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I'm trying to transition off of Subsonic because it is getting long in the tooth, and Emby is the logical choice, since I already use it for videos. While I know that music in Emby is very much a work in progress, one area I find it lacking—in comparison to Subsonic—is search, both in terms of performance and functionality: Compared to Subsonic, Emby's search is significantly slower. I actually created a separate user account in Emby that only has access to music in order to make it usable because when videos were included, it would take 10-20 seconds to search. For just music, searches take about 5-10 seconds, where Subsonic is, effectively instantaneous. The search results seem to be limited to either artist or song. When I try to combine the two, often I get no results. For example, I have a lot of jazz and many artists cover jazz standards, such as "Autumn Leaves." If I'm interested, say, in any recordings by Miles Davis, and type in "davis autumn leaves," Subsonic immediately returns the correct results (see first screenshot). When enter the same search query into Emby, I get no results. If I type in "miles autumn leaves," "autumn leaves davis," or "autumn leaves miles," similarly, I get no results in Emby, but the same results are returned in Subsonic. It's only when I just input "autumn leaves" that I get any results, which is not particularly useful as I have 50+ recordings of "Autumn Leaves." It also takes, consistently, 5-10 seconds to return these results. Again, Subsonic, running on the same server, provides instantaneous results. NOTE: 99% of my music is tagged, almost all of it with MusicBrainz. Some more esoteric recordings, bootlegs, and live performances are not always tagged. A couple of other nice features to have would be: a list view in search, instead of showing album art; I suspect this would also speed up the search results the option to include bitrate/format in the format; this would be useful for a variety of scenarios (finding lower bitrate versions of songs, creating playlists, etc.) Thanks you for your consideration!

It's literally a feature listed as part of Emby Premiere which we all pay for...

I'm also interested in this improvement

Hi, Since I am using more and more TMDb, (since tvdb is more and more a mess), I am missing a very important feature. tvdb had the feature of grouping stuff into aired, DVD and absolute, which is supported by emby. TMDb had also this feature. See this example for "La casa de papel" (Money Heist, Haus des Geldes): The Original Order is allways the "aired order" of the original country. "La casa de papel" was originaly released by "Antena 3" and was taken over by Netflix, which results in different episodes ordering, which is a mess. They solved it in episode grouping. This feature is missing from emby, but it's integrated in their API and is allready supported in other apps, like kodi. At least, Banana a TMDb Mod claims it, that it's supported by Kodi: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71446-la-casa-de-papel/discuss/5e7032d84f9a99001152704f?page=1#5eb76872ca7ec6001f7c53cb Is it possible to add this feature into emby? It is the last scraping feature, I really really miss for TMDb on emby. It adds much flexibility and is overall a much better solution, than on tvdb with their aired, dvd and absolute order. Another great example is Dragonball Super: As you see, it adds much more flexibility for different regions over the world. It's in my own eyes a must have for emby!

Library scan running tasks are lacking in their progress reporting. This is most apparent after a fresh install of Emby on a large library, particularly containing many TV episodes. The scan tasks seems to almost immediately skip to the high 80s percentile before it actually starts adding files to the library. The scan task has been running for 2 days straight and has gone up a few percentage points to 90.2% at this point. Would be much better if it reported a more accurate percentage. Alternatively, a count of the number of directories or files it's scanned vs remaining. Currently under 3.6.0.1-beta.

Hi, The current implementation of Emby search is very basic. Based on what I can tell, it only matches exact strings in the same exact order. Example: "Mission: Impossible" In this example the following queries will return a positive match Possible Impossible Mission Mission: Impossible And the following queries will not return anything at all (The worst offenders are highlighted) Mission Impossible Missoin: Imposible Imposible Impossible Mission Mission : Impossible Mission Impossible Another example would be "Mr. Robot" where if the dot is missing, nothing is returned or in general terms any variation of any string that is not an exact match will not return anything at all. Let's not even attempt to try a title like "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.". This makes the search difficult to use and at times even frustrating. As the examples above show, the major theme is special characters and punctuation and they can probably be bypassed by just ignoring them, which might or might not cause other problems in the process. This problem also affects titles that have letters with diacritical marks or glyphs such as "Amélie" and "Æon Flux", if you can't type them exactly, you can't find them. In my opinion a better attempt would be to use a difference string matching algorithm such as Levenshtein distance, you can then define an acceptable threshold and return the closest matches. I found a couple of C# projects that implement this and might be useful as a starting point. FuzzyWuzzy, a port of Python project in C#. https://github.com/BoomTownRoi/BoomTown.FuzzySharp FuzzyString. Has some additional string comparison algorithms too. https://github.com/kdjones/fuzzystring Thanks.

Scenario; main tv has a roku or other stb that is used by all. That emby account is restricted to pg only. Instead of changing accounts in emby, could there be a prompt for a pin to access pg13 + content? I've seen this on a cable box back when I used to have them.

HI, we are looking into it. Thanks.

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.

HI, thanks for reporting. We'll take a look.

I can confirm the issue is no longer occurring in latest beta - tvOS 17.0 (21J5303H)

@solidsnakex37I've been using Emby for so long that I am not sure it was a feature when I signed up

It is currently possible to add the same item multiple times in a playlist. I can't find a reasonable explanation for that beside a bug (or an unwanted feature ). When building playlists from a shuffle play or favorites play, I sometimes come across the same song a few days apart and want to add it to a specific playlist. I don't remember if it already is in that playlist, and as there isn't any indication on wether it is or not I end up with multiple occurrences of the same song in the playlist, and need to clean that up regularly.

HI, for others reading, the upcoming 4.8 release will have a confirmation to avoid adding duplicates.

HI, the upcoming 4.8 release will have a confirmation to avoid adding duplicates.

Yeah, I would like some kind of status update. This issue is now 4 years old. While I don't know if I would qualify it as a "core function" I certainly agree that syncing is a well used and important feature, and 4 years is a LONG TIME for an issue like this to still be ongoing.

I'm plussing the bug report Size of the control buttons resizing all the time, it is kind of annoying when cycling through tracks

I think this is what you're referring to:

Do you have this enabled in Radarr ? And are you metadate language the same ?

This is incorrect. Embedded title is displayed just fine if set on the server as per ebrs comment below this is the basis of the mediainfo plugin .. you are however limited to x characters in the andoid tv app. In Library > Advanced These are embedded titles automatically generated and written to the MKV track Title using the MediaInfo Plugin - but obviously any existing MKV track title will work as well.

The "older" device is more than capable of showing a backdrop though as it has a fast enough processor. Blue Radiance is there along with Dark, really can't see why the WMC theme was not added. The option was added back, but it does not change to it. Given that a lot of people come from a WMC background, the decision to remove it originally, along with lack of notification about it seems silly.

Hi, you should have no issues downloading the arm7 APK for your Sony TV. Remember you are downloading for the TV's architecture, not your PC. Your best bet at sideloading would be to use an app you can download from the Play Store on your TV called 'Send Files to TV' -- here is a nice guide to step you through the process of doing that. https://www.howtogeek.com/694493/how-to-sideload-apps-on-google-tv/ Good luck and let us know how you go.

Yes, to update the container docker-compose up -d will check if there's a newer image. I don't really know what that has to do with Emby not detecting your shows though. With all due respect I feel like you are derailing the topic with unrelated issues that you are having that have pretty much nothing to do with hardware transcoding, docker or specifically the QNAP platform. Maybe make a post in the appropiate place or do a google search? Some of these questions are extremely basic stuff that anyone could find the answer to with less than 5 minutes of googling.

The steps to be taken are described here: Advisory: https://emby.media/support/articles/advisory-23-05.html The server would shut down in case of infection.

I do think there's value and I've added your examples to our test cases to look at. When it comes to something like this though I just would prefer to always pursue automated improvements over manual ones if at all possible.

Hi, yes we are continuing to work on improving it.

The answer doesn't change - when it's ready, not to a forced schedule. Paul

Yeah, I'm not beating up on anyone. Things can get lost in translation, but this is complicated stuff with all the variables, security issues, multiple platforms, etc... This one just seems like it's a quick improvement that wouldn't require too much to get a "win". It really is a big deal for playlist functionality.

The frustrating thing for developer Gods like @Luketo consider is this really doesn't seem like anything that requires a redesign to implement. And the quality of the improvement would be immediately relevant. For those of us with thousands and thousands of songs in our libraries, maintaining a playlist like "Awesome Songs" means that when I hear a song and remember that it is in fact "awesome", I have to check a playlist which already contains hundreds of songs and search to see if I thought it was "awesome" 9 months ago. Otherwise, I'm adding things over and over to the same playlists. It seems like a couple lines of code fixes this. I'm no coder, but the logic seems simple enough... When you click the "add to playlist" button a simple script of code runs. 1, check if track exists in playlist... 2, if no, continue... 3, if yes, ask to confirm adding anyway... 4, confirm, continue... 5, cancel, stop... Unless I'm missing the incredible complexity required here, for the love of God, guys! Just do it this afternoon.

I'd just like to expand the scope on this a bit since the original request was video specific, but with improvements made to the music side of the shop, it'd be great to include artist and title (or album) in the search as well, as I outline here:

4.7.0.25 beta Support reading roontracktag for music

Hi, yes i agree we need to revamp this in regards to playlists. Thanks.