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I've seen it happen on many songs (almost all of them > 5 minutes) but "Stay" on Interstellar never completed. The most recent attempt, it stopped at exactly 4:00. I attached the logs. It did not have any problems playing through the browser on my computer. Edit: It has done it on 6ch FLAC and MP3. logs.zip

Problem occurs when the app is already playing a content, e.g. movie or music. I hit the cast button and choose a Chromecast device. Chromecast starts playing the content, remote controls on Emby app are operational (by using them I can control the casting) but... the previously existing casting to the android app will continue to play. Only circumvenction is to stop Chromecast casting, select the app as the target, start a new content and then stoping it. Tested it on three servers and on different scenarios (e.g.: local and remote, music and video). Does it happen to you?

So I have been updating my Music library recently and I have the Alan Jackson Greatest Hits album, it will play on everything BUT emby. Any ideas?

Hi! This is simple to explain, so when I sync some music keeping the "original" bitrate the cover images show in my favorite android player, but when I need to do transconding changing the bitrate (FLAC size is the reason) the cover images don't keeping into the file sadly :'( Is possible improve this? Thanks in advance.

A couple of questions: 1. I have a significant amount of artists lacking metadata (fetches metadata for individual albums) but nothing for the actual artists. Adding the last.fm plugin didn't alter much of that either. A few examples of artists lacking metadata, even after doing individual re-scans: Khalid, Future, Roy Woods, Arty, Billie Eilish. In other words, popular artists with metadata available via MusicBrainz/Last.fm. 2. Plex pulls each artists top tracks as part of the metadata, is this possible with Emby? 3. I've added multiple artists to my favorites, however when I'm selecting the favorite artists section none of them load, i.e the only visible element is the "play all, shuffle, sort by name e.t.c." menu against the dark grey background, see image below.Tried the Android app (Note 8) as well as desktop browser (chrome, no addons). 4.The "More like this" section recommends the same artists for all of them (despite having at least 100 unique artists available) i.e it's not just bad recommendations it's the exact same ones. See image below. 5. What is the simplest method to group collaborative tracks under one artist (i.e tracks with features seem to be picked up and labeled as "artist a, artist b" and I would prefer tracks with feature to be listed under the artist who released them (not as their own collaborative item). 6. The Android app I've installed does not look like the screenshots available on Google Play. Are they taken with one of the premiere themes? I use a Galaxy Note 8 and i'm running the Emby for Android (not the TV app). I haven't done a complete removal and installation of my server because I spent a significant amount of time marking TV/Movies as watched and I've yet to figure out if/how you could back this up, but I did attempt to remove and recreate the music library (however the favorite artists somehow kept their mark?) so perhaps a clean install of the entire server is what I have to do. Worth noting that the tracks with the problems above have been through Picard prior to being scanned by Emby. My server runs on Linux Mint, but since these questions are about the service and not so much the server, I posted here. If it's in the wrong section please move it. Thanks in advance.

Just a question on the number of items a playlist can contain with regards to a music playlist in this case. Is there a limit of 200 items for a music playlist? I'm asking because if I go one song over 200 abnormal playback will happen, at least in the browser(Edge, IE). At some point in the list, clicking an item will cause the next item in the list to play. If I continue to add more songs it will continue to skew the playback by the number of items over the 200 point until I get towards the bottom of the list than it will start playing the first song. The now playing does correctly display the item that is playing.

So, I have 2 folders on my PC, an Albums folder, where I store my albums (Albums/Artist/Album format), and an OSTs folder, where I store soundtracks (OSTs/Media title/OST format). What I want Emby to do is, create a music library with a folders view, so that when I click on the library, it shows me two folders: Albums and OSTs. Then, if I click on one, I want it to be presented in a list format, following the folder structure, without any metadata or covers or anything. How do I do this?

I added about 3000 music files to Emby recently. I previously only used Emby for videos. I have gone through some of my songs and indicated some were favorites. I did this from my computer. However, when I go on the Roku app, I can't get to my favorites to play them. When I first open my music library, I see "Favorites" as a header, but it quickly disappears and I can't see how to get it back. Also, is there no way to shuffle or mix my entire library? From what I can tell, I can shuffle play within an artist or album, but not using the whole library. Maybe I'm missing something. I'm using the latest beta version of the app. Thanks.

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