Theme songs not playing

[DogBronson 3]

Hello

I'm not using the theme song plugins, I'm just attempting to add themes manually. I've followed the instructions per https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159179-theme-songs-videos , but still nothing happens when going to the movie page. Neither "theme.mp3" or the "theme-music" folder methods produce any results. "Enable theme songs" is selected, but still nothing.

[ebr 16185]

Hi.  Can you show us exactly what you created and in which app are you trying?

Thanks.

[Luke 42081]

Also make sure to run a library scan after adding the theme files. Please let us know if that helps. Thanks.

[DogBronson 3]

I'm trying for the web app on Windows. The Samsung app, as well, but it isn't working on either so just focusing on one for now.

 

Just an example of how I have it. I also tried naming it the same as the video file, so "Halloween (1978).mp3", in case I was being obtuse and the directions of naming it "theme.mp3" were just for the sake of an example, but that didn't work either.

I did a library scan every time I made a change, and even restarted Emby a few times, but that hasn't had an effect.

 

 

[Luke 42081]

Did you make sure to enable theme songs in the web app? Each app will have it's own setting for this.

[DogBronson 3]

16 minutes ago, Luke said:

Did you make sure to enable theme songs in the web app? Each app will have it's own setting for this.

Yes, I did.

[DogBronson 3]

A little update: I'm using the GameBrowser plugin, and decided to just give it a shot and see if for some reason themes played for games, and they do! But for movies and television they just will not play.

[visproduction 315]

Try different high quality mp3 or flac.  Try different browsers.  Chrome used to mute all audio when you first arrive on the page, until you click something, as a security feature.   Here are two excerpts of theme music that is working for me.  

Hope that helps.

 

 

Siri Cruize - Blue Moon from the film Alone Together excerpt.flac

Edited August 16, 2022 by visproduction

[Luke 42081]

On 8/15/2022 at 2:31 PM, DogBronson said:

I'm trying for the web app on Windows. The Samsung app, as well, but it isn't working on either so just focusing on one for now.

 

Just an example of how I have it. I also tried naming it the same as the video file, so "Halloween (1978).mp3", in case I was being obtuse and the directions of naming it "theme.mp3" were just for the sake of an example, but that didn't work either.

I did a library scan every time I made a change, and even restarted Emby a few times, but that hasn't had an effect.

 

 

Hi, what is the content type of the library in emby library setup?

[DogBronson 3]

Hi, I'm so sorry I forgot to come back to this thread! I've been very busy.

I finally got this to work, and of course, it was user error. It had to do with how I had my folders set up. Sorry!

[doonze 30]

Not to raise an old thread. But just dropping in here that after installing the plugins (I got them all because I believe in supporting this community) I had to run a library scan, just as Luke said, before theme songs/videos would start working.