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Hello All, I am pleased to announce that we are now ready for beta testers on our second generation Kodi addon - Emby for Kodi! A whole new way to manage and view your media library! For a long time we have been battling with the slowness of Python for parsing data from the server - it has been suggested many times to try to sync to the Kodi library - but this was a big project with a lot of technical hurtles. @marcelveldt took on the challenge and developed a proof of concept. The rest of the Kodi/Emby team quickly agreed this was the way forward and has spent the last few weeks moving over code where it made sense, and proving out this new solution. Marcel in particular has put MANY hours into this, so please show him your appreciation! We think you will find the new addon provides a much cleaner experience. Advantages of new AddOn: - Work well with low-end devices such as Raspberry Pi and FireTV - Works with native skins - Much faster library browsing - Native sorting/deleting/resume - Native view setting support Disadvantages: - Initial setup takes a while 20 minutes on a fast machine to 2 hours on a Pi The Emby addon for Kodi combines the best of Kodi - ultra smooth navigation, beautiful UIs and playback of any file under the sun, and Emby - the most powerful fully open source multi-client media metadata indexer and server. What is currently supported ? We're still in beta stage of development. Currently these features are working: Movies Sets TV Shows MusicVideos Deletions are supported - enable in Kodi for Kodi side delete Watched state/resume status sync: This is a 2-way synchronisation. Any watched state or resume status will be instantly (within seconds) reflected to or from Kodi and the server. To get started with the Emby addon for Kodi, first follow these guides to set up Emby and Kodi: To prevent any conflicts, remove the "old" MediaBrowser addon from your Kodi setup. If you were using a modded skin for the MediaBrowser addon, make sure to set it in "normal Kodi mode" or just install the unmodded version of the skin. Install the MediaBrowser/Emby BETA repository for Kodi, from the repo install the Emby addon. Within a few seconds you should be prompted for your server-details (or auto discovered). If not, try to restart Kodi Once you're successfully authenticated to your Emby server, the initial sync will start. The first sync of the Emby server to local Kodi database may take some time. On a powerful machine and fast network, expect around 15-45 minutes. On a slow machine (such as a Raspberry Pi) the first sync may take up to two hours. Once the full sync is done, you can browse your media in Kodi, syncs will be automatically done in the background. Known Issues: Windows users: Kodi Helix 14.2 RC1 required - other versions will result in errors with recently added items etc. Important note about MySQL database in kodi The addon is not currently compatible with the MySQL database replacement in Kodi. Of course you can still use MySQL for your music while music is not supported by the addon currently. Important note about user collections/nodes Emby has the ability to create custom nodes/folders for your Media, such as having a separate folder for your "Kids Movies" etc. In Kodi this isn't supported, you just have "movies" or "tvshows". But... Kodi let's you create your own playlists and tags to get this same experience. During the sync the foldernode from the Emby server is added to the movies that are imported. In Kodi you can browse to Movie library --> tags and you will have a filtered result that points at your custom node. If you have a skin that let's you create any kind of shortcut on the homescreen you can simply create a shortcut to that tag. Another possibility is to create a "smart playlist" with Kodi and set it to show the content of a certain tag. At this point, please hold on to your feature requests and report bugs only. Report bugs or any usefull feedback on the forums

The stable channel has been updated. Thanks to everyone who helped test the beta. Our cloud features are just beginning, so stay tuned for more! Recap A new version of Emby Server has been released with some exciting new additions. Before we go over them, if you missed our recent Emby announcement you can read all about that here: http://mediabrowser....troducing-emby/ Introducing Cloud Sync & Folder Sync We worked really hard on sync during this release cycle to bring you new features that you'll find useful. Cloud & Folder Sync allow you to sync media to external locations, whether it be for backup purposes or to archive content in multiple resolutions. Apps can then stream the content from the cloud instead of your server, thereby sparing your upload bandwidth. Let's say for example you have an original copy of a movie at 40Mbps. It looks fantastic but will require transcoding anytime you'd like to stream to Roku. Now you can sync that movie to the cloud and choose a profile that will allow Roku to direct stream: When your users stream the content, they'll direct stream from google drive rather than rely on your server for transcoding. To setup Cloud Sync or Folder Sync, see the Services tab of the Sync control panel. Look for separate blog posts on these soon with detailed walk-throughs. Cloud & Folder Sync are your General Purpose Conversion Tools As you sync content you're free to choose the conversion profile that will determine the output format. In future releases we intend to allow you to modify these profiles directly and even create your own. Syncs Your Subtitles When you sync to the cloud, your subtitles will be converted to multiple formats, ensuring they're always available no matter what device you're playing from. Goodbye GDI, Hello ImageMagick We've migrated all of our image processing functions from GDI to ImageMagick, thus clearing the way for the server to run smoothly on NAS devices such as Synology. Look for a Synology package soon. While we were at it, we learned a few new tricks, and in the future you may see the server create more beautiful, automatic images such as A big thanks to t.andre for his efforts on this! Emby Server Debian package now available See http://mediabrowser.tv/download/ Big thanks to @hurricanehernandez Enhanced Live TV Metadata Live TV will now be enhanced with internet metadata for movies, and the suggestions page in the web interface now has an Upcoming Movies section. Big thanks to ChubbyArse for this! New Scheduled Task time limit Now you can configure time limits for scheduled tasks, perfect for long running overnight jobs that you don't want running during usage hours. Support more WTV metadata We'll now extract episode information from embedded metadata in the event the file is not named according to TV naming recommendations. This hasn't made it to auto-organize yet, but it's planned for the future. DLNA Cast & Crew Setting We like rich metadata, but we understand many people just want the quickest path from point A to point B. The server dashboard now has a setting to turn off the Cast & Crew feature. New Fanart.TV Images Support has been added for the following images: Season posters Season banners Other Fixes Detect incomplete nfo's and supplement with internet metadata Fixed playlist content being playable when it shouldn't be Resolved browser-based live tv playback issues Join the Community If you like the direction we're headed in, join us! We can find a place for anyone who would like to help, whether it be software developers, designers, testers, translators, etc. Please drop in and say hello. Use our API Libraries As many of you know, we have a public api, and nothing pleases us more when new people step up and find ways to use it. We have complete API wrappers available for: JavaScript https://github.com/M...ient.Javascript Java/Android https://github.com/M....ApiClient.Java C# https://github.com/M...owser.ApiClient

Today we pushed a release for our Windows Phone app (8.0.66.0) which sees a massive improvement in streaming and what the app is requiring the server to transcode. So what does this mean? Basically, if you have a video in your collection that your Windows Phone device would be able to play natively (as if you dragged the video onto your phone from your PC), then the server will know that it doesn't need to transcode the video, it can do a direct stream to your phone. This decreases the load placed upon your server machine and also increases your experience whilst watching the video. This release also contains some smaller bug fixes around audio playback, if you were trying to stream just one track, this would fail to play, we have corrected that. A full list of bug fixes can be found on Github. Now, I know what you're thinking, that's two releases for this app in a row that have mainly been bug fixes. Fear not! I promise you, the next release will be big! Offline big! And to address your other thought: yes, this will be the last major release of this app to appear under the Media Browser monika. The next release will not only have Offline support, but will be sporting our new name, Emby. You can download the update from http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=f4971ed9-f651-4bf6-84bb-94fd98613b86 As always, if you download the app (or even if you already have the app installed), do please remember to rate/review the app, we really do appreciate those.