larsonDigital 7 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Hello, I’m trying to figure out if Emby will work as my Media Server at home, and so I have a question: What I’m looking for is the ability to stream music (a very large collection), photos (also large), and movies (in that order of preference) from my home server (Windows Server 2016) both on my local home network and remotely (across the internet) to PCs, Android, iOS, TVs, Playstation, etc. Will Emby be a good choice for me? Secondary question: Does Emby support lossless audio? Thanks for your help! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Hi, yes Emby supports all of those, as well as lossless audio. Please let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 Thanks for the reply Luke! Terrific!! Just to clarify, my biggest concern is Emby not being able to handle a large music library well. I was going to use PLEX, but I've heard from too many people that there's quite a lag trying to get PLEX to display all the music in a large library; it can be pretty slow I guess and I've heard of PLEX even crashing in a few cases. Does Emby struggle in this way at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legallink 187 Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Large is relative. @@pir8radio has a pretty large setup and would probably be able to comment the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2493 Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Also, when you compare you often find things aren’t as large as you thought they were when looking at it on its own [emoji23] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 Thanks legallink! I will check with @pir8radio. Thanks to you too Spaceboy! I know I have a zipped up file for each album too mixed in there with them, so you're probably right, I probably only have 1TB of actual music files, as opposed to 2TB; and I guess that should help as long as Emby just skips over zipped, rar, etc. type files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legallink 187 Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 1TB isn’t very large at all. I would be surprised if you have any issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 Great, thanks again for your help legallink! I'm assuming that if you're using the Emby app on local network (not remotely), the app accesses the server on the local network so it's faster than going across the Internet, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 That's correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 Thanks Luke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkassassin07 423 Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I have been using emby to stream music 8 hours a day 5 days a week for several months now. Its been great, I'm using a relatively slow public wifi and haven't had any real issues. At least none that weren't my own fault... The UI is quick and responsive, navigation is pretty good, and emby recognizes + downloads metadata including images for artists/albums. I have around 15k songs so its not a massive library but others don't seem to have any problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 Hi darkassassin07, Thanks for your input on this; that helps a lot! So that means you are streaming music from your own Emby media server to a device on a public Internet connection? That's not bad at all! Cool!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 What's the best way to rip my DVDs to Emby, and what format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 (edited) Just google "convert dvd to mkv" and pick a free one. edit: assuming you mean video and not audio dvds, though this topic is about music collection, so maybe search for "convert dvd to mp3" in that case? :shrug: Edited July 18, 2018 by mastrmind11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 Hey everybody, So I took the plunge and am trying Emby today. Thanks for your help getting here. My first thoughts are: there's a lot more that can be configured/customized than I thought! So far I'm relatively impressed. Couple questions for you if you can help: What is Emby Connect all about? I don't understand it purpose. Upon initial configuration, I started with a Music Library but I disabled (turned off) all the Metadata Fetchers because I didn't want anything changing my music files because I'm pretty thorough in filling out my tags the way I like them and every file has a album cover already, etc. However, do Metadata Fetchers actually write anything to the media files themselves? Or is this info saved in the SQL database? Or does it just fetch it on the fly and cache it for that session? The Emby app for Android is free, but the Emby Theater for Windows is not? Kinda strange. As always, any help here would be great! Thanks again, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Hi, welcome @@larsonDigital. I can help answer these. What is Emby Connect all about? I don't understand it purpose. Emby Connect can make it easier to connect to your Emby Server while away from home. To learn more, please check out our wiki article: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Emby%20Connect Let us know if you have other questions. However, do Metadata Fetchers actually write anything to the media files themselves? Or is this info saved in the SQL database? We don't write anything to your media files. We save metadata into the sqlite database. The Emby app for Android is free, but the Emby Theater for Windows is not? Kinda strange. That's just what we chose at the time for the two apps based upon the market. It is something we constantly re-evaluate. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 Thanks for the help Luke! I really appreciate it!! Can you tell me the location of the sqlite database? I want to move it with a symlink. Thanks again, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 In the servers data folder next to the logs folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 So that would be this folder? C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\metadata Is it possible to symlink the entire programdata folder to a different location, or would that not be a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 If you explore the server's library configuration, you can set the metadata path from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 Are you talking about here? So, if I understand it correctly, I change the Metadata path for all of Emby Media Server at: Settings > Library > Advanced (tab) > Metadata path. And, the SQL database is located here: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\metadata Is that right? Thanks, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 that will only change the path for the metadata folder. the sql databases are under /data and are not configurable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 Right, okay, great! But I can move the SQL database with a symlink command, if I need to, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 I'm sure you could, but that's not something we're actively testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsonDigital 7 Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 Okay, I can test it out, no problem. Thanks for letting me know. So what does the Metadata Manager do? There are a whole lot of options here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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