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... when server is recording / livetv streaming or a user is playing something. would this be possible? andy.

Is it possible to share playlists with other users yet? I read a post from Luke I think about copying playlists from one user to another, but the post was from a few years ago I think. Any chance sharing playlists has been added to the UI yet? I'm just testing Emby out right now so I haven't upgraded to premium yet. Not sure what I'm missing just using the free version.

One of the few major features Plex has over Emby: the ability to set a series to DVD order. The data is all there - theTVDB provides both DVD order and Airdate order. Filebot can rename using either. There's no excuse not to provide a simple option that will interpret episodes using DVD order instead of Airdate order. Yes, it is possible to enforce DVD order manually, but that's only half the problem. The other half is that, for some shows (e.g. Firefly), the DVD order is more widely-accepted as canonical, and so it makes the most sense to name episodes using that order. Doing so will cause ALL metadata for said episodes to be incorrect. Again, this can be manually corrected, but is tedious. This latter point is why I used "Emby Media Server" as the product this feature request refers to. I don't just want my episode order to change at the client end, I want to be able to flag a specific show as having a preferred canonical order, both in its naming scheme and in the episode list, that is different from the airdate order. Finally, for what it's worth, I am a new user of both Plex and Emby. I am paying for both while I decide which to use forever. This drawback could make the difference, for me, between a single $5 subscription, or a $120 lifetime pass.

Hi Guys, Similar to the select multiple movies and then "Add to collection" "Add to playlist" etc, it would be great if you could edit info such as "Parental rating" or even lock the information so that further changes couldn't be made. I've found that whilst some of the movies and shows pick up the ideal rating there are the odd ones here and there that I need to change as the show or movie isn't really suitable for my daughter. At the moment it's a pain having to make these changes one at a time. Regards Austie

I would like to request a feature that would be very useful, the implementation of user profiles, so every time we create a new user we would only need to select the profile that we have already edited. Avoid having to make all the adjustments again: as permissions. Thanks in advance. I would like to request a feature that would be very useful, the implementation of user profiles, so every time we create a new user we would only need to select the profile that we have already edited. Avoid having to make all the adjustments again: as permissions. Thanks in advance.

I know message to active users (depending on app/device used) is able to have a message sent to them via the app while the user might be watching. Works wonderfully, wondering if we could get a future request for a mass message option to users (all active users) instead of going individually to each user to tell them the message.

Emby WebUI - Please create a general device that represents all web browsers At present, its impossible to restrict users to only the WebUI without granting permissions to all devices. It would be good to have a device in devices, that represents the webUI or all web browsers in general. This way permission can be granted to users without granting permission to all devices. This would serve as a solution to allow only downloading (no streaming, no transcoding, no direct play, etc) Only browse library and file download.

Please let us have the server name displayed on the home page. Obviously, this is very useful when on is running more than one server.

I noticed the server wasn't able to successfully scan the library for the past 2 weeks now. It gives me the error A child with the Id xxxxxxxxxxxxx already exists. Digging in the logs it told me the error came from my Doctor Who folder. Apparently the media folder 'Specials & others' got duplicated somehow in the library. See attached image from the metadata manager. Strangely enough I haven't touched that series in a long time, so it couldn't be a PEBKAC issue. It seems like the problem started around the time I updated Emby Server to version 3.2.70.0 on my Synology DS918+ about 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately I don't have the logs of that time anymore. This raises 2 questions 1) How is it possible the server duplicated a media folder by itself that I haven't touched in ages? 1a) Could it be the 3.2.70.0 version that may be buggy regarding this issue? 2) How can I remove one of those folders so that my library will scan again? I don't want to physically delete anything from the server. Thanks in advance.

I have two suggestions or requests: Suggestion # 1: I would like to hide library items I don't use often depending on the device, for example: - I have an Android TV device I use mainly for video so I would like to hide the music library - I have an Android phone I use mainly for listening to music so I would like to hide all the items except the music library. - On my Windows 10 computer I would like to show all the library items. Suggestion # 2: Add the option to set a library item to appear by default everytime I open the app, for example, to display the music library by default everytime I open emby on my phone and make it look like the app was made only for music.

Some server targets, such as the synology emby server are by design hosted on low powered hardware. Even if your server is running on decent hardware, there are use cases for this. I would like to have a way to offload and load balance transcoding tasks to other hardware. Building a transcoding client would allow this. load balancing could be done across the transcoding clients, and one or more could be co-hosted with the server to handle some transcoding there. It would allow availability of the server and clients needing transcoding. I saw a thread briefly discussing this from 2015, but can't find anything more recent, so I wanted to bring it up again.

Hi, a Timelineview for Pictures and Homevideos would be nice ("new" on Plexserver). I sort my Pictures like Year->Month-Day. And when I want to play them I have to browse all the Folder ... thats very annoying ... Hope that is possible in Future with ember too ... Many thanks for your great work !!!!

On the Movie details page can we include, if it is in a collection, an item thats says something like "part of XXXX collection". And a link that if you click on the collection name opens the collection details page.

Would be nice to have an option when setting up a show or series to record to put it in a specific folder/library. Use Case I want to record my kids shows into a folder/library I have set up just for them. So when I hit record I can point it there and forget about it. Then when I record one of my shows I can point it to my main TV library. Thanks

Hello, it appears to me that the path of the files are not included when using the search. This is quite inconvenient as the folder names often contain valuable information. For example, digital camera photos are typically numbered only, while the path may have a more helpful name like "France 2015". The same applies to films where the files are often named with cryptic abbrevations or numbers only, while the folder contains the name of the series or things like that. It would be great if the search could (optionally) also scan the path names for the respective strings. Best Regards

Hello, I think a very important feature that is missing is the ability to set a limit for how many devices a user can have for their account. Being able to say this user can have 3 and this user can have 4 would be very beneficial.

I have no idea if this is far too large or impossible a task, but I would love to see a plugin or option to level audio volume for video files. Sometimes when watching a playlist at night, the volume between episodes/shows or movies can vary. I know some televisions have some sort of volume controls for this, but it only works for commercials. Just a curiosity, thank you.

Music playlist sharing, playlist public status shared between users on server. Thank you

Option to password / pin protect media library folders (Adult content, ...) Thank you

It would be nice to have the option to add subtitle files to a movie/episode from the web interface. Currently I have to SCP into the correct location. Adding the option to upload .srt or other files to the directory of the media would be great.

I have hundreds of TV shows and rely heavily on the collection feature. I have a problem though. When I'm browsing through all shows I don't know what collection they are already in. So I have to add it to the collection to make sure. So I'm adding the same ones over and over. Showing the collection to see if a show is already there is not a practical solution.

Hi Guys, Just received a message that "Voice control for Emby with your supported Amazon Eco device is now available", Can we please have Emby supported for Google home as well?? especially for Aussies as we seem to miss some of these as they are US based.. Cheers keep up the great work.

I'm sure if this has been ask for but how about an app for the Phone or Tablet that can be used a remote control for Emby Theater (PC) like how there Smart TV app on Phone and Table can do it.

as the title says, would it be possible to add UHD to the list of filter options ? Thanks Andy.

Implement DVB-S2 broadcasting standard for Satellite Digital Video Broadcasting in Live TV