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Modifying whole directories of names like that to add "S01E" in front of the episode number is actually quick and easy if you use a bulk file renaming program. I use Bulk Rename Utility, but someone may well be along to recommend another option. Paul

HI, yes it's a good idea. We can look at doing that. Thanks for the feedback.

You don't need a separate library to solve the user access issue. Move your 4K titles into their own folder structure. So you might have \\Server\MoviesSD, \\Server\MoviesHD, and \\Server\MoviesUHD for example. Add all three of those shares to the same library. If you edit your users and click the access tab you'll find you can restrict a user from seeing the contents of a specific folder you've added to a library. Users that shouldn't see 4K titles would have the \\Server\MoviesUHD share unchecked. As far as I know the answer to your posted question is no, but this should render it irrelevant.

That's a new option.

FIXED! I'm not sure if this will work for anyone else, but it worked for me. It doesn't make much sense how it worked, but it did. What I did: 1) I shut down Emby. 2) I renamed C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\library.db to library.corrupt 3) Restarted Emby, that created a new library.db file. Of course all of my libraries were gone. 4) I shut down Emby. 5) I deleted C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\library.db 6) I renamed C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\library.corrupt back to library.db 7) I restarted Emby and ran the library scan, and it worked.

Because it would us the folder structure to help determine albums but no longer does this incorrectly. It now uses your TAGS properly. The switch to pure tag driven music is both powerful but also shows libraries that had tag deficiencies that need cleaning up.

Is this a rip from disc? If so you could break the file up using MKVToolnix. I have a few shows that lump episodes together into a single file on disc and use chapter markers to skip to the right episode. I break these up into individual episodes. It's a bit of work but the results are better.

The system will use the tags to form the main displays, and it is merciless in exposing inadequate tagging! Note that if you have a lot of music the initial rescan of your library may take a long time, especially as everyone upgrading together is putting a big strain on Emby's MusicBrainz server. You can instead choose the folder view, and unlike before, this is a true folder view that doesn't get sidetracked into being tag-driven at the end. The downside is that track listings, when you reach them, are very much simplified compared with the expected "album" view. This will be improved, I expect, but will never be the same. Paul

ok i have completely deleted my music library, rebooted and then re added it, and now the artists names appear in the play lists. Not sure what the issues was, but it seams to be fixed now for me

I'd love for collections to look like libraries. Tell me how many items are in it, give me those fields, let me have the alphabet selector if they're sorted by name, let me filter them, etc.

As always, very responsive. Thanks Luke! Super glad I made the switch from Plex to Emby.

OK this is specific to episode file naming that is not following our supported TV naming guidelines: https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159110-tv-naming It's wanting to sort by numbers, but it's not falling back to sort title when the numbers are absent. We'll get this corrected in a 4.6.1 maintenance update. Thanks.

From the logs you are running ubuntu 20.04 on kernel 5.4. This kernel doesn't have the support for this iGPU. You need to install kernel 5.10 or later to get the hardware acceleration working. Regards

Emby Server 4.6 is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights. Rewritten Music Scanning This 4.6 release will rescan your music library. We apologize if this causes any inconvenience. This solves a lot of our previous music-related shortcomings, specifically: Any folder structure now accepted, no matter how clean or dirty Albums are now fully tag driven and are no longer tied to folders Local metadata for albums will still be supported, and local metadata for artists will be back as well. This will be the only feature of a music library that will require a predictable folder structure. If you enable these options you'll need to have an artist\album\track folder structure, otherwise you'll likely end up seeing nfo files and images in unexpected places. You'll need to use your music library options to indicate your music folder structure if you'd like to use local artwork. Preserve original order of tagged genres, artists, album artists, tags, etc. Support multiple musicbrainz id's tagged on songs and albums Support for composers Library metadata options for artists now working again (and still working for albums) The Folders tab is now an actual folder view and will work properly as such Music Composer Support This was mentioned above, but if your audio files are tagged with composer values, then you'll now see a new Composers tab in your music library: Improved Database and User Interface Performance All Emby apps should feel snappier than ever thanks to a plethora of new improvements in your Emby server database. Reworked Collection Storage Model Collections have now been reworked to be based on the set tag in your nfo files (if you use nfo). The popular AutoBoxSets plugin is now a built-in feature: HDR Tone Mapping When Transcoding Check out the new options in the server transcoding menu! If you have a server machine powerful enough, you can now enjoy tone mapping when transcoding. No more washed out colors ! Combined Next Up and Continue Watching Hopefully this is not a controversial one, but our out of box behavior is now a Netflix-style Continue Watching list, with everything together: If you prefer the old Next Up section, you can use your Emby user home screen settings to add it back as a configuration section. New Live TV Channel Management Screen This is a new WMC-inspired channel management screen that will allow you to quickly disable channels you don't want, drag and drop re-order, edit channel names, channel numbers, and map channels to guide data. Just click on a channel to edit the options: Support for Live TV Channel Groups (via Tags) Use the above editor to add tags to channels, and now you'll see a new Tags tab in your Live TV section. Automatic importing of groups in m3u tuners is also supported. You can even group your channel display into Tags if desired: Improved Performance of Live TV Guide Refresh The live tv guide refresh process for all live tv should be slightly improved (5-10% faster). But if you're using xmltv guide data, you can expect major, dramatic improvements in the neighborhood of about 70% faster. To give you an example of the improvement, on a guide with 4000 channels, the guide data refresh has gone from roughly 2.5 hours to 45 minutes. Multiple Channel Logo Support Using Emby Guide Data, the server now downloads multiple logos per channel in different colors. This way our apps can choose the most appropriate logo based on your chosen color scheme in the user interface. If you don't use Emby Guide Data, you can still configure these logos manually using the image editor. Multi-Select List Items Lists now have the same multi-select management features that you've already grown accustomed to in poster views. Multi-Select Filtering When you filter by genres, tags, studios and other criteria, you can now select multiple. New User Profile Options to Control Remembering Track Selections For both audio and subtitles, you can now control whether or not track selections are remembered, as well as clear your remembered tracks anytime you wish. New Field Display Options The 3-dot menu above lists has been enhanced to allow new fields to be displayed: This allows you to see ratings in lists if desired. New and Improved Image Editor It comes with the following improvements: Dedicated options to set an image from a url All image slots visible in the editor to allow you to easily see what can be customized Easy drag and drop backdrop reordering New Live Button in Live TV Guide As you scroll ahead in time, now you can easily jump back to the live time with the press of a button. Live TV Programs Grouped in Suggestions and Search You'll now see Shows and Movies grouped as one single entry, rather than separate entries for every single airing. When you click on a show, you'll then see all of the showing for it: This will make it easier to find shows and movies that you'd like to watch and record. Improved Single Channel Screen Display The single channel listings not only perform better, but now also display much more information than before. Remove from Continue Watching Would you like to get something out of continue watching, but without having to lose your watch progress? Now you can: This will remove it from the Continue Watching menu, and it will reappear if you start watching again. Context Menu Improvements The addition of the title and poster should help make the menus a little more fun to use. Improved DLNA Support DLNA fans will appreciate the following enhancements: Improved device discovery Improved ability for other devices to discover your Emby Server Greater compatibility with more devices More efficient communications, less chatter on your network between Emby Server and your devices Auto-detection of supported audio and photo formats. No profiles needed if your device is also a digital media renderer (DMR) ! Supporting this for video playback is a much more complex task but we plan to incorporate this in future updates. Other Improvements Support multi-select remove from playlist/collection Improve Linux QuickSync support Adjust extracted images for HDR videos Add favorites to context menu Add mark played to context menu Run sqlite optimize on server shutdown Unify live tv channel sorting options in all places (guide, channels tab, on now, etc) Rework display of locked fields in metadata editor Support special episodes in Continue Watching & Play All Add hidden config switch to optimize databases on shutdown Improve detection of supported formats for Dlna devices Include all subtitle streams with conversion and download features, when possible Prefer D3D11 QuickSync codecs by priority Add h264_mmal decoder Improve 3D detection from file names Support SXXEXX episode numbers in xml tv guide data Ensure proper handling of yuv422p10 color format Improve Dlna device detection Significantly reduce Dlna message chatter with devices on the network Support series-id tags from xmltv Support discnumber audio tag in addition to disc Make determination of series recording path a little smarter about finding existing series in the library Restore death date on person detail screen Default folder browsing to list when all items are audio tracks Improve dynamic data refreshing on detail screen Add adult metadata library option Move option to save metadata as hidden files to per-library option Sanitize data from metadata editor to prevent accidental user error such as trailing spaces Update scheduled task logging to try and avoid preventing Synology NAS servers from being able to sleep Improve MMAL codec support Improve Roku remote control support Rework device access with new user permission to hide users from login screens on devices they've never signed into before Support episode backdrops in season folder Support extras in playlists Add HDR info to video stream titles Check first IP address of x-forwarded-for Have real-time monitor ignore .DS_Store Prefer Artist tag over Artists when there is only one artist Improve handling of invalid content-type header when downloading images Add home videos landing screen option Support clicking individual text items in list items Add profile checking for MP2Video hardware decoders Support playback speed control during audio playback Add button to clear filters when no results are returned Add Nvidia NVDEC decoder variant for HEVC VAAPI: Use color formats from detection Prevent ffmpeg hw processing of 10bit when device doesn't support it Support EP.01 episode naming Resolve slow file read/write performance on Windows Improve recovery from invalid configuration in the lan networks setting Improve detail screen backdrop display Make media info visible accessible in TV display mode Reduce messaging from server to android and iOS apps causing the app background processes to run Show songs on artist detail screen Add delete, download and preview functions to external subtitle tracks in media info section Support downloading subtitles during video playback Support manipulating the play queue of remote controlled players Update same time recording threshold to 15 minutes Improve local network address detection Block windows 8 & 2012 from using http2 Add http version to server log Improve subtitle track selection when always show subtitles is selected Expand artist split whitelist Improve ability of other devices to discover emby server New search interface for mobile and desktop Add top results section to search Improve searching for songs using album name Bug Fixes Fix rare case of tuner being left open following a recording with a series whose name ends in a dot Fix episode images being saved with incorrect file name Fix custom collection images reverting to default auto-generated images Fix repeated unzipping in xmltv provider, causing excess disk space to be consumed Fix genre screen occasionally being empty depending on where you came from Add additional fixes for downloading txt format subtitles Fix odd, alternating behavior when refreshing metadata while replacing images Fix incorrect conversion job status being reported when converting Various fixes for codec level detection Fix key presses affecting video OSD while popup dialogs are open and have focus Fix remote control restarting playback in some cases Fix custom genre images being replaced Fix play all/shuffle on collections comprised of folders Fix successful audio conversions misinterpreted as failures Fix Nvidia HEVC level detection Fix interlaced video being incorrectly stream copied with HLS Fix remote play of playlists being sorted by name Fix webp image support not being used in certain cases Fix repeated subtitle downloads of .sub format Fix undefined dlna display name Fix channel logos intermittently disappearing while scrolling the guide in Firefox Fix incorrect iOS scroll after cancelling context menu Fix artists added to collections not showing View the full article

I've created a plugin that will copy all collection and people images from the old to the new location and update the database entries. It will also create nfo files if needed. Will post it at the end of the week.

Tried to search for this feature request but couldn't find it. It would be very good to be able to sort and filter the content of collections. I have some collections with a lot of movies (1001 movies you have to see before you die, Criterion collection, etc). As of today you can sort and filter the collections themselves but you can't sort and filter the content. So if I want to find an unseen movie from my 1001 collection I will have to scroll through a lot of movies. In the collection view you also separate categories (movies, tv, ...) and it would be great to be able to choose to not separate them also.

Sometimes when searching for a movie to watch I will set numerous filter criteria (Unplayed - Action - 2014 - PG13) for example. After Ive found what Im looking for its sort of cumbersome to have to go back in and unselect all the above individually. Any chance we can get a "clear all" button of some sort to get you back to viewing your entire library unfiltered? Plex does this and its very convenient. Thanks!

Edit (12/19/2020 - Cleaned up code, Re-wrote guide for step-by-step method) Hi everyone, I recently decided to ditch my server's landing page and just use emby itself. I've been making changes to the login page to give it a "Netflix" style and have come up with this: Now, if anyone is interested in accomplishing this, you should know it isn't just CSS. Steps First, there are some edits in manuallogin.html: 1. Find the line <div is="emby-scroller" class="view flex flex-direction-column scrollFrameY flex-grow" data-mousewheel="true" data-horizontal="false" data-centerfocus="card"> and add "custombg" as a class, like so <div is="emby-scroller" class="view flex flex-direction-column scrollFrameY flex-grow custombg" data-mousewheel="true" data-horizontal="false" data-centerfocus="card"> 2. Find the line <div class="scrollSlider flex-grow flex-direction-column padded-left padded-right padded-top-page padded-bottom-page"> and add "custombody" as a class, like so <div class="scrollSlider flex-grow flex-direction-column padded-left padded-right padded-top-page padded-bottom-page custombody"> 3. Find the line with the <form> tag and replace it with <form class="customoverlay"> Optional: If you'd like to add custom buttons, simply place and alter the following code after a </button> tag <a is="emby-button" class="raised block emby-button" href="https://myforum.com">Forum</a> Then, in your Emby settings, add this Custom CSS: .customoverlay { background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.75); -webkit-border-radius:6px; -moz-border-radius:6px; border-radius:6px; -webkit-box-sizing:border-box; -moz-box-sizing:border-box; box-sizing:border-box; display:-webkit-box; display:-webkit-flex; display:-moz-box; display:-ms-flexbox; display:flex; -webkit-box-orient:vertical; -webkit-box-direction:normal; -webkit-flex-direction:column; -moz-box-orient:vertical; -moz-box-direction:normal; -ms-flex-direction:column; flex-direction:column; margin:0 auto; min-height:515px; padding:40px 40px 40px; width:100% } .custombg { background:url('https://i.imgur.com/ynv9BKl.jpg'); background-size:cover; -webkit-background-size:cover; -moz-background-size:cover; -o-background-size:cover; height:100vh; position:fixed; background-position:center center; background-repeat:no-repeat } .custombody { height:100vh; overflow-y:auto; overflow-x:hidden; -webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch } Optional: Add the following css as well in order to hide the "Forgot Password" and "Cancel" buttons. .btnForgotPassword { display:none!important } .buttonCancel { display:none!important } You can now replace the background url with any image you want to use. I've kept in a temporary one. Note: In order to see the changes to manuallogin.html, you likely have to clear your browser cache. Hopefully someone might find this post useful. Special thanks to @Happy2Play for always answering my CSS questions.

In 4.6 you added a few new field display options (community rating, for one (which I'm LOVING, thanks!)). This looks awesome in a standard movie library but as soon as you go to a collection you no longer have this display option. Could you add this new feature to collections, please? Not having it makes jumping between collections and the main movie library look very inconsistent and you visually lose UI continuity!

Hello Emby family. Would it be possible to stream the Live tv (m3u) over a proxy (vpn) only? So the proxy settings can be implemented only for the Live Tv feature?

For large emby media collections, then an SSD is recommended for the server/database - however, the media will playback just fine on any speed HDD.

I will give that a try and get back, thanks for the fast reply!

This is weird. I rebooted the server and albums are now showing up, although in a strange way. I'll put this post to bed and see if I can work out how it is now displaying albums.

All of the collection files are still there for me, which means that it's still possible for a "fix" even though destroying collections is now apparently "working as intended". This is entirely a 'We could have made this work, but threw it on the "too hard/not worth it" pile and now you guys have to deal with it' issue. Given that the devs control the source, there's no reason why carrying them over would be impossible. I couldn't agree more with your comment about the dev not mentioning that this would be an issue before the patch. I don't want to come off as entitled, but Collections (along with playlists) are the two parts of Emby that people can spend the most time curating. To have them essentially disappear with no warning is absolutely unacceptable, especially for those of us paying for Premier. If I had have known the update was going to nuke hours of my work, I wouldn't have installed it. I would have hoped that there would have been enough of a backlash afterward that there would be a fix. I'd still like to see a modification/"fix" so that Emby Server can re-integrate the collections. Failing that, an external conversion utility would be good. none of these solutions should be impossible. Like I said before, not being able to count on things like collections and playlists surviving updates is a borderline deal-breaker for me. The fact that this has happened once does not fill me with faith in the devs to not do it again.

Yea, it's infuriating when Luke changes an in production feature and doesn't say anything until after. It's unacceptable IMO. He did the same thing with playlists about a month ago, but fixed it relatively quickly. I don't know how this one could be fixed though. Maybe the collections could be pulled in from a backup? @Luke @cayars A response would be appreciated.

Well that settles it, then. Time to decide whether to spend hours and hours re-building the collections that I've just spent weeks making or to go back to Plex. The problem with this is that if it's happened once, it can happen again. I've lost a lot of trust in Emby.

All of my missing collections are music-based so I hope this isn't the case, or Plex will start looking a lot better all of a sudden.

No. Emby's multi versioning was designed with different resolutions/bitrates in mind, not different cuts. This causes several issues, including this one.

When the audio is not supported, a full transcoding is not required, the audio track is simply converted on the fly to a supported format, in an operation named remux. Remuxing requires very little server power. What can happen, when remuxing HEVC HDR, green artifacts may appear in the image, it's a current problem that I assume it will be fixed sooner or later.

I released a fix version : 1.7.0.4

@caryars thanks for the Help. Steps: Login to Fios Router Go to Firewall---> Port Forwarding Select your server IP from the menu Select Custom Port Port 8096 Click Add Apply

Just a router port forwarding misconfiguration. I'm going to add a section for Verizon FIOS to our remote setup KB article because Verizon makes it more confusing than needed. He's up and running.

I turned it off and restarted and no emby loaded at all. I manually opened it and the scan worked. I turned it back on, rebooted, and it's been working since. no idea what happened.

Stupid Verizon FIOS routers that don't make port forwarding clear. Just a small change and it's all working again. Best of luck to you John.

Thanks to Carlo , he remote fixed my entire problem, appreciate the time and effort bro!

Your welcome, since online sites see your port open your issue is a little easier to fix.

Can we do a remote support session and work together on this? I've got a wee bit of experience figuring out issues like this. Send me a PM and we can arrange a time or do it now if you have the time available. Carlo

Thanks! I forgot about that. I don't know how it got unchecked but, it was.

Thanks guys, I just did it and it worked successfully without wiping my metadata.

Oh, that was fast... thanks for the reply! AH-HA! OMG... The button in question!!! Thank you, oh wise and powerful one. My IQ just increase by 30 points.

I'm asking for this information in order to determine first how it is playing, which will then tell me how the subtitles are rendering.

Thanks for the update to the current version. Glad it still gets updated after almost 3 years.

I have already restarted my server. There should be information on the dashboard screen on which client is using the tuners..... I have run into this issue before, and I think the issue is closing the Emby app without using the shut down feature, that leaves the tuner connected. When I am testing new devices, sometimes I don't always follow the proper procedures, and it complicates matters, since I run multiple servers and client hardware.

@LukeBeta 4.6.0.51 has fixed this for me. Thanks!!!

I needed to refresh the metadata... that fixed it

Doesn't say anything about removing it from the playlist but does say it's going to remove it from the library and file system!

Here is the dialog shown when I try to remove one item from the playlist

The Sort Name field affects how it sorts everywhere, though, not just in a collection.

Hi, you don't need to do that. Your m3u's are just fine. In fact it's on my to do list to stop saving playlist items to xml and just use m3u as it's a more standardized format.

Hi, the issue isn't getting a dev kit, it's that PS4 app development isn't just open to anyone like other app store platforms are. But we will try.