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Hi. Thanks for the kind words but we have no interest in moving to an advertising model. We wish to remain your personal media server. Thanks.

I was a long time paid plex user until they switched up to trying very very hard to force you to use their dumb@$$ plextv login and hide local login capability. Being locked out of your own server when the interwebs goes down is incredibly frustrating. I was not a fan of where they were heading on the privacy and security front either. The lifetime membership to Emby has been totally worth the expense, WAF is high, kids can easily use it, management is darn easy and uses higher quality images than plex. Fulfill that feature request for bulk editing metadata and it might be pretty perfect. Good luck OP, there are other free ones I would jump on first before ever moving back to plex.

Following above from plugin developer, and number of posts in this and other threads around the forum, I thought that quick run-down of Tagging system might be of some assistance, or even give some incentive to delve into, for those that haven't made use of it until now, in addition to KB article: https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001848783 which often gets ignored, either because TL;DR or RTFM applies. Tags are extremely versatile tool that allow targeting items or manipulating queries for items in your library to a higher level than pure Name alone. You can think of them as an equivalent of sticking a "Post-It" note or color marker on any item in your Library. One item can have a single tag or multiple tags assigned. Same tag can be assigned to a single item or multiple items. They can be used in various scenarios: marking items, access control, 'grouping' items, various plugins implementation. Tags are not exclusive to VirtualTV plugin (nor any other plugin, althouh multiple plugins make use of them; top of my head, of those that I personally use: VirtualTV plugin, SmartPlaylists plugin, Iconic plugin, Automated Tagging plugin). Being part of Emby core (and with recent Search improvements in latest versions of the server, they get their own tab in search results, making them even more usable), they are created/assigned through Metadata Editor or Edit Metadata dialog on any item in your Library. For Movies, it can be done on Movie/Extras level. For TV Shows, it can be done on Series/Season/Episode level. Hierarchy is respected, i.e. tag at Series level will encompass all seasons and episodes beneath - tag at Episode level will apply to that episode alone, not encompassing other episodes in the same season, nor other episodes/season(s) nor Show in question. Example of Tags handling: Item 1: TagA, TagD Item 2: TagB, TagD, TagF Item 3: TagC, TagF Search for TagA returns Item 1 only; ditto for TagB and TagC, Item 2 and Item 3 respectively. Search for TagD returns Items 1 and 2. Search for TagF returns Items 2 and 3. That allows for specific targeting and/or multiple-results on a single argument query. That said, on to VirtualTV implementation. While setting the single Tag Channel condition is pretty straightforward (following above, hopefully), the GREAT inclusion of conditional logical operators in Tags (and Genre - heck, I might even use Genres for the examples as they might be more familiar, same logic applies) fields gives extreme versatility - but makes things somewhat more complicated, as they need to be carefuly evaluated else loop is created or results returned are not as expected. Inclusion of operator NOT just makes it much more so. Due to language limitations our thought processes don't necessarily translate exactly as we intended to (God knows I've failed to express myself countless times, as I beleive there ain't a single person living that hasn't) - or they do TOO WELL. An example: thought "I want my Channel to include only Crimes and Thrillers." Natural syntax that comes out of that is 'Crime && Thriller' (Crime AND Thriller) - and is incorrect, as that would return only items that have BOTH Crime and Thriller genres in their metadata. Operator OR (||) needs to be used here ('Crime || Thriller'), as that will direct the plugin to pull items from either (both) Crime pool or (and) Thriller pool. Again, just replace genres with Tags and same applies. Exclusions are done via NOT (!) operator whose use, again, when used alone, is clear enough: !Drama. In multi-argument syntax, not so much. Example (one I've had to cope with more times than I can count): "I want Romance in any combination, but NOT Romance/SciFi." As condition 'Romance' if used alone would return ALL Romance movies (Action/Romance... Drama/Romance... Comedy/Romance...) including SciFi/Romance, and condition '!SciFi' if used alone would return ALL other genres (Action, Drama, Thriller...), including Romance, they need to be combined into single expression: 'Romance && !SciFi'. That will grab from the Romance pool only, but exclude those that have SciFi in addition. I suppose that wraps it up, generally speaking. Guess it has been a long one, eh? As English is not my native language, I'm aware that I don't manage to express myself exactly as I wanted to every single time, yet I hope someone might find some useful info in all of the above, and any additional input from community members would be more than welcome, I might've had just as well ommited something I'm unaware of presently (or got it wrong, for that matter) and, as always, two heads know more than one. Cheers

I think we are mostly wasting time here. This issue will get solved in a future update.

Please read this post first. I was wondering if it would be possible to add something that would allow you to skip the intro to shows automatically while binge watching. When watching Netflix it does this for some shows, and im not sure if thats a feature of Netflix itself or a Chrome extension i use called "Flix Assist" but it would be a nice feature to have within Emby as well. and possibly even create a custom timed skip for specific shows

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.

What you could also try is removing all music for that artist, running a full scan of all libraries to clean it out of the database, and then adding it back.

Congrats on the 1.0.0.0 release. First tests look good, I see this could become an essential plugin for me. I also immediately have a few wishes, but i bet they're already mentioned here in the thread (will look later). Cool stuff!

Would LOVE to see this happen. Tautulli just seems to embody all the good things about these separate Emby plug-ins. If the current developers of these various Emby tools would come together to make this happen, I'd have NO PROBLEM sending them some cash. Should we crowdfund a bounty and turn the money over once it's ported and working?

Hi, I see you opened a topic about this, and you will get a response. Thanks.

No, but I imagine there will be more user level control in future updates.

I agree. I was just saying that for importance of features, ones with workarounds like this are generally less important than issues with no workaround.

Wait... why is that important? What I want, when I click my current book in Continue Listening, is for it to queue the whole book. It currently only queue's the one track. Displaying track numbers has no impact on that.

IDK but it doesn't seem to relate to the recent f/w and s/w update.

The newest Beta will import the categories as tags and you can filter (in web app) what is shown based on the tags. You can also add your own tags. Tags can also be used in Parental Control as well to just flat out hide channels. This is the best way to handle this right now but in the near future you will have much better control over this.

Although, as Luke says, you don't need season folders under the series folders, my feeling is that it helps. Paul

This fix should be accompanied by an option in all client applications to deinterlace on the server, such as the Android TV application. For example, the MPV player on Apple TV sometimes does not deinterlace well in direct streaming, although it is true that it has improved a lot.

They have not killed their previous api versions yet. It is suppose to happen some time next month. But nothing has been published publicly yet that I have seen.

That's a good workaround but the ultimate goal should be having Emby handling it just fine. I also see the same from time to time but it isn't really reproducable and therefore difficult to get a proper log for it. My big hope is the LiveTV overhaul that is currently ongoing and appears to be something major.

When posts are split into their own topics you do not automatically follow/get notified of updates of this new topic. There is a follow button in the top right section of topics.

New version 0.9.6 in the starting post: Channels: Fixed some bugs with exlude conditions for "Names" and "Tags" (hopefully finally) Added simple channel rule to include movies and tv shows by name, because new users don't understand Emby's tagging system

The epg guide data is worth $5 per month just by itself I agree 100% it is one of the best features a media server can offer :)

Lets think outside the box. the present forum software and present format of FR is unable to fullfill the needs of many loyals users and supporters, how about a dedicated webpage, eg: emby.media/feature request. Instead of revamping the forum, just a new link to a fancy pants webpage that analyze keyword in new feature request and suggest "is this what you're looking for?" Then you can vote it up. No more Duplicate FR mgmt, 100x more accurate Likes matrix. You could even show what has already been done, what is being worked on, and inevitably, what can't be done (and explain why). Think of a prospective Emby subscriber looking at this and thinking, "wow, the orange co does not offer this, I think I'll go blue !" Having worked in various form of customer service 40 yrs, no one has to remind me how invaluable users suggestions/comments/complaints and criticism are. This is the stuff that the Emby of tomorrow will be made of. But if 99% of it is forgotten/lost by sundown, I call this standing still. Disclaimer: The following might sting a little, but like a flu or covid shot, its for your own good. Lets do a forum search on "we'd like to have this in the future" and all variations. Not just within the feature request thread, but in all sections of this forum; thousands of FR all scattered and "lost". Now out of this mass, how many have been seriously considered, put in to-do list, fullfilled . . . Where I presently work, if a customer's improvement suggestion is discovered to have not been forwarded upstairs, the employee is reminded of our policy. Incidentally, my employer is rated # 1 in customer satisfaction in the whole country in our field. Just my 2 cents.

yes but there is literally nothing new on this topic, just the track number in the detail screen of your playlist only all we ever wished for

I'd love this feature too. Very useful for large libraries

I'm the same way. Spoiled by Netflix . CBS sure hyped the heck out of this series during the NFL playoffs.

It started working, so am guessing a ip change and took awhile for Connect to update to allow the client to connect.

Yes, but in the FreeBSD instructions, in the list of dependences, it is written to install just "mono", which results is the old 5.10.1.57 one: Emby FreeBSD installation instructions sudo pkg install mono libass fontconfig freetype2 fribidi gnutls iconv opus sqlite3 libtheora libva ocl-icd libvorbis webp libzvbi libraw ImageMagick6 If you say to install plain "mono": root@Emby:/ # pkg install mono Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... [Emby] Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 2.2MB/s 00:03 Processing entries: 100% FreeBSD repository update completed. 30174 packages processed. All repositories are up to date. The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: mono: 5.10.1.57_3 Number of packages to be installed: 1

Hi. Thanks for the link. It is the same thing I was trying to do. Instead of installing a pre-compiled 6.8 package from a person who compiled it, I was trying to install the official FreeBSD package. I think the error I was having was because I had a strange mixture: I was running XigmaNAS with a 12.2 kernel, but the Emby jail was still in FreeBSD 12.1 version. Yesterday I updated the Emby jail to FreeBSD 12.2p3 and then, I installed mono 6.8.123 successfully: service emby-server stop pkg lock emby-server pkg search mono pkg install mono6.8-6.8.0.123 mono --version service emby-server start Mono JIT compiler version 6.8.0.123 (tarball Sun Feb 7 06:20:26 UTC 2021) Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com TLS: __thread SIGSEGV: altstack Notification: kqueue Architecture: amd64 Disabled: none Misc: softdebug Interpreter: yes LLVM: supported, not enabled. Suspend: preemptive GC: sgen (concurrent by default) And Emby 4.5.4.0 is running correctly. I think that Emby FreeBSD maintainers could begin to use this new mono version and forget the old mono 5.10. The sad part is that I still had the same DLNA issues and I cannot play any content on my Yamaha AVR Thanks for the hint.

Often times when I see "Reason for transcodng: Media bitrate exceeds limit." in the info I wonder, what kind of internet connection do they have? I know this can cover multiple scenarios like bandwidth limit set for user, server, client side quality setting, as well as AUTO bandwidth detection... Can you PLEASE add to the dashboard the returned client bandwidth capabilities? The value you are getting from the client that tells emby its bandwidth abilities. While you are at it tighten up the spaces between lines on the transcode items, and align the results to the right instead of center.. MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THIS :

Release 20210210/20210210a: HDHR5-4K: Rollup of ATSC 3.0 improvements and fixes. HDHR5-4K: Shift ATSC 3.0 channels to 100+ range to avoid conflict with ATSC 1.0 channels. US models: Faster OTA channel scan. CC models: Faster channel scan on cable systems with SDV (with or without tuning resolver connected). HDVR/HHDD models: Performance and memory optimization storing recordings to disk. All models: improvements to diagnostic logging. Firmware Changelog

+1 waiting since years for this skill in german. Sadly not much time to help. Is there any timeframe!?!??!?!?!

Hi, they will be grouped for the next release of the server. Thanks for the feedback.

Try using the actual up address of your emby server instead of local host. Also, are you using POST? Also, please try with an API key at the end of the url

to be fair, since Tautulli is opensource, and it encompasses pieces of all of the different plugins being created currently (some which have been mentioned in this thread), why couldn't the current projects abandon theirs and just fork tautulli and work on it together to make it Emby compatible? I am no developer, so it maybe more work than I realize, but I can't imagine it being more difficult than recreating it from the ground up?...

Yeah, I've read through their API docs. Should we build this? It would take a day or two to lay it out. Actually I'm just going to make it. If people want it then it'll be available.

Where did you find this Home Assistant plugin? Is it on GitHub? I think emby needs a home assistant plugin in it's catalogue, something that can be maintained from one of our developers. I use Vera, however I'd be happy to use the template from vera and the Phillips hue plugins to build a standard Home Assistant plugin and maintain it. Or work with the developer of the plugin mentioned to help maintain or answer questions they might have to have things working from our end. @@jriker1

Private YouTube link?

I think maybe the beta server is forcing de-interlacing now. @Luke...?