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Hi. I am new to emby. I downloaded and everything is good howver, when at start up the emby website opens to invite someone. Not a home page. I have to manually type in the regular emby connect link and then sign in and i am already logged in. Not sure if thats the way it should work. On other hand, it works for an hour or so, but after a bit i can't connect to the server. It's like it goes to sleep. Specifically to just emby. My windows 10 PC i have the dedicated server set up to is on 24/7. Plex never sleeps. Only Emby does and I went through all the settings and can't figure out how to fix this. In order to wake it I have to go to the server, and open up the emby connect web address. Then the apps on other devices work. If I don't do that, I can't connect at random times throughout the day. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

I am BRAND NEW to Emby, so I apologize in advance for the naïve questions... Here's my setup...I have a pretty huge library of movies (4000+) stored on a Synology NAS - ALL of the movies have been ripped from DVD's with no compression or format changes, so that means they are pretty much all in standard DVD formats (VOB). I have a small number of MP4 movies, also each in their own folder, but they are the tiny exceptions. 99% of the movies are DVD (VOB) formats. Each movie has its own dedicated folder which is named the same as the movie. I am running Emby Server on a Windows computer which is on the same local network as the NAS. I currently use a Windows-based product called "MovieManager Pro" to organize my library. MovieManager is outdated and is not compatible with Kodi which is what I use to watch movies, so I am in process of migrating my library to Emby Server. I have a few questions that I hope there are simple answers available: Because I ripped movies from DVD's, that means that there are dozens (maybe hundreds) of movies that have multiple discs (Disc 1, Disc 2, Disc 3, etc...), all of which comprise a single movie title. The content on the discs is sequential - in other words, the "Disc 2" file in a 2-disc set is essentially the second half of the actual movie. When I ripped them, I simply labeled them "MovieName - Disc 1" and "MovieName - Disc 2", etc... each in their own folder. The current movie organizer software that I use (MovieManager Pro) accommodates this issue by allowing users to set up a "Parent" file which points to "Children" files. There is no such mechanism that I have found in Emby. Can anyone describe for me how to link these files together so only one title is shown in the library, but both "files" (discs) play without interruption (as if they had been combined on 1 disc)? I think I have also heard others describe this as "stacking", but not sure??? I know I can change the name of the movies in the Metadata Manager after the movies have been scanned in, but will this name change stick? For example, if I changed all of the Fast & Furious Movies to simply be Fast & Furious 1,2, 3, etc...will Emby simply change them back to their "proper" names like "Tokyo Drift" the next time it does a scan? Can I make other changes like this in the metadata - like the plot overview, the genre, the art/posters, etc... and not have to worry about Emby changing them back to the original metadata that was scanned in during the initial scan? Here's a simple one - Is there some way to tell Emby to do a library scan and to NOT update files that have existing metadata? In other words, can I tell Emby to update the metadata ONLY for newly discovered movies or missing metadata? Ideally, Emby would still identify and fill in MISSING metadata like trailers, etc... when it sees that it is missing from a movie. This may be the very same question - or at least have the same answer as #2 above. I maintain a folder of movie POSTERS, 95% of which are named the same as the movie (Dirty Harry.jpg, for example). They are all jpg format, and most of them have multiple words in their names, separated by spaces (not underscores). Again, I have thousands of these poster images that I have collected, cleaned up over the years, and now have thousands of these images stored in one large folder called "Images" and I would like to use them if possible. Is there a mechanism to tell Emby to use that folder to find movie posters instead of downloading other ones from the web? Please understand, these are ONLY the movie POSTERS, not the logos, banners, fanart, etc... Is there a way within Emby to export the movie library data out to a .csv file format or any format that I can use Microsoft Excel to manipulate? The reason I would like to do this is to compare the full Emby movie library listing to my current movie library listing from MovieManager Pro. I KNOW the current listing is complete, so I would like to compare my Emby library listing to the MovieManager Pro listing before I retire MovieManager Pro. The file structure I use for the movies is \\NASName\video\Movies\GENRE\MovieName\. For example, the file path for the movie "101 Dalmatians" would be \\MovieNAS\video\Movies\CHILDREN'S\101 Dalmatians\. Notice, I have a parent folder named "Movies" containing all of my movies. Under it, there are 12 separate folders, each named a different genre like ACTION-THRILLER, COMEDY, CHILDREN'S, HORROR, ETC... When I did my first full movie scan in Emby, I only identified the parent folder for the Library Scan (\\MovieNAS\video\Movies\). The results were only about 60-70% complete. Emby skipped several of the Genre folders completely, and saw a couple of them as movie folders themselves. For example, it saw my HORROR genre folder which holds about 750 Horror movies, but did not scan the folder's movies. Instead, it identified the HORROR folder as a movie folder itself named "HORROR". I'm not 100% sure what I'm asking here, but does anyone have a suggestion why this may have happened or how to set up a scan that will include 100% of my movies? I'm sure I will have lots of other questions once I dig in deeper, but these issues are really slowing down my progress right now. Thank you for any helpful advice! Mark