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Last night my Roku Ultra had its back button stop working but only in Emby. In all other apps and in the Roku interface itself the back button worked fine. I first tried exiting the app and then reentering and no difference. Then I tried a simple reboot and the symptom was unchanged. I then tried a full power cycle and no change I Then checked for updates and thee were none available for either the Roku or any app. I know I should have done that first but it was very late *early* so I did not think logically. I tried the voice remote and an ir remote and a universal remote and the back button did not work on any remote but all other buttons worked fine on all remotes even the Roku app on my phone and the back button there did not work in Emby but worked everywhere else I tested. I then gave up and switched to my Fire stick for the remainder of the evening. When I woke up this morning I checked and the back button was again functional and everything seems fine. When I had the problem I tested both my Rokus and all the remotes that are attached to them and the back button was dysfunctional on all of them but only in Emby. This AM everything was fine on all my Rokus. I have no idea what happened but it was rather disconcerting and I have absolutely no idea why it only happened in the Emby app but it did. This report is just for info as everything is working fine now. Of course any guesses as to what happened will be met with gratitude and might lead to an idea if this happens again. I just do not understand how all my remotes on two different Roku Ultras can suddenly have the back button stop working only in Emby and then, several hours later, start working again. To be honest I would attribute this to my old age or some other mental factor but I do not think my mind can fail in such a very specific manner. Sorry for rambling a bit but the nature of this problem is such that it has me rather befuddled. I do not expect a "fix" as nothing is actually broken at this time.

Ok I guess we are good. Thanks all.

I think you'll find having an update board implies actual progress...

Is it possible to link items in your Emby library to other items in the overview section of albums, artists, playlists and collections?

Pretty simple suggestion. I have multiple users for my Emby server. If I want to do continuous maintenance on the media, I have to tell everyone. some of them are harder to reach than others ( i.e. no Facebook or Skype chat etc. ) It would be great if say... on the admin panel, I could hit a check box that enables 'maintenance mode', where the server still runs does everything as normal, but instead of the login screen it displays a maintenance page saying the server is unavailable. Even better if I were able to directly put a reason in a text box that would then display on the login screen as well. Not really sure what others would think of this, but for me it would be quite helpful. mostly if I want to make sure no one is trying to access content I know won't work until I've done a full library scan again. Thanks for reading. -Kyle

Hi all, As the title suggests It would be a nice addition if a Label tab can be added to music. We have studios and networks for movies and tv, Labels would help round out music functionality. This data is already captured and albums by record label is available currently from an individual album A top level view is the key easily access the info. The art is readily available. and could easily be incorporated with studio art as that is how labels are treated anyway. Better still the art is available through an api already used.... fanart.tv @@softworkz you seem to be a metadata guru maybe this is up you alley? As I understand emby would need to capture the musicbrainz record label id as that is the key for lookup on fanart. I am sure @@Kode can provide further details as needed. the fanart labels look really nice... so vote up this request and perhaps we can get Luke and softworkz to take a look. thanks -vicpa

can confirm. cleared cache and data from the old app, uninstalled it, installed the arm7 3.4.91 and it works on my Amazon Fire TV 4k Max (2nd Gen)

Thanks for the answer. I used this option sometimes, and I don't think I ever had a problem with it. So the streams must not be split yet.

Selectable internal linking (through database IDs?) would be a very nice feature! Emby has a lot of good flexibility already - but this would be the 'icing on the cake'.

Hi, there's already an open request for this or something functionally equivalent. Please join in and contribute to the existing discussion at:

For both cases I prefer internal implementations in stead of slapping a plugin on every feature I'd like. Not too fond of plugins personally due to how they tend to "abuse" the system. As a developer myself I see my users / customers use too many plugins which causes massive dependencies in the long run and sometimes even holding back updates/upgrades because of those dependencies. Yep. I would prefer that as well. it doesn't have to be complicated or even dynamic. It's not like I'd want to run quarterly numbers or anything. Just curious what my users are doing without having to scroll through the Activity log and maybe see which types of media are consistently failing to play or whatever.

Playback Reporting plugin should cover most of those (and a lot more), both visually and tabularly; it allows for (internal) db queries as well.

@LukeThanks for pointing me in the right direction - I had a legacy metadata option enabled under Radarr which I assume could be the issue. I will disable it and monitor to see if that was the issue. Thanks!

So cool Thanks

Hello, I hope OP is doing well, we miss him and the work he's contributed to Emby and the community. We're still waiting for an update and so sad to learn he may no longer be a dev for Emby. All the best friend!

Hmmm the strangest thing happened. All the thumbnails for the show generated finally. The only difference I can think of is I deleted the downloaded files and downloaded a different set.

will do...Thanks Luke

Thats exactly the issue now... there is an extremely short timeout causing the info/cast/chapters list to disappear often times before you even have a chance to tap to focus. Is this something being worked on? Its really annoying trying to look through info and actors when Emby keeps hiding the OSD as im reading

Are you sure? I can be gentle as well as forceful. And you might grow to like it after a while.

While this is mostly good advice i do not believe it belongs in this section. There is a section at the bottom of this board that would be more suited. Also if anyone is so foolish as to not follow most of those suggestion they are probably too foolish to follow them anyway.

I first edit the Overview metadata in Emby. <b>bold</b> <i>italic</i> and a few other basic text formats seem to work on a limited basis, with what I have tried so far: Then use CSS to do the color-coding. Something like this: /* COLOR-CODING THE OVERVIEW SECTION TEXT */ /* Highlight selected <b>Artists&Composers</b> in Overview Section */ .overview-text b, .formDialogContent.no-grow b { color: rgba(82, 181, 74, 0.9); /* Muted Emby Green */ font-style: normal; font-weight: 600; } /* Highlight selected <i>Albums&Songs</i> in Overview Section */ .overview-text i, .formDialogContent.no-grow i { color: rgba(181, 150, 74, 0.9); /* Muted Tetradic Yellow */ font-style: normal; font-weight: 600; } With this code, even though the second HTML is italic, you can use the CSS to restyle it to anything you want and therefore use the same font and different colors for (e.g.) Artists/Composers and Albums/Songs: As I said, this only gives the color-coding and there are no actual links. I tried this format previously: <a href="link">link</a> but it didn't work. Perhaps you tried the same or similar? As per what Luke said, Overview direct links are not currently supported. Ideally, it would be useful to just be able use the relevant database ID for internal linking, without needing the full local url. The only way I have figured out as a workaround (so far) for internal links is to use either Collections or Tags as an intermediate step for linking two entities together. There's a previous example I posted here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/98295-music-artists-page-ideas/#findComment-1424360 It's evolved a bit more since then, but it may give you some ideas to try or adapt? You might also be interested in this useful plugin for External Links: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/120013-custom-external-links-provider-ids/ Other than that, I can't think of anything else right now to suggest. If you figure out anything let us all know!

Hi, yes I agree this is something we should support. Thanks.

Yes, thank you for your ideas.

Yeah, this is an excellent idea and would make the Overview section very Roon-like and extremely useful, even if the links had to manually added somehow. I think Roon can be individually customized with both internal and external links - but at least having internal links in Emby would be great! I thought I posted something on this a while back, but couldn't find it, so will mention it here... The Overview section (unofficially???) can be formatted with basic HTML (e.g. bold, italic) but it may or may not appear correctly, depending on which client app is being used. Then, with the web app, it's possible with CSS to automatically color-code the HTML to highlight selected Artists, Albums, Songs, etc. It's not as good as having a link though - just something I was experimenting with: This makes it very easy to highlight what you want, but then you just end up clicking/tapping the links that are not actually there!!!

How to get even with family when they visit drinking coffee and never brought you one After they get home and try to watch some tv

Hi, Thank you for your response and offer to help. Turns out it was the guide data needed to be refreshed. Thanks again! Don

To me, if something is visible on the OSD other than the on-screen controls, that's where focus is. I would note expect to have to navigate down into the overview in order to make it stay on-screen—in fact, it's never even occurred to me that it would be possible to do so.

Is there plans on the roadmap for OpenID. I have searched but not found any indication this is in development. With many admins taking up SSO through Authelia or Authentik to enhance security it would be great for Emby to support it. One of the easier open standards is OpenID which the aforementioned support. Users could continue to use LDAP if they wish while others can use the arguably better SSO experience.

Sounds like the biggest blocker for SSO/OAuth is that it needs to work on so many systems. For systems that don't have password managers/passkeys, etc., why not display a QR code for mobile sign in?

If the stream is HLS, then depending on the HLS features being used, then we do not support those yet with our stream sharing feature. One example would be if the HLS has the audio and video split into separate urls.

Hi, we are working on it. Thanks.

Any update on this?

Hmm I think I will install Emby on a old pi i have lying around. Set that in to maintenance Redirect my NPM to that Emby instance. Then users will hit that pi instance and see the info. Well any way right now I do the same, but I redirect to my uptime-kuma server where i can show all my services, maintenance and more.

HI, we work very hard on Emby and we thank you for your support.

I don't want emby to magically know how to play the video, I want myself to be able to tell emby in what orientation to play a video.

@@Vidman we aren't a large multi-national company with thousands of employees to monitor and maintain our media with enterprise level datacentres. we are singular people whom require a simple method of taking all content 'offline' while and when we work on our inferior systems. I have to say, your line of questioning seems mildly aggressive for little to no apparent reason... If I need an entire week to complete my maintenance, I expect my users to understand this or they can bugger off. After all, they're benefiting entirely for my hobby, right? Sure, Netflix aren't likely to do this - but quite frankly, that's an unfair comparison by all accounts.

Could be many reasons. Here are four. Removing / Rebuilding libraries Adding Hardware System Updates on the server machine If you live in the desert like I do, dusting.

This has been talked about before..leave the 90's behind.

do you ever have any time to enjoy your media? Imagine how popular Netflix would be if it was down for maintainance every week

Multiple times Every week?

Why are you down for maintainance at least once a week?