be instructional videos, workout videos, sports recordings, etc. It doesn't make sense to list these types of videos in the "Movies" listing because they really aren't movies in the true sense of the word, but that's the only place they're put. More flexibility to apply metadata type labels to folders would be very helpful. The content type drop down seems to be the best place to designate a folder to contain these types of files, but if they currently are in the "Movies" folder but I don't want them listed under the movies category on the front page, I would like to be able to create a custom type and have it grouped on the front page of the web client, MBC, or whatever client being used.

hi all I installed mb3 and xbmb3c, great that there is linux support now for this awesome piece of software. I was wondering though I have an extensive media library in xbmc or I should say better in mysql, which i use for several xbmc clients. the mysql library I filled using the xbmc scrappers, it is not the smallest library as the data is larger then 30TB. With one xbmc client, I use mb3 and xbmb3c to access my files via the mb3/xbmb3c server (http share) but I would like it to use the mysql library (so I don't have to scrap via mb3) but how to enable that? thank you in advance!

Hey guys! So I wanted to use Emby to import movies from an old hard drive. Being an old hard drive, and with a bunch of backups in it, it's got movie files in a lot of folders. So I used the drive itself as the media folder to import and selected content type as Movies. However, it's showing me all kinds of non video files (like .bin now in my library. Any way to smartly pull only the video files into the movie library? Thanks!

Does this happen to anyone else... When I open Media Browser (current version) through Windows Media Center, I will get a blank library. I will have to open or close it a few times or even rescan the library even though I know it has just finished... I opened it on the Web a moment ago and had the same thing happen. I have gotten this on multiple machines and have tried various forms of the current Server (3.0.5582.4 / 3.0.5588.0). Attached are the most current logs...

Hi, I do not know if this is the way Emy is supposed to work but I have more than one media folder of the same kind. Actually I have 4 movie folders and 3 series folders. Please see the picture below: You see that there is the "Animações" and "Filmes" and they both are of the "Filmes" (movies) kind. When I browse one of these media folders, let's say, by genre, Emby shows all the content of that kind (movies), so I get to see movies from both media folders though they point to different phisical locations. Is that correct?

Hi, guys. I’m having some trouble adding music folders to my media library. I’ve added the folders (selecting Music as the media type) to my library, but when I go to the music section on the client, it’s completely empty. I tried removing and re-adding the folders again in an attempt to get MB to try indexing them again, but that didn’t work. I do not organize my music in album and artist folders. I organize solely by genre on the file system, but I keep my ID3 metadata clean and populated. When I go to the metadata editor, I can select a song and have it manually retrieve info using the ID3 tag. That does index the file and allow me to see an artist and the song in the client’s music area. Unfortunately, I do not want to do this for the thousands of songs I have. I didn’t see anything unusual in the log, so I’m not sure what else to do at this point. Not one of my genre folders was able to be indexed. Suggestions? Thank you, Josh

I'm not sure if I found a bug, or is just by design. I'm running Mediabrowser server 3.0.5518.4 on CentOS 7 and my media library is hosted on a Windows SMB fileshare that MB access through the network. This share has read-only permissions. I mounted this SMB share on my CentOS server so it looks local to any application that runs on this machine. Then I configured MB library to point to this local folder. The library was successfully scanned, all the metadata was retrieved correctly from the internet and I was able to watch content from a web browser and also from my iPad. So far so good. All my movies and tv shows have subtitles, they were scanned and detected correctly by MB. The problem is that when I try to enable the subs for any movie or tv show, they don't work. On any device (web or tablet). Video and audio is ok but the subs just don't work. I went through MB logs and I found that every time I enabled subs this error is logged (partial extract below, full trace attached): Access to the path "/storage/Movies/WhatEverMovie/WhatEverMovie.spa.srt" is denied. This is not true, since subs and video files are in the same folder on the share. I also try to open the subs file from the MB machine with vi, cat, more, etc. and there is no problem at all. I can read the file perfectly. Of course since the share is read-only I can only read the file, not modify it, delete it, etc. I tried to change the permissions on the share to allow write access, just for the sake of testing and voila, subs started to work from MB. Now my questions are, why MB will fail to display the subtitles if it doesn't have write access to the file? Is this a bug? By design? Any other application/media player I tried had no problem at all to display the video and the subs from this read-only network share. Thanks in advance for your replies. Cheers. Full_trace.txt