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Had an interesting thought come to mind and wanted to throw it out there to see if there was any traction/feasibility to my idea. Have the ability to enter a watch party room with other logged in users. One stream is running between all people in the channel. Thoughts?

It would be great to have a list view mode on the AndroidTV app just like it exists on the normal Android App without the necessity to show thumbnails. Value: One main usage of Emby for me is to watch educational videos that I manage in Emby. The primary reason why I use Emby for this is 1) I can track my progress of the lectures in a central manner if I use multiple devices for that and 2) it's easy to manage them for offline usage when I'm travelling. Those videos are usually many files in every directory and don't come with metadata which is why I choose the media type "home videos and photos" for them. Also I don't generate thumbnails as those generated thumbnails do not deliver any added value. Instead, the most important information to manage those videos is the directory name, the filename and the watched status/watch progress. The thumbnails are just empty boxes which clutter up the screen which is why a pure text-based list view mode would be very awesome.

I share my server with my siblings and each of them have their own families. I want to give them a place where they can upload their photos now that Google Photos isn't going to be free any more. I have been looking for ways to accomplish this without sharing everyone's photos with each other. I think the best/easiest way would be to have an additional option that creates a subfolder per user. Kinda like the current ability to create a subfolder per device. Then I could share just that subfolder with each user.

Here is the scenario: You have 2 versions of the same movie, a director's cut and a theatrical cut. Director's Cut is 2:14 with 18 chapters Theatrical Cut is 1:48 with 16 chapters. In the client UI (both web and Roku, and I assume all others), in the movie details page the time/length element, "Ends at" element, and all the chapters (number, thumbnails, etc.) are based on the 1st version alphabetically. So, for our example, it would show a length of 2:14. If it was 07:00 the End At would be 9:14, and there would be 18 thumbnails for the chapters. ... as the Director's cut is the 1st version. This doesn't change even if you use the Version pull down menu to select the other version. I suspect Emby is basing the length (and hence the Ends At) off the metadata not the file itself. I would like the UI to change those 3 fields base don the selected version in the pull down menu. So it starts off with length of 2:14. If it was 07:00 the End At would be 9:14, and there would be 18 thumbnails for the chapters. But, if I switch to Theatrical, the UI switches to length of 1:48. If it was 07:00 am the End At would be 8:48, and there would be 1_6_ thumbnails for the chapters. Thanks

I would love to have the option of displaying a large banner-like image at the top of the homepage to showcase featured titles like Netflix does. Configuration options: Display image or video Play trailer w/ mute toggle switch Rotating list based on release date, newly added or custom Enable on homepage and/or within each category Thanks and keep up the great work! I look forward to seeing Emby's continuing evolution.

Now that Google is ruining Google Photos by taking away unlimited backup I have been looking for alternatives. I've tried a bunch of opensource alternatives and they all seem to be lacking a lot of things. Then I remembered that Emby could show photos and I was a little disappointed when I created a photos library and viewed them from the app. A helpful addition for me is to use photo metadata to allow different view options for photos other than folder view. A view based on date photo was taken would be awesome.

It would be nice if when a user sets their own recordings they would have their own recorded folder and not share the same folder with everyone. I can see multiple recording of the same show is the only problem to save hdd space.

I use Tags to designate which things are ok for my Kids (on their own "users") to watch (is there a better way??) It is a very labor intensive process to edit all of the media entries to add these tags (especially buried down at the bottom). It would be great if there was a way to select multiple files and assign a Tag to all of them. Thanks Emby Team!

Hi, It''s not possible to add on the dashboad the CPU/RAM and LAN utilization of the server on a graphics in real time (like Plex dashboard) I think is important for the futur evolution of the server (Adding Ram or more)

If a movie has multiple versions (1080p, 4k, director's cut, etc) it would be nice if the resume feature automatically chooses the version that needs resuming, not just resetting back to default.

I just started playing with emby again after some years and noticed all the work that has gone into it lately, very impressive! The trailers plugin such a cool plugin to play new upcoming movies in the theater before your movie of choice starts I like this feature a lot. Would it be ok to add a small feature to this plugin so I could make and add a simple banner before each of the 2 trailers play that say "Coming Soon to theaters" and then a third banner after the trailers are finished that says "Now for your feature presentation" Now that I am off work I can tinker around with emby and build a media center for my family to use. Something like this even? https://gofile.io/d/twvuok then https://gofile.io/d/6MUf1n

Hi! (sorry for my english) Sometimes i’m sleepy but still try watching movie... I want a button or whatever to save the time example: 0:43:13 save this time but the movie still countine. If this is possible i want this movie/episode time saves to see in homepage.

Hi to the great Emby team Up until the past year or so the current manner in which one is able to select what channel to record a program on has been totally fine for me. However, the rights to broadcast the Formula 1 Grand Prix have changed and now ESPN broadcasts it and here lies the rub. As there are a number of very popular sports in the US + the global sports programs like ESPN have multiple channels to cover all of this. And has F1 is not really a high priority event there are times when it isn’t even shown live (generally when there are a large number of games for a given sport) which there is nothing that can be done about that. But because F1 races take place in a different country each race, thus different time zones, sometimes the races will be shown (live or for their first time in the US) on ESPN (esp if it is at a very early hour) and sometimes on ESPN2 if there is something else that would attract more viewers. Now I don’t think there is a feature/method that I am unaware of; I believe that the way the series recording functionality works is that when you request a program to be recorded the way Emby determines the options for what channel to record the show on is based on what channel the selection you have made is being broadcast on. For the most part this is fine and works out great, but with something like F1 which is usually on ESPN2 & I want to record the races only in HD I end up having a rerun of the race recorded by Emby if a given race happens to be broadcast on ESPN (and that’s if they have a rerun of it). If I don’t select ‘only record on ESPN2 HD’ and instead select ‘any channel’ then I’ve had the race recorded in SD when it is broadcast live (and maybe in HD as well. I only noticed this when Emby recorded a race in SD when I had it set for any channel). So I would like to put forth a feature request to add ‘only HD’ (and I guess ‘only SD’ for those that might want it?) as an option. Of course if there is an automated way around this, meaning I don’t have to keep reviewing the schedule to see which channel the race is set to be recorded on, that would be awesome and I’d be happy to withdraw the enhancement request. (another thing would be to request that only the actual races be recorded, not the practice or qualifying sessions, but me thinks that would be a larger piece of work & unless that is something others want I figure there are more pressing things for the Emby team to work on). thanks!

I searched before posting and went back 5 years, buit didn't see anyone making this request. There was one that was kind of similar but not the same nearly 2 years ago. I would love to see an additional line added to Recordings program info screen to include the time the program aired and channel it aired on, as is shown in program info on the Guide and Schedule pages. I have attached screenshots of what is shown now, and what I'm requesting, although I'm sure your team could do a much better job with the aesthetics. CURRENT RECORDING INFO (Web App) REQUESTED INFO CURRENT RECORDING INFO (ANDROID TV) REQUESTED INFO

I wish there is a "Reset Filter" button on Emby Web/ Android version. The Firestick version surprisingly the only one that has clear filters. Also, this actually a related to filters, yet separate feature request. Is there's a way for us to save the filter query (e.g : Genre Action/Adventure, Status : Ended, etc) to a user view/ "Saved List"

Could we get an option to allow us to change the log path location similar to the ability to change the cache path? I want to reduce SSD wear out and with an emby server that is used frequently, the amount of logs that are written even with debugging disabled is a lot. I'd like to move the logging to a mechanical drive in this system.

Just like TV Shows library has episodes view every series should have it too. Especially needed for anthology series with lots of seasons. Should be able to sort and filter.

I have been attempting to add metadata to my audiobooks library in an effort to tidy it up. When I use the metadata editor to add the blurb it retains paragraph spacing but when I save this and view the item all spacing is removed. Can the paragraph spacing be retained? Examples:

Please add the option to change the library order in the server settings, so that it becomes the default order for all the users. It is super annoying to log to each user, then going to the "Home Screen" settings and change the library order per user, this option is awesome for when the user wants to customize the default order if they want.

It will be cool if we would be able to change the order of the library in the server settings so that the order becomes available to all users in the homescreen, currently it can only be change per user in the Home Screen settings. Right now I have to login to each user to change the order of the library in the home screen.

I have access to a remote emby server, I want to get a selection screen before entering the server, I know that the admin can uncheck Hide this user from login screens when connected remotely, but unchecking that option to other remote users will show those other users on my user selection screen (doesnt make much sense because those are people that I dont know or dont live in my house). I think it would be better to give the option to create (client side) local users, so my family can access the server with their own users through my master user (something like the managed users with plex), and in the case of unchecking the Hide this user from login screens when connected remotely (Server side admin option), give the client the option to hide the other remote users that are unhidden, because with remote servers not all the users live on the same house.

Heyhey, it would be cool that when you hover a movie after 4-5 seconds the backdrops could start in background to give like a fast demo of the content. then when you load the movie info page it still playing

Is there a way to add all my albums to my favourites? It's really tedious process.

hey guys, i have been getting together a horror section for my server to show at halloween, and had a look in the parental controls and would like to ask if it would be possible to instead hiding the film (s) to maybe have something like sky does where you can see the film displayed with all artwork but to watch the film or trailer you would have to put in a pin code to allow the playback. the code could be the same as the local pin code for (your) local network so once you have chosen your code it will work for both parental controls and local network. this could be a great idea to also mention that in the [metadata manager] you could also have an option to have a tick box to set up for parental control pin code required if you would like to select certain films / tv shows. or for batches you can then go to parental control main settings as they are now. hope this makes some sense as im fairly tired haha

Hey please could you add the ability to change theme from default on roku tv I love the Windows media center theme and on roku tv there is no option to change from dark theme