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Hi, I was wondering if there was any way of changing the way that artists are listed in for example the view below? What I'd like to do is change the "sort title" for the artists (mostly composers in my case) so for example "Anton Bruckner" ⇒ "Bruckner" and "Antonín Dvořák" ⇒ "Dvořák" , but the problem I then have is that the regular title is what gets displayed, so the page looks like the artists are in a random order, whereas I'd like to be able to display the "sort title" under the image instead. Is this possible? I know I could just change the "title" for the artist to be just their surname, but that won't work with multiple composers with the same surname (eg. all the Bachs) and I'd still want their full name appearing on their pages, just not on the index screens like below. Does any of what I'd said make any sense? Thanks in advance for any help.

This could be a feature already, if so guide me. I have keep images in media folder on if this is the cause please tell. In Emby if have a show with multiple seasons this is what the folder structure looks like: Folder season 1 S01E01.mkv S01E01-thumb.jpg season 2 fanart.jpg poster.jpg landscape.jpg season01-poster.jpg season01-fanart.jpg season01-landscape.jpg clearlogo.jpg If watching a certain episode I stop after certain minutes the show gets recorded in continue watching where the actual problem lies. If the episode has thumb.jpg, the thumbnail, which shows in the season view of the the show it should display that but instead it shows every other image in the directory first other than that. If the show has landscape.jpg or knows as show's thumbnail it will show that first. So I deleted that and then it shows the season01-landscape.jpg or the season thumbnail. So I deleted that then it showed me the season01-fanart.jpg or the season backdrop. So I deleted that then it showed the the fanart.jpg or the show backdrop. If i delete that then finally it shows me the thumbnail or the S01E01-thumb.jpg. I could keep it without the seasons thumbnail, backdrop and shows thumbnail it would solve my problem but I don't wanna delete the shows backdrop. That's a deal breaker. Can this feature be added? EDIT: One small note that after the metadata images get pulled it saves the images from tvdb or whatever as episodenumber-thumb.jpg which becomes the primary for the episode. If add that image as thumbnail manually by selecting for one episode it shows that in continue watching. So the problem can be solved this way. After doing so the image doesn't however appear in the media folder as episodenumber-landscape.jpg as it should so it might be taking extra storage.

Hi, I want to implement multiselect dropdown, something like this but with Emby colors and style for a plugin configuration page. Can somebody point me to a working example or share code snippet?

what I don't understand reading feature requests here is just Latin for me but the core of emby is, to my understanding, watching content. and even after more than 6 years this is far away from being good, in terms of ui/ux and general logic. Some things are really beautiful! but only a few things are really designed for watching content why is there still no setting to just use external srt subs? always. period. I've tried all combos and it's a mess. why are my organized srt subs have to be in the end of a line of sometimes 30 internal subs? I want to use them. that's why they are in the folder! it seems impossible to have a setting for sub positioning in the player. no, with every format change of the native content you have to adjust outside if you don't want to have them in the black or to high. why are there only 5 sizes and they are from the screen is full to is there anything. and with some clients the font is so ugly. and if I change the setting outside arrow down on home is of course not bringing me back to my movie. no, it highlights content number 5. why? and if I press sub in the player the standard setting for highlighting is the sub which is running. who designs that? or better doesn't? why? turning it off means pressing up 30 times. and off set on bottom but download on top or vice versa and and and. endless ui ux topics and my usage scenario is so easy and so basic but it just looks like nobody from the devs is using emby? and off set. of course it's not saved so if you have a screensaver because you have an oled you can maintain that again and again and again. and again and turning off theme songs doesn't give you silence in every case. and I really don't know anymore how many times I checked the settings on all clients. 100 times! sometimes only reboot helps, not even leaving emby client stops the song. I'm not a ux pro but I think besides saving a lot of things pressing subs should be 1. on off trigger (highlighted cursor / navigation starts here) 2. offset 3. position 4. settings (size, color, dim, fonts, background ...) 5. download 5. to x, own srts 6. to y, internal and pls. ex srt as standard! save off set! save choosen sub!!! position and settings inside player, more sizes / fine granulation, light Grey not only bright white / ore more dim, I don't see it by the way, pressing pause should hide the sub I think, but don't know if that's possible

The web UI for configuring parental control rules is presented in the system time and not the local time of the logged in user. This is confusing and can present problems if the user is not in the same timezone of the server. I would guess it should be a relatively simple adjustment in the Javascript(?) to detect the timezone of the browser and make the proper adjustments in the UI.

HI Some questions about the UI for Android TV (ATV) app, and the lack of options that are there in the Android app. 1: Why isn't it possible to add movies to Collections on ATV, this is there in Android? 2: When viewing Collections, why can’t it show “all items” as standard, or have this as choice to be the standard viewing? Collections should not act as Playlists…. 3: SUB sync should be there. +/- in milliseconds would be nice. 4: Sound sync should also be there, as in SUB sync, milliseconds. I really like the Emby app for ATV, but there should be some more choices for the UI. I like to push buttons, but less is more. That’s why I recommend point “2”. And I think that most of the choices we have in the Android app could also work on ATV app? I run Verson 2.0.84g Registered and Server version (4.7.11.0) on Windows 10. Kindly, Petter

On a smaller window size, the buttons overflow out of its supposed area on the covers (image attached).

My Recently played list is a bit weird. It shows the track name + album at the top, and the track name + artist at the bottom Favorites songs do the same thing, but the two are inversed (Artist at the top, album at the bottom). Yet Frequently played seems to be fine. I've just ran a library scan, and refreshed the metadata. No changes there. Is it the normal behavior??

I would love to see the option to have Emby show me more advanced Metadata for audio. I tag my files as meticolous as possible and it would be nice to have a display for things like Label, Barcode, ISRC, Catalogue Number, Original Release Date / Media Release Date etc. Basically the values MBP already shows me in it's tagger. But also the more technicals side of things like Sample Rate, Bit Rate, File Format, Mono/Stereo. Video already does that, so why not audio? Also a few more sorting options in Audio would be nice, like having the possibility to sort by Artist AND year, not just one of them. Further I'd love to have the option to turn off backgrounds in certain sections, same with Logos. I like the backgrounds/logos in movies but i dislike them in the music section, sometimes it differs from artist to artist. Another thing is the UI for the IOS Apps, to be more precise the bottom bar. It would be lovely to be able to customise that bar. For example, I don't need fast access to movies on my phone, but on my iPad, the other way around with music. Anyways, thanks a lot for the effort you put into Emby! UI wise I already like it a hundred times more than Plex. EDIT : Not just UI wise. In general.

Hello, I am having an issue, with the UI in Chrome / Opera / Edge, it keeps scrolling till the end of the UI with no ability to click anything. Troubleshooting the issue, when I disconnected my Logitech G29 steering wheel the UI responded normally again. Disabling the controller from Device manager also fixes the issue. (but we know that's not a solution) I didn't find a way to disable using controllers in Emby (I use a wireless keyboard instead of a controller)

I recently downloaded Plex to see what it looks like nowadays and I was impressed with how it manages libraries. I root user can have access to all the libraries. However, the home screen can show only the pinned libraries. This is great! I want to havre access to three or four main libraries and hide the rest of the libraries. At the same time I can search for content from all of the libraries and if needed quickly access them. Can this be done with Emby?

On the latest Android app for Emby, the UI is not useable when looking at a custom video library with a file with a very long filename (see attached example). It's hard to see, but all the media control buttons are not visible, and it's actually not possible to play that file from the UI. The title is the stuff being blurred out. The app has been like this for a while now, so I apologize if this was already reported.

Hi, I use emby mostly for TV shows, while the skip forward by 10 seconds does alright for skipping intros on some shows, almost all have chapter markers at the end of the intro. It would be much nicer to be able to have skip chapter buttons (forward/back) especially if it meant I could (optionally?) replace the existing "next/last episode" buttons with chapter buttons as skip chapter would still be able to skip to the next episode once end credits come up. It would be nice to be able to change this on web player and mobile player controls.

Hi! I don't know if this can be configured somehow, but I would really like to have the option to display the title of a library for items in the search results. I have different libraries for different languages and formats (4K, 3D, etc.) and if I search for something I can get up to 10 duplicates which I then have to click and hope that I found the one in the right library. If there is no such option, do you thi Just adding the library title to a label below the title and year would solve this problem and improve the search feature by a lot. Do you think this is possible? Edit: I'm sorry I wanted to post this to the "Feature Requests" subforum but somehow messed up.

I feel like certain parts of the Android app for emby could do with some visual upgrading I know that it is a topic that has been suggested before, but I have attached a couple of concept images of what I believe is a decent update to the current UI to the music playing screen, I suppose similar could be done to the tv and movie casting screen as well. The Images showcase the current interface and my suggested cleaner interface, what does everyone think?

Hey all, So, I've been curious about this for a while now, not sure if I am either missing something, or if it's not even implemented into the system. Fanart.tv offers image types for clearart, character art, etc, as well as disc art. How does Emby handle these? Where do they appear in Emby UI? Emby supports them, but why if we can't see them? Thanks. - Arly

all the episodes in Whose Line Is It Anyway are messed up. for some seasons, its all by name of the guest alphebeticaly and not episode order for others its a mix of by guest name and actual episode numbers ( no doubles, i checked) is there any way to correct the way they are sorted or any sorting options at all? release date? air date? dvd order? i cant find a setting for it anywhere screenshot attached

Is there anyway to remove the disc border. I just want the album art. Disc border around albums takes away from album art.

Would like to see these improvements: Choose genre - search within genre. Current option allows you to browse all of the genres. This is problematic with lots of different genres. Too much scrolling. Bigger Album Artwork when browsing albums. Anyway to remove the "disc" box surrounding album art? Album art is not displayed in background or at all when a specific album is open. Just shows the title and a play button on a black background. Album is shows only when playing a track. It would be nice to see a dislike button to quickly tag songs for later deletion. Smart playlists (filters) are a must for iOS and web.

(I searched for the permissions problem but didn't see it. Sorry if I'm repeating other posts here...) I set up the Emby Theater app on Windows for my mother and was careful to not let her do any admin-type stuff, but she is able to cancel my recordings (any recording - movie, show episode or series)! I double-checked the permissions and double-checked them again. As it stands, she doesn't have permission to make her own recordings, or to delete shows or movies, but she can cancel my recordings. I've asked her to be careful not to do that. Also, if you use the large-format icons for the libraries in My Media, the app only shows about 5 of them across and you can't get to the rest of them (no scroll-bar or scroll button). I thought about using the smaller icons, but they're not as descriptive or appealing, so I just rearranged them so the 5 most common ones I think she would use will appear first... The app version is 1.1.248.0, and she's running Windows 10 Home (with all the latest patches) Thanks for your help...

I use Emby Theatre for Windows every day on main MediaPC in front room, but the last 5-6 weeks I have noticed stuttering and hanging in Emby Theatre. I finally found by looking at the server Dashboard its transcoding every episode I watch even ones watch previously ok. I have done some testing and found if I use the same Media PC Chrome browser and use the Web UI to watch the exact same episode Emby them Direct Streams the episode without stuttering. I also have a Samsung TV (LT32E390S) in the bedrooms with Emby App and this also plays the same episode no issue, but also transcodes. I can understand or work out why this issue has become so come with Emby Theatre recently. Its only become a frustrating issue the last 5-6 wks appx. Any advice, help, steps to help me track the issue? Setups: Emby Server 3.5.3.0 running on Asustor AS6204T NAS Main Media PC is on Ethernet on Power outputting to 47in Samsung TV Bedroom TV Samsung LT32E390S TV running on 200mps Wifi avg 143mps running Emby App 1.0.53 MediaPC_ffmpeg_Log.txt BedroomTV_ffmpeg_Log.txt

Hey I’m not sure if this is where im suppose to put this up there but \_(‘-‘_/ . So I have noticed that, although you can add books to Emby, there is no native way to read them or access them in general. So I used my graphic design skills and though of a simple UI you guys can use for it when you guys release this feature. So I based some of the designs on some apps that I have use or know, that are for reading books and brought them all together in this design, bring in some of my favorite features So the first image is how it would look when you go and open a book to read. So you have a pop in mini-menu, that goes away simply by tapping on the center and top on the top or bottom to make it apear again. On the top shows the progress of the book with page number, tile of the book along with the author, exit arrow, and the bookmark icon to add bookmarks. At the bottom you find arrows to turn the page, which if its a touchscreen device just sliding should work just as fine. And the circle, upon pressing it will show info on the book and author, your bookmarks, and similar books. Which in my mind looks like this You can see that bookmarks and chapters can be accessed through a drop-down menu and the reason it has the arrow on the top is that you just drag down to make it go away. And through some provider or manually add the information about author and book, just like in the movies ui. Here are both side by side If you have any questions or ideas for change feel free to ask and comment on things it can improve on. Hey I noticed that second photo had an error, so here is the correct image, it was missing the arrows of chapters and bookmark

Library folders in my admin panel don't have images anymore since a while. So i've tried to add them manually, however when i click on "Edit Images", the loading icon appear (And never fade-out) but the popup for editing the images is never shown. The only library with an image is the "Auto generated library" called Collection créated by the plugin Auto Box Set. When i clic on "Edit Images" for this item the popup appear as expected. The only error i've managed to found is displayed in the browser console when i click an the menu item "Edit Images". Uncaught (in promise) Error: null itemId at ApiClient.getItem (apiclient.js?v=3.5.2.0:1) at imageeditor.js?v=3.5.2.0:1 at Object.execCb (alameda.js?v=3.5.2.0:1) at defineModule (alameda.js?v=3.5.2.0:1) at Object.depFinished (alameda.js?v=3.5.2.0:1) at alameda.js?v=3.5.2.0:1 Tested on Chrome 69 and firefox 62.

It would be good to have a global setting to block or disable all external links (eg IMDB, TheMovieDb etc). The refresh metadata feature works really well but also includes these links, ideally I'd prefer my server host to stay largely anonymous so would prefer not to have any of these accidentally clicked and then start to appear in analytics etc. Granted, 1 click in many millions for imdb is hardly going to be noticed but still, it should be an easy setting to sort.

So this strange interface bug just started appearing for me. My set-up is a bit convoluted, but essentially I'm running Emby in a FreeBSD jail on FreeNAS, which itself is virtualised on a Proxmox VM host with PCI passthrough of a HBA for HDDs. Yesterday I replaced my HBA with a different one and upgraded Proxmox from version 3.4 to 5.2. Everything and all my numerous other containers and VMs have been running smoothly with absolutely no issues since upgrading. Except Emby. The video playback interface is obviously missing abunch of stuff. Full screen button, subtitle selection, quality selection, artwork, etc. The progress bar and FF buttons are broken too. Volume control and pause work, but have some other bugs. And then when returning to the main menu via the back button (which usually also has the logo of the media, but not anymore), the playing video stays in the background. Video example: https://webm.xyz/webm/5b28c665491325000fb413a6 Since everything else is working fine I don't think there's a problem with my set-up, rather I think maybe Emby got shutdown uncleanly prior to upgrading which triggered these errors? I've ascertained that it's not due to an incorrectly set up reverse proxy, as this also happens locally when directly connecting to Emby. When using my reverse proxy, web socket connections don't work, but locally they do. This happens both with Chromium and Firefox. The Emby server logs show no errors (except the ones regarding TLS1.2 and Github). The Javascript console in the Browser shows a few errors on the main page already: Edit: this one is actually due to adblock Loading failed for the <script> with source “http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/fullscreen/fullscreen-doubleclick.js?v=3.4.1.0”. index.html:1 RequireJS error: Error: Load failed: bower_components/emby-webcomponents/fullscreen/fullscreen-doubleclick: http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/fullscreen/fullscreen-doubleclick.js?v=3.4.1.0. Failed modules: site.js:1:10677 Error: Load failed: bower_components/emby-webcomponents/fullscreen/fullscreen-doubleclick: http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/fullscreen/fullscreen-doubleclick.js?v=3.4.1.0 alameda.js:1:10040 I can manually call the above resource URLs and I get javascript returned, so the endpoints are working. Edit: see above, this error is caused by adblock, it is unrelated to the problem though. I'm guessing it gets blocked because it has 'doubleclick' in the name though, so you should consider renaming it The following error additionally occurs when starting a video: TypeError: newValue is null[Learn More] index.html:32:21 Any ideas? VM126:32 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'data' of null at Object.set (<anonymous>:32:88) at hideMediaControls (mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1) at updatePlayerState (mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1) at bindToPlayer (mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1) at PlaybackManager.<anonymous> (mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1) at events.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at Object.trigger (events.js?v=3.4.1.0:1) at triggerPlayerChange (playbackmanager.js?v=3.4.1.0:1) at setCurrentPlayerInternal (playbackmanager.js?v=3.4.1.0:1) set @ VM126:32 hideMediaControls @ mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 updatePlayerState @ mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 bindToPlayer @ mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 (anonymous) @ mediasession.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 (anonymous) @ events.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 trigger @ events.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 triggerPlayerChange @ playbackmanager.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 setCurrentPlayerInternal @ playbackmanager.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 onPlaybackStarted @ playbackmanager.js?v=3.4.1.0:2 (anonymous) @ playbackmanager.js?v=3.4.1.0:1 Edit: some more playback javascript errors when attempting to use the few buttons that are still there TypeError: getPlayerData(...).streamInfo is undefined[Learn More] playbackmanager.js:1:15323 canPlayerSeek http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:1:15323 changeStream http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:1:15539 PlaybackManager/self.seek http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:2:22416 PlaybackManager.prototype.seekPercent http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:3:2233 <anonymous> http://<localname>/web/scripts/videoosd.js:1:29295 TypeError: getPlayerData(...).streamInfo is undefined[Learn More] 3 playbackmanager.js:1:15323 canPlayerSeek http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:1:15323 changeStream http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:1:15539 PlaybackManager/self.seek http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:2:22416 PlaybackManager/self.seekRelative http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:2:22736 PlaybackManager.prototype.rewind http://<localname>/web/bower_components/emby-webcomponents/playback/playbackmanager.js:3:2033 <anonymous> http://<localname>/web/scripts/videoosd.js:1:30466 Source map error: request failed with status 404 Resource URL: http://<localname>/web/bower_components/hlsjs/dist/hls.min.js?v=3.4.1.0 Source Map URL: hls.min.js.map[Learn More]