Please please release 4.9

[nospotify 184]

Given the vast list of wonderful improvements that have accumulated in the 4.9 beta and the modest tweaks reported in the release notes for the latest 4.9.0.33 beta, here is a fervent plea that the Emby devs push this latest v4.9 as a stable release now, for benefit of the vast majority of Emby users who don't install beta versions. 

[KeithA 5]

I second this...

[AJV_20 57]

Why would they release it as a “stable” version when is not “stable”? The beta still has issues that need to be worked out

[nospotify 184]

Sure, get to stable with reported bugs, but just encouraging Emby devs not to add any more changes/features. Let this come in later dot releases. 

[AJV_20 57]

Doesn’t really make sense, if you want the new stuff then get the beta. Stable releases should be stable, if I don’t want to join the beta, I would be upset if a stable release adds a bunch of known bugs to my stable release.

[nospotify 184]

We are in agreement. I am advocating for bug fixes only now for 4.9. Release of 4.8 took a year, partly because of the major database changes but also partly because the developers kept adding 'just one more thing, as long as we're working toward a big new release'. Perhaps I, a non-developer, should have said "bug fixes only now for 4.9" - so I am saying it that way now. V4.9 feature list looks great - please roll it out to all users as soon as stable.

[newyorker 11]

They mentioned a smart playlist feature in version 4.9, but it’s still missing in the beta release. I guess they haven’t figured that out yet.

[Happy2Play 9780]

12 hours ago, newyorker said:

They mentioned a smart playlist feature in version 4.9, but it’s still missing in the beta release. I guess they haven’t figured that out yet.

Because there have been so many maintence releases to 4.8 as nothing really new has went into 34 beta releases.  Starting to see different work going on.  But currently 4.9 is really no different than 4.8 so releasing now wouldn't really help anything.

 

But pretty sure upgrading to .NET 8 will break a lot of older systems.  But to be expected moving forward.

[nospotify 184]

31 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Because there have been so many maintence releases to 4.8 as nothing really new has went into 34 beta releases.  Starting to see different work going on.  But currently 4.9 is really no different than 4.8 so releasing now wouldn't really help anything.

 

But pretty sure upgrading to .NET 8 will break a lot of older systems.  But to be expected moving forward.

This is a long list of improvements it would be great to have as part of stable Emby server:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/tag/4.9.0.34

[Happy2Play 9780]

5 minutes ago, wordlover said:

This is a long list of improvements it would be great to have as part of stable Emby server:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/tag/4.9.0.34

True but hasn't even been tested yet.

[IronBeardKnight 16]

Very much looking forward to seeing stable 4.9.1 release i see the change list is quite large hoping it also fixes some of the constant out of sync audio to video i get on  my c855 tcl.

love the work so far guys.keep it up especially looking forward to hevc.

[yocker 1247]

Please don't release before ready!

 

[gmichaelr 4]

I can't wait as then it will be able to finally combine both 1080 and 4K versions into one library so it won't show as different movies when searching.  

[brothom 177]

3 hours ago, gmichaelr said:

I can't wait as then it will be able to finally combine both 1080 and 4K versions into one library so it won't show as different movies when searching.  

Hm weird. I can already do this with the following structure:

X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 4K.mkv
X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 1080p.mkv

Which shows up as

 

For episodes this works wonderfully too:

X:\Media\Shows\Dune Prophecy (2024)\Season 01\HD\Dune Prophecy - s01e01 - The Hidden Land - 1080p.mkv
X:\Media\Shows\Dune Prophecy (2024)\Season 01\UHD\Dune Prophecy - s01e01 - The Hidden Land - 4K.mkv

Too bad I can't get the folders "HD and UHD" to be named "1080p and 4K" respectively because that way Emby will treat them as seasons.

[supermood 71]

On 5/31/2025 at 9:48 PM, yocker said:

Please don't release before ready!

 

yes +1

is there no beta version specific forum site to see the issues currently reported with the beta? am I blind? would be great to see the beta issues of users and the handling so I could decide if it's worth the risk or not.

without that I have no idea if everything is currently crashing in 95% or 5% of use cases 

[Lessaj 467]

1 hour ago, supermood said:

is there no beta version specific forum site to see the issues currently reported with the beta? am I blind?

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/forum/102-emby-server/

[supermood 71]

testing area?? I searched every heading I could find incl windows as I should.. the navigation is a it crazy, at least via mobile 

[Luke 42077]

14 minutes ago, supermood said:

testing area?? I searched every heading I could find incl windows as I should.. the navigation is a it crazy, at least via mobile 

Hi, how is it crazy?

[supermood 71]

where is the testing area.? that is a bit difficult... on my mobile there is not testing area see Screenshots.. anyway. now I have a link thanks to lessaj

 

 

[Luke 42077]

You just have to be adventurous and scroll down, no?

[supermood 71]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

You just have to be adventurous and scroll down, no?

ok that wasn't so hard. I'm on fire now scrolling down 

[gmichaelr 4]

On 8/6/2025 at 11:48 PM, brothom said:

Hm weird. I can already do this with the following structure:

X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 4K.mkv
X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 1080p.mkv

Which shows up as

 

For episodes this works wonderfully too:

X:\Media\Shows\Dune Prophecy (2024)\Season 01\HD\Dune Prophecy - s01e01 - The Hidden Land - 1080p.mkv
X:\Media\Shows\Dune Prophecy (2024)\Season 01\UHD\Dune Prophecy - s01e01 - The Hidden Land - 4K.mkv

Too bad I can't get the folders "HD and UHD" to be named "1080p and 4K" respectively because that way Emby will treat them as seasons.

Yea, all of my movies are split into two folder structures (one for 1080 and one for 4k) and then within each folder each movie has their own folder which also contains multiple files such as .srt for that specific file. I also keep trailer videos for each movie in the same folder since Roku does not allow the app to redirect you to Youtube to watch the trailer so I ended up using Trailarr to download them locally. 

 

 

From what I've seen, only the beta version of Emby Server support multi-version detection.  

 

Edited August 13, 2025 by gmichaelr

[brothom 177]

9 minutes ago, gmichaelr said:

Yea, all of my movies are split into two folder structures (one for 1080 and one for 4k) and then within each folder each movie has their own folder which also contains multiple files such as .srt for that specific file. I also keep trailer videos for each movie in the same folder since Roku does not allow the app to redirect you to Youtube to watch the trailer so I ended up using Trailarr to download them locally. 

From what I've seen, only the beta version of Emby Server support multi-version detection. 

I do the same thing for trailers but looking at your files I feel like there's something else in your format.

X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 4K.mkv
X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 1080p.mkv
X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003)-trailer.mkv

From what I can tell from your screenshot, the trailer's filename isn't "exactly" like the movie:

3-10 to Yuma (2007) Bluray-1080p.mkv
3-10 to Yuma-Trailer.mkv

Can you rename the trailer to "3-to-10 to Yuma (2007)-trailer.mkv" (including the year and adding a lowercase t to the word trailer)?

Also from what I can tell is that you need at least two versions before the dropdown appears, otherwise there is no "other" version to choose from. So in your example this should work regardless:

3-10 to Yuma (2007) Bluray-1080p.mkv
3-10 to Yuma (2007) OTHER-Bluray-1080p.mkv
3-10 to Yuma (2007)-trailer.mkv

 

[gmichaelr 4]

11 minutes ago, brothom said:

I do the same thing for trailers but looking at your files I feel like there's something else in your format.

X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 4K.mkv
X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003) - 1080p.mkv
X:\Media\Movies\The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King (2003)-trailer.mkv

From what I can tell from your screenshot, the trailer's filename isn't "exactly" like the movie:

3-10 to Yuma (2007) Bluray-1080p.mkv
3-10 to Yuma-Trailer.mkv

Can you rename the trailer to "3-to-10 to Yuma (2007)-trailer.mkv" (including the year and adding a lowercase t to the word trailer)?

Also from what I can tell is that you need at least two versions before the dropdown appears, otherwise there is no "other" version to choose from. So in your example this should work regardless:

3-10 to Yuma (2007) Bluray-1080p.mkv
3-10 to Yuma (2007) OTHER-Bluray-1080p.mkv
3-10 to Yuma (2007)-trailer.mkv

 

Correct, only the beta versions support it which I do not run.  That is why I had originally stated that I cannot wait for them to finally combine since the post is related to releasing 4.9. 

[brothom 177]

11 minutes ago, gmichaelr said:

Correct, only the beta versions support it which I do not run.  That is why I had originally stated that I cannot wait for them to finally combine since the post is related to releasing 4.9. 

I can't imagine any pressure behind having a dropdown with only one choice anyway. The user won't be able to select a different version anyway. The 4.9 release seems to be picking up speed again though so I'm hoping it'll release soon.