Emby as the go-to Music streamer?

[jellelle 3]

Hi all,

 

I love Emby for its customizability and great video support but I feel the music-section could use some more love to really make it stand out from the competition. I've tried them all: Plex, Subsonic, Airsonic, Ampache. Haven't tried Roon yet (500 dollar). For me, Plex is head-to-head with Emby. Both lack some essential features to have a great music experience. To me, Emby needs:

 

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Sorting ALBUMS by ARTIST - ALBUM, with the possibility of using A-...-Z buttons on the side

As requested here

 

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Sharing the current playlist to all users connected to a casted device (useful for when you are having a party and guest can add songs to the current playlist)

As requested here

 

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A list of all SONGS on the ARTIST-page. Useful for looking for a song by an Artist without knowing the song title (Now you have to click on every album separately)

 

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Android: Add a STOP-button in the quick settings and in the App (on the bottom). I know there is a STOP-button but to get there you need to do this: swipe down for quick settings - press on the song playing - press on the hamburger icon on the bottom right - ... and there is a STOP-button.

• Sometimes paused music starts playing after a telephone call
• When I want to remove the player from quick settings

Quick settings:

 

Bottom player:

 

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Android (bug): when using the search function, it is not possible to add a selected song to the current playlist (Play next / Add to play queue):

 

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Return more results when searching for a string from a song title (perhaps with "more' next to SONGS)

 

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Show also the ARTIST when seach results are returned. Now only SONGTITLE and ALBUM are returned

 

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Share saved playlists between users.

 

 

 

I created this thread because, as I keep browsing the internet for a better alternative, I noticed a lot of people have the same feeling: There isn't a good self-hosted music streaming software out there. Maybe Emby could take this place .

[Luke 37288]

Hi, for #3 - we compared to many other music apps and found that most do not do this. We then decided to remove because we thought it was a little overwhelming to click on an artist and then see potentially hundreds of songs. @@ebr

[Luke 37288]

For #2, yes you're right, we need this.

 

For #1 - the sorting is there, but currently you lose A-Z support. We can look at improving this in the future.

[Luke 37288]

 

 

• Sometimes paused music starts playing after a telephone call

 

This won't happen anymore with the new update rolling out.

[Luke 37288]

5, 6, 7, 8 - yes great ideas, thanks.

[ebr 14963]

Hi, for #3 - we compared to many other music apps and found that most do not do this. We then decided to remove because we thought it was a little overwhelming to click on an artist and then see potentially hundreds of songs. @@ebr

 

In the context of a single artist, a song list should be doable.

 

What I think it unmanageable (especially on a TV) is a song list of every song in your library.

[Luke 37288]

The ones related to search were easy. They will be in the next release of Emby Server, thanks.