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The web player has no option to add the currently playing item to favorites or to playlists. I guess many users here in the forum will answer now that I can do this within the library. Thats right. But when I play an item from the movies overview or from a list directly then going back from web player means to return to originate location, not the media that was played. If you do not exactly remember which media you played, you have to look again for the needle in a haystack. Therefore I suggest to do the following: Preferred: add options for favorites and playlists to web player. or Make sure that the web player always returns the user to the item last played (this is not preferred, because when you are playing from a playlist, and you want to "like" an item, you would have to exit the web player to toggle favorites and come back to your playlist).

In the most recent version of Emby, playlists are now able to be seen (and edited, if desired) by other users using the new collaborative feature (thank you developers/programmers!). You can also click the heart icon to make a movie a "favorite". Is this also able to be seen by other users? If not, I suppose I could select "favorites" and then just add them all as a group to a newly created collaborative playlist called Favorites. BTW, what is the practical difference between Playlists and Collections? Can collections also be seen by all users (if I designate it that way)?

I encountered the following two issues on Emby 4.8.8.0 - Adding to favorites shows two instances of a song and removing the song from favorites removes both instances - Playing a file doesn't load the correct name for the song. You have to select the song again to see its correct name. Both of these two issues are shown in the following video taken on an Android phone. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pix77fNK9-AMxWXnF_207BaC-zbkrJoN/ The "favorite" issue is also reproducible on Samsung TV where two instances are added/removed for the same song. The song for "favorite" issue is available through the following link. There is no copywrite or licensing for it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plp3F1a-wyaVFdmEyf-ICtZwMpnW-OGU/view?usp=sharing Emby Version 4.8.8.0 Emby for Android 3.3.95 Emby for Samsung 1.8.0 Emby server log is attached. embyserver.txt

When navigating to "Songs", I'm trying to filter my playlist by selecting my "Favorites" and choosing a few "Genre" options. I close out filter options and select play or shuffle. The application then hangs and does nothing. I can't go back to re-select songs. In some cases, I have to restart my server. I tried looking for Android logs and the 'files' folder was empty. And I've attached the server logs. I'm using Emby for Android 3.3.95 and server version 4.8.7.0. All this started happening after upgrading to 4.8.x.x. Any insights with this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. embyserver.txt

When I go to the Favorites Menu and scroll down to Favorite Movies, it only allows me to scroll through 40 titles. How do I access all of the titles? Is there a display setting I need to turn on? Please help

Hello. I'm just throwing this up here for information, as I think it's a nuanced glitch in the code somewhere, but it's likely an extremely-low priority fix, too. The problem that I discovered is that if you have an item that has a Moviedb code that exactly matched the TVdb code for another media item, favoriting and un-favoriting either of them also favorites or un-favorites the other. If you want to replicate the issue, try using The Big Bang Theory for TVdb and Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theater for Moviedb. Both have ID code 80379 from their respective metadata sources. Using those two, I tested all the combinations of which one I favorited first and which I un-favorited first, and the result was the same each time - they both became favorites or were removed from favorites simultaneously. To remedy the situation, for now at least, you can remove the code from either item in the metadata. For example, I went and edited the Louis C.K. movie metadata and blanked out the Moviedb code from, and then checked the box to not allow changes to the metadata for that item. That solved the issue, and disconnected the two for favoriting purposes.

Am I missing something? Am I not able to shuffle favorites? I have a few songs right now in my favorites. I see I can "play", "play all from here" or "Instant Mix". I don't see how I can shuffle all of the songs as a playlist.

Currently when I go into favorites with a long list, it is always displayed horizontally (using an iPad, and I think the same on ATV), one has to slide horizontally to view the list, while we have plenty of empty space below. I have to click on “see all” to make them fill the screen and to be able to scroll down which is more meaningful. This is especially annoying when having a lot of IP TV channels. Please make the “see all” the default view when one goes into Favorites. Another request for playlists. When I go into them and I choose one to see then decide to go back, the list jumps to the beginning instead of going back to where I left. Again, especially annoying with long IP TV playlists. It would also be nice if the empty space can be better utilized. Thanks

This is a capture of the home screen on the browser version of Emby. This simple little addition is all I wish the Roku app had. I really dislike having to: Going into a Library (eg. "Movies" or "TV Shows"), Selecting "All Movies/Shows" at the top, Pressing the Star * key on the Roku remote to access Options. On the right, a popout menu will appear, Under "Filter" check the box labeled "Favorites." Such a hassle! Seems like every other version of Emby app has this top Favorites toggle at the top except Roku. Please add it developers!

Hi, Great product. Have been using Emby for a couple of days now. Simple Question: It seems photo images aren't being displayed in Favorites. - I click the heart icon and therefore should appear in favorites? Video's favorites are being displayed [all ok]. Any reason what photos are't being displayed? Thanks in advance.

Ability to enable or disable: FOLDERS UPCOMING TRAILERS SUGGESTIONS FAVOURITES on the top menu bar AND change the menu ordering of the options around to admin or user choice.

ISSUES Genres are messed up. I now have a "Science Fiction" genre and a "Science-Fiction" genre. I have zero movies or tv shows using "Science-Fiction" with the hyphen in the metadata. I specifically have to change this for every single science fiction tv show I add to my library because TVDB uses the name with a hyphen whereas TMDB does not and I want everything to match. When I click on "Science-Fiction" genre under Genres, it brings up all my science fiction movies/shows before the update. I double checked the metadata and nfos and I have it listed as just "Science Fiction" for all those movies/shows. But I also have a "Science Fiction" genre under Genres. If I click on that, it brings up the two science fiction movies I added to the library today post-update. So unless you have a fix, I'm going to have to go through almost 1000 movies and shows and delete the current science fiction genre in the metadata and then re-add it so they all are grouped into the same genre. No filter or sorting in Favorites depending on how you reach Favorites. 1. Click on Movies or TV Shows under My Media on the home screen and then click on Favorites from the top bar, it gives you no sorting or filtering. 2. If you click on Favorites from the home screen at the very top (Home / Favorites) then click on Favorite Movies or Favorite TV Shows, it will give you the filter and sorting options. This happens when using a browser on my desktop and also in the Android app. When you access Collections from the Home Screen under My Media, there's a single random year listed under every title of each collection. I can't make any sense what the date corresponds to. It's not the year of the earliest or latest movie in the collection. The date doesn't show up under the name of the collection if you go to Movies or TV Shows under My Media first and then select Collections from the top bar. All my chapter image extractions just disappeared. Not a big deal. But I'm wondering if all those GBs of images were deleted or do I need to go in and manually do so? I'm running the scan again right now. OPINIONS Totals are no longer listed. No idea how many movies or tv shows/episodes I have unless I go into statistics which I do not like at all. I think totals should be listed on just about everything. Movies, TV Shows, Collections, Favorites, Genres, etc. The big white bars with arrows to horizontal scroll in various places needs a redesign imo. The look seems out of place with the rest of it. I read in one of your comments to another user about the fact that there were so many fundamental changes to the database that its impossible to go back to a previous version. I think in the future it would be wise to give a pop up warning for automatic update users saying that it won't be possible to roll back to a previous version, remind users to do a backup and give the user a chance to defer the update until they are 100% ready. Only on the big updates that really change things like 4.0 did.

I'm in the process of trying to shift from Plex to Emby. On the Nvidia Shield Emby client there appears to be a limit of displaying favorites to just 50 TV shows. You can add as many as you want, but only scroll through the first 50. This seems arbitrary ... is there any way to eliminate the 50-show limit? I would think an app that can stream 100GB 4k videos could probably handle a tagged list of >50 ... say, 50,000 ... easily? I'd be delighted if I'm just missing a simple way to display more favorites.

So I noticed last night that I could mark actors as favorites. However, they do not show up on the 'favorites' tab. I was hoping for the ability to click on an actor, and then be taken to a page showing TV and Movies that they have been in. I can do this manually if I search for an actor and click on their image, I just thought that the same could be done from the 'favorites' tab. Is this intended behavior for actors marked as favorites, or a bug? Thanks!

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.

Hello Emby You recently added the ability in Emby Theatre to view movies "by date added" which is a huge help. I noticed recently however that although this feature does work perfectly in my libraries (i.e. Movies, TV etc)....but when I view my "favorites" (favorite movies), the movies ONLY list by date added and there is no option to re-sort these movies in alphabetical order. This once worked but seems to be no longer working as the option no longer exists on the favorites section. It's like the "favorites" section is adopting the default view of the "movies library". I would prefer my main "movies" library sorted by "date added" and then my "favorites" sorted by alphabetical order. Can you help please? Many thanks Rob

Maybe I'm missing the option, but I don't see a way to access just the TV show episodes I identified as a "favorite" with the heart icon. I can access these episodes on my browser version, but I'm not seeing this option on the Roku app.

It seems that the Favorites tile pulls images from all items in that library, not just the actual Favorited items. That's a bit confusing, as you can have an image displayed that is not actually a Favorite. Is this perhaps a bug? I'm using Emby Theater for Windows desktop, on Windows 10 x64. Let me know if you need any further details, or if I'm just missing something obvious. Thanks!

It would be great to have the option to tick photos as 'favorites' for filtering later. This is doable with videos. I'm probably not the only person syncing photos from multiple cameras in real time. Emby on roku lets me see them immediately on the big screen, but then great pics are buried forever by new photos unless I happen to be home next to the server where they are uploaded.

Hello, I noticed in latest version that Favorites comes up empty? It is only under Movies it is empty. Under TV-Series it shows normal. Is it a bug? P.S: I still consider this to be the best App for Emby. On my "wish list" for future featurs is: A frontpage (homepage) similar to the webversion (with nice overview/suggestions of all sections). Full support for remote control MCE (as it is now only some navigation can be done by remote)

When marking any actor as favorite, I expect to see it in Favorites page, but that's not working Server Version 3.0.8500.0

Is it possible, or will it be added, to have the ability to sync the channel groups in Emby with the channel groups i already have setup in nextPVR?

I've been trying to figure out how to get a list of TV/Movies that I have marked as favorites, but I can't seem to find it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks for a great system. --Allan

When navigating to the favorites tab that is present on the home screen, and clicking on "more" to see a full list of favorite movies, shows, or episodes, we are not able to filter, sort, or jump to a letter in that list. Instead of further editing that list, can the "more" buttons link to their respective libraries with favorites filter already enabled? Instead of presenting yet another list, hopefully the "all movies" list is linkable with a favorites filter already turned on. I realize not everyone will have quote so many movies in their favorites list that they want to jump, but I definitely do. Visual aids: The more button on this page Currently links here But should link here With this filter already enabled