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I'm not a fan of the Universal Android app, as it's too slow and clunky, but I've never had any issues with playback using it. There is an newer version of the original Android TV app that has just been released, which fixes the YouTube videos playback issue, and is available here to sideload.

@Luke thanks for fixing some of the time shifting functions in the universal app. After a few seconds of testing though I can say it still needs some work. It still allows you to fast-forward indefinitely, and if you stop at a point in time in the future then it just freezes and appears unresponsive until you rewind back to a valid point in the timeline. That creates a frustrating experience when watching something that's nearly live and trying to fast-forward through the commercials. It would be great if the timeline would resume play once you reach the end. like the ATV version.

I wouldn't want to be a bearer of bad news or jinx it, but knowing how these things generally go once implemented, regression is quite unlikely, I wouldn't get my hopes too high up that it'll be reverted - it is much more likely that it'll just be further expanded with additional features that might somehow make it closer to previous iteration. Hence my suggestion would be to try and find some way to adapt as much as practically possible - if feasible. And tbh, IMHO there simply isn't a lot of traction about it - 10ish users commenting here is simply not enough of a critical mass that might swing the pendulum. But it wouldn't be the first time that I'm wrong, I might be surprised just as you would (pleasantly be) if it were reverted, guess time will tell. Again, those are just my personal views, in no way, shape or form they represent, indicate or imply Emby Team's decisions or intentions.

It seems so silly that this doesn't exist. All this talk about users that might not have an email server, yet there are tons of services that allow SMTP. Gmail and such if you have a very small volume, or a service like Mailgun or SMTP2GO if you want to do it properly. Emby themselves running a server for this seems like a bad idea, for reasons mentioned above, but why not give us the option to use a custom one? The current password reset system may as well not exist from an end-user perspective. Having to contact the server admin to manually reset it is just about the most user unfriendly process it could possibly be. Why not add SMTP reset? Hell you can make even more users happy by adding support for Twilio or other similar services, cover both SMS and email, but SMTP already exists in Emby and I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to implement. Let's not make this over complicated and try to make it perfect, if some server owners don't want to set it up they don't have to. Someone running an Emby server with one family member probably doesn't see a big deal with a manual reset, and anyone with a large user base is generally not going to have a problem taking 10 minutes to setup SMTP with a proper provider. This feature being missing is one of the reasons I'm looking at using LDAP to manage users instead. If this feature existed, I might not have to.

Emby’s music experience has long left much to be desired, and frankly, it hasn’t improved significantly over the years. I’ve come to believe that a standalone client for music might be the way forward, but since that isn’t currently planned, it’s worth exploring what’s possible today. AudioMuse‑AI (GitHub link) is a new self-hosted tool that performs sonic analysis of your music library. While this kind of functionality was historically associated with Plex, AudioMuse‑AI is breaking new ground. It’s still in beta, but already supports Jellyfin and — thanks to the similarities in their APIs — can partially work with Emby. Here’s what it can do: - Creates a database of sonic analysis for your music library. - Lets users define their own sonic fingerprints based on listening habits. - Automatically generates playlists based on mood or keywords, using Ollama or other services. During my testing on Emby: - I was able to connect to Emby, access my music library, and generate a complete sonic analysis. On my hardware, this took about 72 hours. - Ollama integration had issues but Automatic playlists could be generated using the Gemni integration. I am sure i did some wrong configurations. I hope there is a plan to integrate Docker Model Runner to avoid such issues in the future. - I could not save the generated playlists to Emby. It seems this is where Emby and Jellyfin APIs are not compatible. There are still many improvements and bug fixes needed (see issues and road map). Without dedicated Emby support, this service can’t yet be fully utilized in the Emby ecosystem. It’s important to recognize that there’s only so much a single developer can do. Full Emby integration would not just require explicit use of the Emby API, but also a plugin that allows each user to create their own dynamic playlists directly within the interface. I’m sharing this because AudioMuse‑AI is highly relevant and has the potential to significantly improve the music listening experience for self-hosted users. It’s an exciting step forward — and hopefully a glimpse of what a fully integrated music experience in Emby could look like.

Howdy, i did't find a similar posting so here's my request: The Description of Cast Thumbs or Movie posters is cut when exceeding the limits of the thumb width. I'd like to see the complete description when the thumb or card is selected, wrapped over in an extended card or scrolling through. Thanks in advance if possible. Greetings

Can the developers please add a feature to verify the integrity of video files? I have over 6,000 movies in my collection and most of them play okay but I just tried to play Casper tonight and it stopped after about 6 minutes. The file itself is corrupt on the hard drive not because of an issue with Emby. I looked online to see if the entire collection can be scanned through to see which files need replacing and found it can be done with ffmpeg. I'm not familiar enough with ffmpeg to know if this works but i found this code on StackExchange by a user called Adrian. find . -regex ".*\.\(avi\|mkv\)" | while read f; do ffmpeg_out=$(ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostdin -v error -i "$f" -f null - 2>&1) [[ $ffmpeg_out ]] && echo -e "==> ERROR in $f\n${ffmpeg_out}" done Would this actually work to find and report corrupted video files? Can this feature please be implemented?

https://github.com/v1rusnl/Embymalism So let's see how this works out...Installation instructions are inside the GH repo. Basically I hope that the CDN population of githack works as fast as they promise. For users that don't change CSS code parts for themselves, just pasting @import url("https://raw.githack.com/v1rusnl/Embymalism/main/Embymalism_4.9.1.80.css"); into the Emby custom CSS field should be enough to use the CSS. When I do e.g. bugfixes, they will be reflected automatically to everyone using the snippet above in Emby. People that do modifications to the code still can download the CSS file from repo to modify it. @GrimReaperCould you please put the repo link in the first post (one last time ), remove the txt file and change the title to "Embymalism theme for Emby 4.9.x stable"? Thanks mate!

Ok, tried with a personal Star Wars homemade film , so I can clearly see the difference. On the same TV : Emby for Android TV and Infuse on Apple TV = dark is perfectly Dark. Emby for Apple TV with MPV not totally dark as the two others. Hope it will be fixed to enjoy using the Emby for Apple TV app, although is not as good as the Android TV (missing subtitles options feature)

And we appreciate your support GrimReaper, but understand that many of us have been trying to solve this issue for a long time through own tests, but ultimately only the developers can provide a solution, because when I installed beta 4.9, knowing that folders would behave this way, I downgraded to stable version 4.8, "praying" that the new stable version wouldn't work like this, but I haven't had any luck. I think most of us want an option in the new version on the server to make it work like 4.8 with folders.

That is up to the Devs, I'm just trying to assist everyone and find equivalent (as far as possible) solutions currently, as this is what we have to work with atm. Will it ever go back as it was? Have no idea. Can some intermediate solutions be found? Maybe, but certainly not without few trials and/or hits and misses. As stated somewhere previously in the thread, I haven't clicked on Folders tab in any of my libraries for better part of a decade - hence some reciprocal assistance to better explain certain scenarios would be welcome. This latest part of conversation stemmed from: As far as I see it, it is possible, hence further clarification is asked for. I'm not against anyone here, quite the contrary, just trying to help find - if possible - suitable replacement feature. Nothing more, nothing less.

Why not just put openLDAP? I'm surprise LDAP is supporte by Emby. According to the dev reply, reason for not putting smtp email password is because not everyone can use it. How many user have LDAP at home? How many emby user use LDAP? Talk about a feature used by the least...

There are a few options out there. I played with this one yesterday: https://www.manageengine.com/products/self-service-password/ Free for 50 users. Pretty easy to setup if you already have the infra to support it. Seems to work well enough. Setup is fully automated for users, (it pulls the maill attribute from AD and uses that to send a verification code). Then I modified the Emby login page to add a link to this and removed the regular "forgot password" link.

@softworkzI have just started using this plugin, great job by the way! I got movies in fine, but when I try to do TV Series, using the Add Stream Source (I am using the new DLL). Once I get to the window to choose my source type, it comes back with an error stating "Unable to determine the type of source list". Let me know what details you need for this. I did it the same way i did movies from IPTV Boss, but something seems missing. Thank you in advance for your time. As an update, I downloaded the m3u locally and added it as a local file and it imports fine and can read it. Just not as a link.

It is in review on the beta channel right now. If Google approves it, we will attempt a full release.

Hi guys, I'm a user with a lifetime license for Emby. I'm sorry to see that the Android TV app has been completely abandoned. I don't understand why. Graphically, compared to the version you now call compatible with TVs, it's not even remotely comparable to the Android TV version. For example, on my LG TV with an Nvidia Shield box, the version you're now supporting often defaults to "start from scratch" when I stop playback, rather than "resume from where you were watching." This isn't good. It's also chaotic, and it's hard to figure out the correct settings, especially on TVs. I'm sorry, but the Android TV version, from my perspective, was and is much more refined, beautiful to look at, and simple to use. But is it possible that to exit the app on the TV, I always have to first hide the bar to the left of my entire library, when all I need to do is add an option that lets me exit directly without hiding it? I repeat, the app you're now supporting, for reasons I can only imagine, is horrible! I apologize for my disappointment, but as long as I can, I'll continue to use the version for the current operating system on my Nvidia Shield Pro. I also apologize for my poor English translation.

Thanks for adding the option to exit with the dedicated section and the related separate feature you've now added. I also wanted to point out another anomaly regarding the universal version you're supporting. When I go to watch a TV series and move to watch the first episode of a particular series, it often skips to the second episode, leaving the first episode "hidden" on the left side of the TV screen because it's not visible, and I have to manually move to the far left to select the first episode. Then there's always the issue of resume, which often doesn't go where it should go, and as I've already mentioned, by default it moves to "from the beginning," and this is truly unacceptable. I wonder why I constantly have to use an app that isn't native to TVs and that you want to force me to use on TVs despite knowing it's anything but "designed" for TVs. I'm sorry, I really believe in the Emby project; some good things have been done, but this universal app is a real disaster!

From "Cantinflas" to "Tricicle" they are all folders containing several films. Starting with "5 para el infiernol" they are individual films in their own folders.

Each movie has its own folder with its own metadata. For example, the folder "Paco" has subdirectories, each containing its own movie and metadata. Version 4.81 automatically sees these folders with multiple subdirectories as folders, not as movies. To clarify, I'm sending you the structure of another library, with several folders with subdirectories with several movies. As an example, I have chosen the actor Cantinflas with all his movies in that folder.

Which client app you're referring to?

Fixed Finimalism_Inspired_for_Emby_4.9_20251110.txt

Sorry, I didn't mention that I was connecting via Wi-Fi. I didn't think it was important (now I know). When I went to the "Network & internet > Wi-Fi" screen and checked the network type, it was set to Public. I changed it to Private, my client app instantly connected! Thanks pwhodges and Lessaj for your assistance. It is much appreciated! Pomah L.

No problem, glad to hear it's working. One thing though, you have a lot of errors in your log. I recommend you ask a dev to have a look at it for you.

It hasn't gone. I was just asking about your use cases because everybody has learned in the past that passthrough is the best option - because it was like that indeed. In earlier days, it wasn't possible to transport uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio over HDMI, so the only choices were: either compressed or just 2-channel audio. When the audio in your media was compressed in a format that your receiver can decode, then it was obviously the best option to the reicver decode it, because the compressed signal could go through HDMI, while uncompressed couldn't, so it didn't make sense to let the player decode it in the first place. But many videos have AAC encoded multi-channel audio and hardly any receiver can decode that, so the video player had to decode it. But then, in order to send it over HDMI, the player had to re-compress it as AC-3. And that's bad, even through people were often thinking that it would be a good thing when they are getting AC-3 audio in "passtrhough" mode - which it isn't. AC-3 highly compressed and much worse than AAC. Nowadays, where uncompressed multichannel PCM can be sent over HDMI, this is clearly the better way. No. The only cases where it makes sense (at the moment) are Atmos and DTS:X - but only because software implementations are incomplete due to the specs being kept private and not everything has been reverse-engineered yet. In these two cases, you better let your receiver or TV do the decoding. But apart from those special cases, it is a misconception that receivers - no matter how expensive - would be better. It's the other way round: Hifi receivers are not computers. They are using discrete chips, asiscs or similar hardware implementations which don't have the same capabilities like a modern CPU which can do floating point operations at high precision with ease, while those hardware implementations always have to make compromises in their implementations. I cannot tell you how big the differences are practically, but what is very clear is that when the algorithms are known and you implement them both, in software and then for hardware, the hardware implementation can NEVER BE BETTER. The best possible achievement is to be equal - which is even rather unlikely. The important capabilities of a Hifi reeiver are rather in D/A conversion and all the analog circuits. On the digital side, there's nothing to be excited about in case of those receivers. During playback, press the gear icon and choose "stats for nerds", this shows you exactly what you want to know. Finally, passthrough is still there, but it shows only when an HDMI audio output is selected:

Thanks Eric, all working here now.

Those are different items. Can you test with the exact same content? Still, very likely a bandwidth issue.

They do not, especially Grim. I found it annoying for myself

A new Android TV beta has been posted.

Seems like this is a very basic feature that a lot of people want, including myself. What you guys need to understand is that at the end of the day people just want more control over the aesthetics of how their server looks to their users. This is something we all take pride in. So when the default theme is dull and boring, and we have no option to change it globally, we then have to go through the steps with each and every user to get the theme changed to the best option. The less control I can give to my Emby users, the better for me. I just want them to login and be able to stream content, not have to mess with settings.

Exiting with the Back button is nice and very usable on my Shield in Live TV. As soon as I click on the Back button, playback/streaming stops and it releases the tuner. Kudos for that @LukeI really appreciate all your hard work! But, ya know from my other posts , exiting with the Home button does not stop playback/streaming and it does not release the tuner. I've never used the Back button much. Exiting with the Home button has been my go-to "muscle memory" for for years...to get to the Shield home screen and open another app. Hoping a fix for that is somewhere down the line. Thanks. Emby Server 4.9.1.80 Emby for Android 3.5.16

I too really tried to like Emby for Android, I ran it for about 6 weeks on my main TV/Shield Pro, purposefully not using Emby for AndroidTV - I held my ground despite all the frustration in navigation, poor lethargic performance and frequent crashes and hangs, especially on Live/Recorded TV and have come to same conclusion as @CBersabove - it's STILL a significant downgrade on AndroidTV. I gave in on Sunday night after it refused again to allow skimming/ffd/rwd a recorded program so the App got deleted. Back to Emby for AndroidTV and as it always has done, eveything simply 'worked' in the swift, graceful and beautiful manner that I'm used to. @ebrIf the only updates are via sideload, then I've no issues with that, as that is the way I updated anyway - but PLEASE do not abandon AndroidTV..it's replacement is far from ready.

Yes, I agree, Emby Global is too basic for TVs, and above all, it's clear from a mile away that it wasn't created for TVs and remote controls.

We need to start from a premise: I understand that it's necessary to create an app that runs "everywhere" for obvious reasons, likely to increase the audience, user base, and compatibility across multiple devices. But as things stand now, and based on what I'm seeing, I'm sorry to say, but we're just not there yet. The Android TV version isn't even remotely comparable to this one, and before complaining about these bad things I'm seeing, I tried it for at least two weeks. For example, let's talk about the playback bar, which is a carbon copy of the one on Netflix, etc. Fortunately, it still displays the remaining time and the end time of what you're watching (and I hope this data remains). Just to give you an idea, with a 77-inch TV, the characters for the remaining time and the end time are too small compared to everything else. If we look at the playback bar on the Android TV version, the characters are well-defined and have the right proportions for both the remaining time and the end time, and everything is clear, clean, and well-arranged. While in this "global Android" version, it's bordering on decency, small, and very poorly made... I also wrote this in the other post, but is it possible that to exit the app, the "sidebar of contents in the Emby catalog" always has to appear? But why, I wonder? But if I press back and want to exit, the app should let me exit. Period. You added that option where it asks me if I want to exit or not by activating the button, but it's a system that doesn't work well, it's horrible and not very intuitive. I know for sure that with a smartphone, tablet, or notebook, these problems don't exist because the touchscreen helps, but you have to understand that for some TV users, using this app is really difficult!!! Look at Emby Android TV, do you want to exit your app?? You click yes and it closes, and that's it!!! Guys, don't get offended, I could go on and on. The options that are there are always welcome, but they're so poorly placed that it's often difficult to understand how they actually work. If you want to continue with this global project that works everywhere, including TVs, go ahead, but please simplify and fix it because on TVs, the control system is truly awful and not very intuitive. I'll end here. I hate to say it again, but it's truly sad to see the Android TV version you abandoned a good nine months ago. It's so disappointing to see it go away like this. Good night, everyone. I hope someone gets some inspiration.

The other day I popped open the std app for fun (it had been a while since I've used it) and was immediately disappointed. It acted like an old app, didn't have any 'big TV' feel, hmm, kinda like a touch interface might. I scrolled right to see my libraries on the home page and you don't get any animation, just a stale-looknig grey border that is not as easy to visually track as it moves from card to card. And the border doesn't even fit the image properly. (At least make the border default Emby green! Wait - the accent color is set to green, but the app doesn't use it?)

For anyone who may be interested, User Oratorian took it upon themselves to create their own Watch Together solution. While it requires running Python on a separate machine, Linux or Windows, it works. Only released a few days ago, so still under development, but I have it in a working state. As of today (10/23/2025), I had to download his most recent config file from GitHub instead of the Release ZIP, but it's pretty straightforward to get going. Hoping this helps someone out there.

My iptv service lets me select which channels I want already so my m3u only contains the channels I want

32nd of Neverember

When someone tells me "physical media is dead". (And this is only half of the room.)

True and that cheapens the purchases made by users that have made earlier purchases at the full price. I wish companies would simply price their stuff at a fair (to all) reasonable rate not slap the face of those that purchased earlier. Yes i take advantage of discounts when offered but I do not think that lowering prices for a short time is good for either the consumers or the companies involved. There are parts of capitalism that are just examples of "wrong thinking." It seems that throughout capitalism the Ferengi rules of acquisition are used a lot. In particular the rule that states "Greed is eternal."

Unfortunately, this won't work for the op as he has an older HDHomeRun that doesn't support favorites or the web app.

Well then, in the words of Rosanne Rosanadanna...

Where does my post say you have? Oh that's right it doesn't.

Even if it originates on a disc, people rip it to a streaming-friendly format because all modern devices are designed for playing content in that format because they are targeted at online streaming services. I cannot really think of an advantage to storing an exact copy of a disc format. You already have a physical backup. The only thing I can think of is for people who want the disc menu experience and, in that case, you are probably better off with a physical disc player. Our system provides most (and more) of that menu experience.