Now Playing section is off center for one specific user

[Chiefmas 40]

Hello,

Anyone seen this before? My Emby server patched last night, which is the only thing I've changed recently, and the Now Playing is now showing this one users name and controls way off center. I had to shrink the font quite a bit to show that much, otherwise it truncates the name and the stop/message controls aren't visible(they are off to the right too far). It's always that one user(Chrissy), if the users reshuffle on page reload, its still just that one user. It's never done this before. It's happening under a Chromium browser and Firefox, and when I just checked I now have 3 people playing and it's still stuck to that one account. Not a big deal, just asking if anyone else is seeing it/maybe a weird display bug, but I don't know why it's attached to that account.

Thanks!

[Luke 42077]

HI, what version of the server is this?

[Chiefmas 40]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, what version of the server is this?

Sorry, should have included more info. Server version is Version 4.7.14.0, on a Windows 11 box.

 

[Luke 42077]

OK we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

[Chiefmas 40]

It's just a visual thing, and it's still happening, as I just saw it in 4.8.11.0, but I think I know what is causing it now.

You can kind of see in my earlier blurred out photo, the embedded names in the video and audio are really long. I think the centering is happening based on the calculated width of the entire box. I didn't pick up on it right away, because the fields are word wrapped. So I assume it's something where those are all wrapped in a single DIV tag or something, rather than the center being calculated individually. It's not something that happens unless you get an element inside that's really wide, which then throws the centering calculation off. If it's wide enough, it'll push the user name outside the displayable area. Just a visual thing, so not a super huge deal.

 

 

 

[Luke 42077]

We should probably disable the use of cover art there.

[Chiefmas 40]

19 hours ago, Luke said:

We should probably disable the use of cover art there.

Could be- but just generally having a long embedded name in the metadata is more the problem I think.

So probably what might be better is to not display the embedded name of the video stream, and just stick with the file name? Or maybe the Emby metadata title. I have noticed sometimes the metadata names can get really long. It's obnoxious enough I was actually looking at writing something to scrub the embedded name in the video stream and just set it to be the same as the file name, but anyway...

 

 

Edited August 22, 2025 by Chiefmas