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One thing the streaming community hasn't done well is really create tools that allow us to simulate live TV well. I think the biggest reason that binging on Netflix (and Emby) is so popular is because you push a button and go. I'd like to see Emby create a "To Watch List" that basically allows you to sort shows into a specific order. When you watch that list, it will only play the most recent episode of each show in the list that premier inside that week. Lets pretend I made a DC TV Watch list, it would only play this weeks episode of Arrow, Flash, Legends, Supergirl and Gotham one after another. If an episode didn't premier that week, it gets skipped. Additionally, I'd like to see this system *ALSO* allow us to insert bumpers similar to Cartoon Network or Toonami. In the here and now, it would only insert bumpers between the series, but it would be nice if in the future, a system that allows some method for choosing the appropriate points between each act of an episode where bumpers could also be inserted. Bumpers would be a community thing to create, but inside the "to watch list", you'd choose what bumpers (if any) are used. Bumpers could even be surrounded by previews. Finally, another thought: while Emby already can pull Movie Trailers, it might be another cool future project if we could pull previews of related series not in the "To Watch List" and/or perhaps ones that aren't on your server that are similar to what you are watching. There's a lot of ideas in this post to digest and several should be their own project as part of this concept. Thoughts

For those who would like to try out the built-in version of this:

Built in Push Notifications through the app and not 3rd party applications? Is that a foreseen addition or what? Right now I added push bullet and well you have to download the app to just get the notifications. Seems counterproductive honestly at least in my eyes? I'd like to see if maybe the android app could get native notifications, I know Roku would be probably difficult and PC would be easy. Xbox probably the same but may be annoying in the sense while viewing or playing games. At least with the Android (iOS too I'm assuming) we could be notified right from our phones and be like "sweet" turning on Emby and watching a movie now.

I've added some regex to normalize the strings when comparing item names. That will remove any special characters from the name, and also any spaces. I then made sure to use the Name param instead of SortName. Now we could most certainly do a directly comparison using equality (==). "thejoblist" does not equal "jo". "Star Trek: Picard" changes to "startrekpicard" and does not equals "startreklowerdecks" (Star Trek: Lower Decks). I think this will work best.

Why not DL to a different file until complete and then transfer to the proper shared file.

Now that Emby support tonemapping of HDR content, it would be nice if the playback thumbnails Emby generates could be tonemapped as well, because as of now, they're pretty washed out.

Similar to this old post, I'm suggesting a tab that would be titled Watchlist and could be placed in between Suggestions and Favorites. The functionality would pretty much be a copy of Favorites, just with a + symbol added next to the heart and other symbols that let you favorite a movie etc. The previous post had mentioned extra functionality such as automatically removing a movie from Watchlist after it has been watched. This would be nice, but is unnecessary because after watching a movie you can simply click the + symbol a second time to remove it from Watchlist. I would imagine this would be very easy to implement as a rebranded copy of Favorites. Adding other features could come later. Edit: added link to old post

Is it possible to have a banner on the front page, and/or popup to announce maintence going on with the MediaBrowser service. It would be nice to be able to announce a maintenance to family and my kids who are at their moms. Anyone else think this would be neat? thanks!

It appears that any playlist that any user creates is public--all other users can see it. I can appreciate the benefit of a public playlist. I could create a playlist called "Harv's Favorite Horror Films" for example, in case other users are interested in checking out what I like. However, the way most of my users are using playlists is to keep track of things they want to watch in the future. They are typically things that the user has not watched yet, so it's not meant as a recommendation to others, just as a way of them personally keeping track of what they want to watch. Having that kind of playlist be public is of questionable benefit to other users. Additionally, it is not clear when you create a playlist that other users will be able to see it. That has the potential to cause some embarrassment. He hasn't created one yet, but I wouldn't want to see my nephew's "movies to fap to" playlist, for example. If I could make a suggestion, I would suggest associating each playlist with the user who created it, and giving that user the ability to make the playlist private or public. For example, the following two checkboxes could be shown when creating or editing a playlist: Allow other users to see this playlist Allow other users to edit this playlist Initially, both checkboxes would be unchecked. Since another user cannot edit a playlist they cannot see, the second would be allowed to be checked only if the first were also checked. (You could grey it out to make that clear.) Depending on your UI preference, it could also be a drop-down menu. Playlist visibility: (Only me | all users can view | all users can view and edit) Thanks for considering this.

Say I have a custom collection of 56 Christmas movies. During the Holiday Season, I would like to show this on the main page as a Library. Now, I could make a drive folder called "Christmas" and put these movies in that folder. However, now we're getting away from using metadata for organization and moving back to using folders for organization. Something you've spent the last few years trying to get away from. So each collection should have a toggle to show it as a library on the Home Page. Then people can make collections for Christmas, Halloween, Summer Romance, Summer Slasher Films, whatever and show them on the front page where they are easily accessible. Don't want to show it anymore, switch the toggle off.

On the movie page there is a favorite button and a watched button. It would be nice if they could at a watch list button. Very convenient. Zero downside

@Luke can you answer please?

That log is super interesting. We are feeding the series and episode data into a method, and we are still getting a null reference exception. Neither the episode or the series is null. There is something else causing the exception. I'll be back!

version 1.6.2.8 When attempting to locate names from providers, use all the providers (if one fails, the others might catch the data) If a file doesn't exist yet, perform sorting on the item. Overview chart Directly compare names after normalizing them, removing space, and changing them to lower case.(This might not be correct, but we should try it) Emby.AutoOrganize_v1.6.2.8.zip

Sounds plausible at least. This way, each title becomes uniformly a comparable one-of-a-kind. Uniformly Unique... What a play on words...

Never checked, but maybe plugin db itself could be queried from within plugin UI for new content added, @TeamB?

Hello @chef, Please find attached the log file with a complete search run. I have, if I have not forgotten anything, played through all possible variations of sorting once. So all possible errors should be included. Hope this helps you with a quick solution. Thank you for doing the work. @sydlexiusSorry, i have not even thought about it... embyserver.txt

Oh My ....! I found the bug. I can't believe it! It was invisible at first.... but I found it There are three conditions in the code: Copy new episodes over existing episodes in the library, if the new episode has keywords in the title Copy any new episodes over existing items in the library no matter what. Don't copy new episodes over existing items in the library, just mark the episode as "Existing". And there you have it! The bug! We are missing a condition! The fourth and final (most important) condition! 4. Copy the new episode file if it doesn't exist yet in the library.... because it's new! {face_palm}

Even if it just did the message saying 'Cant sort - series exists in multiple libraries - move manually', that would be vastly enough for me. How many TV shows of multiple formats are really needed?. Movies I could understand, but so little TV shows are available on 4k, so the odd manual move is way better than what it was.

Cut for brevity. @TheUrbanXplorer, in the future can you attach your log excerpts to your posts? Thanks!

If I re-tag music files and embed a new album art image (for example better quality or higher resolution), the image does not update on Emby. It keep displaying the old album art image, even after trying all the suggestions in this thread.

Theater Desktop won't start without internet connection. Use Theater Store or local Web app (browser).

Can you try sideloading our standard android app on the same device and let us know how that compares? https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html Thanks !

The desktop app has a more robust video player that can direct play more content. The store app has the download feature.

Emby will be using TVDB v4 in version 4.7.x.x. But has not added all of the order options yet. So two more types still need added and built into Emby UI. Information not available in v3 api.

I don't believe this (new, I think) order can be selected in Emby yet; presumably it will come sometime. Meanwhile, however, you can at least combine the descriptions from the aired order by using the combined episode numbering for your files - s01e01-e02, s01e03-e04, etc. Paul

Patently waiting for this too. Thanks for the hard work @Luke

I would suggest (at this point) for new users to wait and not use this particular plugin. It was an early test of capabilities. There will most likely be major changes happening in the next little while that makes this plugin obsolete. It has been an amazing community driven project. The next iteration of an intro skip option, will most likely not have anything to do with this particular plugin, and will take the idea to the next level. Thanks to every person who took the time over the years to get things where they are today... Which is going to be amazing!

Yes, if the OSD isn't already open.

Maybe the desktop Theater versions but may change in the future for the unified app. All apps that come from any store or provider install (to the best of my knowledge) will always stream directly from the Emby Server and not from other places. The exception is direct file play from your own network drives in ATV for Shield TV. That makes the use of this feature for your purpose not worth pursuing. This is what I meant originally by my statement that it probably won't do what you think it will. I'm actually not sure what the value of this plugin really is for general use. As @Spaceboy mentioned you are better off using rclone for your purpose.

Hey! I wrote some CSS a while ago that takes care of this /*Makes the card look a bit better when hovering over it, you don't need this one*/ .cardOverlayContainer.itemAction { border-radius: 4px; background: rgba(20,20,20,0.6) !important; } /*Removes card background*/ .itemAction.cardContent-button.cardContent.cardImageContainer.cardContent-shadow.coveredImage { -webkit-box-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; background-color: transparent !important; } Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk

I don't know much about this part, but I believe what you are seeing is responses comming from emby, being buffered to a temp file by nginx, then that buffer being read out to the client connected to nginx. Adding the line: proxy_buffering off; Should prevent this and directly pass responses to the client through nginx. @@pir8radio can you weigh in on this? I'm really not familiar with it. http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_buffering

I had the same problem with emby-server on linux. Rather than wiping out the db and starting over I chose a different approach: systemctl stop emby-server sqlite3 /var/lib/emby-server/data/library.db "VACUUM" sqlite3 /var/lib/emby-server/data/library.db "ANALYZE" sqlite3 /var/lib/emby-server/data/library.db "REINDEX" systemctl start emby-sever

Wish I was a programmer in .Net. I'd love to see a "viki tv" channel plugin. It would be good for expanding media broswer to asia and beyound. http://www.viki.com/tv They have an API at http://dev.viki.com/