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I work in an adjacent software development field and deal with feature prioritization calls and diverse customers regularly and was curious about this thread and 2FA in Emby. Obviously a full 2FA implementation with a secure backend and associated user flows is a pretty significant undertaking and I think some of the foundational backend engineering might have been done following the exploit last year but wondered if any folks would want to have the user facing 2FA entry page available sooner than all the back end hardening? It would potentially give a false sense of security, but it may also be a deterrent to anyone trying to exploit the system? My preference would be to leave 2FA off until it can be implemented properly with a robust backend and leverage other security mechanism like firewalls, strong user passwords and reverse proxy configurations in the meanwhile.

Hi. I have one tv show (one piece) where the skip intro feature is not working well, while other tv shows work really good. So, it would be great if I could disable this feature for specific tv shows

@LukeThis is reproducible - I did a test in a browser private incognito session. The Edit channel for a deselected channel goes to metadata edit screen which is not the right one for channel editing. After deselecting a mapped Live TV channel, and clicking on it to edit, we lose the mapping and the edit loads the edit media metadata screen and the spinner shows The test I did was on 4.8.8.0 I have wireshark capture plus logs and json and db files which I will make available

Agreed - I have mentioned this several times throughout this thread - until you have covered off the basics to ensure they are robust, MFA will just provide a false sense of security and any serious threat will simply side step it. Anybody that needs to rely on MFA, is simply not managing their security properly and it should never be used to fill the gaps on a poorly engineered security system. Exposing any form of hosted Admin account to the internet is simply a no no in this day and age. MFA on user accounts is, imho, simply not needed on a personal media platform. I for one, would much prefer if emby used the time/effort to implement https out the box and removed the ability to host remotely over http - that would be much more welcome and appreciated from the community, rather than use the time on MFA - which of course could only be used by those using https anyway and probably an even smaller subset for those that want to turn on remote Admin..

Yes that's and older cpu, not likely to have any code changes related to it. It's mostly for compatibility with new cpus when they come out, the base kernel might be a little older on RHEL and not get the kernel updates as soon as something like Fedora would, but there are repos for kernel-ml (mainline) that could be used in that case.

the most important part of this whole thread. soon is good

Would be great if Emby integrated bookets (PDF files, etc) for Music. For example, CD's usually might contain a booklet with liner notes etc that come with the CD, just like albums might have back the days of vinyl. I have most of these in PDF and the ONLY place I have ever seen it integrated into a music server type platform is Roon Labs. Roon is great, but can be expensive. Here is a link on what Roon does to see what I mean: https://kb.roonlabs.com/Gallery Hope this can be added to Emby!

Basically, I want to see which collection a show belongs to when I use the Table View the same way I can see the Genres and Tags. I know I can group the series by Collection, but I just want to see it in a column. Also, if I add or remove columns from the Table View, the settings change if I navigate away from it. For example, if I add the Genres and Tags columns then switch to List View, the Genres and Tags columns are gone when I switch back to Table View. Thanks for any help!

Collections right now have no view options and are fairly limited in how the items within them could be presented. It seems to be presented more like a playlist that is always ordered by release date than as a mini-library which is how I look at them (and I assume others but could be wrong). First and foremost the ability to sort and filter would be great. Thinking that instead of the options presented in the example at the end of this post, it would look more like the library page for the primary type of the library. The other thing that I think would be super useful given the flexibility of what can be added to a collection is Group by Library, basically the inverse of Group by Collection on the library page. In the example I included, there are items from 3 libraries, books, movies, and audiobooks. This can be very confusing when deciding what to open, especially when there may be an audiobook, book, and movie all with the same name in some cases (such as Dune). Not that you're asking, but if you were, my suggestion for how this would appear visually when enabled would be separate rows for each library much like the Recently added sections on Home.

My bad, I looked at the logs and Emby was not able to open them, I gave Emby permissions and it worked good. Thanks.

What purpose would this actually serve? Why do you need this?

I've already solved it, I downloaded the playlist to my PC from the path it told me it was on, I changed volume1 to volume3 and my songs appeared by magic! Thanks to all!

Thanks for fixing the Reports plugin! I was wondering if it would be possible to have separate "height" and "width" fields in the media report, rather than (or in addition to) just the "resolution" field. It would make figuring out which of my movies are 720 versus 1080 much easier. Thanks!

Yes and you don't even need to be playing a video. It will happen just browsing the app

..and that's fine - but I just see you are opening the security guidelines 101 and listing how MFA helps. Let me reply to these one at a time - Yep - so if layered security is required (no disgareements here) why would you want MFA incorporated into the same product ? Bypass security via means of a vulnerability within emby means just that - you bypass the lot, including MFA. Having MFA would not have helped in the recent emby vulnerability for example. Use MFA as part of another 'layer' to lets say secure the network layer - THEN this argument is valid. This is why you have multiple firewalls, multiple vendors, multiple DMZ's etc - everyone in security knows this - will emby require this to 'host' - of course not. As above - MFA is useful IF the standard credentials have been breeched. If people are not using unique password generated passwords and are re-using short, likely breeched passwords, then Risk mitigation should begin by educating them to not do that. A unique long password is simply not breakable in the first place, so having MFA to 'protect' it is not technically required. Don't disagree - but it is used as 'convienence' because many people do not follow best practice and use weak passwords, using MFA as their fallback. A weak breeched password + mfa is weaker than a strong unique password on it's own. A strong unique password + mfa is of course the strongest of all of them. As above - MFA should not be used as an excuse for weak re-used passwords. Bypassing MFA for a determined attacker is an option if they have already got through the first auth via a weak username and password or other vulnerability. Cryptographically, they will not be able to 'crack it' but they may be able to simply bypass the Auth. Anybody who exposes an 'Admin' account over the internet, MFA or not, is misguided if they think MFA will protect them. I never said it was. I said that emby focussing resources on getting https out the box would be preferable to them impleming MFA for those that already use https. As part of this https 'solution' they should incorporate MFA by design. -- I'm not disagreeing AT ALL that MFA should not be part of a security setup - it should, but there are MANY more 'layers' that are pre-requisites to https yet alone MFA. There are also many layers in parallel with MFA that are needed to protect the transports - Auth is pointless if you can just bypass it. Emby will get to MFA - but I suspect it will be part of a more generic https drive in combination with client updates using OTP's or QR codes etc that benefit everybody. We are all on the same side here ..

To my reading, I don't think you're actually disagreeing. I think theres nuance thats getting lost in language here. It's true that MFA should not replace a robust security setup. It's also true that MFA requires a robust security foundation to be valuable. Only once the basics are in place can a worthwhile MFA system be implemented.

They both said it works fine for Series though and their logs show ids for series, its odd lol, and the SDK should be the driving factor since its only targeting 4.8.5.

So Emby doesn't pick up any of the face tags form the XMB metadata, I've added a bunch of JPGs to the latest version of Emby server, with a photos/videos library, and there is no metadata in those photos - yes, there is a way to manually add metadata, but this isn't automatically added/read. A plugin would be awesome to have, one that would look at XMB data RegionName field(s) and use that to populate the metadata. At this point I wish I was a programmer. To note though: Picasa writes the face tags to the "RegionName" field in XMP metadata DigiKam can read that field and import those tags, however when it writes it's not in the same place (is what I read); not clear where it writes them but not in the same place; however Digikam can to file renaming using the tags. I will (when time permits) look at Digikam to replace Picasa for this. In case others are doing this, it may be helpful. My workflow is Run facial recognition in all my home photo library Tag the faces recognized Write those tags to XMP metadata Use that metadata to rename the files, and append the names to the original file name. End result is my home photo library can be searched by person's name Having a plugin to read the XMP metadata directly from Emby server would save me step #4 here. Cheers

+1, yes please!

Thanks Luke working again and I can confirm the Emby has the UK National Extended lineup and the ID shows GBR-1000193-DEFAULT as I suggested earlier once it is selected. Anyone trying to map the UK stations and don't know where to start this is a great lineup to use, not just for music.

I solved the issue: I was mapping the `tv` folder to another container. In otherwords, no bug in Emby

Thanks for the debug version @bakes82Here are my findings with this release. The log output is attached, showing all the items in the library. It does not return any IMDB IDs for the movies. However, if I check via the API, I do see that the item contains the IMDB entry: 'http://emby:8096/emby/Items?Fields=ProviderIds&Ids=212572&api_key=xxxxx' \ -H 'accept: application/json' { "Items": [{ "Name": "Captain America: The First Avenger", "ServerId": "9894eb512bb74059bc24bfd4733a75f0", "Id": "212572", "RunTimeTicks": 74516110000, "ProviderIds": { "Tmdb": "1771", "Imdb": "tt0458339", "Tvdb": "180", "EIDR": "10.5240/FA52-C2FE-11F3-23CB-99DC-V", "Official Website": "http://captainamerica.marvel.com/" }, "IsFolder": false, "Type": "Movie", "ImageTags": { "Primary": "f828b0d5c4d2483a1e54eb04bb8797c2", "Art": "11572bcee61383e9b6c6193d205b07c2", "Banner": "eea7307daf4571d68d30925d9fc337fa", "Logo": "e52d881f896f317c1fa4eb241c5a205c", "Thumb": "9affbcd9e12d0a7deec24bab5f7f244d" }, "BackdropImageTags": ["e509fab4610d6d21c675877f90513116"], "MediaType": "Video" }], "TotalRecordCount": 1 } As can also be seen in the GUI for this item: Thanks for continuing to look into this. trakt_log_zerodayz.txt

Ok thanks, discovered a manual fix of deleting affected movie or TV show from library, then rescanning. Then putting back into library and rescanning.

Sorry but those images point specifically to structure/naming scheme issue as that is a Season folder not a series folder. As Emby does not know what this technically is 2024-07-02 12:31:46.979 Info HttpClient: POST https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/login 2024-07-02 12:31:47.424 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=series&q=House.of.Cards.2013.S01.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-NOGRP[rartv]&year=2013 2024-07-02 12:31:47.621 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/search?type=series&q=House of Cards 2013 S01 1080p BluRay REMUX AVC DTS HD MA 5 1 NOGRP[rartv]&year=2013 2024-07-02 12:31:47.975 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=x_secret1_x&plot=full&r=json&y=2013&t=House.of.Cards.2013.S01.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-NOGRP[rartv]&type=series 2024-07-02 12:31:49.182 Info App: Creating Season Season Unknown entry for House.of.Cards.2013.S01.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-NOGRP[rartv] 2024-07-02 12:31:49.189 Info App: Removing virtual season House.of.Cards.2013.S01.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-NOGRP[rartv] 2024-07-02 12:31:49.189 Info App: Removing item from database, Type: Season, Name: Season Unknown, Path: , Id: 24284 TV Naming | Emby Documentation

Any update? I suggest to add a option to detect strm files or as @kymasaid, StrmExtract plugin can fetch the metadata, does Emby can detect when the metadata is available?

looking forward to it. i ended up setting up a second emby server container so i could use the second livetv source lol

Ok, Stranger....that it works perfectly using the web and other apps Thanks

Yes thank you, maybe the coding for genres and actors drag ordering was shared (or very similar), is what I'm thinking.

We may have to do something to allow or enable it.

+1 here too!

Hi, is there an EST or planned timeframe when this update can be expected?

i updated all apps again. (Joiner) i noticed that the joiner seems to always find a way of running when recordings are going on. so i removed it from auto starting from the monitor app for now. the joiner works perfectly fine. so you just need to verify that no recordings are currently going on or will start in next 5 mins or so for it to complete. i did update the amount of files it can join from 4 clips to 8 clips of a movie. (recording cleanup) refresh's the guide automatically afterwards. which is needed for the series timers to be added back in as well. (recording folder cleanup) it deletes all metadata in recording folder. then deletes all empty folders in recording folder. and now if you add the parent id of your recording folder to the config. it will automatically refresh meta data for the recording folder only. (monitor) this i redid from the ground up. its much faster, but also depends on the size of your recordings json file. if it hasn't been cleaned up in while, then it has allot more to search threw to fix the status. also found that if you get the 501 error // maybe the m3u8 list sequence have been wraped. nothing fixes it. it will get a different server but still gets the same bad stream until it says offline. so i will ignore that error for now. the Seek to start failed error, seems to work flawlessly. you might want to set a delay of 20 seconds or set to 1. ive had some that were fixed in one quick fix. and others that did 2-3 quick fixes. onced there merged together it dont seem noticeable. another big change to the monitor is. it finds and fixes the issue, then shuts down, replaces timers.json file, then starts back up. so that means if you have people watching emby when it restarts they might not be interrupted. because its a quick reboot of emby. but you can extend that time before it restarts emby. but the restart time of emby is the same. hopefully that makes sense. config.txt 4.Recording_Monitor.exe 1.Recording_Cleanup.exe 2.Recording_Folder_Cleanup.exe 3.Recording_Joiner.exe

Am also hoping for filters to be added to collections - eg find all the movies in my Hitchcock collection that are SD or 720 resolution, etc.

Whoohoo, I registered on this forum just to request this feature - just to see its coming soon Looking forward to it !

Hello, I think the thread is about this problem: RPReplay_Final1718685249.mp4

We plan to support plex style editions in future updates. Thanks.

This is indeed great news - I'm looking forward to this I hope we get an API interface as part of the new feature set - allowing us to create our own dynamic smartlists via plugins/scripts and display the results as home screen rows - this will be a real game changer imo.

Example: A user wants to binge watch a show they were binging before, but they dont want to continue from the episode they left on, they want to start from a season or two before. On ATV, from they homepage they pick the episode they left off on. This screen shows the episode and 6 buttons. Resume, Play, Mark Played, Favorite, Go to Show, More. The user clicks to the right four times and hits enter. They are now at the root of the tv series and can go to any season. 6? total button presses. On the Android app we're told to use, from the homepage they pick the episode they left off on. This screen shows shows five buttons. Resume, Play from beginning, Mark Played, Favorite, More. The user clicks to the right four times, hits enter to open the More menu. The More menu, from top to bottom: Play from beginning, add to playlist, add to favorites, mark played, convert, download, download to, go to season, go to series, edit subtitles.. The user presses down 7 or 8 times to get to either the Go to Season, or Go to Show. Also.. why is there the option to download? This is connected to my tv and streams.. its not mobile, it doesnt need to download. Then if the user has admin rights the Menu has even more options to get through, like Convert.. something that also doesnt need to be on a TV layout. So, do we need a new mega thread about the new android app and how each ui element is effectively less efficient than the older app? How can we show you that the new app is not the direction we, the users, want the development to go?

EMBY SERVER 4.8.1 IS NOW LIVE WITH LOTS OF NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS Emby Server 4.8 has been rolling out to various platforms over the past week or so. This upgrade in particular is packed with a lot of new features, improvements and fixes. Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing multiple blog posts to share some of the exciting new functionality that 4.8 brings to Emby and give you a more in-depth look into the features. Today’s blog will focus on two new features: PROFILE PINS With Emby 4.8 you now have the ability to set individual profile PINs. This new PIN replaces the old local network only PIN that existed prior to this release. It is more flexible (works both locally and remotely) and more secure. This new PIN is very useful if you have devices in your home that are shared by multiple users. As an example you may want to put a PIN on your profile so kids in your home can’t just click on your profile and view all of the same media but still allow your kids to freely switch between their profiles on the same device. NOTE: All users (local and remote) must authenticate ONCE per device. Once this initial authentication is done, that user will be remembered on that device and won't require password entry again unless signed out. PLAYLIST SHARING CONTROL Another great feature of 4.8 is the ability to designate exactly what other Emby users you share playlists with. Prior to 4.8, any playlist that was created was available to everyone on your Emby server. Now they’re set up for individual users. When you first create a playlist, that playlist is private to just you. If you wish you can then share it with any user that you would like via the "Modify Collaboration" option. You are able to set it up so that different users have read only access or have view and edit access to the playlist. Please keep in mind that this is only for playlists that were created after the upgrade to 4.8. Playlists created prior to this release will not have this functionality. They would have to be re-created to gain it. NOTE: In order to utilize this feature, you must first grant each user that you want to be able to create shared playlists the ability to share content from the user settings on the dashboard. You can see from the image below that it is simply a checkmark on the settings page. Once that is checked, it is as simple as creating a new playlist and then either right clicking on the playlist or clicking on the “...” menu and clicking on manage collaboration. From there you can easily choose which user you want to share the playlist with and what level of access they have. Stay tuned for a new blog post in the coming days that highlights some of the other awesome and new features of Emby 4.8! For now, we have listed below all the improvements and fixes that were included in 4.8. We as a team are excited to share all of these great new additions with you and hope you’re enjoying the update to Emby just as much as we are! ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS Add new profile pin feature. Useful for devices shared by multiple users. Add new table view option Add more fields for selection in poster views Add new theme options Various database performance improvements Merge webhooks into notifications Support keyword-based recordings Display all episodes directly under series without using season layer (with user display option to control behavior) Update Intel Media Driver Minor database performance improvements Support extras for seasons and episodes Revamp backup plugin to be a more complete backup Support saving images locally for extras Add FR-TP content rating Import hearing impaired attribute for both internal and external subtitles Add hidden config switch to disable ssl renegotiation Add library option to cache images in server data folder to reduce disk access to original media folder Remember audio and subtitles across a tv series Improve support for audio-only live streams Add View Missing Episodes context menu option for series and seasons Add option when creating a user to copy data from an existing user Support random sorting on list screens Improve country and language list sorting Improve program dialog in live tv guide to show complete information Add subtitle position settings Improve user interface of Play On menu Add sample file ignore size to library options Added New Episodes section under Live TV suggestions Add new indicator on Live TV program posters Add options to hide played media from More Like This and Suggestions Add user locked out notification to Notifications and Webhooks Support more conventions with provider id values in folder names (moviedb, imdb, etc) Improve series name detection by getting the series name from episode file names, in some cases Support multiple languages with user audio and subtitle preferences Improve performance of server activity viewer Improve support for folders being used in multiple libraries of same content types Clear external ids for episodes when using Identify feature on Series Improve search for single title movies Add camera upload user permission Add new configurable home screen sections - Playlists, Collections, and Recently Released Movies Add more fields for display in User and Device management Add HDR filters to video list screens Add sorting controls to user and device management screens Add additional subtitle color options Support swipe down to close all dialogs that slide up Add Remove Identification feature to reset metadata Improve searching titles containing quotes and periods (e.g. Agents of S.h.i.e.l.d or Shield) Anonymize manifest.json Add warning for duplicates when adding items to playlists Support both nb and no Norwegian language options Add automatic metadata refresh option for episodes with placeholder titles such as TBA Rework Trakt plugin to be an option that each user can configure, rather than server settings Rework Notifications to be an option that each user can configure, rather than server settings Add guide display options to control visibility of channel names, images and numbers Improve automatic reconnection for live streams Display preview of matched items when setting up a keyword recording Reduce database queries in audio fingerprint process Add HK ratings Add user option to hide media info from detail screens Improve support for "subs" and "subtitles" folders Don't allow local network addresses to be specified in x-forwarded-for and x-real-ip Add media deleted notification and webhook event Support multi-select drag and drop add to playlist Support multi-select operations on downloads and conversions lists Update default subtitle font Add option to limit the number of genres displayed at the top of detail screens Rework playlists to be saved as m3u and deprecate the previous xml format Support extras in Collections Improve episode number parsing when episode file name is gibberish and parent folder name is readable Support sorting for playlists and collections Revamp webhooks plugin, supporting new events and configuration options Include activity log database file when vacuuming databases Rework scanning of extras, allowing more flexible usage of video extras Improve the use of internet metadata with recordings Support shift to multi-select Use tone mapping for image extraction Allow separate images for audio book tracks Stop scanning at the top of a library when it's unreachable Add image size display option Add lock screen function to video player on mobile devices Add three way toggle nav menu to web app Add option to control display of rating information at the start of video playback Change wording of transcoding reasons to be more user friendly Improve filter menu indicator Add Select None to multi-select lists Initial RTL support in web interface Make tagline field lockable Make overview field lockable Rework Live TV recording options to be based on selected folders, rather than raw paths Support .actors folder for people images Nfo plugin: Stop saving nfo files for additional parts Improve photo loading performance Remember subtitle selections even when user option is set to None Improve support for musicbrainz illegal character replacement Improve drag and drop scrolling Sanitize new playlist and collection names Add intro detection library options Improve automatic channel mapping with xml tv Support sort by composer FIXES Fix songs not being grouped into album when the album title contains an emoji Fix empty genre filters on playlists Fix anamorphic image extraction Various fixes for iOS 17 Various image processing fixes Fix transcode temp path in startup logging Fix 172.X addresses always being considered private Fix swagger docs with reverse proxies Fix restricting by tag hiding the tag itself Fix multi-episode file titles not using series display order Fix hide from Continue Listening only hiding a single track and not the entire album Fix live tv recordings being stopped in rare cases when the limit to keep is set to 1 Resolve issue of multi-part and multi-version not being able to be used together Fix green bottom line with QSV+OpenCL tone mapping Fix single image extraction with MPEGTS Fix support for simultaneous music and photo playback Fix sort by sort title being case sensitive in some views Fixes for multi-part and multi-version videos being used together Fixes for movies having file names starting with years Fix Intro Detection scheduled task not being visible Fix a/v sync regressions with live tv and recordings Resolve long-standing metadata quirks when removing data from nfo files and having it not get cleared in Emby Fix changes to url-only nfo files not being recognized Fixes for downloads automatically redownloading Fix graphic subtitle position when burning in subtitles with transcoding Fix unnecessary ffmpeg dependency on Windows Media Foundation Fix sporadic cases of errors when reordering live tv channels View the full article

If you read this thread then you saw that I want/need the alpha picker because I do all maintenance from my recliner as I cannot sit in a normal" chair for long without a lot of pain. I do use a keyboard from my chair but it is only convenient for a fairly short time and I really see no reason for the change to a nearly useless screen like we have now. I have no problem at all with the keyboard shortcut but an alpha picker would be a very good addition to the grid add to collections screen. This "new" add to collections screen is a huge move into un-usability and without an alpha picker it is a horrid idea. The ONLY redeeming feature for me now is I have most of my collections created and set as I want them so I do not have to use the junky screen much anymore.

This isn't just a music concern, many boutique Blu-ray labels include booklets with their movie releases.

Alas IntroSkip plugin had this feature.

They're asking for a new feature. They want to have intro skip turned on at the library level, but gain the ability to turn intro skip off for individual show(s) in that library. I would like this too.

Hi, yes it's a great idea. Thanks.