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Hi, this will be revamped in Emby Server 4.6. It will follow the user's remote control permissions. If they don't have permission to control other user's devices, then they won't be able to download to them either. Thanks for the feedback.

When setting up a new user I think it would be great if I could copy an existing user. Even better if you could copy certain aspects of a user like views , library access , parental settings

I hit "play all" on a collection and it doesn't show the next film in "Next Up" after I quit out of it. This is apparently intended behaviour, and the same applies to playlists. This is absurd. Why even have the "play all" option? Who's sitting down to watch a full collection's worth of films, or a full playlist? I have playlists for The Prisoner for its various episode orders, and there's no way I'm getting through them in one sitting. I was going to make that my next show to watch but if I'm going to have to keep track manually of my progress through the playlist it makes the playlist fairly pointless TBH. There's no reason playlists or collections shouldn't show up in Next Up.

I've been dying to know if this has garnered enough interest to be worked on. I found Emby (MediaBrowser 3 at the time) and its bookshelf plugin while I was searching for something that was like Plex for comics. Plex doesn't do this (and probably never will), Kodi doesn't have what I'm looking for either, and ComicRack seems to be dead at the moment. Unfortunately the bookshelf plugin doesn't work the way I had hoped. I was dissappointed to see it only offer a download to the file to which I can open it to the program of my choosing. Even browsing through the books I only had the option of going through folder-like directories and couldn't browse by author like the people section in the other media types. I would love for it to be fully integrated into Emby where I can open and read a comic right on my phone and tablet or even my web browser as I could with my movies and tv shows. Also, I hope to god somone is working on the "Games launching in android" feature you mentioned on your up-for-grabs blog post. That would be awesome!

hey what I'm really missing is support for audiobooks. Simply saving the resume point for those mp3s would be absolutely enough, no need to fetch metadata etc.

hi, made some tests with putting the transcode location to a ramdisk, after some investigation it looks like emby has no smart view on fillrate from transcode location. behaviour now is, disk runs full, stream stops, return to main and restart stream will clean the "old" files ... but current stream will stay stalled. behaviour wished, watch directory and clean old files to only keep a fillrate between 80 - 90 % ... (like other media servers currently do) prolly something for @softworkz even i know he is busy tested with stable and beta branch, ramdisk 1, 2, 4 GB, always the same result here a sample of a stalled stream while /tmp is a tmpfs ramdisk as note, black screen, end ... same for local files and live streams.

No such thing as same quality if you transcode/convert it but you can keep the quality very good so you really can't notice. I reencode everything but keep 4K HDR as rips as well for local use. I add default AAC 2 channel audio to everything so I never have to transcode because of audio. I've been using ffmpeg AV Batch right now in mass to convert everything to HEVC as well.

Yes, agreed, but only if I can sort in chronological order.

Forget it. I re-authenticate my account to Emby Connect on the user management panel and that solved the issue.

The plugin I wrote should do exactly that lol, it will stop any 4k stream that is transcoding or however you setup the options.

It will cascade if the seasons and episodes don't have their own rating. If they do have a rating set, then you might want to remove that so that they can inherit from the series.

It's still in Synology's review process.

Not yet for audio playback but it's possible to add in the future.

Ok yes this is a new dependency. Instructions on the website are being updated. Thanks.

Great thanks! Looks like im up and running with the new version. Appreciate it!

No, don't uninstall Emby server. The spk will upgrade over your old install. Just remove the repository from package center where you had the link to the old Synology server where updates came from in the past. Once done just click the "Manual" button in Package Center and point it to the spk you downloaded. Then just keep clicking, OK, Yes, etc

Howdy everyone! Sorry for the late reply, been nursing a bum back. Just a little feedback, I think I MAY have figured it out. I forgot to mention I also had Primo Cache Installed on the server. I was trying it out, but quite frankly it didn't feel like it was doing anything! Uninstalled it since I believe if you ain't gonna use it, then why leave it installed. Since then, I think emby has been running way way better. Not sure how Primo Cache was holding it up, but going to keep trying it for the next few days while I'm in bed and let you guys know! I super appreciate the help, support & ideas. next time I have a problem, I can use a lot of this as Pre-emptive steps before coming to the forums.

I am just surprised that there is only us too.

This just recently started to happen to me. And I haven't touched my movie library aside from adding a few new films. No changes to library settings. Refreshed metadata, nothing. I'm using the beta so maybe it is that, but you aren't alone. And no - you should haven't have to refresh your metadata manually.

@denzThanks for chiming in on this, it appears that your voice carries more weight with the dev team than mine does

We'll take a look at it. Thanks.

Hi @Luke any updates on this feature request? Thank you

Just to make something clear if not already. STRM files are for the SERVER itself to find the location of files to add to a library. It's just a placehold pointing to the actual location of the media file. STRM files are NOT used by users in any manner directly.

Yes, at least one so I think following that same pattern in the others is a good idea.

$5 for a month should give you enough time to test it

Tell me Emby has something like this in the works! I can dream... https://uncrate.com/plex-arcade-gaming-service/

That script appears to have been lost to the system upgrade gods. But not too hard to recreate. The +90 means any file whose last modify time is over 90 minutes. Adjust to your needs. -delete is self-explanitory, replace -print to test and validate in your environment. Don't run as root. Don't set path to /, or replace path with a variable that can evaluate to / or "", badness will quickly manifest. Adding to /etc/cron.hourly is one method to schedule. #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/find /var/lib/emby-server/transcoding-temp/ -mmin +90 -delete

Thought I'd give this request a bump. I'd like to replace chapter images that are blurry or black and store those images with the original media.

I've also been using Ubooquity to KOreader on my Kindle. So it's really only running as OPDS library. It would be really cool if Emby could host OPDS and also have some sort of sync function. If this gets implemented, I could also move away from running multiple servers.

Emby definitely needs booker reader functionality, cataloging books without the ability to read them within the app is just pointless. I would like to see this added when possible

We are looking into it. Thanks for reporting.

Well, here's a classic example of the internet helping out when you ask nicely. I found a YouTuber called Szymon Stepniak and he gave me the winning 'jq' command for the "if it is a tv show" answer... {title: ((if .SeriesName then .SeriesName + " / " else "" end) + .Name)} So, the whole 'jq' command now looks like this... jq -c '.[].NowPlayingItem | {SeriesName, Name} | select(.Name != null) | {title: ((if .SeriesName then .SeriesName + " / " else "" end) + .Name)}' ...and the whole bash command (with the additional CSV output) looks like this... wget -q -O - "http://localhost:8096/emby/Sessions?api_key=3469xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxef3f" | jq -r -M '.[].NowPlayingItem | {SeriesName, Name} | select(.Name != null) | {title: ((if .SeriesName then .SeriesName + " / " else "" end) + .Name)} | map(.) | @csv' ...and if we want to add the 'user' then the command looks like this monster... wget -q -O - "http://localhost:8096/emby/Sessions?api_key=3469xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxef3f" | jq -r -M '.[] | {UserName, SeriesName: .NowPlayingItem.SeriesName, Name: .NowPlayingItem.Name} | select(.Name != null) | {user: .UserName, item: ((if .SeriesName then .SeriesName + " / " else "" end) + .Name)} | map(.) | @csv'; Thanks Szymon - you are a star!