Guest Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Hi All, I am an Emby enthusiast and computer science student heading into my final year of university. As part of my degree, I’m required to complete an individual project and would like to base this around Emby. My initial idea was to create an app for Emby similar to tautulli, and while this is still something I am interested in, I have recently discovered EmbyStat which seems to offer something comparable. As such, I thought I would ask you, the community, if there were any software tools/features that aren’t currently available that you would find useful for Emby. I’m open to any suggestions, but as I am not part of the Emby dev team, there is a limit to the functionality that could be achieved. I need to propose and agree the project with my professor in the next few weeks, so any ideas you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) I don't know if this is what you're looking for and/or is even possible, but I've always thought it'd be great if Emby had the "boil the frog" app from spotify: https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/boil-frog/ You give the app 2 songs and it creates a playlist from your music that gradually connects 1 song to the other. Here's the actual site: http://boilthefrog.playlistmachinery.com/index.html Edited August 10, 2021 by Bigmack3000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fillidill 153 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 That's really cool, best of luck to you As I am not really a heavy developer myself this may be a stupid idea but I would love to have a section/a hub in Emby that is purely for recommending new media (movies, tv-shows, music, books, games?) that is not already in my library. It could periodically retrieve externally things like media with ratings, descriptions, trailers and so on which can be sorted/filtered in a easy way. Even cooler if the suggestions it gave where based on actual media I already have or if I myself could define what I am looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 19 hours ago, Bigmack3000 said: I don't know if this is what you're looking for and/or is even possible, but I've always thought it'd be great if Emby had the "boil the frog" app from spotify: https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/boil-frog/ You give the app 2 songs and it creates a playlist from your music that gradually connects 1 song to the other. Here's the actual site: http://boilthefrog.playlistmachinery.com/index.html I hadn’t come across this before. It’s a cool idea. So you’d like to be able to create a playlist which links one artist to another, but from the music you have in your library rather than on Spotify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 19 hours ago, fillidill said: That's really cool, best of luck to you As I am not really a heavy developer myself this may be a stupid idea but I would love to have a section/a hub in Emby that is purely for recommending new media (movies, tv-shows, music, books, games?) that is not already in my library. It could periodically retrieve externally things like media with ratings, descriptions, trailers and so on which can be sorted/filtered in a easy way. Even cooler if the suggestions it gave where based on actual media I already have or if I myself could define what I am looking for. Thanks! I agree this would be useful to have. I definitely think it’s achievable for Movies and TV Shows, as there are APIs that provide this kind of data. I’d have to research how to then display the recommendations within Emby clients, as I’m not sure what kind of permissions 3rd part plugins are given over the interfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14912 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 37 minutes ago, samboo said: I’d have to research how to then display the recommendations within Emby clients, as I’m not sure what kind of permissions 3rd part plugins are given over the interfaces. You would probably want to create it as a channel plug-in and then it would show as a "Library" in My Media. Then you could have different categories under that. See the Trailer plug-in as an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roaku 795 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Channels/tree/master/MediaBrowser.Plugins.Trailers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3291 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 (edited) I'm pretty sure @chef was developing something similar in the past, with his New Releases & Top Picks plugins, utilising Channel plugin approach, you might wanna look at those as an example also, lemme find the thread. Edit: I remember there were some issues with double database entries being created, don't know if anything came out of it, was it ever sorted or not. But i do see that progress there is a bit on a hiatus, so this would be quite a nice addition. Edited August 11, 2021 by GrimReaper76 Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, samboo said: I hadn’t come across this before. It’s a cool idea. So you’d like to be able to create a playlist which links one artist to another, but from the music you have in your library rather than on Spotify? That's exactly right. Also similar to itunes smart playlists before they took that feature away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14912 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 37 minutes ago, Bigmack3000 said: Also similar to itunes smart playlists Emby already has this built in. It's called "Instant Mix". I'm sure it isn't the same as the boiling frog thing but it builds a playlist based on a particular song or artist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Hi All, Sorry for the lack of activity on this thread. I've agreed to design a content recommender system for Emby with my supervising Professor and have recently began researching this. It is currently envisioned that the application will be: 'Smart' (possibly using machine learning). Monitor the viewing activity of users on a server. Create personalised recommendation lists based on this activity. Present these recommendations to users within Emby clients. This is very similar to how Netflix's recommendation service works. However, one of the main obstacles to overcome when creating accurate recommender systems is obtaining enough historical data. Obviously this is no issue for Netflix and the like as they have millions of users watch history to compare and work with. I'm in the process of trying to define a workable solution around this. GroupLens do provide a large dataset of movie ratings that will be useful - however, this doesn't include TV Show data. Trakt would be a great source, but they don't publicly release this kind of information. Anyway, I thought I'd provide an update on where things stand. Once I've completed a large portion of development I will need a group of Emby administrators to undertake testing for me - It would be great if anyone willing to participate could let me know. @ebr and @Luke is there anyone in the team I would be able to communicated with on the Emby side of things? Just to ask the occasional question or discuss implementation ideas? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37062 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 HI @samboo, yes @cayars can do that with you. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 27 minutes ago, Luke said: HI @samboo, yes @cayars can do that with you. Thanks ! Great. Thanks for that. Out of interest, does the current 'suggestion' feature find movies from the same genre, or does it take other factors into account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37062 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, samboo said: Great. Thanks for that. Out of interest, does the current 'suggestion' feature find movies from the same genre, or does it take other factors into account? It uses pretty much all available data that can be compared, such as genres, tags, common actors, the years, ratings, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, Luke said: It uses pretty much all available data that can be compared, such as genres, tags, common actors, the years, ratings, etc. Okay. So essentially a content-based recommender? What similarity function does it use (if you don't mind me asking)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37062 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 minute ago, samboo said: Okay. So essentially a content-based recommender? What similarity function does it use (if you don't mind me asking)? Our own. It just compares values in the database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, Luke said: Our own. It just compares values in the database. I understand. Thank you for the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Send me a PM when you need me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 33 minutes ago, cayars said: Send me a PM when you need me. Brilliant. Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fillidill 153 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 I will follow with great interest. Wish you the best of luck with this, samboo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3n8 7 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 This is awesome, i hope you suceed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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