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Hi, After upgrading to version 4.7.3.0 on a synology DS720+ (DSM 7.1-42661 update 2) , emby don't start. The only message is "failure initiating package repair" I redownload the package and reinstall it, reboot the NAS but with the same error Thanks for your help

Apologies for the disruption. New builds of 4.7.3 are on the way up and should be finished uploading within the next hour. Additionally we're going to tag a 4.7.4 after that just to ensure that everyone gets notified that there is an update/resolution available.

Hi, we should have updated spks shortly. For now going back to 4.7.2 will be fine.

I'm a plex life time member, but I have been using Emby for over six years continuously, but there is a feature which I have always thought is missing in Emby which I would like and encourage the developer to consider including especially in this dispensation where families can social or commingle due to COVID 19. Today, I received a notification from Plex about it new feature titled Watch together you can read about it here https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/ The feature allows friends and families at distance to watch same movies together instantly, you simply invite all your buddy, once they signed to the system which can be seeing in the server then play and pause as needed, this I think is cool feature should be added to emby. Let's here your though if Emby developer should consider adding this feature to our beloved Emby Media https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Plex+Watch+Together&qpvt=plex+watch+together&FORM=EWRE

Would it be feasible to have a dialogue box that alerts you when you are about to add an item to a playlist that already exists on that playlist? Thanks.

i think it works now...i saw the episode added, but i have been out to dinner for a couple of hours! thx! i will test some more And yes i am logged in as an admin

Found it. Thanks again for your time, GR. Couldn't figure out how to bring up the OSD... on my TV remote its the up arrow.

This is usually because a file is being held open somewhere. Typically the quickest way to resolve this is to reboot the machine. Paul

It's released Thanks again everyone

For AndroidTV: Play an item, during playback bring-up OSD, click cog icon lower-right, "Repeat Mode" selection is there, choose desired.

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Could the way User Settings are handled be changed so that: 1 - Every setting that is changed via the Admin/Server - Users settings page becomes the new default for that particular user (instead of the Emby supplied default). 2 - Any setting that is changed appropriate for an end user to change from within that particular user account being signed in is saved at the local device level, and would be used instead of Server specified defaults. This wouild: A - Allow us to adjust the default behavior when NO local settings exist. B - Still have local device specific settings override what have been set as Server defaults. (Allowing the same User to have different settings per Device - as it is now.) It doesn't seem like the logic would be that much different than it is now. Assuming if no local settings already exist today, the Server has to pass along what it has them as for a starting point. The change wouild just be allowing us to alter what any of those base default settings are.

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.

PIP is something I really need, but I can't seem to get it working on my iPad running ios 12 Will Emby ever support PIP for iPad, or should i look for another media server system? I really don't want to invest time into a system that never gonna implement what i require.. Thanx..

It does not take anything else but that version, so yes I am

Currently available in the beta version. See this post here for details on how to load the beta app

Thanks a lot. This build works like a charm

In the past this was not possible but @speechles can investigate if it is now. I know there is a property now that looks like it would do this but I've seen reports that it doesn't actually work...

I will need to lean on you for some of these features if thats ok. That should be an easy one, i hope but we’ll see lol

If interested in lending your ideas, etc

its fixed! takes a lil while but thanks man! after the restart it works now, so happy!!

It is already added in beta cycle. You can sideload apk from the same post: You can also opt for Beta programme in Google Play upon which your client app will be upgraded to beta automatically during next few days.

It's already there if you want to sideload the beta.

Hi, there is currently no way to stop but I can take a look at it. Thanks.

Exactly the question I had. It's hard to build music playlists over time because who knows if you previously added a particular song to a music playlist when you have thousands and thousands of songs. Just a pop up that says "it's already in there, would you like to add the duplicate entry (yes/no)" would be great.

Yes, on platforms that can't run Skia.

Hey Ive got a Feature request u can maybe add. A play after a while stop. Means. When someone is playing without stop a few hours the play will be killed. Reason ive got a few friends which are stupid to press stop and just put there TVs off and the Stick is playing. Direct play or transcoding doesnt matter. Maybe thats possible

It will be the same as doing a manual metadata refresh and selecting replace all metadata.

I've never seen that naming before with the external ids in brackets. Yes it's possible to support, it's just never come up before.

Hi, please see here: Thanks.

Hi, that's two different community plugins, but neither is packaged by us. Therefore the recommended install procedure is our official one: https://emby.media/truenas-server.html

Your server dashboard will let you know when it is available.

Um, it's half the horizontal screen with 100% scale and 1366x768 resolution (if that helps)

Yeah, you're right. I have a bad habit on blaming software when I'm having issues, but I think my router has been the source of my frustrations recently.

Loaded up 7.2.0 and the Artist -> All Albums filter for the individual artist is working again.

I really like the new superman theme, what about making a theme like this but dynamic that right and left color change with a blur effect maybe? or even custom colors?

Almao1994, thanks for the kind words. Let me know if I can help you with the tool or if you find a bug. I am also always looking for suggestions for improvement. Thanks again for your kindness... Vic

Hi, now that we have lyrics it could be a next step for music.

Hi VicMoore, I just found your tool and I feel my prayers have been answered! I must say this should have been a feature in Emby. You should be in Team Emby for this!

I have no idea right now, but as JS it’s pure…. know decide for desktop app port to electron.. it works well. for app on mobile you can investigate react and react native Or hard code for each environment. Unfortunately this is my dilemma for iridium, but this is the perfect app to make that choice, small simple and useful

Hi, it's not been announced I just meant that it's a possibility.

Hi, we're always on the lookout for new font options. We'll consider it. Thanks.

That's great! Where it been anounced?

I've updated the OP.

Hi, we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

I am super busy most days and I usually end up with some free time late at night, so it was great to see in Plex at a glance how many mins long each movie is, even when sorting by duration there are no time markers. I'd rather have it over ratings showing in the library view if we had to sacrifice something. Thanks for the consideration.

Same problem for my dad with Apple TV! The audio plays but the video just loads. There is a workaround. If you go into a series and then click the "Play Next" button, it works! But if he is at a certain Episode e.g. S01 F04 and clicks on the "Play" button it doesn't work. @Luke Any news?

Emby Server 4.7 is Released with Many New Features, Improvements and Fixes Emby Server 4.7 is starting to rollout to different platforms. It's packed with new features, improvements and fixes. We wanted to give you a Preview of some new functionality and changes to Live TV as well as bring to your attention possible post installation configuration changes that might be required. If you currently use one of the following Live TV Plugins (NextPVR, MediaPortal, ServerWMC, TVHeadEnd, TVMosaic, Vu+, DVBLink or DVBViewer) you will need to reconfigure the plugin after it is updated following the 4.7 installation (the server checks for new plugins after a new install). As part of this process the guide will refresh. Please let it completely finish before going to the next step. Once the guide refresh is complete please go to Live TV menu and add a new tuner. You will see an entry for the plugin you are using. See Below: Live TV has many new features as well as a new plugin framework. Our own internal tuners and guide have been moved into plugins using this new framework as well. Setting up a tuner for use in Emby thanks to the new framework allows for a unified architecture, simplifying tuner/source setup. Here's an example of the Add TV Source dialog showing a few of the different choices using the new plugins. Whenever you install a new Live TV Plugin an entry will appear on this dialog. All available tuner types are now managed from one central place simplifying setup and configuration. All tuner types now share a common set of features. This allows 3rd party plugins to work exactly the same as Emby provided sources. This is now possible thanks to a new TV framework Emby uses debuting in this release. This new framework allows for simpler TV plugin creation as the server takes over responsibility of many functions previously needed at the plugin level. This helps to prevent issues related to specific plugin code as Emby server can now handle streams in a very consistent manner regardless of source. This is a WIN/WIN for developers as well as users! Emby Server 4.7 along with it's new TV plugin Framework includes new features and expanded functionality. Some of the highlights are: Support for OTA ATSC 3.0 & 4K Live TV If you have an ATSC 3.0 compatible tuner and live in a TV market currently broadcasting ATSC 3.0, Emby has everything you need to embrace this new technology. This includes new support for the proprietary AC-4 coded needed to decode audio streams. Not only will you get a beautiful picture especially on 4K HDR channels, but awesome sound as well! Cable Support for 4K Channels Emby supports receiving 4K digital cable channels. All you need is a compatible tuner like the ever popular HDHomeRun Prime. Of course your provider needs to support 4K channel transmission and have this turned on for you account. Check your providers website for 4K support as many providers have this available, often at no additional cost. 4K Channel support is not limited to built in OTA and Cable tuners but is fully supported through all tuner types if the source itself support 4K. Here's a great screenshot of a 4K SDR broadcast captured from an HDHomeRun Prime tuner: Universal Closed Caption Support In All Emby Clients Every Emby Client including web browsers fully support Closed Captions, not to be confused with subtitles. The Emby Transcoder is fully Closed Caption aware, so it doesn't matter how or where you play Live TV in Emby, it's now available if you require it. Manual Recordings Support Another new addition to Emby is support for manual recordings regardless if you have guide information or not. You can setup these recordings to use specific channels, set the starting start and end times, you can set the frequency of recordings (one and done or Recurring) as well as specific days of the week. Of course you can personalize the title of the recording(s) as well. You can setup a manual recording easily by clicking the the Create Recording button followed by choosing the Channel and Time option on the popup window. You can then setup the manual recording criteria that will be used. Here you see the custom recording already scheduled to record. Multiple Channel Support for Series Recordings You can now setup a single recording that can be used across specific multiple channels you choose. Emby also has adds new options to allow: Support Negative Recording Padding Values Enter a negative Number in the Start or End Options Max Recording Length for Series Recordings You can now set as a precaution a maximum duration that any recording can have. This shouldn't be needed but is there if you need it should you have a "fringe" reception channel that sometimes causes you grief with recordings. All New Views in Live TV Recordings Tab Emby now supports viewing your recordings just like other Movies or TV Shows libraries. Explore this option on your own and you should feel right at home with it. Server Dashboard Changes The server dashboard has been reorganized a little to make it easy to quickly find information. It also adds additional information. Here you can quickly see 2 Active Recordings taking place on the Server. Now Playing Dashboard The Now Playing section on the Dashboard sports a lot of new information but is easier to view as well. In the above picture you can quickly see Apollo 13 is Direct Playing the content as well as see additional information about the streams. My Cousin Vinny on the other hand is Transcoding the Video while leaving the Audio untouched, but is sending this to the client using HLS. The little graphics in the Video section following HEVC tell you it's using Hardware Transcoding. You can see the transcoder is Throttling (waiting) as it's producing 53fps which is more than what's needed at the time. The new Now playing also sports new features such as being able to click on the video name (ie Apollo 13) and be taking directly to it's detail page. Same with clicking on the username or device type. It's very cool! Improved Tab Design Used at the Top of Pages Emby now uses an improved design for tabs whenever show on a page. It's much easier to quickly see there are multiple tabs on the page with options and features. It's also much easier to see which tab your currently using. The new tab interface look follows your choice of theme information as well. New Theme Options Emby Server 4.7 gives you more control than ever over the look of your pages by allowing you more control over the theme options. You now have separate theme and accent color options. Want a strong all blue theme? How about and easy to see dark theme with Pick Highlights? You can also use a bit of imagination mixing different Theme, Setting Theme and Accent colors to achieve interesting results not possible previously. Embedded Lyrics Support for Music Files Emby now supports display of musical lyrics you provide. This doesn't require modifying your actual music tracks but is done using a text file residing next to the track! You can quickly and easily use a tool such as MediaHumon Lyrics Finder that makes quick work of adding Lyrics to your existing content. Rescan your music library and have this: This is a great new feature that's easy to implement, uses hardly any storage space (text files) and gives you great results! (first icon bottom left) Audio now playing screen The above picture shows one view of our new audio Now Playing Screens. Here's another version of the same screen without the lyrics showing your current queue: This view uses the middle button at the bottom between Lyrics and the cog/settings icon. Clicking the last icon (cog/settings) brings up a mini menu allowing you to change playback speed, Stats for Nerds or the ability to save your current queue as a playlist. Without any of the options selected you can have a simpler viewer centered on the page like this: You can get to these screens clicking the far right icon on the audio playback toolbar at the bottom of the screen. This new audio toolbar put everything you need right at your fingertips. See the artist, album and song. Change volume, set repeat mode, pause, stop, change tracks or switch views as shown above. The toolbar stays at the bottom of the screen for music while allowing you to explore other parts of the system. Very Nice! Audio Book Continue Listening Emby supports continue listening to Audio Books. The above screen shot shows the docked toolbar at the bottom of the screen while the top portion show a new option being set to display on the home screen to be able to quickly access and continue listening to audio files. New On Screen Display (OSD) Features Some of the new 4.7 OSD features have been shown recently in a couple Emby client blog posts using a preview release of 4.7. Some of the functionality of visual timelines and thumbnail graphics have been available in some form the past but now are fully unified in a cohesive manner that's very easy to use from a keyboard, mouse or remote. It's very slick, adds new navigational functionality as well as additional information you had to quick playing in the past to access. You can see how much thought and care went into this design allowing it to work effortlessly across the different cleints. Visual Timeline Showing Overlayed Chapter Information Done Through Keyboard Navigation Info - Bottom-Left Menu Option This will bring up information about the movies, show episode or TV channel you happen to be watching. Chapters Menu This shows the next menu option displaying a list of embedded chapters including the Chapter name, the timeline it starts as well as of thumbnail from the start of the scene. Cast & Crews How often have you watched something and wanted to know the actor or actresses name playing a part? Previously you had to exit playback to look this information up but now it's right here always available a click or two away. What a non-intrusive time saver this option is! On Now You can quickly and easily see what's on TV using the two new views added to the OSD. The On Now view above uses the programs graphics if available (Emby Guide supports this) to show what's currently on each channel in your lineup. You can easily scroll the list sideways to get a good look at everything currently being broadcast. The Guide showed below allows you to quickly see what's on a currently as well as what's coming on later. It's not limited to what's shown but allows scrolling up and down channels as well as the timeline so you can see what's coming on 12 hours from now. It's a fully functional Mini-Guide built right into the OSD. All of the OSD functions shown above work right over top the currently playing media allowing you access to a lot of new information with the least amount of disruption possible. Previously you probably got gripes and complaints from family members if you exited the media playback to get a look at the cast list to see the name of the actor. Now instead of having to wait to the end of the movie to see the cast list or catching wrath from the family, you can quickly view this information in a non-disruptive manner. Having all this new information as well as new tools for easier navigation right at your fingertips during playback shows how much thought and design went into this new version. Emby sets the bar high for OSD functionality that others can't compare to. More To Come! We're excited to share how awesome Emby Server 4.7 release is. We plan to following up this blog post with additional posts in the coming days expanding on it's new features. A special thank you goes out to all the people that helped test the many beta versions along the way! Inevitably with a monster release of this size there will likely be some issues we'll address with quick to follow maintenance releases. Please make sure to let us know in the community forum what you think of our new 4.7 release and any issues or questions you might have. Post Questions, Comments and Issues Here. Other Improvements Update to .NET Core 6.0 Update to ffmpeg 5.0 id3v2 parsing: Read full null separated list for text info frames Add Log anonymization feature Add now playing screen style options Reduce port mapper network traffic Add library option to control importing of playlist files Add log file rotation option Clean HLS segments during playback when disk space is low Reduce sizes of server log files when debug logging is not enabled Add subtitle download max age option Add subtitle download option for forced subtitles only Support comment tag as description for audio files Preserve subtitle track language with conversion and download features Safeguard against junk year values when probing audio files Save writers as composers when probing audio files Support a-z picker in descending order Support a-z picker when sorting by album artist or album Support reading roontracktag for music Clear episode external ids when changing series display order in metadata editor Improve deriving hw devices Support Audio Book resume Adjust for QSV changes in ffmpeg Support HW Acceleration for (graphical) subtitle burn-in Add subtitle background color and opacity options Add logo as title display option Add resume rewind playback option Make context menu header texts clickable Update TVDB plugin to newer TVDB API Update multi-episode metadata fetching to work with all metadata providers Add South African ratings Improve camera upload error handling Support convert feature with multi-select tool Improve multi-version display names Don't show video OSD on double tap skipping Reworked Active Devices display into Now Playing Improve audio book detail screen Improve audio OSD Improve efficiency of real-time monitor Improve DSD audio support over DLNA Minor adjustment of detail screen buttons Display chapter name in seek thumbnail previews Add channel name and channel number as DVR post processing command line arguments Improve scan metadata folder scheduled task progress reporting Improve performance of playlist detail screen Add sort by track number option to folder views Add Copy to Clipboard support in API Keys screen Enable chapters for audio books Update decision making for periodic refreshes Support TCM as composer Show full Chinese display name in track languages Update top tab design to be more discoverable Improve layouts with docked sidebar Set DLNA Server to off by default Allow for higher audio stream copy bitrate Support subs and subtitles folder case-insensitive Update album/song links with Included In section Make DVR wake server optional on supported platforms Set subtitle filename when downloading subtitle files to the browser Always display sort title in the metadata editor Make sort title lockable in the metadata editor Add Italian ratings Always record episodes when the option to check existing library is not selected Adjust recording image save behavior for series episodes that are sports Don't convert really large images to webp Improve album Identify search results display Support audio description and studio from copyright tag Support wm/year and original year tags Improve same subnet detection Improve episode parsing with episode titles contain numbers Add paths to log file for reference Allow deleting albums and artists Update folder queries to fix metadata manager sorting for albums Log DX detection into main log if debug logging is enabled Avoid resetting real-time monitor to parent folder when possible Adjust continue watching query Improve series grouping in mixed content Remove rejection of large camera uploads to allow any file size Support .mid audio files Support sort_with embedded sort title for videos Update sort by date last episode added to not be impacted by virtual episodes Prevent split button on missing episode detail screen Resolve performance issues associated with having large numbers of devices in the server database Bug Fixes Fix android database errors on deletion Fix year not being parsed from movie folder name Fix QuickSync HW overlay with tone mapping Fix display of incorrect video format names Fix Avoid detection of duplicate DX11VA devices Fix regression bug with ASF when reading image attachments Fix search displaying previously aired programs Fix incorrect photo orientation in slideshows Fix Roku playback failures with very long recordings Fix Windows: restart scheduled task and DVR times when system time changes (daylight savings) Fix QuickSync HW overlay with tone mapping Fix CBR books sending wrong mime type Fix DVD & Bluray folders not being hidden via .ignore files Fix transcoding throttling not occurring with Chromecast Fix classic image series extraction Fix music album parsing error when album name is () Fix folder images getting replaced when not saving images in media folders Fix identify feature with music videos Fix episodes with season numbers greater than 200 Fix photo scanning getting stuck in a loop with certain files Fix edge case closing of streams being left opened after stopping playback Fix occasional display of incorrect video format names Fix occasional duplicated Sign Out entry Fix list view multi-select in FireFox Fix hide from resume getting unhidden after adding a new episode Fix local NFO ignoring date added value in certain cases Fix for graphic subs burn-in with tone mapping on QSV Fix scaling of wrong-sized graphical subtitles Fix incorrect hw context indication for D3D11VA decoders Fix av1 direct play Fix album items being added to playlist alphabetically Fix transcoding audio channel count with convert function Fix artists inheriting genres from albums when they shouldn't Fix sporadic cases of burned in subtitles not appearing Fix detection of video stream vs. embedded image Fix web app playback failures in cases of videos that played successfully with Emby Server 4.5 Various fixes with manual subtitle downloading for multi-version videos Various fixes for Apple TV top shelf content Various transcoding 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I have a related concern to the multiple cuts or versions. It would be great to have a way to specify which version of a film should appear as the default in the pulldown. The automatic determination works okay for the situations where you have multiple resolutions of the same film. In that case, Emby correctly selects the one with the highest resolution. However I have the case where both versions of the same movie have the same resolution. Emby seems to go with the lower quality version. For instance I have 2 versions of the same movie: Night of the Living Dead [1968] - Theatrical Version Night of the Living Dead [1968] - Night of Anubis Workprint They are both 1080p, but the theatrical version which I want to be the default is the higher quality version, so it always picks the Night of Anubis Workprint version instead. I tried various tricks with the filenames but nothing gave me the desired behavior. I know this has been bantered about for years, but it would be great to have a way to flag the default version. Thanks.

It's possible for the future.