New user impressions of emby

[fireplex 12]

Hi,

Thought I would give some quick feedback on emby after using it for a few days, coming from a Plex user of several years.

 

The big pro's:

It just works for playing back your media, almost every file I have tried works without faffing about, using FireTV & Shield clients

HW acceleration and tone mapping works (apart from a problem with tone mapped HD appearing dim on SD devices, probably a setting somewhere...)

Just concentrates on my media and nothing else

 

The one big con's:

Music smart playlists - everyone in my family uses smart playlists, things like not recently heard tracks, favorites tracks, favorite dance, genres mixed with ratings etc etc

General music playback - Plex has a separate music playback app called Plexamp which is really outstanding in navigating and playing back your music, auto generated mixes, library radio, sonic adventure, headless playback via a Pi etc.

 

If at least playlists could be sorted I would consider switching over full time.

Anyway hope this helps in some way

[rbjtech 5284]

1 hour ago, fireplex said:

HW acceleration and tone mapping works (apart from a problem with tone mapped HD appearing dim on SD devices, probably a setting somewhere...)

Just FYI - if you go into the tonemapping settings, you have a choice of multiple tonemaps.

Hable (the default) produces a darker overall picture, but is the most accurate in colour reproduction.    Mobius is the brightest (but with the danger, white detail can be crushed), with Reinhard a happy medium. 

Edited February 15, 2024 by rbjtech

[user24 316]

6 hours ago, fireplex said:

The one big con's:

Music smart playlists - everyone in my family uses smart playlists, things like not recently heard tracks, favorites tracks, favorite dance, genres mixed with ratings etc etc

There is a great unofficial plug-in called Smart Playlists 2.0 developed by  @ShaneP.  As Emby recently moved from version 4.7 to 4.8, it needs updating though. I understand that this is happening. In the meantime, you can find out a lot more about it here:

I used it myself (with Emby 4.7) and it worked very well. There is a basic music example here:

 

Edited February 15, 2024 by user24
added more info and second link

[Luke 42080]

HI, smart playlists will be coming, so stay tuned.

[fireplex 12]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, smart playlists will be coming, so stay tuned.

I'll sign up to announcements, thanks