Feature: Merge libraries from multiple servers

[BlazedMonkey 93]

26 minutes ago, Marijuana said:

People running illegal streaming sites do not want to use your emby server, they use free open source more secure options not emby. The PAYING emby customers want this feature whether we pay monthly or pay for the lifetime premium, please stop using excuses to why it takes 5 years to do something. I wasn't going to reply to this but come on dude get real with us. If we pay for emby it is up to you to get things done for us if you don't like a feature just simply say Nope Not Happening!

Thats not really their style: 

 

[Marijuana 11]

54 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

r/EmbyShares. So much for not using. 

What the  just looked , why would people use a 25 limit server for pirating looks like I was wrong.

[GrimReaper 2434]

5 minutes ago, Marijuana said:

why would people use a 25 limit server

They likely go for higher tiers, not the base 25-devices-limit ones. As they can also run multiple servers pointing to the same libraries.

[Marijuana 11]

Bottom line is you can't let what others do stop you from building an amazing platform in this world there's always thieves and crooks online fraud whatever the case may be. Don't let crooks deter from making great features like this one. It is frustrating wanting something that never happens 

[Marijuana 11]

1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

They likely go for higher tiers, not the base 25-devices-limit ones. As they can also run multiple servers pointing to the same libraries.

I didn't know that, from googling it looks like a big thing to  People who exploit what others spend so much time perfecting they just ruin it for everyone.

[ebr 14058]

Again, what features we work on has everything to do with cost benefit and this particular feature - while still very intriguing - has an extremely high cost with a benefit to an extremely small audience of our users.  That is the real issue with any feature request.  How long a request has been out here really isn't an indicator for this cost/benefit analysis.

[Marijuana 11]

13 hours ago, ebr said:

Again, what features we work on has everything to do with cost benefit and this particular feature - while still very intriguing - has an extremely high cost with a benefit to an extremely small audience of our users.  That is the real issue with any feature request.  How long a request has been out here really isn't an indicator for this cost/benefit analysis.

Thank you for the explanation and sorry if I was a little snappy before, I understand time is money and I would also agree this feature would only be for a smaller group of users who want to share emby with friends family and from what I just learned even pirate. I have an idea it might not be a good one but who knows, maybe you can put a price on what it costs for features and people could donate towards it ? or even make the features work by paid plugin only that way you get your money for the time ? I mean look at all the apps out there with in app purchases.

Edited December 8, 2021 by Marijuana

[gene0915 25]

Would like to see this feature BUT, would like to see an A-Z jump bar on the Apple TV first.

[kbrawl 0]

has this feature been implemented or is it on standby. because i would like to do this

[Carlo 4222]

On 12/2/2022 at 1:58 AM, kbrawl said:

has this feature been implemented or is it on standby. because i would like to do this

No, it has not been implemented.

I'm not sure what you would gain from this that can't be done now. It wouldn't be exactly the same but 2 servers could map drives to each other so the mapping is the same between them with each server having it's own full copy of the libraries.  You could then manually setup users on one server or the other to distribute the load between them.

[TouchASpider 0]

10 hours ago, cayars said:

No, it has not been implemented.

I'm not sure what you would gain from this that can't be done now. It wouldn't be exactly the same but 2 servers could map drives to each other so the mapping is the same between them with each server having it's own full copy of the libraries.  You could then manually setup users on one server or the other to distribute the load between them.

I have 2 servers.  One hosted locally with some content and one hosted remotely sharing a friend's drive+content (server is owned by me).  I would LOVE to merge the libraries.  I don't see how I can do this now.  Switching Emby servers to browse content is a pain for the family.

[Carlo 4222]

You can setup a TailScale https://tailscale.com/ VPN that is used strictly by the two machines.

With the VPN in place you can access the files of the other computer  just as if it was a computer on your LAN (just slower). 

You can then map the other machines drives to your local machine and set those up on your main server.  You can do the reverse as well so files could be accessed from either server. You won't technically need two servers running at this point but it never hurts to have a spare up and running.