Premiere or Free Edtion?

[tehwabb1t 4]

Hi all,
Asking for everyone's thoughts.. Is it worth buy the Premiere Edition (Lifetimes) License Option. 

The terms of service for Emby Premiere Lifetime Term:
A lifetime subscription grants access for the entire period in which the product or service is offered. (This means you’ll get the service for as long as Emby continues to offer it.)

Right now Emby is set up and works for my needs,  basic simple, reliable access to local and remote streaming for my  media,. The lifetime option add things like mobile sync, hardware transcoding, cinema mode, which might be overkill if you're primarily using it to stream within your home or just need simple access movie section. 

I kinda feel the basic setup is already doing what i need, so is the lifetime option worthwhile or just might be more of a luxury than a necessity.

[Lessaj 467]

Sounds like you've answered your own question.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, we work very hard on Emby and we thank you for your support.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

14 hours ago, tehwabb1t said:

Hi all,
Asking for everyone's thoughts.. Is it worth buy the Premiere Edition (Lifetimes) License Option. 

The terms of service for Emby Premiere Lifetime Term:
A lifetime subscription grants access for the entire period in which the product or service is offered. (This means you’ll get the service for as long as Emby continues to offer it.)

Right now Emby is set up and works for my needs,  basic simple, reliable access to local and remote streaming for my  media,. The lifetime option add things like mobile sync, hardware transcoding, cinema mode, which might be overkill if you're primarily using it to stream within your home or just need simple access movie section. 

I kinda feel the basic setup is already doing what i need, so is the lifetime option worthwhile or just might be more of a luxury than a necessity.

I bought a lifetime license a long time ago but, until recently, I have not really needed it. I only need it now for live TV as that is a premier feature. The actual reason I bought the license was to support Emby and a little bit so I would not have to pay more if I decided I needed it later. 

Of all the media managers Emby, for me, is by far the best. It is not perfect but it is better, much better, than anything else. If I did not have a lifetime license at this time I would, probably, buy one as Emby makes my media consumption easier than anything else I have looked at or heard about.

Emby is, for me, the best software investment I have ever made. 

[Carlo 4560]

On 9/27/2024 at 2:49 AM, tehwabb1t said:

Hi all,
Asking for everyone's thoughts.. Is it worth buy the Premiere Edition (Lifetimes) License Option. 

The terms of service for Emby Premiere Lifetime Term:
A lifetime subscription grants access for the entire period in which the product or service is offered. (This means you’ll get the service for as long as Emby continues to offer it.)

Right now Emby is set up and works for my needs,  basic simple, reliable access to local and remote streaming for my  media,. The lifetime option add things like mobile sync, hardware transcoding, cinema mode, which might be overkill if you're primarily using it to stream within your home or just need simple access movie section. 

I kinda feel the basic setup is already doing what i need, so is the lifetime option worthwhile or just might be more of a luxury than a necessity.

Hi,

It's great to hear Emby is working for your current needs!

I don't know if you have seen the Emby Premiere Feature Matrix or not but it's a great way to quickly view the server feature set as well as additional clients/apps available in side-by-side comparison chart. As you can see Premiere opens up a lot of additional features on the server as well as give you complete access to every Emby client app/interface.

https://emby.media/support/articles/Premiere-Feature-Matrix.html

For me personally, I love the Cover Art Plugin and wouldn't want to run my system as it allows you to customize the look of movie/shows on your system as well as superimpose information about the media in the graphic as well as add borders to the "box cover" such as DVD, BlueRay, 3D, 4K which auto populate based on the media's resolution. Same with showing "Collection", "Playlist", "People", "Trailer" to the border of things which makes the information much cleaner to view in searches. It just adds a really nice professional look to your system's media automatically once you configure it for your system.

If you have or plan on having a nice selection of TV Shows the Intro Skip plugin is awesome to have as it will intelligently skip/forward past the "open credits". It doesn't matter if the show starts out with a minute or two of content then does the show opening/credits either as it's rather smart and very accurate. This is a real time saver when binge watching shows! Do you need it? No, but it sure makes Show watching more enjoyable without having to manually fast forward past those credits.

The Backup and Restore Plug-in is a set and forget plugin that you'll forget all about and hope to never need but if you ever have a disk crash or accidentally delete a user (and all their watched status, playlists, configurations, etc), you'll be glad you had this plugin running as you can do a full restore of your system settings or just individual things such as a user. This isn't a "disk backup" as you might think of when you hear "backup" but a specific backup of all critical Emby configuration and user settings and of course the database itself.

Being able to quickly find and download a subtitle for something you are currently watching is really cool. I can't tell you how many times I've been into a movie 15 to 30 minutes and there will be dialog used in a different language that's part of a scene. You may be able to guess/decipher what the dialog was based on surrounding scenes but being able to quickly grab a subtitle file while watching the movie is grand. No need to mis out on the foreign dialog this way. Again, it's not a must have, but it's just another simple improvement to your system that Emby Premiere includes that really ads to your viewing pleasure and making your system seem a notch above other viewing platforms.

There are lots of these little improvements that you can setup and customize to give you that big theater experience such as Cinema Intros (like watching movie trailers before the main event), Theme Songs and Videos that can play the theme song for a show when you enter the show or bringing up a movie such as Top Gun or any of the Mission Impossible movies and hearing the trade mark movie sound clip. Same with Theme Videos which uses a movie video theme clip vs the normal static backdrop you would normally have.

Lyrics display is awesome to have if you have music library as you can view the lyrics of the song scrolled as you listen to your music.

Webhooks is Nerd's best friend if you like to be notified of things going on with your system.  IE Joe just logged in and started playing Big Bang Theory, or your son/daughter started watching something when they should be doing homework or sleeping.   Webhooks are also great to use to get this kind of information and lots more sent from Emby into other platforms that support webhooks or automation of 3rd party info such as Home Assistant Dashboards you might use for monitoring devices and systems around the house.

Along similar lines easy home automation integration with Alexa and Google Home opens up quite a lot of additional functionality as it allows to you voice control your Emby Client which could be the Alexa device such as an Echo playing back music or a Google Home device playing back your much or videos.  But it's not limited to just those devices as you can tell Alexa or GH to playback content on another device or FF, RW, pause, change volume on another device you use for playback. It's nice to be able to do simple things like this with your voice instead of having to find/pickup the remote, especially when it's dark or a person sitting in a different chair across the room has the remote.

I didn't even mention the "power features" many people purchase Premiere for such as hardware transcoding, media conversions, HDR Tone mapping to allow you to watch 4K media or 1080 or less displays when transcoding or Live TV/DVR as well as full TV Guide info (EPG). These "power features" along can dictate if you require Premiere or not but it's many of the other features, I mentioned that I think are really nice to have to really customize your system and make it YOUR SYSTEM.

And last but not least of course is that a Premiere subscription helps support the Emby team and all the services that Emby makes available to everyone.

PS you don't have to jump straight to a lifetime purchase. You can always get a $4.99 monthly subscription to unlock everything and try out all the features first-hand. After testing it out on your own time just cancel the monthly subscription and purchase the lifetime or go back to running without Emby Premiere. Either way, it's a great way to test the waters on your own system.

All the Best,
Carlo

[tehwabb1t 4]

Hi all, 
Totally forgot to come back and say i gladly bought the Premiere Edition (Lifetimes) License Option and haven't bothered with anything else since. Love it

[tehwabb1t 4]

Hi all, 
Simple question, probably already been asked before but couldnt find anything. ANYWAYS.. Just curious if there a plugin or such for a chat applet or message drop. Nothing huge like messenger of anything like that. Something small like a user to user message box. I saw the quick message to users in the settings but only when connected.
Thing is, i share my emby with my family and sometimes certain movies dont play or stutter or stop and sadly the only way i find out is by contacting them about what they thought of the movie and then get the lowdown on "it wouldnt play" and such. 
Anyways thats all i really wondered about as like i said not a fully fledged messaging system but like a note drop.

All the Best

Edited March 22, 2025 by tehwabb1t

[GrimReaper 4739]

1 minute ago, tehwabb1t said:

Just curious if there a plugin or such for a chat applet or message drop. Nothing huge like messenger of anything like that. Something small like a user to user message box. I saw the quick message to users in the settings but only when connected.
Thing is, i share my emby with my family and sometimes certain movies dont play or stutter or stop and sadly the only way i find out is by contacting them about what they thought of the movie and then get the lowdown on "it wouldnt play" and such. 
Anyways thats all i really wondered about as like i said not a fully fledged messaging system but like a note drop.

Not currently. You can lend your support here:

 

[tehwabb1t 4]

Oh Thanks Grim

[danieleemby 1]

On 9/27/2024 at 4:34 PM, Lessaj said:

Sounds like you've answered your own question.

He is asking if Premium is offering a better experience in ways he might not be aware of. Not so difficult to understand and useless to reply the way you do.

Edited January 16 by danieleemby