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I have an album with 405 songs (all consecutively numbered). When I click on #1 and hit play, then go to the playing now list, it looks like this: I know about the arbitrary limit of playlist to 100 but when I click on 1, it should play through 100 no? Not 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, etc. I can work with 1-100, not this...ridiculousness.

When casting a music album or a genre or a shuffle to Chromecast from Android app or Android Chrome, first track is played accordingly but streaming stops by 2 or 3 seconds after the second track starts. Chromecast displays the second track info but music stops. Server log file attached embyserver-63662580578.txt

I have recently removed my old music collection of MP3s and added a new music collection of FLACs. Emby matched around 80% of the artist with MusicBrainz correctly while I manually updated the MusicBrainz ID with the rest. Emby has pulled down fan art metadata but not the artist 'Overview' information. Is this by design? If not then how do I get Emby to update the 200+ artist in my library? Also, does the Metadata manager section work anymore? My artist artwork does not mirror up with what is shown in my library view. Library view of artist +44 images Metadata manager view of artist +44 images

Good afternoon, first of all, congratulate yourself for your good work. Quick context: My library has mp3, flac and some m4a. When I synchronize mp3 I do not use transcoding, but the flac files use a lot of space on my phone and I need to convert them to mp3. Up to here everything is correct. I have the problem when I need to set the bitrate to 320Kbps. I have tried several different test and the maximum bitrate I get is 192Kbps. These are the details of the flac that I used to test: Input #0, flac, from '01 - Lone Digger.flac': Metadata: ALBUM : <I°_°I> ARTIST : Caravan Palace BPM : 122.9 DATE : 2015 GENRE : Electro Swing RATING : 5 TITLE : Lone Digger track : 01 Duration: 00:03:49.50, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 891 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: flac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16 Stream #0:1: Video: mjpeg, yuvj444p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 600x600 [SAR 300:300 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc Metadata: comment : Cover (front) Test 1 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.1): 2018-03-25 16:00:09.295 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.295 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.297 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:00:09.297 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:00:09.298 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:00:09.374 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.374 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.376 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 100000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/33ec7295814b4256a3aa37e96c66ba88/08304eea9c1a493d9a47da25e4ecb53b/7d3e9b2042154e9082ae7c4cfe757a0e.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:00:17.142 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:00:17.593 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 8 seconds 2018-03-25 16:00:17.593 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:00:17.593 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Test 2 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.2): 2018-03-25 16:03:40.545 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.545 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.547 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:03:40.547 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:03:40.547 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:03:40.627 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.627 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.629 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 192000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/e874a1108a364216bfd76a18e5fbfc8f/659cf58dec884d59b9ac5cf129e90580/9d249c370a02496483580034b732cf93.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:03:48.203 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:03:48.307 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 7 seconds 2018-03-25 16:03:48.307 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:03:48.307 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Test 3 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.3): 2018-03-25 16:05:26.190 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.190 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.192 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:05:26.192 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:05:26.193 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:05:26.277 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.277 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.280 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 192000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/113e8b6457a544428609c97c48d42a15/cbf27e49c06c4d0cb274f13ea7a47e15/1d9f8b3f0c184dd79d2d1c398bd117ee.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:05:34.047 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:05:34.142 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 7 seconds 2018-03-25 16:05:34.143 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:05:34.143 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Test 4 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.4): 2018-03-25 16:06:14.368 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.368 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.369 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:06:14.369 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:06:14.369 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:06:14.445 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.445 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.448 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 192000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/7a6bceb4a4e542ae9f9fa505fd25b996/ac9a6e03b2fd4320ac68bbe5630856bb/20646f2bdccc42d8a933029612c0fe10.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:06:22.120 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:06:22.220 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 7 seconds 2018-03-25 16:06:22.220 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:06:22.220 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Summary results: In both test 3 and 4, the bitrate is set to 192Kbps. Maybe I'm wrong but my logic tells me that the correct behavior should follow the rules of the following table: Max bitrate: 0.1 -> transconding 96Kbps Max bitrate: 0.2 -> transconding 192Kbps Max bitrate: 0.3 -> transconding 256Kbps Max bitrate: 0.4 -> transconding 320Kbps This is the screen where I configure the custom max bitrate: Is there any way to configure the details of the transconding? Is there any way to do transconding using a bitrate of 320Kbps? Is this the correct or recommended way to use offline flac? Is it possible to add advanced options for the music transcoding? Any criticism, comment or help are welcome. Thank you very much. transcode-test1.txt transcode-test2.txt transcode-test3.txt transcode-test4.txt

It would be great to have full support of m3u playlists so that external playlist can be easily imported and modified through Emby. It would be a much stronger music server! Plex doesn't do that, so it would be a point in favour of Emby too

Hi, (maybe) stupid question: How can I shuffle play all music of my music library in ET 3.0.0? Quickmix will only play similar songs based on the actual selection, AFAIK. Thanks & Ciao, Alfred

Guten Morgen, ein kleines Problem habe ich noch nicht lösen können. Manchmal wird, obwohl in album artist "Various Artists" eingetragen ist, dieser Wert nicht in das Abum übernommen (Screenshot links). Bei anderen funktioniert dies jedoch. Frage: Wo kann ich diesen Wert nachträglich pflegen? Unter Info bearbeiten … kann ich das nicht. bkh ---------------- Good morning, I haven't been able to solve a little problem yet. Sometimes, although album artist "Various Artists" is entered, this value is not included in the subscription (screenshot left). With others, however, this works. Question: Where can I maintain this value afterwards? Under Edit info... I can't do that. bkh

I just downloaded and installed the Emby server to my computer so that I could more easily and reliably stream the music I have to the TVs in my house. Dish Home Media is recognizing the Emby server on my computer, but it's not recognizing the music folder I synced to it. My computer is running Windows 7 Home Premium, the music is on an external hard drive, and my Dish receiver is a Hopper with Sling. Could any of those factors contribute to the folders and files not showing up?

When I go to play an album on my phone, it gets pretty jittering since it's streaming it, without much of a buffer. It also doesn't buffer/sync ahead, so this makes it very internet-sensitive. I would really love it, if that when I play an album it syncs the whole album, or whole "scope" of what I told it to play. Syncs it to the phone. This way as my internet fluctuates, it buffers a-head. If there is some way we can set (on the client/phone) how far a-head it syncs based on Wifi/Cellular I think that would be rad too. Say X number of songs if you're on Cellular, Y if you're on wifi (with the option for unlimited for either). As for other forms of multimedia, this may be helpful, but I'm not 100% sure how that would translate to video content... Thoughts?

Grüß Gott, eine Frage bzw. Anregung. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit für die Musiksammlung eigene Sammlungen zu generieren, die nicht unter den Sammlungen für Filme erscheinen, sondern als eigene Musikcollections auftauchen. Denn Film- und Musiksammlungen gemeinsam werden schnelle unübersichtlich. Wenn nicht, wäre das vielleicht ein Feature, das in einer der nächsten Releases eingebaut werden könnte, wenn Interesse dafür besteht. bkh

I have a problem with Emby sorting my music. Multiple albums are lumped together as the same album. I have one album in particular, which supposedly contains 571 songs. In the artist view I also find artists with only two or three albums showing up when there should be 6 or 7. Before putting the music into the Emby library I went through and re-tagged all of the music I own to try to avoid this problem. I used a stand-alone music tagging program and checked album, artist, album artist, and one or two more categories. In many cases I also made the artist and album artist match (using a single "main" artist rather than listing all artists). For the multiple albums being lumped together issue (571 songs in one album), the music is all in a folder called "Christmas," but is stored in separate sub folders by 1) artist, then 2) album. The album titles are not the same. I tried Emby on a Windows computer and later on a Ubuntu Linux computer that is acting as a storage/multimedia server. Both versions had the same problem sorting my music. What suggestions do you have, and what additional information do you need?

I am running Emby version 3.2.70.0 Emby will set year to 9999 on both newly added or re-scan on any music album. As far as I am concerned, this behaviour started on this version.

I have more than 2000 songs in mp3 and flac format and the emby apps I use (android for smartphone android TV and windows 10) doesn't show the albums, genres and tracks. is there something wrong with emby server? Is there any workaround for this issue? Has this issue been addressed by emby developers?

Hi there, anyone has the ability and the capability to create a plugin for playback via Magnatune (magnatune.com)? The API can be found here: http://magnatune.com/info/api There is already a plugin for Rythmbox (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Rhythmbox?action=show&redirect=Apps%2FRhythmbox) Maybe this can be easily ported? Cheers.

Is there any means as to shuffle to the now playing list all music from the library?

I am running Emby Server 3.2.70 When new multi-disc albuns are added to the library, Emby will set the same cover image to all tracks, on every disc from the album. It is intuitive and seems pretty much logic to think that all discs from the same album have the same image but that's not what happens on various classical music albuns. I am tagging Mozart's complete works and, though each disc (folder.jpg file) and track (embedded by MP3Tag) has its own image, Emby will attribute to all of them, the first image it grabs from the first disc. Thus, after tagging everything I have to change each track image using Emby's interface. No matter if I command "Update metadata": only manual change solves the problem. I must add that, curiously, each disc from a multi-disc album grabs its cover image correctly from the "folder.jpg" file located in it's own folder. This leads to tracks images different from disc images. Thanks

Hi, Music playback is stuttering when Emby is send to background or when the screen is off. When Emby is back in focus, the stuttering is gone (Android 7.0). Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks, Jelle

I'm trying to get rid of some Artists who only made appearances on songs by other artists. I removed them from the metadata for the songs they appeared on, and I re-scanned my library after doing that, but these artists still appear in my Artist section. I found them in /var/lib/emby/metadata/artists and I tried deleting them from there too, but that didn't work either. How do I delete these artists?

Hi, I am running Emby Server 3.2.36.0 Browsing a music library according to genres > any_genre shows a "genre home" presenting - genre artists - genre albums - genre musics When there are more than 8 genre artists, Emby displays a "More" for a screen with all genre artists. On the "More" screen, if there are more than 100 artists, Emby displays a "<-" and "->" for pagination purposes. The "->" leads to a page of genre albuns, not the second, third pages of the genre artists.

I have just started using Emby for my music collection and am busy exploring how everything works. Perhaps this is how it is supposed to work, but I'm guessing it is not. When I navigate to an artist in the web app (or through http://tv.emby.media) and click on the 'shuffle' button, it starts playing random songs from my whole library, not (just) from the artist page that I was looking at. I'm using Emby Server 3.2.34.0 on Synology DSM 6.1.3. I can reproduce the issue with both Firefox 56.0 (64-bit) and Chrome 58.0.3029.81 (64-bit).

Hi, On music search results there are no means as to reach the album containing the track or the artist. Are there any plans to include links such as other results on the music landing page (i.e. suggestions)? Thanks

Per my title: I am at work and trying to listen to music through the web portal. It's fine until I try to sort by artist. No list of artists load on the screen, I just get a spinning circle and then the server crashes. I've had no issues with the other music categories (by song/album). I now have to manually restart EMBY on my server when I get home to get it working again. Anyone have any explanation as to why this is happening?

I do not know what Emby would suppose to do on this scenario but it seems there is something strange. I am running Emby Premiere 3.2.33.0. My music is tagged by MP3Tag. There is a music library and it contains a music album tagged such as there are two artists as "Album Artists": - Album name: First Time! The Count Meets the Duke - Album artist: Duke Ellington; Count Basie - Album genre: Jazz Emby displays this for the Jazz genre: And this seems to be ok as there are several jazz artists and albums. Then, when artists view is expanded, this is the screen I receive: And it tells me that there is a Jazz album with Duke/Count as the artists album. I think Emby should use a "/" between both names (as it shows on album detail - you will see below) but that is no problem to me. If I select just Duke Ellington this is the output: And I also think this is good cause Emby shows the target album. I think Emby should display both album artists (Duke/Count) below the thumbnail but this is not a big problem. And if I select just Count Basie instead of Duke, the target album is also shown: The main problem is when I select both of them. This leads me to this output: Reporting no tracks and a total time of 40minutes (rounding the actual 39:42 from the album) And then there is the album detail which seems to show correctly both the artists names as links to all their records. There is no means to go from this screen to other albums in which they worked toghether but there is the "/" between their names and it seems ok to me. This occurs on all albuns with two artists as "album artists". When I have more than two artists as album artists they are tagged as Various artists. So my problems are: 1) Double artists albums shown incorrectly on genre page (names below the thumb); 2) Double artists thumbnail on genre page leads to no album; 3) Double artists album detail has no means to get other albums by the same team. Are these errors?

I hope this is the right forum for this issue. I'm having trouble getting Emby to see things correctly. For instance, it sees the White album, it sees the first cd of 25 Blues Masters, but it doesn't see the rest of the Blues Masters cds, and makes just silly additions to the playlist tree. The ripping program recognized the series of CDs during the rip, and suggested appropriate (used) folder names. My HDD: \Music \Blues Masters \cd1 \cd2 \cd3 \cd4 Emby: Music 25 Blues Masters 25 Blues Masters Vol. 1 J. Reed (from a totally seperate folder!) Beathovan (from a totally different - everything!) I used a professional CD ripper to do this. I successfully ripped the White Album this way and it works perfectly. Emby lists 30 songs in one directory with the folder structure: \Beatles \Disk 1 \Disk 2 Can anyone explain what's going wrong? Since it all works on tags, and the tags were all present in the ripping, where's the error? Thanks.

Dear Support, I have a minor but very annoying duplicate in my music for artist and album artist. This duplicate only exists within Emby and in all applications like server web, ipad, and emby for windows. The duplicate doesn't exist in plex, itunes or indeed Emby's metadata manager. The content of the two a-ha's below is the same. I can play all albums in each. The only difference is the path on one is appdata and not the media itself. The image is also different as you can see. I have tried to delete the appdata entry but it re-appears. No amount of sync or clean has worked. I have also tried to rename the A-Ha entry as I think this is the one that is wrong. All other items in my library are pointing to the media and not appdata. Thank you, Russ.