Plugin: EmbyIcons release.

[sergiovassari 0]

10 hours ago, yocker said:

Atm. the plugin does not work with music as that requires looking up different things than videos.

 

You are not stupid!  
The plugin does as just said not work with music atm.

Basically i use Tidal/Spotify my self and thought 99% of people would do the same so never felt the need to add music support.
I will look into it but no ETA.

U need to try Emby/Symphonium. Come to the world of 24bits/192kHz music. Tidal is good, but not this good.

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 06:50 AM by sergiovassari

[yocker 1700]

1 hour ago, sh0rty said:

Actually tried to use it for movies. Most  of my movies are german only except a few ones, that I tried to mark when english is in movie filename.

The plugin should automatically show an icon for English if there is English language in the video.

If using the filename-based system in the beta version of EmbyIcons then just add an "english to the video file name and the plugin will look for an icon named source.english.png in the user custom folder.

[yocker 1700]

9 minutes ago, sergiovassari said:

U need to try Emby/Symphonium. Come to the world of 24bits/192kHz music. Tidal is good, but not this good.

 

 

Tried it but always fell back to Tidal and Spotify instead plus they have lossless option now a days.
I don't have that many CD's to rip either and i don't think vinyl records would sound good being ripped.

Spotify and Tidal are services i have no problem paying for as they are convenient and works.
I also have friends that release music on Spotify, öffelhorn being one of the bands of my friends (Bit of free advertisement for them there..  )

[yocker 1700]

Small update.

Removed the Music Library ignore from the plugin and can see what I need to do.

First off, posters for music libraries use a different scale, not really an issue but will require the 200x300 feature to ignore music libraries. 

Need to add bitrate and sample rate icon support.

The troubleshooter needs to be updated with said icons.

Update the cache to work with new icons. 

Update profile system.

Update UI.

Update help page.

Get new icons made (please help!).

Update filename-based and tag system.

And some things I most likely have forgotten.

Ir does sound worse than it is though, most trouble some well be the troubleshooter, rest is quite straight forward but boring. 

Anyway, just a small update and a plea for someone to make the icons.

Edited yesterday at 11:27 AM by yocker

[sergiovassari 0]

5 hours ago, yocker said:

Get new icons made (please help!).

I like your plugin so much that I made icons for my own use (I find the default ones really ugly—no offense). If my graphic style works for you, let me know what you need for albums, and I'll create them in that style.

[sergiovassari 0]

21 minutes ago, sergiovassari said:

I like your plugin so much that I made icons for my own use (I find the default ones really ugly—no offense). If my graphic style works for you, let me know what you need for albums, and I'll create them in that style.

Will the new plugin be able to read and identify the file, or will it only work with the filename or a custom setting?

Here is a list of what I know.

.mp3
.flac
.wav
.m4a
.aac
.ogg
.opus
.alac
.aiff
.wma

Sample rates

8 kHz

11,025 kHz

12 kHz

16 kHz

22,05 kHz

24 kHz

32 kHz

44,1 kHz

48 kHz

64 kHz

88,2 kHz

96 kHz

176,4 kHz

192 kHz

352,8 kHz

384 kHz

705,6 kHz

768 kHz

Bit depths

8-bit

16-bit

20-bit

24-bit

32-bit (inteiro)

32-bit float

64-bit float

 

Bitrates MP3 (CBR)

8 kbps

16 kbps

24 kbps

32 kbps

40 kbps

48 kbps

56 kbps

64 kbps

80 kbps

96 kbps

112 kbps

128 kbps

160 kbps

192 kbps

224 kbps

256 kbps

320 kbps

Edited yesterday at 04:45 PM by sergiovassari

[yocker 1700]

1 hour ago, sergiovassari said:

I like your plugin so much that I made icons for my own use (I find the default ones really ugly—no offense). If my graphic style works for you, let me know what you need for albums, and I'll create them in that style.

Appreciate it and many thanks but i need icons that look like the ones already in the plugin so as to not suddenly have a lot of different ones.
You can gather them in a zip file and release them either here or in another thread (probably best) as i'm sure there are people very interested in them!

[yocker 1700]

1 hour ago, sergiovassari said:

Will the new plugin be able to read and identify the file, or will it only work with the filename or a custom setting?

Here is a list of what I know.

.mp3
.flac
.wav
.m4a
.aac
.ogg
.opus
.alac
.aiff
.wma

Sample rates

8 kHz

11,025 kHz

12 kHz

16 kHz

22,05 kHz

24 kHz

32 kHz

44,1 kHz

48 kHz

64 kHz

88,2 kHz

96 kHz

176,4 kHz

192 kHz

352,8 kHz

384 kHz

705,6 kHz

768 kHz

Bit depths

8-bit

16-bit

20-bit

24-bit

32-bit (inteiro)

32-bit float

64-bit float

 

Bitrates MP3 (CBR)

8 kbps

16 kbps

24 kbps

32 kbps

40 kbps

48 kbps

56 kbps

64 kbps

80 kbps

96 kbps

112 kbps

128 kbps

160 kbps

192 kbps

224 kbps

256 kbps

320 kbps

It just reads the info that Emby gives it so if Emby knows the properties of the file then the plugin will as well.

Yes, those are the ones i'm planning to add with a "snap to nearest known rate" as a failsafe for those that might just deviate with 1bit or something for some reason.
The plugin can already see .mp3, .flack and so on as it dynamically looks after what Emby says the files have.

Actually have file formats and so on working already.

Edited yesterday at 05:54 PM by yocker

[WJCuffe 17]

7 hours ago, yocker said:

It just reads the info that Emby gives it so if Emby knows the properties of the file then the plugin will as well.

Yes, those are the ones i'm planning to add with a "snap to nearest known rate" as a failsafe for those that might just deviate with 1bit or something for some reason.
The plugin can already see .mp3, .flack and so on as it dynamically looks after what Emby says the files have.

Actually have file formats and so on working already.

Could the Bitrate and Simple rates be rendered as text, like IMDB Ratings are on Movies/Series?  That way you'd just need a single kilohertz (kHZ) and kilobit (kbps) icon, and would remove the need to have the snap-to functionality.  Audio Codecs can just use the same icons used by Audio streams in video files.  Most are the same the same technology, just add in the ones not already included like .FLAC and .ALAC.

Also, for some songs in my Music Library, I have both a .MP3 and a .FLAC version.  Might a "multiple files" icon be useful, or will EmbyIcons group simply same-type icons together like on video posters?

I take it HIRES and REMUX would be equivalent to Source icons (Extended, Deleted, etc).  Would there be need for the decisive "Explicit Lyrics" icon?

And just to make things more difficult, I can't help but wonder how long before someone requests Bit- and Sample-rate icons for audio streams in video files.

 

Edited 20 hours ago by WJCuffe
Missed wording

[yocker 1700]

7 hours ago, WJCuffe said:

Could the Bitrate and Simple rates be rendered as text, like IMDB Ratings are on Movies/Series?  That way you'd just need a single kilohertz (kHZ) and kilobit (kbps) icon, and would remove the need to have the snap-to functionality.  Audio Codecs can just use the same icons used by Audio streams in video files.  Most are the same the same technology, just add in the ones not already included like .FLAC and .ALAC.

Also, for some songs in my Music Library, I have both a .MP3 and a .FLAC version.  Might a "multiple files" icon be useful, or will EmbyIcons group simply same-type icons together like on video posters?

I take it HIRES and REMUX would be equivalent to Source icons (Extended, Deleted, etc).  Would there be need for the decisive "Explicit Lyrics" icon?

And just to make things more difficult, I can't help but wonder how long before someone requests Bit- and Sample-rate icons for audio streams in video files.

 

1) Making it text would be ugly, the ratings only did it out of necessity.

2) The plan is to copy the TV series aggregation system, so that music will have it's own and then modify it to work with only music related properties.
It will be like the TV series, all or nothing. So if not all have for example 44.1k then the icon won't be shown.

3) Plan is music will just be, format (e.g. MP3), bitrate, samplerate, bit depth with support for the tag and filename-based system.

4) That's simple.. That won't be implemented because i don't think that will ever be needed for movies and TV shows!  
It would though be rather simple to implement, problem is the plugin is already doing a lot and i want to try and limit CPU usage where ever possible.

[yocker 1700]

Forgot to say, That's the plan anyway.
Music album posters at first glance looks to be reused across whole albums and songs so it might be impossible to make aggregation work as it's supposed to do.
I don't know if Emby uses the same tag system for music so i will have to research that, can't see why it wouldn't though.

While it's mostly copy and paste work with some modifying it will take some time to do all this.
So don't expect this to be ready first thing tomorrow.  

[Neminem 1764]

@yockerwhat happened to you summer vacation / break

And here I am, tagging you

Enjoy your summer

Edited 4 hours ago by Neminem

[yocker 1700]

3 hours ago, Neminem said:

@yockerwhat happened to you summer vacation / break

And here I am, tagging you

Enjoy your summer

It's over, most got canceled because of the heat.
Couple of weeks to the next thing.  

You to!

Edited 1 hour ago by yocker

[sh0rty 751]

On 7/2/2026 at 8:44 AM, yocker said:

The plugin should automatically show an icon for English if there is English language in the video.

If using the filename-based system in the beta version of EmbyIcons then just add an "english to the video file name and the plugin will look for an icon named source.english.png in the user custom folder.
 

source.english.jpg did the trick. Thanks!

3 hours ago, Neminem said:

@yockerwhat happened to you summer vacation / break

And here I am, tagging you

Enjoy your summer

Asked myself the same question.