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Thanks for this. Shuffling the order of priority round for Series, Season and Episode has fixed it so TV Maze is now the first listed provider in the Data Explorer report, and Madame Blanc is now showing the correct metadata for each episode, including the most recent episode. This has also been fixed for all other shows in the library.

My request is to be able to chose to add items to the home screen. Specifically in my case, I am thinking of playlists and collections. Here's some reasons I'd like to see this: The home screen is the first piece of the user interface a person will see when they pull up Emby. I often places movies in bulk into my media library. This sometimes means people never see the new movie I've made available. Happens a lot, actually. While all movies are searchable or can be found by sorting, I believe the interface would benefit from having the customization option. I have created a "Justin Recommends" collection and would LOVE to be able to put that on the home screen. By keeping this optional, no one is forced to use it. If you don't have a use-case, then it's just a feature. If you look at things like Netflix, many movies and shows get "featured" and by doing that, a lot of people end up watching that wouldn't otherwise (imagine if The Tiger King was just another buried documentary you had to hunt for, no one would have heard of it). I appreciate your time. If you've considered this before and decided against for reasons other than difficulty implementing the feature, I'd ask you to reconsider. I believe that being able to customize our servers helps us personalize and tailor them to our audience and our needs, and that helps promote a feeling of ownership. I also truly believe that this small change could lead to some powerful results. In my case, I know that it would be of huge benefit to accomplishing what I would like to do with my Emby server. Thank you.

Hi! Is it possible to have the user selection screen shown on each startup of the client, like how it does for most other streaming services? I know it is possible to do if I unselect "Remember me", but then I have to input password every time. Also would prefer not to use PIN-code.

Emby Party is a solution for watching videos with multiple friends through your Emby web client. It requires no additional dependencies - only a device running Emby (presumably with good enough hardware for serving all the attendees, especially if you're transcoding) and at least one web browser. It consists in two halves: A server plugin and a web client module. They must be used together! Each half expects the other to be present. This is an experimental open source project. Feel free to fork and contribute pull requests and issues (my availability for fixing issues on my own may vary wildly and may be low in the near future). The source code and all known issues can be found in the github repository. Any information there should be considered the most up to date. Currently testing in Emby 4.8.10, Windows and Debian Bookworm (Linux), Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Features Hassle-free hosting: Doesn't matter who creates the party. Whoever initiates playback while in a party transparently becomes the party host, and host is reassigned if they leave. No need to recreate the party for someone else to host something later. The hosts controls the party video and video position. Video access permission check: Will only play a video if all party members have access to it, and will prevent new party members who don't have access to the current video (if any). Accurate synchronization of video player positions when the host seeks or changes videos using a multi-part protocol that leverages remote control commands under the hood. Accurate catch-up seek commands issued for guests when they fall behind or are otherwise offset from the host. Efficient transition between videos in a playback queue that accounts for slightly offset attendee positions and allows each attendee to start loading the next video while others finish the previous one. Late joiner support: Brings late joiners immediately into the video at the correct position. Joiners already watching a video will automatically start hosting that video if the party was idle. Host can change audio and subtitle streams for all attendees (guests can change it back for themselves if they want). Distributed pause/unpause requests - all users can pause and unpause. Return to video button for guests to return to the video being watched by the host if they closed it for some reason. Guests are automatically returned to the correct video if they open the wrong one or under certain other circumstances. Keep alive: Plugin keeps party member sessions and websockets open as needed and disconnects party members who time out. Support for multiple sessions/devices per user account. Just don't duplicate browser tabs! Support for remote control: Party members can control other Emby clients and those clients will benefit from party synchronization. (Caveats: Working, but not thoroughly tested yet. Due to the lack of client-side support, remote controlled clients are capable of issuing pause/unpause commands that break synchronization. I recommend being careful about pausing/unpausing in a device being remote controlled by a party member.) Cool resizable sidebar with list of party attendees and log of chat and events. The sidebar has docked (squeezes the video aside) and undocked (overlaps the video) modes and uses your Emby profile picture. Dark and light mode supported. Visual indicators for synchronization states of party members when synchronizing with host (icons). Visual indicator when receiving seek commands from the server (your name flashes orange). Host remedies for synchronization issues: Guests who are not responding can be sent another playback command by the host or kicked from the party after 20 seconds have passed. Emoji support in chat using :shortnames: or emoticons. Markdown styles support in chat, including spoilers and preformatted text. Preserves chat focus and selectively blocks keyboard shortcuts or UI interactables when chatting or syncing in order to prevent control mistakes/command spam. Chat bridge endpoint: External applications can connect to `ws://localhost:8196/bridge` to exchange chat (and some events) with the party sidebar. I threw together a module for my self-hosted Discord bot that shows how to use it. Remote control chain resilience for party attendees only: Prevents you from creating a loop of remote control targets. If you do this in vanilla Emby your clients will nuke the server with requests. Automatic skip to next video for videos stalled at the end because the last segment isn't decoding. This is also for party attendees only. Installation To install the server plugin, download it or build it in Visual Studio, then copy it normally to your Emby server's plugins folder and restart the server. Currently the plugin doesn't modify any Emby files (yet?), so you'll have to manually edit one of the web client's existing modules and import the Emby Party module there. Head on over to system/dashboard-ui/modules/appheader/appheader.js and locate the end of the render function, which in Emby 4.8.10 is in position 21877. Insert this code there: , Emby.importModule("./modules/embyparty/partyheader.js").then(function(PartyHeader) { return (new PartyHeader()).show(skinHeaderElement.querySelector(".headerRight")); }); Save, clear your browser cache and refresh. If the party button appears in the top right corner, you're good to go! I'm sure someone will tell me a better way to do this soon enough. I don't know if there's a commonly accepted way and haven't really put any thought into it yet. Whole bunch of disclaimers Use at your own risk! If something breaks that you don't want broken, revert the steps above to remove the plugin from your server installation. Emby Party was iteratively developed and tested with several friends over several weeks, but it was developed to suit our own needs. It was not (yet) tested alongside features we don't use, including, but not limited to, Emby Connect, Emby Premiere, Live TV, the audio player, conversions, cinema previews, most other plugins, etc. Currently no mobile styles. Not tested on mobile. We've been in active development until now. There are vaguely known issues that are hard to reproduce and instability can be caused by video decoding failures, networking issues, browser crashes, browser extensions, lack of hardware resources, forgetting your browser won't play until you click the window unless you've given Emby autoplay permissions.. New and exciting bugs should also appear as we get more people using it. Thanks in advance for helping test, report or fix this stuff! Otherwise, check back for updates, I guess? Please keep comments and suggestions in this thread. Issues should be reported only on github so they're all in the same place. You may notice a whole lot of things in the source code that make you think, wow, it sure would be nice if this was in the Emby settings. I agree! If you would like to implement a plugin settings page, please submit it as a pull request on github! I'm so horribly far behind schedule with this project, and my free time is far in the negative right now. There may be better ways to do some of the things Emby Party does that I am simply not aware of at this time (one of the reasons I'm keeping these instructions outside the repository for the moment) or were simply not considered because the feature grew organically. Pull requests please! Also recommended If you're feeling adventurous, consider improving your watch party's subtitle experience with these (much harder to apply) client-side fixes we worked out in tandem: Temporary workaround for subtitles coming in too early when resuming a video with transcoding (Important for this whole thing if you watch videos with subtitles) Web client ignoring AudioStreamIndex and SubtitleStreamIndex (Required for party host to guest stream index sync if you use that) Fixing mismatch between subtitle canvas and video aspect ratio breaking ass subtitles Fixed in vanilla as of 4.9.*! Playing plaintext subtitles through Subtitles Octopus by faking subtitle type Support mkvs with embedded fonts (requires the associated plugin) Fixed in vanilla as of 4.9.*! These may become obsolete over time if things are fixed or integrated into the main software. Don't forget to clear your cache and refresh after making changes to the client.

I've created a web application called Poster Overlay (A re-imagination of my original tool) that helps you create professional-looking movie and TV show posters with customizable overlays and network logos. This tool is perfect for media server enthusiasts who want to enhance their poster collection with consistent branding. This is still a big WIP but is functionally working in its current state, please report any bugs or errors, feedback or suggestions etc. Key Features TMDB Integration: Search for any movie or TV show on The Movie Database and automatically load metadata and posters Mediux Integration: Search for custom posters from the Mediux community (movies only currently), option to filter by creator Custom Upload: Upload your own poster images to customize Quality Badges: Add 4K, Dolby Vision, or HDR overlays to your posters with one click Network Logos: Choose from 30+ streaming service and TV network logos. Logos are auto added based off TMDB meta data and can be manually changed or turned off Logo Customization: Change the color of any network logo to match your theme Advanced Search: Smart search algorithms to help find the correct content even from partial file names Poster Preview: Real-time preview of how your poster will look with the applied changes Detailed Metadata: View comprehensive metadata for the selected content, including cast, release date, ratings, and more How It Works Select Content Type: Choose between Movies or TV Shows Find Content: Search TMDB for official content or Mediux for community-created posters or add manually Add Overlays: Select quality badges (4K, HDR, etc.) to overlay on your poster (more coming soon) Add Network Logo for Shows: Logos are auto added based off TMDB meta data and can be manually changed or turned off Customize: Change logo colors from the color picker function Download: Download your customized poster to use in your media server The tool features a clean, dark-themed UI that's responsive and easy to use. It's built with plain JavaScript and HTML. This is a great way to maintain a consistent and professional look for your media library, especially if you use media server software like Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin. Link for the site is here: https://poster-tools.pages.dev/ - Just scroll down and click on "explore poster overlay"

To easily restore a deleted playlist, yes you'd have to catch it within a day. After that, technically they still exist in those extra .db copies, but we haven't really created a process to extract them.

Ha! you are exactly right. There is a embyserver-backup-full folder alongside all of the DB backups. I looked at the modified date and it was in 2024, so I presumed that was manually taken. But drilling into it I see data updated today. This definitely covers the rest of what I was looking for. I think I verified this before, set and forget it.... and then the forget part got me. Hopefully this sticks, the full backup runs alongside the DB backups and is stored there.

I was clearing it from recent apps page and it seemed like it was holding whatever brightness level I last had it set at within a video. Oh well. Also noticed that the player's 50% level and upward is actually max brightness on my phone.

I believe the rest of the items that you're referring to go into the "embyserver-backup-full" folder and the incremental folders just have the latest DB files. My evidence for this is my full backup folder is from 02-26 but if I drill down into the metadata I can see newer folders were at the time my backup ran last night at 00:30.

@MckayCoxSorry about that. @ebrIf this is no longer a premier feature, you need to change the description in the plugin catalog. Removing my key and I get this, what gives ?

Hi, we are working on it. Thanks.

I use the same domain name internally and externally, when within my home network (either directly or via VPN) my internal DNS will resolve to the internal address and everywhere else it will return the remote address. I want all traffic to go through my reverse proxy on 443 so I block traffic intended directly for the server to 8096 since I do see the apps still try to connect to that address directly. I know I don't need https on my local network but it centralizes the traffic flow for statistics and monitoring.

Hallo zusammen, ich habe @Teddyknuddelgeholfen, die Skins als Kodi Repository anzubieten. Habe die README des Git Repos aktualisiert => Teddyknuddel/embuary.omega Für Fragen und Anregungen stehe ich bereit! ----- Hey everyone, I helped @Teddyknuddeloffer the skins as a Kodi repository. I've updated the README of the git repo => Teddyknuddel/embuary.omega I'm available for questions and suggestions!

Done, I’ve sent the private message with the requested information. Thank you very much.

Hi, So I added the file visproduction linked and played it on the TV and the TV returned a playback error but according to "Now Playing" in the admin dashboard, the TV recovered from the error and was playing the file. It was as follows: Seems to recover but not sure how you can both direct play and transcode (Orange bar) at the same time? Strangely enough (or not), after recovering from that playback error and in that state, seeking forward and backward works... I assume that the client requested the server to transcode the file into a native video for the TV and that's why it works well like that.. but still not clear to me why it wouldn't work on previous tests if file were Direct Playing... doesn't "Direct Play" mean that the client's hardware has native support for what the server is sending? Media Info of the example file I'm also adding the emby server logs again and the ffmpeg logs (transcode logs I guess). The test was done at 10:34 eastern time or 15:34 UTC. Regards, Pitchblack embyserver.txt ffmpeg-directstream-7b7f93b6-f301-4c7b-859c-c49e60696d5f_1.txt

True, issues should go on github. I forgot!

Kinda surprises me that this feature that should of been implemented YEARS ago we still have to beg for.

I don't know the exact logic, but my experience is that when on the same network Emby client and server will find the direct route and use it. As was said, there is unlikely to be any security benefit to using https internally. Paul

So against all odds Google did quickly validate a test build and the Android TV version is now live for all on Play Store. [Android TV] Version 0.9.0 Notes: This is the very first public version, there’s still plenty of things to be done to have an Android TV version as good as the mobile version. Please take time to report any issues in the dedicated thread. Added: This version is based on the version 12.3.0 of the mobile app. https://support.symfonium.app/t/android-tv-application/8002 https://support.symfonium.app/t/symfonium-for-android-tv-experimental-build/6879/27

Suspect your media has issues and / or the video bitrate combined with the AC3 audio and possible VBR video encoding (not advised) causing buffering on fast forward. Try a demo video 20 MB 720P from this page and see if it works. https://sample-videos.com/ Direct link: https://sample-videos.com/video321/mp4/720/big_buck_bunny_720p_20mb.mp4

2.1.26a BUT that question prompted me to look in the app store. I found and installed 3.4.36 which does have the option like the iphone app and does seem to send a magic packet automatically. I'll experiment a bit more today and confirm

It looks like she typed this in http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.8096:8096 Its should be http:/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8096

TVNext is a newly written replacement for the live TV functionality in Emby. It was completed as a functional draft several years ago, but has been slow to get added in to Emby. Emby staff are now committed to adding it to the next beta (4.10). Developers and testers during alpha-testing reported dramatic improvements in many areas of TV operation, which has led to frustration that it is taking so long to be made available: Paul

It works on chrome... Brave :

No more vocabulary needs translation here.

After seeing your setup, I can understand your needs much better, so thank you for that. What you asked for specifically, isn't currently possible in Emby. I don't remember exactly how TVNext handles deleted channels but I do know a couple of other features built in could be super helpful for you. TVNext has better control over channel import using filtering functionality. TVNext can automatically (and manually) stack channels so if you had 7 versions of CNN they would all be stacked sources of the same channel with only one CNN channel showing up in normal use. During input (loading) of channels, TVNext will test each channel to make sure it works as well as gather basic meta-data for the channel e.g. resolution, bitrate, latency that is used to enhance LiveTV performance. I'm not implying TVNext will solve your LiveTV channel issues, but it will go a long way, making your channel easier and manageable. Regardless of using the current LiveTV or the upcoming TVNext version, you may want to try a couple different M3U/M3U8 playlist editors such as M3U4U, IPTVEditor or IPTVBoss. These are dedicated IPTV channel management tools that can help you eliminate channels in bulk (e.g. country, language, group) from playlists making each list far easier to work with. They can also do mass search/replace of channel names, rename or create groups, sort channels in each group, etc Once setup, they can process your playlists daily.

Sorry no you can disable the scheduled task via the api but it resets itself with every restart as to many issues happened in the past. But the key would be just don't restart Emby. Not sure how automated Synology is those as I believe it runs as a service, as you can disable all restart options on Windows so you have to manually restart it.

I created a script in Synology for a recurring task that runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It copies the file from a specific location to the CoverArt folders. I already tested it and everything works correctly. It copies and replaces the files instantly. #!/bin/bash # Ruta base de origen origen="/volume1/homes/usuario_demo/Media/PNGs para CoverArt" # Destinos para default.png default1="/volume1/@appdata/EmbyServer/cache/coverart/4.1.28.0/Sapphire/default.png" default2="/volume1/@appdata/EmbyServer/cache/coverart/4.1.28.0/SapphireCDs/default.png" # Copiar default.png a dos ubicaciones cp -f "$origen/default.png" "$default1" cp -f "$origen/default.png" "$default2" # Copiar otro PNG (ejemplo 1) cp -f "$origen/EstiloX_aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.png" "/volume1/@appdata/EmbyServer/cache/coverart/4.1.28.0/resources/EstiloX_aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.png" # Copiar otro PNG (ejemplo 2) cp -f "$origen/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb.png" "/volume1/@appdata/EmbyServer/cache/coverart/4.1.28.0/case/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb.png" The only thing I need to keep an eye on is updates, since the version number changes.

Yes you have to clear the server image cache /programdata/cache/images and sometimes the browser cache also.

BITS Manager shows no jobs I have found the issue the folder on the QNAP is /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/US History Unlike the other shares on the NAS eg /share/United Kingdom Somehow, I have shifted the original shared folder into an area that isn't accessible. Thank You for your patience

Okay, the next time I sit down and try and watch something I will give an example.

Good, sort of. At least that proves I am not insane, or we share the same insanity.

Hi. 80 is the largest device license we have. For further questions on this please email billingsupport@emby.media.

Kinda surprised this hasn't made it's way into emby. +1 from too.

+1 on being able to search libraries independent of each other - if in a particular library, then it would be great for the search to return only results from that library, or just have a filter on the results to select the library. TY

6 years and still nothing, for so simple and basic feature, I just started my first NAS and comparing media servers, free Jellyfin win on so many comparsion.

New PUBLIC TESTING version available 11.2.1: Emby server 4.9.X is required Delta changelog 11.2.0 -> 11.2.1 fix genre images for dynamic nodes add extra nodes for Genre, MusicGenre, Tags and Studios synced nodes including the icon images fix music genre synced node fix musicvideo genres fix Chinese language file fix MusicGenre and Folder realtime updates fix folder view for dynamic nodes improve large incremental updates via websocket Comment: A resync is required for the new nodes. This version is NOT TESTED with 4.8.X Emby server!

We just did.

Yes yes, I found it Sorry, I didn’t express myself clearly: I hadn’t seen it before, but the setting does exist and it works — thank you. I was just used to applications creating the folder by default. Thanks for the help, anyway!

Thanks Luke! It hasn't changed

Here the 2 server logs that I hope will help. I used Channel and Time when creating the recording schedule and not Guide, Search, or Keyword. is it still possible that Carlos is correct and the URL was removed at the end of the scheduled broadcast time? If so I suppose my other option would be to split the recordings up into 2 parts to follow the regularly scheduled program times? April 12embyserver-63880099200.txtApril 13embyserver-63880185600.txt

bumping in a year later to see if an update to this issue is in works. thanks

Emby for Apple TV 1.9.7 has been released. Here are the highlights: Fix play next episode automatically option not being honored in certain situations View the full article

Are there plans to bring the user screen selection without PIN to the new app? My users do not need PINs but want to be able select a user on startup similar to Netflix prime etc

I mean I get everyone's frustration My monitor's range from 165hz to 240hz and the one reason I built a $20k Media Server is now pretty much ruined Sure I can live with HDR @120Hz but a lot of my movies have higher quality to offer and a full refresh rate would be nice to see But lord and behold every single time opening the Emby for Windows app I feel like I wasted like $4000 on monitors Why do this just because a few XBox customers complained? You made a separate version for them anyway right? So let Windows users enjoy full refresh rate Emby Theatre is buggy for other reasons but at least it did not mess with my monitor settings ALL THE TIME Don't make this the last month I use Emby, this would literally be the last straw leading me to Jellyfin

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.

It isn't: https://emby.media/premiere.html That was my point above. We no longer list it as one of the Premiere features you get on the page where you purchase Premiere. We haven't since we lost the high-quality source. We stopped listing it as one of the features you get on the page where you purchase. Therefore, I would not expect someone to purchase Premiere just for that or even heavily for that feature. As for the price - we haven't raised our price in over five years. Can you name just about anything else that hasn't about doubled in cost in that same period? I know our costs have but we have kept the price the same thus far. The issue here has been explained and the difficulties in rectifying it have as well. That is why we are no longer advertising this as one of the Premiere features. It is still listed in the feature matrix because it still exists to some extent but anyone looking at the page where you purchase Premiere would not have any idea that trailers are included.