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As an update to everyone, I've decided to get rid of all my Rokus (I think I have 7 or so) and replace them with either Google TV Streamers or Fire TV Sticks. Subs are just too important for them not to work all the time. Just ordered the Google Streamer. We'll see how it is. Thanks for all the effort.

I got the plugin update last night at midnight. At 12:30 AM I received the scheduled User Activity Email, which was great. Then this morning I finally got the Added to Library Email, the first one I’ve seen since the Core update. So far things are looking promising Thanks for looking into this @Lukeand Team.

Every user can access the emby server, but only the admin users can install plugins. Not sure which IP you entered, but it's not the IP of your Kodi box. It's the emby server URL. You should ask the owner to install the plugin, without the plugin you lose the capability to sync deleted content. (Content removed from the server will not be removed from Kodi)

Okay with that context yes that view is missing that info.

I am similarly afflicted where most of my movies were updated to this new (less desirable) folder structure, but a random assortment of movies remain viewed as single items, even though they ALL are in the same folder structure. The upgrade to 4.9 inconsistently updated items in my library. So I cannot sort alphabetically since it puts all folders first and then my random non-folder movies. Emby has a recommended naming structure that involves folders. That’s what we all have followed. So why change the way these folders are handled now? It seems backwards.

Since these files are MKV it looks like they are conversions for download jobs to me. What path do you have set under Conversion -> Settings? Are there any download jobs set up? Conversions and Downloads are here in the sidebar.

With that extra folder layer you also can no longer sort by year or any other sorting other than by folder name. I am still confused why one of my mixed libraries still shows the old style, and another has this broken style. Both have the same directory structures as that is required for Radarr to work correctly. So Emby can still do what it used to do, the question is how to make other libraries work like the old way. Both were created back with 4.8. The library setups for both mixed-content libraries are identical except for the directory for their roots.

Hey all! Sorry for the long delay on our side. We've been hard at work on getting our app curation and templating system built. That recently launched at the end of Q3 and we have expanded the team to curate even more apps in an upcoming update. I've included Emby on the short list for that update which should be coming in December! Thanks again for your patience and I look forward to experimenting more with Emby myself very soon!!

Das wird aber noch dauern. Erst Windows fertig machen.

@GrimReaperis right, there is something brewing. Right now it's just the water and tea, still needs the teabag for the tea, warning the water and mixing them together.. Maybe a drop of milk to improve it a little. Basically i have the scripts more or less ready, need them to actually be controllable with a settings page, have them work correctly with Emby and tested. So soon(ish).

I have been working on this for a while now and want to see if there is any interest at all for something like it. Anyone familiar with Unraids plugin named "Fix common problems" will instantly know what this is intended to do, for those that don't, the idea is to scan logs for errors in the Emby logs, show and if common known problem explain them and show a solution to the problem. The plugin is far from complete and might take a long time to finish (if it gets finished at all, no promises at all!!) because of all the possible problems that the plugin needs to recognize. Right now all it can do is find problems and report that the problem is there. I would just like to know if there is any interest in this before i use more time working on it.

New plugin: MetaExtractor. From the idea of @GrimReaper Github page: https://github.com/yocksers/MetaExtractor This plugin is designed to extract metadata and artwork from server's metadata folder/db for Movies, TV shows, Seasons and episodes. It can be configured to extract precisely the metadata you want plus all the artwork. The metadata and artwork will be extracted as an NFO file named the same as the video the data was extracted from and appropriate image type(s), and be will placed in the media directory. It can also backup and restore intro skip markers in videos. This is so you no longer have to wait for Emby to finish scanning intro markers on videos when/if you have for example migrated your server. The data will be extracted to a json file in a location chosen by the user. Installation: Download the latest version here or from Github. Stop your Emby Server. Copy the .dll file into your Emby Plugins folder: Windows: \Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\plugins Linux: /var/lib/emby/plugins Docker: /config/plugins (depending on your mapping) Start Emby Server. Go to Dashboard -> Plugins to verify it is loaded. Lastest version: 17. Devember 2025 - v1.0.4.0 If you like and use the plugin and feel generous you can donate a coffee at: https://buymeacoffee.com/yockser This is absolutely not required as i'm happy as long as people like the plugin. Big thanks to @GrimReaperfor the idea and help with the plugin! If you also have ideas for the plugin then please share and i will look into implementing them if possible. MetaExtractor.dll

This is another ardent request to have Emby write the active queue to a persistent memory location, at least when playing music. Many devices close Emby and lose the active play queue when the user switches focus to a different app for too long, when the device runs out of dynamic memory, or when simply too much time has elapsed. There are many good feature requests in this forum that would enhance Emby, but fixing this issue would address an actual problem that many users currently face every time they queue up more music than is played in one continuous session. Can you please bump this up the queue (no pun intended) of Emby issues to address?

I've been a subscriber to Emby for a long time, we also have used VidAngel and Enjoy for a long time... we all have our reasons. Anyways, I've seen this come up as a feature request and I know @BillOatmanhas implemented the pottymouth filter which reads .edl files (huge fan Bill, I use your comskipper plugin it's much appreciated) but I haven't been able to make it as consistent as I like. Pottymouth may do what you like, but if not here is another option. This implementation isn't a plug-in but a python script that utilizes whisper to find the timestamps and profanity based on a JSON list of profanity, organized by severity (editable). Then, ffmpeg mutes those time codes and inserts a new audio track, so you have the original and you have a clean version depending on what you'd like to watch. Whisper runs pretty fast, but the command currently needs to be run manually. Haven't gotten to it yet, but I'd like to automate it some. Just was really impressed at my first implementation of the script. I'm sure there's a way to have this run automatically when new files are added, though for me personally it isn't every file I'd like to run this on... i.e. live TV recordings don't have profanity by default. Here's the GitHub repo for those that want to try it out or contribute! https://github.com/wpbryant/profanity

I've lost track of how many times this has been brought up over the years, with troubleshooting steps basically being typing: "No, that can't be done." This is a great addition to any server (not only for those users that were unaware of saving metadata/artwork with media in the first place or users that decided to change their setup halfthrough), sort-of perma-backup in place, on-demand. Great work. As a sidenote, kudos, you have made several really useful plugins lately, well done. Keep up the good work. Cheers

Solved! My Emby compose file had: runtime: nvidia # Expose NVIDIA GPUs Tdarr on the otherhand used: deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: nvidia count: all capabilities: - gpu I had tried adding the deploy section to emby, but hadn't removed the runtime arg. Once I properly swapped them out, Embys container saw the gpu in the correct groups and now both Emby and Tdarr are able to use the gpu as expected. (I had also tried stopping Tdarr to see if it was somehow 'reserving' the gpu and preventing Emby from using it, as the term 'reservations' above would imply, but that was not the case) @guunterWhich of the two do you have, or are you using something different?

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Thanks for clarifying I appreciate it.

I just wanted to say that I never had this issue again. It seems it's only when conversions are failing or something? But I just checked and it's been 3 years since my original post and that directory has stayed empty since now.

Conversions -> Settings.

Just wanted to say thanks again, this worked well, just took me forever to get to it. Still slowly rebuilding my emby server -HS

nearly $100 a month for YTTV is absolutely not going to happen. That is an absolute ridiculous amount of money. I'm still paying half of that for Fios

I went through this about a year and a half ago when Spectrum wouldn’t renew my deeply discounted cable TV subscription with CableCARD at a reasonable price. I then canceled the cable TV service with them and went with YouTubeTV, which is a much better service although now it cost about the same as cable TV did but it’s still a little bit less. I did try ChannelsDVR for a while and it worked OK but I just figured one app for all is just never gonna happen so I only use YouTubeTV for live TV now

Presentation wise it is not the same. In 4.8 all the folders with sub-folders would be presented first, and then all the single-item folders would be displayed. Now all the folders with sub-folders are presented alphabetically along side all the other single-item folders. A lot of us a had a structure built around this presentation layout. Actual folders first, followed by single items. And as far as I can tell, the AppleTV app still doesn’t allow the single click option for folders.

Unless they are TV show..

Hi, please consider adding Taiwan in the next round of country updates. Thanks.

I've been using the app for the past few weeks and generally I do like having information in one location. My only complaint is that the app is becoming a bit spammy with notifications, especially since I have notifications disabled in the app itself. I'm not interested in joining the discord, raffles for premium which I already have, or other apps. Especially as a premium user. I understand being compensated for development but the store is unappealing to me and I find it a bit off putting. Just some honest feedback. I'm excited to see where the app goes from here.

I'd say that current situation is good example of that: in 4.9, you can still have upper level item (folder) presented as poster and enter an item with single click - presentation-wise it's literally the same way as in 4.8 - but functionally it's a different matter, under the hood, as that same upper-level item (folder) is not collapsed as it once was, no linking with item metadata.

Due to the sheer volume of Actors/studios there is currently no tab/view for them specifically. But should be available once smart views/playlists is implemented.

Any plugin that is not created by Emby will always be asked to uninstall when there are user issues to eliminate this that are totally out of Emby's control. So if is identified as a plugin issue the appropriate plugin dev will have to look at the issue. But there are other similar topics out there as it is somewhat a platform issue.

@LukeWe are coming up to the anniversary of this comment so just was checking to see what the status of a newer version of FFMPEG. I think most people have "Soon™/near future" fatigue. Other topics with comments of updating:

Thanks. It was an observation that things look different across apps but that's fine. You can disregard those posts. I guess iOS is just easier to work with than Apple TV. Thanks for the updates. The app has gotten much better.

ich habe im journalctl die Warnmeldung, dass der document root /opt/emby-server nicht existiert. Daher wollte ich wissen, was ich für einen document root ich in meinem Apache2 Reverse Proxy eintragen muss. Aber ich habe gerade festgestellt, dass ich diesen Eintrag einfach entfernen kann und die Fehlermeldung damit verschwindet. --------------------------------------------------- I have a warning message in journalctl that the document root /opt/emby-server does not exist. Therefore, I wanted to know what document root I need to enter in my Apache2 reverse proxy. But I just realized that I can simply remove this entry and the error message will disappear.

i know the usb is a pain but i can confirm the usb latest version has fixed the trailer problem, i did this today.

I just installed the latest Samsung version and i can confirm the trailers are working. Hopefully the Windows version wont be far behind

Hello, I didn’t post these follow ups, but my issue seems to have stopped, albeit that I’ve not been watching the show on which it was intermittently happening, so perhaps it’s more to do with that than anything else. I did try refreshing metadata though and I don’t think this stopped the issue. I also checked permissions and all files have the same permissions so I don’t think that was it.

Sorry I don't follow as I just renamed dark and cloned/copied black and renamed to dark. Only thing that I can think of may be browser cache.

1. sudo apt-get install cifs-utils 2. Make the mount folder, sudo mkdir /mnt/somename 3. Create a smb cred file. sudo nano /home/username/.smbcred In the file write, username=smbuser password=smbpassword ctrl + o (writes the data) ctrl + x ( exits nano) 4. sudo chmod 600 /home/username/.smbcred 5. sudo nano /etc/fstab 6. add your mount on a new line //smbshare/Mediafolder /mnt/somename cifs credentials=/home/username/.smbcred,defaults 0 0 7. sudo systemctl daemon-reload 8. sudo mount -a And your done. your share should be mounted. Sorry wrote this on an ipad if its hard to read

Same here — I’ve run into the same issue after updating to 4.9.1.80. I’ve seen the suggested workaround, but honestly it feels a bit clunky and not what we really want. We just want the original simple folder behavior back — or at least a global option that lets users choose between the new and old style. It would be great if this setting could apply to Movies, TV Shows, Mixed Content libraries, and any other content type that uses folder view — so that the experience is consistent across all libraries. Please consider restoring or adding this option in a future update. The old folder view worked beautifully for many of us longtime users.

You're absolutely right...! Don't worry, that's how it is. They never address the needs of their users/subscribers. It's pure progressive vanity. We'll have to migrate to another system. What a shame.

Having the same issue myself... This needs to change back to the way it used to be in my opinion... I can't give up my folder structure and create a library for every folder I have... Libraries were working as my repositories for my folders and it was working fine... If I turn every folder into a library, mainpage will be a mess without any real ability to sort or categorize... And please don't suggest using genres tab etc. We were able to make the libraries we want and view them as we wanted. I'll never understand why this had to change... I had my own sorting style... I keep films in their own folders with .nfo files and artwork and those film folders are stored under director folders or genre folders or nationality folders etc. My libraries were created using those main genre, director, nationality folders... Now all my libraries are useless and I have to define a library as "Films" and list all the titles in the same screen if I want to use any sorting capability... Also the performance is really effected too. The time it takes to open a library is at least doubled and the actor or director detail page is taking forever to open...

They accomplished nothing but making emby basically annoying and unusable for anyone who has a large collection and is organized. They want you to throw all your files into one big folder for some reason. Emby as a business confuses me because they seem to care more about doing something a certain way, even if wrong and sometimes stupid, rather than making the customers' experience the best it can be...but they sure spend a lot of time on adding little features that I consider completely useless when all I want is the core functionality to work as best as it can and this latest release makes emby painfully slow and unusable for me. I am starting to think emby is more of a computer nerds vanity project more than an actual business because even when things get fixed it sometimes takes forever and ever and ever.

Awesome. What it accomplished was making something that I've been using fine for the better part of a decade unusable.

Exactly! I tried that and that is how I found out if you select all the files in a folder and try to create a collection, which used to be the easiest and most logical way, it still adds them as folders and changes nothing. Everything is so slow now because I use a lot of folders and this EXTRA USELESS LAYER that has ZERO FUNCTIONALITY had made just navigating emby so slow it has become almost useless to me. On top of that I tried to watch a movie last night on my Sony Google TV and there is no way in the display settings to skip the extra click so now I have to click the folder to get to the movie. This annoyed me so much I just exited and watched something on Netflix. You have essentially KILLED emby for me. When I get back from my trip to California I will re-test Jellyfin because since I got rid of Cable TV I no longer need Premiere so it may just be time to leave this dumpster fire to those who just throw everything in a giant folder. I simply cannot do that as I have over 10K movies and hundreds of TV series.

The setting Luke refers to only addresses the extra click for the final step of actually playing a title. For anyone that uses Folder View for both navigating/watching and doing configuration for their content, the click-through option is not good enough. There are several active threads relating to different aspects of this change, but it's all the same issue, relating from this rather significant change in how single-title-folders are managed by the system.

OK, everything is so painfully slow now you click to add to collections and it just sits there with the spinning icon, and this is every time you click it. And this after you had to click the folder to get to the movie, each time...THIRTY FIVE TIMES. Everything is SLOW. Adding these extra layers of folders to deal with is not going to force me to spend 15-20 minutes adding movies to a collection when it used to take 30 seconds. Horribly awful is this so called update.

This gets dumber by the day. I just created a new collection, painfully slow...everything is now slow with this new version. But that is not the real problem. Because of my FOLDER STRUCTURE if I add all the movies at once in a folder to a collection when you go to the collection they don't show as movies, but as folders and are separate from the other movies added individually. So it appear I now have to turn off that setting that flattens the folders for LOOKS ONLY it appears, then click each folder to get to an individual movie, then select that movie to add to the collection. And I have to repeat this for 35 movies, instead of how it USED TO WORK where you just multi-selected all in the folder and created a collection. This new so called upgrade is a huge downgrade in productivity which totally negates any new features or fixes etc. This is totally ridiculous. Do the emby developers actually use their own product? What a huge waste of time jumping through hoops for a change that has ABSOLUTELY NO FUNCTIONAL PURPOSE. If it does then please illustrate.

So you have taken folders and made them useless? You know, every time I think we may be getting somewhere you all take us backwards. I can no longer organize my content and this is a time waster. You have essentially made this useless but what you are really saying is "we think you should just throw everything in one giant folder because our database handles it all" but that only handles content not file organization. I simply don't know what to do now. The old stable is a pain due to navigation issues and double dates that will never get resolved and now I can no longer organize my content because I am an organized person who uses folders so I can segregate and quickly find everything. So although it is easier to record stuff I can no longer organize it because for some reason you all just don't like folders. FORCING a flat folder structure means having way too many libraries while organizing and that is a pain too. This is not good at all, what a disappointment. So a year an a half wait and it's worse, great.

How does this integrate people? ie, will my server recognise the Michael Jordan who played for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s as the same person who starred in Space Jam?

Thanks，manually running Scan media library scheduled task fixed this problem.