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Hey all! Just to let everybody know that I am working on a Subsonic API compatibility layer plugin as I have time (busy dad here). Feel free to bring up any issues or questions over at the repo. I have been able to create a basic boilerplate plugin that extends the Emby API to allow for Subsonic calls and return a properly formed Subsonic response XML. Can't promise when it'll be "done", but I am of the mind that this is the hardest part, unless I find a Subsonic API task that really can't be implemented with Emby API calls. I'll be sure to post periodic updates here.

Discussed in several topics but Roku killed private beta channels. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/106304-roku-killing-private-channels

Ok Sam,i will test immediately after a release Luke if you want I test before the official release is posted write me direcltly and I will test and give you feedback and scrrenshot if needed . many thx Sam&Luke for your continuous support and help Regards Gianni

@akawoz Thanks for the positive feedback. Firstly, the "Sort newly added" and "limit' act quite differently, hence why one gets disabled. Sort Newly: Will only sort any new items in the particular order, so let's say your emby playlist have 500 items already, and smartplaylist picks up a new 10 items to add, it will only sort the 10 items in the order you selected and add them to the bottom of the playlist. (Unfortunately Emby playlists/collections don't have sort functionality). On that I was thinking of building another "scheduled" process off the plugin that will sort the playlist and collections at a certain time if needed, as the only way to do it, it to basically remove the items and re-add in the order you have selected, this could be very expensive on the fly. Limited, what the code does is let's say 100 new items have been flagged to add to a list, limited would sort the 100 items, then take the top 30 and then clear out the playlist and re-add, I have recently changed a little code here so if you're not seeing that behavior I'd say there's a bug, I will re-test and if I pick something up I will fix it for the next release. Will keep you posted.

Yea we'd like to be able to eventually accommodate a single folder mish-mash, but we're not quite there yet.

Since there are too many items in a single media library, can you use the paging style of version 4.3.1.0 and add a page jump function

I'd like to request that the Playlist library have a displayed category and, "widget" on the homescreen in the similar fashion that movies, TV shows, music are shown. I create topical/seasonal playlists that I'd like my family members to see displayed from the homescreen with "recently added" carousel style. Currently, to the best of my knowledge, playlists are only accessible via their shortcut in the, "My Media" section. Thanks for your consideration!

We'll take a look at it.

The monthly update is due soon so you'll have that.

I'll give it a try and let you know if the problem comes back. [Unit] Description=Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device After=network.target [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/emby-server.conf WorkingDirectory=/opt/emby-server ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server User=emby Restart=on-failure RestartSec=3s [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Thanks guys

Thanks again for looking into this. I tried sending a message to the Kodi box from the Emby server, and it's working. I tried forcing transcoding on the LAN, and i'm noticing all the same issues as when trying to stream remotely, so I guess we can rule out the reverse proxy as an issue. I didn't try modifying the Kodi cache. At this point, I think I'm gonna use Embycon. Thanks

Just use three-dot menu>Identify with Replace existing images, you'll get right artwork without the need to go back and change all manually. Then you can fine tune to your liking.

Ok perfect. I never do it through the main folder cause that's asking for trouble. LOL Appreciate the insight.

For the item(s) you are Refreshing metadata+Replacing images; if you do it on a single item - only that one will be affected, if multiple - all of them will be. Note that that apply to locked item(s) only.

I have already modified the .service file a few times, because I had this problem. for some time I haven't had to do it, because we have to modify the service every time there is an update, and the server was stable. [Unit] Description=Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about ever> After=network.target [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/emby-server.conf WorkingDirectory=/opt/emby-server ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server RestartForceExitStatus=3 User=emby Restart=on-failure RestartSec=5s [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target I don't know if we can afford to remove: RestartForceExitStatus=3 I also tried: Restart=always this way every time I stop the service it restarts automatically after 5 seconds. But It seems to me that I no longer had this problem by modifying the .service in this way. I speak about it today because the problem occurred. I simply did systemctl restart emby-server to restart the .service

Thanks for following up.

We'll take a look at it. Thanks.

Hi, Thank you for your answer and sorry I had forgotten that the nfo files are hidden system files and somehow my view in explorer was switched to hidden system files and I therefore assumed that all files were gone. Sorry again....

Yes, that is the ultimate goal.

Not sure under which scenario that would apply, as images are always sorta "locked" unless you manually/deliberately select to "Replace existing images" when Refreshing metadata. As long as one doesn't tick that option, it should be fine. However, note that AFAIK there's still unaddressed issue where Refreshing Metadata with Replace existing images on a locked item results in all existing artwork being removed/deleted and no new ones scraped/downloaded, so you might wanna pay particular attention there. Editing images and selecting new will always result in particular artwork type being overwritten, regardless whether item is locked or not.

Can you please check if this is still a problem when the next USB release is published? This should be in the next week or two. Thanks

Thank you for this insight, I had not realized it was such a recent feature, that's impressive. Agreed, along with what GrimReaper said above, TMDB has been an incredible resource to find logos for TV shows and movies / documentaries, and I have never noticed the various sizes to look distorted or anything in Emby's UI. Emby simply seems to do some magic logo appearance scaling, and the logos always look fine. Personally I do not mind the mix of textless images and "images with text" in the thumb artworks results at all. I have noticed such a mix in Emby ever since I started using it and to be honest, there has been a few times when I just didn't care for the thumb/landscape artwork designs that included text, even in my own native language (french). Sometimes textless thumbs look better, they might fit a "minimalistic" aesthetic approach which is good for classic movies you've seen dozens of times and you *just know* what the movie is with one look at a design element in the artwork (Shining's iconic axe). Don't they say a picture is worth a thousand words My personal opinion on this issue is: if the decision of which thumb to weed out and which thumb to keep could be left to the user from within Emby UI, it'd be ideal. I would not mind thumbs results to display the same results as a backdrop search.

Cloudflare has been recently blocking emby users FYI.. use with caution. $200 plan might be ok... but I know some people with the free plan that have been getting blocked.. Not sure about the $20 yet.

I have a ton of logos from TMDB in various resolutions/ratios, never observed any issues within Emby.

Yep looks like it is all over the place vs FanArt 800x310. Wonder how problematic these will be in Emby placeholder? Doesn't appear to be an issue.

OK I've stubbed out logo support. It wasn't too difficult, but some of their sizes are huge compared to fanart.

You would have to ssh into your nas to get to the logs folder or in Emby go to Settings-Logs and download the server log and ffmpeg logs corresponding to the media played. But suspect subs and/or audio transcoding issues. May need to look at client playback quality settings also.

Yep @ShaneP just updated my prior post - was deleting collection between each test. Cheers

Yes eventually images across all provides needs to be looked at as we have TVDB, TMDB, FanArt and sort of OMDB. The issue with thumbs is the way most providers lump them as Backdrops when they technically are not. Backdrops are textless images. Now extra magic has to be don't to filter these language code backdrops as they have currently been removed from Emby backdrops but yet to be added as Thumb/Landscape options. Logos are somewhat new as it was added less than a year ago. So another plugin improvement needed for this provider. Emby's initial query gets logos but does not record to cache and use then. https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/424783?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&append_to_response=casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en&include_image_language=en,null

@levander Yea, I had a similar issue. I think I might build in so fail safes into the next release. @horstepipe Done @Thorman Unfortunately not, by the original design the api takes one playlist at a time, what I can suggest is writing a small script that will pass through the "backend" data files (json) and just change the field there.

So far so good, uploading my music now. Hopefully album art and meta data will update smoothly

Use Notepad++ "Find in Files" on your Movies/TV Shows parent folder and replace all <lockdata>false with <lockdata>true on all NFOs in one swoop.

We announced a while back that Emby for WMC would not continue to be supported beyond server version 4.6. With the release of 4.7 getting closer, we just wanted to issue a gentle reminder. View the full article

For anyone reading this, I tried both pfsense and OPNsense on the above hardware, and even though they install and run fine, I didn't care for either. They are both based on BSD instead of linux, the bootup sequence is stupid (you have to wait an additional minute while it errors out looking for something), and the web gui is not very intuitive at all. I then installed VyOS on the mini-pc, and it runs beautifully. VyOS was built from the ground up on Debian linux, and it has a command line configuration tool just like Cisco IOS routers, yet you also have access to Debian linux itself. The router commands have been integrated into the Debian bash shell. It's brilliant. It's been around for many years, so works very well and is incredibly robust. Oh, and it's free open source. w00t! https://vyos.io/ I'm really happy with it so far. The hardware is overpowered for a home firewall/router. CPU utilization barely tops 1% when doing gigabit wire speed routing tests. I could easily install a VM server on it, but I'm keeping the vyos install baremetal, so in the future, if there are any problems, I don't have to figure out whether it's vyos or the VM server software. I'll post more here, when I finish getting things configured. It's already up and running, and I'm using it as my home firewall connection to the Internet. I have routing, NAT and firewall setup. I'm still working on the wlan and openvpn settings. When I'm done, I'll post a default configuration file here, so you can see how easy it is to configure.

Ja danke das habe ich auch schon gesehen. Ich werde mit meinem Account jetzt selbst bei TVDB die Informationen für meine Serien auf Deutsch übersetzten und dort hinterlegen. Mache ich ja auch bei älteren deutschen Serien wo keine Informationen vorhanden waren schon seit Jahren so.

This appears to be fixed in .68 beta from my testing.

Direct stream works perfectly at this moment in time. When I change to auto the system transcodes to 3mbps.

Hi, improvements are coming to the next update to the Emby Samsung app. The seek bar will be able to receive focus and you'll be able to use left and right on it to seek quickly.

Hi there, are you logged into your laptop with the same Windows user?

There is a similar situation with recordings. If you record something then at some later time delete it in Emby, the recording file is gone but the directory and nfo file is still there. I had thought about creating a garbage collector plugin with a scheduled task for that but haven't so far.

@Luke, I'm reading symptoms of different issues. If I understand correctly, there is 1) the task scheduler behavior discussed by @GavinAshford and 2) the canceled recordings still being recorded discussed by@lightsout I understand you clarified that the task scheduler items not being cleaned up should not impact the canceled recordings. However, I don't see the solution for the second issue being addressed here. @cayars I personally am still seeing the second behavior (canceled single episodes of a series recording are still recording). Example: Find "College Basketball" on guide and set series recording for any channel, any time, new episodes Check schedule and see many games are now set to record. I then 'cancel' individual recordings from the schedule (Live TV -> Schedule -> Open each UNdesired episode and select "Do not record") Cancel some for same day ("today episodes") Cancel some for future days ("future episodes") Observations: All canceled Individual episodes will no longer show on schedule, nor will it show as "recording" when viewed on guide (seems correct/expected) If I then do nothing else, the episode will still record (unexpected bahavior). If I then do nothing else, the next day, the "future episodes" are back on the schedule as if I never canceled them (unexpected behavior) However, if after canceling the "today episodes", I restart Emby server from the dashboard, the episodes will NOT record that day. (not-so-user-friendly workaround) UNLESS enough time has passed: I have also seen episodes I canceled the same day, show back up on the schedule (It isn't clear to me if this is after X number of hours, or if the schedule is refreshed by some triggered event) This results in having to go in each day and cancel the games (episodes) I don't need recorded and restart Emby at a time it happens to be idle and is close enough to the game times to NOT be automatically re-scheduled again. Sure, I could cancel the series and only set the games I WANT recorded but that is also challenging to stay on top of for different reasons. Attached screenshots were taken to show as examples (order by timestamp). Photos.zip

It would be great if you could select emby as a library source in DJUCED DJ Software. Currently in DJUCED you can select Tidal, beatport, Itunes, soundcloud etc. Getting Emby on the platform would allow a more mobile experience with a DJ controller and Djuced and remotely connecting to the Emby server.

Is Emby running in docker? How long does it take for the memory usage to increase and get to the levels you posted before?

Why were all ports open in the first place? That sounds like a nightmare.

A plugin that lets you search for a tmdb collection, shows you your entries for that collection, then lets you add them all to a new/existing Emby collection with a confirmation click might be interesting.

Or, here's a crazy idea: watch things in the aspect ratio they're intended to be watched in.

Hi. No, I'm not saying it isn't possible. I'm just questioning the overall value to the entire user base. We will monitor this feature request for support just like all of them.