What's the highlight of 2021 in terms of feature?

[neik 873]

Just saw this topic...

...and thought we could have one for 2021 as well.

So, what is your highlight of 2021 regarding Emby?

[arrbee99 1815]

Tonemapping

[rbjtech 5284]

Core - Tone Mapping / Transcoding Performance

Plugin's - Intro and Credit Skip

 

Edit - this would probably be better in a poll ?

Edited December 13, 2021 by rbjtech

[gillmacca01 211]

Music tagging

Live TV - Channel grouping and channel management

Edited December 13, 2021 by gillmacca01

[Spaceboy 2573]

can't make up my mind if this aged well or not...all we know is another year passed

 

[Carlo 4561]

What's the highlight of 2021?
That I'm still here.

I know we had some really good things like improvements to TV Channel lineups, transcoding and tone mapping, it's all the little improvements that I often like the best. Sometimes it's the little things that bother me the most.

Now in 2022 if we can turn off both camera upload & Collections (or remove it), get some better management screens for conversions and syncs (err downloads) and multi-user playlists I think a lot of people will be happy.

I'll put together a list for Feb-Dec later. LOL
But the next version of Live TV would have to be on that last!

[MBSki 1114]

11 minutes ago, cayars said:

Now in 2022 if we can turn off both camera upload & Collections (or remove it)

Before I jump to conclusions, what are you suggesting with this statement? 

[MBSki 1114]

The top highlight for me was definitely HDR tonemapping. Extremely impressive what Emby can do with tonemapping. 

Honorable Mentions would be:

1. Improve playlist performance for large playlists (this one is a HUGE deal) - Update on server is still in beta, but client updates improved performance as well.
2. Channel tagging - (@VicMoore's bulk metadata editor made this a thousand times better. It's so good it should be a default plugin! )
3. Multi-select in playlists
4. Home videos landing screen option
5. Support wm/year and original year tags
6. Ability to select different show/season images
7. Add tags tab to libraries in client
8. Dolby Vision in Android TV

My disappointments though are:

1. Still no acceptable Xbox One app that can play 4k videos
2. DVR improvements such as record to specific library and "keyword" recordings are missing
3. No Watch Together feature
4. No playlist download on Android which retains the actual playlist vs splitting all the songs into artists and albums
5. A growing feature/UI parity gap between Emby Theater and Android TV 

[roaku 842]

Tag driven music

[Carlo 4561]

1 hour ago, mbarylski said:

Before I jump to conclusions, what are you suggesting with this statement? 

Nothing to jump to conclusions about.  I was just saying it's nice sometimes to just get little things done as that can go a long way.  Examples that could be done along the same lines that would make many people happy and have been asked for would be having a global hide collections or ability to delete that library. Being able to turn off camera uploads, etc...

The TV thing was a joke with the rest of what I said.  I was saying I'd be happy if all those things were done in 2022. Then I'd come up with a list for the other 11 months.  Get it?

[Carlo 4561]

1 hour ago, mbarylski said:

The top highlight for me was definitely HDR tonemapping. Extremely impressive what Emby can do with tonemapping. 

Honorable Mentions would be:

1. Improve playlist performance for large playlists (this one is a HUGE deal) - Update on server is still in beta, but client updates improved performance as well.
2. Channel tagging - (@VicMoore's bulk metadata editor made this a thousand times better. It's so good it should be a default plugin! )
3. Multi-select in playlists
4. Home videos landing screen option
5. Support wm/year and original year tags
6. Ability to select different show/season images
7. Add tags tab to libraries in client
8. Dolby Vision in Android TV

My disappointments though are:

1. Still no acceptable Xbox One app that can play 4k videos
2. DVR improvements such as record to specific library and "keyword" recordings are missing
3. No Watch Together feature
4. No playlist download on Android which retains the actual playlist vs splitting all the songs into artists and albums
5. A growing feature/UI parity gap between Emby Theater and Android TV 

Good list.  Hopefully you'll like the design of the unified Windows app when released which could take care of 3 of your items in one shot.

[MBSki 1114]

31 minutes ago, cayars said:

Nothing to jump to conclusions about.  I was just saying it's nice sometimes to just get little things done as that can go a long way.  Examples that could be done along the same lines that would make many people happy and have been asked for would be having a global hide collections or ability to delete that library. Being able to turn off camera uploads, etc...

Gotcha, I thought you meant "kill camera uploads". LOL

31 minutes ago, cayars said:

The TV thing was a joke with the rest of what I said.  I was saying I'd be happy if all those things were done in 2022. Then I'd come up with a list for the other 11 months.  Get it?

Yep. 

28 minutes ago, cayars said:

Good list.  Hopefully you'll like the design of the unified Windows app when released which could take care of 3 of your items in one shot.

Indeed. I'm on the edge of my seat. REALLY can't wait to try it out. 

[FrostByte 5392]

An Xbox app that could play 4K while using HD audio and trigger HDR would be at the top of my wish list for 2022 also.

As far as highlights go even though I never use transcoding I guess in the big picture of things I would vote TM at the top of things Emby implemented this year.

[RanmaCanada 495]

HDR Tone Mapping..now if only the community would understand that currently DolbyVision tone mapping is not possible, and that it's a beast on it's own

[rbjtech 5284]

4 hours ago, RanmaCanada said:

HDR Tone Mapping..now if only the community would understand that currently DolbyVision tone mapping is not possible, and that it's a beast on it's own

If Emby is technically aware this is not HDR10, then they could instantly fix this by simply sending a message to the client prior to playback that 'Tone Mapping / Colour Correction is not possible on this Video' .

[RanmaCanada 495]

On 14/12/2021 at 23:58, rbjtech said:

If Emby is technically aware this is not HDR10, then they could instantly fix this by simply sending a message to the client prior to playback that 'Tone Mapping / Colour Correction is not possible on this Video' .

That would be great and all but I am sure the idiots will still complain because of their ignorance.  Because let's face it, the majority of people here have the attitude that "it should just F$Y$%#ING WORK!!" and then blame Luke et al when what they are trying to do is not technically possible, and call Emby a garbage product.  But we all have to start somewhere.