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I guess this is the danger of using forums as a communication medium - it really don't convey thoughts and emotions well. We appear to have lost a lot of the open source Dev's in emby recently - chef and cheesegeezer appear to have moved on - and a lot of that is due to the 'demands' of users - with a large percentage of users not even expressing a basic level of gratitude for the personal/free time the Dev's spend giving to (and supporting) these projects. They are also of course enhancing a product (largely filling basic functionality gaps..) that emby themselves are being paid to do - so yes, there is also a question to be raised on 'why' they would do this.. Maybe lets reset - and concentrate our efforts to add this functionality (and that includes the Emby Dev's) - I believe we all want the same goal here.

Great News! Emby for Samsung has been updated to 1.6.4 for 2021-2023 models ! For 2019-2020 models, coming soon hopefully.

As requested for years elsewhere in these forums, the ability to download a usable playlist (the audio files and a modified m3u or whatever that points to those downloaded files where they now reside on the device) is what's needed to make the download function fully useful. I hope that's actually going to happen soon, please. Even without that functionality, using Emby via Android Auto doesn't make the "dowloaded" files directly accessible from the main Emby dashboard screen, which diminishes the benefit of downloading before a road trip to avoid heavy wireless data usage and/or dead zones. Please add "Downloaded files" as a main-screen selection button, in addition to "Recents," "Favorites," etc.

Hey All, Firstly, excellent work! secondly, I noticed that this has stopped working in Emby 4.6.4.0, I have forked the repo and fixed if anyone is interested. (Have PR out for main repo) https://github.com/ShanePe/Emby.SmartPlaylist.Plugin/ Sorry also, I have made an update, if the playlist has NOT yet been generated, it will generate it, regardless of the playlist schedule trigger. So one no longer need to 'manually' run first to initialize the playlist if it falls outside of playlist generation schedule. (Make sense !?!?!?!) Version 2.4.0.3 Feature Create a copy of a playlist. (Duplicate) Decluttered UI by adding a pop up menu to playlists New Criteria: Added Audio Stream Codec Criteria (Stream: Audio Codec) Added Audio Stream Language Criteria (Stream: Audio Language) Added Audio Stream Display title Criteria (Stream: Audio Display Title) Added Subtitle Stream Language Criteria (Stream: Subtitle Language) Added Video Stream Codec Criteria (Stream: Video Codec) Added Video Stream Display title Criteria (Stream: Video Display Title) Updated Criteria: Parental Rating: Now uses official rating under the hood Resolution Height: Now uses video streams to determine the available video heights rather than the metadata. Resolution Width: Now uses video streams to determine the available video widths rather than the metadata. Added Monitor Mode to shuffle playlist type. Meaning that the playlist will be destroyed and recreated on a schedule, but between scheduled executions, media item changes will be batched and monitored for inclusion/exclusion. (So .... combination of live and shuffle modes but could have a perf hit on larger playlists, experimental) Collapsible sections in the playlist editor that keeps state, for more UI real estate. Added the ability to add notes to a playlist (limited to 256 chars). If there are notes assigned a pop up is displayed when hovering over a playlist (2 second delay). Order all selection lists on criteria with dropdowns alphabetically. ------------------------------------------------------- Releases Here -> (See change logs in this thread .... way down) Plugin for Emby Server 4.8: SmartPlaylist-2.5.0.4810.zip

I recently found a need to look up additional information on a director. I was hoping to look at the director's profile and see not only the movies I had in my collection but also a list of other movies that they have directed. This would be displayed below the library's current movies. ex: My movies: Movie 1, Movie 2 Other movies by this person: Movie 3, Movie4 ================ This could help one expand their library and to discover a missing gem.

I moved from Plex to Emby and even though I think Emby is superior in its flexibility there are some things I like better with Plex, especially in terms of its looks. This theme is trying to fix that by making it a bit more similar to Plex but with some, in my opinion, improvements. The CSS is attached to this post for anyone interested and below are some screens to show it off Good to know I only use Chrome so I can't guarantee this CSS works as expected in other browsers. If you want the sidebar menu to look like in the screens, make sure to pin the sidebar. Watched badge/banderoll is inverted which means that the badge will not be shown if media have been watched, like in Plex. For desired look, please use the "Dark" theme for both Theme & Settings theme in the display settings. Emby-Stable-style-v3.6.txt

I've been dying to know if this has garnered enough interest to be worked on. I found Emby (MediaBrowser 3 at the time) and its bookshelf plugin while I was searching for something that was like Plex for comics. Plex doesn't do this (and probably never will), Kodi doesn't have what I'm looking for either, and ComicRack seems to be dead at the moment. Unfortunately the bookshelf plugin doesn't work the way I had hoped. I was dissappointed to see it only offer a download to the file to which I can open it to the program of my choosing. Even browsing through the books I only had the option of going through folder-like directories and couldn't browse by author like the people section in the other media types. I would love for it to be fully integrated into Emby where I can open and read a comic right on my phone and tablet or even my web browser as I could with my movies and tv shows. Also, I hope to god somone is working on the "Games launching in android" feature you mentioned on your up-for-grabs blog post. That would be awesome!

Hi, stay tuned for the upcoming 4.8 server release. Thanks.

Well Live TV is working fine on box 2 with box 1 shut down and no connection to each other except via my home network.

thanks, changing tags with musicbrainz worked!

I bought a Roku, installed Emby and connected to the local host first time! Must have been my old Samsung Tv causing the problems. All good now!!

This is the server change logs. Releases · MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases (github.com)

Updating the cert in a TrueNas jail is exactly the reason I'm rebooting Emby server. It's good to know we landed on the same solution.

I'm not 100% sure I have the payload correct, I'll check again on it in the morning process_item_libraries() calls the emby api to collect all the folder paths in all of your libraries And when you pass the script a file "/some/path/to/your/movie.mkv", it checks to make sure that path exists in one of your libraries before sending the item to emby import sys import requests import os emby_url = '< your URL >' emby_api_key = '< your api key >' def create_item(item_path, updateType): url = f"{emby_url}/emby/Library/Media/Updated" payload = { "Updates": [{"Path": item_path, "UpdateType": updateType}] } headers = { "X-Emby-Token": emby_api_key } response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers) if response.status_code == 204: print("Item created successfully.") else: print("Error occurred while creating the item:", response.status_code) def process_item_library(item): item_path = os.path.dirname(item) url = f"{emby_url}/emby/Library/SelectableMediaFolders?api_key={emby_api_key}" response = requests.get(url) if response.status_code == 200: json_data = response.json() for folder in json_data: for subfolder in folder["SubFolders"]: if subfolder["Path"] in item_path: # just a bit of testing #parentID_value = folder["Id"] #guid_value = folder["Guid"] #subfolder_id = subfolder["Id"] #subfolder_path = subfolder["Path"] #print(f"ParentID: {parentID_value}, Guid: {guid_value}, Subfolder Id: {subfolder_id}, path: {subfolder_path}, item_path: {item_path}") # create_item(item_path, "Created") return print("No Library match found for the given item folder.") else: print("Error occurred while getting the JSON:", response.status_code) if len(sys.argv) > 1: item = sys.argv[1] # Use the first command-line argument as item_folder get_item_library(item) else: print("No item folder provided as a command-line argument.") Usage: python3 myscript.py "/some path/to/my file/media file (2023).mkv"

I'll check that

*Done*

It is now available in the Samsung Tizen Argentina application store. thank you so much. Loading subtitles continues to work poorly, especially in heavy movies. The subtitles do not appear, perhaps several minutes later. Audio is exchanged without problems. This occurs in version 1.6.4 on Samsung and LG TVs. On Google TV it works fine

I wanted to get back to you all regarding this problem. For now it is fixed and running as it should. What fixed it I have no fn idea. I turned the PC off 4 times and restarted everything 4 times times and on the 5th try it solved itself. So I wish I had a better answer for you but I do not. For now it is running fine so I will leave it at that. And yet the weirdness continues. On the server machine all files like movies, epg and m3u are located on the "H" drive. On my second machine where I simple copy and pasted the programdata file from the server there is no "H" drive but yet Emby runs like a champ with no issues. I thought at first that maybe since they are on the same home network it could be accessing the "H" drive on the server. But common sense tells me that is impossible right because there is no permission set for PC #2 to access the server. So how is that possible? Anyway I am not going to hunt down the problem because Emby is working just fine. But thanks to you all for the help. Cheers!!!

The command I run is this: iocage exec emby /usr/local/bin/curl -X POST "http://[emby_server_ip]:8096/emby/System/Restart?api_key=[API_key]" -d "" The "iocage exec emby" part is because I run a script in TrueNAS to update the SSL certs on several jails plus the system itself, so that commands TrueNAS to run the command inside the jail. It's worked for 1+ years without a hitch. Hope this helps.

Sorry, should have been more specific. I don't mean sorting from within collections. I want my collections to be ordered release date descending for all my current and future collections. When you choose the display order for collections, you only get these two choices. When you choose release date, it defaults to ascending. I know you can change this from within the collection itself, but if I have over 50 collections, I have to change the sorting in every single one. If we could simply add both ascending and descending options to both 'Sort name' and 'Release date' options for the collections, than we can make defaults. Hope this makes sense.

Hi, I brought this up a couple of times before, but very often, artifacts are missing on Github releases for a long time. Is Emby utilizing a CI for the builds and uploads? If not, can I or my team (Linuxserver.io) help out with building one? We use Github actions and self hosted Jenkins for various activities. We publish docker builds of Emby (as well as hundreds of other apps) and our CI checks for versions hourly and triggers builds. Very often, our CI output is flooded with the following: This time it's the amd64 deb that's missing after 4 days. We'd really like to help out. Please let us know. Thanks

It will get into all apps. And yes this is certainly possible.

Hi, the upcoming 4.8 server release will have built-in DV detection.

Hi, how are the files tagged with embedded information? Please see our music naming guide: Music Naming This goes over what is required to get songs to group together into an album. It is the embedded information that matters more than the file names. Let us know if this helps. Thanks.

I've been having some (other, non-related) NAS issues so apologies for the delay in responding. I started looking at this again last night and I do indeed see nfo files etc being written out where appropriate. I just have to re-do the 398 cover images Thanks for the responses, Luke!

That seems to have fixed it thank you...

Thank you

ET looks interesting...i will give it a test drive for a few days...curious if it has the customizations to layout that i'd like

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Version 2.4.0.3 Feature Create a copy of a playlist. (Duplicate) Decluttered UI by adding a pop up menu to playlists New Criteria: Added Audio Stream Codec Criteria (Stream: Audio Codec) Added Audio Stream Language Criteria (Stream: Audio Language) Added Audio Stream Display title Criteria (Stream: Audio Display Title) Added Subtitle Stream Language Criteria (Stream: Subtitle Language) Added Video Stream Codec Criteria (Stream: Video Codec) Added Video Stream Display title Criteria (Stream: Video Display Title) Updated Criteria: Parental Rating: Now uses official rating under the hood Resolution Height: Now uses video streams to determine the available video heights rather than the metadata. Resolution Width: Now uses video streams to determine the available video widths rather than the metadata. Added Monitor Mode to shuffle playlist type. Meaning that the playlist will be destroyed and recreated on a schedule, but between scheduled executions, media item changes will be batched and monitored for inclusion/exclusion. (So .... combination of live and shuffle modes but could have a perf hit on larger playlists, experimental) Collapsible sections in the playlist editor that keeps state, for more UI real estate. Added the ability to add notes to a playlist (limited to 256 chars). If there are notes assigned a pop up is displayed when hovering over a playlist (2 second delay). Order all selection lists on criteria with dropdowns alphabetically. ------------------------------------------------------- Can't seem to edit the main topic anymore so can't add release to the first page. Might start a new topic. As per usual, please let me know if there are any issues, I will be focusing on the changes introduced in the next version of Emby next. SmartPlaylist-2.4.0.3.zip

adding to the thread. will come with results and conclusions later, but sharing the way I've found to make my comparisons. so i made an export all tv shows from TMM, and a folder populated with one sub-folder per tv show. I copied pasted the paths of these subfolders in excel, remove the path from the the excel entries and was left with tv show names. Then i switched to emby, installed the report plugin and created an excel of the tv shows. i put the 2 lists side by side and sorted the list alphabetically, and could quickly look at where i had a disconnect. to me by surprise, this was not on the TV shows i thought (so no issues zith Les Schtroumpfs -shqme on me!) It seems the issue is related to a TV show that I have in 2 languages (2 different tv shows for each language). it seems Emby has been mixing them, while Kodi understand these are 2 separates shows so to say. So for now I have moved these 2 folders outside from my tv show folder. i'll wait for emby livrary to be updated and i expect the tv shows count to be the same between Kodi, TMM and Emby. Then i'll rescrape the duplicated tv show that i have in 2 languages and will then add them again one at a time back to the tv show folder and fill see how emby behaves. I am doing in parallel the same excel work to find the movie which is missing from Emby. Will report when i am done. might take a few days

Thank you, it worked! What would be nice at some point is to have Playlists stored in a Library folder so one could manage it easier in terms of backup, archiving, etc. Tracking down where these are stored is not that easy. I'm good though. I've successfully replicated my libraries/playlists between my QNAP and a Mac using a USB drive for storage.

This won't help the OP but... I own a Netgear Nighthawk router. I bought it when my preferred brand was out of stock on Amazon. I have never been happy with the Netgear at all. The management interface is slow. The interface is very odd. Configuring things like DHCP reservations is extremely slow and usually requires a router restart to "take". It has stuff hidden in various "advanced" parts the menu that are not organized the same as the standard menu. I felt like I spent my life with that router trying to convince it to do what I wanted. It would eventually do what I wanted after much hunting and WAITING around. This family of routers seems to be designed for the very non-technical crowd to do as many automatic things as possible. After using mine for about 3 years I got a different one from a friend and was immediately happier with everything about it. Netgear routers are not on my personal recommended list. Brian.

If you meant Emby server version, 4.7.14.0 Edit; I think I found the fix. I changed the line FROM this: ./Media/1.8.7/The Cities Collection/01 - Hollywood.mp3 TO THIS: /srv/remotemount/music/1.8.7/The Cities Collection/09 - Los Angeles.mp3 And now my playlists are showing all the music correctly. Thanks!

Any update on this one? (following from this: )

HI, yes this is on our to do list to resolve. Android Auto currently doesn't use the quality setting and we'll get that fixed. Thanks.

Well our new app update was approved by Samsung pretty quickly, so that's good news. Now we just have to wait for them to actually release it, and unfortunately, sometimes this can take a long time, like a month or more. But that's at least progress.

Hi, yes these are both planned for future updates. Thanks for the feedback.

Mine is the same problem, DV used to play normally, 1.0.39 can not play DV Mine is also the same problem, the previous DV normal playback, 1.0.39 can not play DV

Have a look at IPTVBoss. I highly recommend it. It can work with this API and create m3u and xmltv files.

+1 from me for an eBook / comic reader. EMBY is the best app that I have encountered, if that is implemented then it will be pure perfection!

Thanks for following up. We plan to add a screen to the web interface to make it easier to manually install plugin dll files.

Hi rbjtech Thanks for the reply. it is already set to never. i did a search for the .bif file on the plex server but cant find one

Congratulations on the country expansion! That is some good news for the Canadian people among us! I hope this has a positive impact for the other country applications aswell. Greetings from The Netherlands.