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We're paying professional software developers to write code for us. Most of them are not going to want user support in forums and social media added to their job responsibility. There are dedicated staff for different types of roles, and it is best to allow everyone to focus on doing what they do best. In fact, some of them move so quickly that we actually have cases of new features that are temporarily hidden because they are waiting on me to go in and review and then make it available for you all for testing.

I was able to achieve a look that's not totally awful using Wolf launcher (at least IMHO). Hopefully it'll last a while.

I just tested it and it's a TVDB issue. If you search for Fullmetal Alchemist the first response they give isn't the original series but instead Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. This is stupid and their search algorithm needs kicked Just add the year to your folder names and it solves the issue. The first result for 'Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)' is the original show. When I scanned a folder without the year in the folder name I reproduced @Dreakon13 issue. When I tried again with release years in the folder name it recognized things correctly.

In this instance, at some point when reorganising some libraries, I named the FMA folders thus: Previously I had identified them manually, but I guess this removed the need to do that. I didn't have to do do anything fancy with the file names in the folders. Paul

Jellyfin better than Emby? Yes, it will happen, when hell freezes over

Hi I would really like to be able to send some custom notifications to my users For example, i would like to be able to send a notification like : -"What content would you like to see added on Emby this week ? https://www.strawpoll.me/#####" -"Blabla Season3 is coming next week !" -"Server will be down for maintenance tonight" A little notification icon on the top right corner would be awesome. I looked in the Feature Requests list but i did'nt find anything like that. Thanks for reading, and for this amazing software.

When 'save artwork into media folders' is checked in a library of 'Movie' type (possibly others), new images get saved in the media folder for the main item, but not for extras associated with that item. I can't actually find the original extras images anywhere in the metadata folder. The only reference to them I can find is in the resized-images cache. I'm starting to get quite a few custom images for my extras and I'd like to avoid having to re-associate them all in the event something unfortunate happens.

Original code adding font-size to button but I can apply at your level without !important (tested with different color). This is what I get Only thing I can think of would be conflicting code. Did you test this code by itself?

In order for an item to "belong" to multiple libraries, its folder must be of same level as the other "member" items, i.e. one library can contain \tv shows\star trek and \tv shows\friends whilst the other can contain \tv shows\friends only.; since your 'Friends' folder is a subfolder of your parent TV shows folder, it will not show in any other library where it is placed as separate entity. To have it shown as you would like to, you would have to remove your "tv shows" folder from your "TV Shows" library and add each series folder separately. Edit: And then make a separate library with 'Friends' folder alone. Edit 2 (upon testing): Another (and easier) way to do it would be to pull out 'Friends' folder out of 'tv shows' folder, add it to "tv shows 2" (or however you'd like to call it) folder and add that folder to your 'TV shows' library setup in addition to 'tv shows' folder.

@LukeYes there is a issue when Removing a item for a Collection, as the <set> tag is not always removed so when the item is refreshed it is added back to the Collection if was removed from. Currently only see this in TV Collection. But have not tested all variables that apply to a custom collection in various content types,

Looks like the server will save extras images to /metadata/library, so you would have to query the api to know exactly where the image is. But manually putting images next to the extra does get used (/movie (2021)/extras/filename-poster.ext).

In theory opening the db in sqlite after Emby failed to close it properly should fail also but am not a db guy.

That's confusing - why would there be TWO apps and one being a better experience? Sorry I've been in the tech industry for 30 years and that makes no sense to me at all? Can someone please enlighten me?

Uh oh... the reverse problem now seems to exist. When I add a TV show to a collection, Emby adds a pair of <set> tags to the tvshow.nfo file, identifying the collection. However, if I remove a show from a collection, Emby does not remove the <set> tags from the tvshow.nfo file, and the show reappears in the collection after a metadata update!

Hi @FrostByte I am not sure what mp3tag uses. I use picard. this is the output of ffprobe for a random track { Input #0, flac, from 'file:D:\xxxxxxx\Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles\Heart Songs\13 Turning Home (Live).flac': Metadata: MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASEGROUPID: 509f9eb7-84b4-4c57-a8d6-173414de28bb ORIGINALDATE : 2019-01-11 ORIGINALYEAR : 2019 RELEASETYPE : album MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID: 18fc3822-1bce-4830-8d69-f278f84e37e1 LABEL : CGP Sounds CATALOGNUMBER : CGP0071 RELEASESTATUS : official ALBUM : Heart Songs MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID: 50c629c6-6f22-4bf9-a3c2-f2855e6704be;f4004a34-4078-439e-a01a-c95f7ed587d1 album_artist : Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles ALBUMARTISTSORT : Emmanuel, Tommy & Knowles, John DATE : 2019-01-11 SCRIPT : Latn ASIN : B07JR2GNYN RELEASECOUNTRY : XW TOTALDISCS : 1 disc : 1 TOTALTRACKS : 14 MEDIA : Digital Media MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID: 03112ce7-ed3a-4077-adc8-c7e46468c1e8 TITLE : Turning Home (Live) MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID: 50c629c6-6f22-4bf9-a3c2-f2855e6704be;f4004a34-4078-439e-a01a-c95f7ed587d1 ARTIST : Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles ARTISTSORT : Emmanuel, Tommy & Knowles, John ARTISTS : Tommy Emmanuel;John Knowles MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASETRACKID: 61a18736-5822-41a4-9b3d-9c570517ee6a track : 13 GENRE : Folk;Jazz TRACKTOTAL : 14 DISCTOTAL : 1 Duration: 00:02:22.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 691 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: flac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16 Stream #0:1: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 500x500 [SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc Metadata: comment : Cover (front) "streams": [ { "index": 0, "codec_name": "flac", "codec_long_name": "FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)", "codec_type": "audio", "codec_time_base": "1/44100", "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]", "codec_tag": "0x0000", "sample_fmt": "s16", "sample_rate": "44100", "channels": 2, "channel_layout": "stereo", "bits_per_sample": 0, "r_frame_rate": "0/0", "avg_frame_rate": "0/0", "time_base": "1/44100", "start_pts": 0, "start_time": "0.000000", "duration_ts": 6288660, "duration": "142.600000", "bits_per_raw_sample": "16", "disposition": { "default": 0, "dub": 0, "original": 0, "comment": 0, "lyrics": 0, "karaoke": 0, "forced": 0, "hearing_impaired": 0, "visual_impaired": 0, "clean_effects": 0, "attached_pic": 0, "timed_thumbnails": 0 } }, { "index": 1, "codec_name": "mjpeg", "codec_long_name": "Motion JPEG", "profile": "192", "codec_type": "video", "codec_time_base": "0/1", "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]", "codec_tag": "0x0000", "width": 500, "height": 500, "coded_width": 500, "coded_height": 500, "has_b_frames": 0, "sample_aspect_ratio": "1:1", "display_aspect_ratio": "1:1", "pix_fmt": "yuvj420p", "level": -99, "color_range": "pc", "color_space": "bt470bg", "chroma_location": "center", "refs": 1, "r_frame_rate": "90000/1", "avg_frame_rate": "0/0", "time_base": "1/90000", "start_pts": 0, "start_time": "0.000000", "duration_ts": 12834000, "duration": "142.600000", "bits_per_raw_sample": "8", "disposition": { "default": 0, "dub": 0, "original": 0, "comment": 0, "lyrics": 0, "karaoke": 0, "forced": 0, "hearing_impaired": 0, "visual_impaired": 0, "clean_effects": 0, "attached_pic": 1, "timed_thumbnails": 0 }, "tags": { "comment": "Cover (front)" } } ], "format": { "filename": "file:D:\\XXXXX\\Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles\\Heart Songs\\13 Turning Home (Live).flac", "nb_streams": 2, "nb_programs": 0, "format_name": "flac", "format_long_name": "raw FLAC", "start_time": "0.000000", "duration": "142.600000", "size": "12327167", "bit_rate": "691566", "probe_score": 100, "tags": { "MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASEGROUPID": "509f9eb7-84b4-4c57-a8d6-173414de28bb", "ORIGINALDATE": "2019-01-11", "ORIGINALYEAR": "2019", "RELEASETYPE": "album", "MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID": "18fc3822-1bce-4830-8d69-f278f84e37e1", "LABEL": "CGP Sounds", "CATALOGNUMBER": "CGP0071", "RELEASESTATUS": "official", "ALBUM": "Heart Songs", "MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID": "50c629c6-6f22-4bf9-a3c2-f2855e6704be;f4004a34-4078-439e-a01a-c95f7ed587d1", "album_artist": "Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles", "ALBUMARTISTSORT": "Emmanuel, Tommy & Knowles, John", "DATE": "2019-01-11", "SCRIPT": "Latn", "ASIN": "B07JR2GNYN", "RELEASECOUNTRY": "XW", "TOTALDISCS": "1", "disc": "1", "TOTALTRACKS": "14", "MEDIA": "Digital Media", "MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID": "03112ce7-ed3a-4077-adc8-c7e46468c1e8", "TITLE": "Turning Home (Live)", "MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID": "50c629c6-6f22-4bf9-a3c2-f2855e6704be;f4004a34-4078-439e-a01a-c95f7ed587d1", "ARTIST": "Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles", "ARTISTSORT": "Emmanuel, Tommy & Knowles, John", "ARTISTS": "Tommy Emmanuel;John Knowles", "MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASETRACKID": "61a18736-5822-41a4-9b3d-9c570517ee6a", "track": "13", "GENRE": "Folk;Jazz", "TRACKTOTAL": "14", "DISCTOTAL": "1" } } } Maybe you can check and see if yours are different -vicpa

I absolutely agree. That's why I said it can be a curse. Having bad coders try and contribute can take more time and resources than not having them at all. There are free options, at least currently. I use the IPTVBoss guide data, even for my OTA channels and find it extremely accurate. But for less technically inclined people that would be a big draw for Emby or Plex.

Except it usually never works out that way in theory or practice for a "clone/fork". It's really hard to attract great coders who will work for free putting in a couple/few hours every day without some monetary benefit. If this was some unique software with nothing similar to it then it's a different story because the only way to get what you need is by building it. But in the Emby/JF would it's different as JF is a nearly a 4 year old fork of Emby. JF was started by those who didn't want to support Emby with monetary funds. Now they need to work without charging and hoping for a few contributions here and there which sort of goes against how they started. Kind of Ironic! But the problem for them is that, many (not all of course) people would just spend the money on Emby instead to get the state of the art version of the fork with way better clients and more advanced features and support. Some of the funding they do get will be from people using JF for purposes Emby would not allow under the TOS. I know everyone is different but I can say I'd never personally jump into a fork and put in tons of time if I could get a lifetime license to the real deal for just over a $100 bucks as that's an hour or two of programming time! Making matter even harder/worse if if you use JF for TV/DVR as you would need to shell out $ for a 3rd party guide which could end up costing more than the Emby License. So they've sort of boxed themselves in to an extent on funding compared to many other software companies or open source projects.

@cayars offered to do a remote session to help with this. I'd take him up on it.

That is way, way more complicated than doing the exact same thing in the tag panel but it works. Thanks!

Yes, thank you again.

Not sure I follow. But yes if you have corrupt tags the only way to truly fix is remove all tags and start over.

They're correct, not currently supported for audio files, but possible for the future.

Disabled does not prevent manually connection via https. It only changed the dashboard to show http connection on WAN. At least in my test.

These are rolling out to the desktop app now and will be in the next Windows store update. New Tab Style A new design was needed in order to be able to remove the seven tab limit. Now you can scroll through all available tabs. Backdrops On Selection If you enable the backdrops display option, this is now supported on more screens as you select items. Enjoy.

https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/news/4284-synology-2021-dsm-7-0-beta-and-the-future-of-data/ Synology 2021: DSM 7.0 Beta and the future of data By Miranda Hucker - 15 December 2020 (1283 views) Synology introduced an entirely redesigned DiskStation Manager (DSM), the unified operating system powering Synology data management solutions, and new storage, backup, and hybrid-cloud technologies in the online 2021 AND BEYOND event. "Unprecedented quantities of data have undergone processing, whether for data analytics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, telemedicine, or for countless more innovations. All of this is making a huge impact on our lifestyle and the way we do business, forming a "data economy" where owning more data gives you a competitive edge against others," said Philip Wong, Synology founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Synology is dedicated to building upon DSM, our core platform to solve security, reliability and management challenges. We design our solutions for individuals, all the way up to large enterprises, for even massive datasets. All of this so that our customers can focus on utilising the data to create more value. I am excited to announce that DSM7.0 will reach general availability in 2021, bringing you a brand new experience in data management." DSM 7.0 improves all aspects of the operating system, from storage management and the user interface, to cloud-supported functionality such as large-scale device monitoring and on-demand storage. Redesigned storage management functionality for higher performance, reliability, and even more maintenance options to empower IT administrators A host of usability and functionality improvements matched with improved security features such as a more secure and convenient authentication process Added support for the Fibre Channel protocol to achieve the lowest-latency and overhead deployments An all-new photo management experience with Synology Photos, that combining the AI-powered features of Synology Moments with the organisational flexibility of Synology Photo Station Innovative solutions like Hybrid Share, to integrate cloud and on-premises storage, Active Insight, to monitor aggregated performance and usage from a single portal, and backup solutions that combine robust bare-metal data protection with the convenience of the cloud About Synology Synology creates network-attached storage, IP surveillance solutions, and network equipment that transform the way users manage data, conduct surveillance, and manage networks in the cloud era. By taking full advantage of the latest technologies, Synology aims to help users centralise data storage and backup, share files on-the-go, implement professional surveillance solutions, and manage networks in reliable and affordable ways.

Seems to me like Plex is as corporate as something like this gets. A polished-to-death product with very little consideration of user feedback, focus on the bottom line, etc. Jellyfin is totally grassroots. Maybe they're great at turning things around, I dunno since I don't use it, but there's also way less expectations. A niche userbase in a niche market on free open source software, that is okay with having to tinker with things (and maybe even want to, to some degree). Emby falls somewhere in the middle, which IMO is perfect for something like this. You see way better support, flexibility and quicker turnarounds than Plex, and a more genuine approach to user feedback even if it doesn't always work out the way you want it to... but there's a method to the madness that leads to a functional product with every release and mostly meeting the expectations of a larger userbase that needs a certain level of stability and accessibility. That doesn't stop me from hoping Plex and Jellyfin both keep improving and push Emby to new heights though.

Yes, MP3Tag extended tags show this. However I cannot just delete MusicBrainz tags in MP3Tag Extended Tags, as I said above. If I delete the value, the OK button greys out and I cannot save that change. I looked for a way to display MusicBrainz in the main panel but could not find it in options. I didn't try right-clicking the panel but will try it when it has loaded the 11000 tracks it is currently loading as part of Step 1 in your list OK, right click does nothing at all

If you had never checked the option to pass the file path directly, I don't think you would have ever had an issue but I'm glad you got it working now.

Okay, so you started out trying to setup this direct file access? And then that failing is what was causing your playback errors? This really wasn't necessary in order to get direct play .

Okay, then what you are doing now is not going to have an impact on that. It isn't even going to try the file access unless the item can direct play. So we need to look at an example and determine why the items aren't direct playing.

Just as a point of detail - this setup is not required for direct play of the files. All this does is change the delivery protocol of that file. Are you actually having an issue with the items not direct playing?

Maybe on the server side, but on the client side they are light years away from Plex and Emby.

Hi, did you setup mount point on the Shield TV to match these? Have a read through this KB article which explains it well: https://emby.media/support/articles/ShieldTV-Direct-File-Access.html

This is rolling out to the windows store now.

The one you should use is listed here: https://emby.media/download.html Make sure to always go back there to ensure you get the right one. Thanks.

Looks like a duplicate of this topic. Mohammed - LG Smart TV - Emby Community

True but at the rate they are making changes to improve the core code and clients they are more like 5 to 6 years behind at least.

Hi, plex splits their server into multiple processes whereas emby does not, so you have to make sure to add up all of the usage of all of the processes.

Perhaps a good solution would be changing this to check retaildate and then if empty use "Original Year' and only if that is empty default to "date." I agree that this is an annoyance, especially when MusicBrainz sets the date and original date correctly but Emby only uses "date" for sorting.

I wish this was a feature. Hopefully soon.

Occasionally is defined as about once per week.

Hi, we'll take another look at it. Thanks for reporting.

Hi, not yet but it's planned for the future. thanks.

Are there some news regarding this?

Sounds awesome!

+1 Kinda surprised that isn't already there...

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Hi there, yes it's planned for the future. Thanks.