embyforkodi (next-gen) 12.X.X support

[LongMan 121]

Both. I noticed it with the boxes that were online at first. Yesterday I saw it in my theater which was off before.

 

Edited May 20 by LongMan

[LongMan 121]

Mostly realtime sync. ie kodi was online. Yesterday I turned on the theater box and saw it there too.
tbh I did not specifically test offline

Edit: Yesterday it could be that the library scan was long

Edited May 20 by LongMan

[quickmic 1741]

1 hour ago, LongMan said:

Mostly realtime sync. ie kodi was online. Yesterday I turned on the theater box and saw it there too.
tbh I did not specifically test offline

Edit: Yesterday it could be that the library scan was long

Was it a new artist, or an existing artist (only an addition video)?

[LongMan 121]

New artist, not already in the database. Existing artists does not have that problem. 
BTW I usually add an artist.nfo with the artists

 

[quickmic 1741]

On 5/20/2026 at 9:19 PM, LongMan said:

New artist, not already in the database. Existing artists does not have that problem. 
BTW I usually add an artist.nfo with the artists

 

I ran several tests. So far I wasn't able to trigger the issue.

[LongMan 121]

Interesting. Just curious,What is purpose of the no info tag? When is it used?

 

[quickmic 1741]

5 hours ago, LongMan said:

Interesting. Just curious,What is purpose of the no info tag? When is it used?

 

--NO INFO-- is a placeholder when "critical" metadata are missing, like artist or album (for music/musicvideo). 

Reason: Kodi has some staggered nodes for music content (but not limited music content only). e.g. Artist node. The artist node has artist -> album -> song. If the content of an artist has no album(s) info just songs, the node view would never list the any songs of that artist. Therefore I use placeholders to keep the browsing consistent.

For your sync issue: I assume emby server did not report the artist info of the musicvideo at the time when the new content was reported to Kodi/plugin. Therefore the placeholder was added. Sometimes Emby adds additional metadata after new content was reported and never reported an update of the affected content. I tried to force this issue with musicvidoe content, but had no luck. I tag my musicvidoe content with musicbrainz/Picard (Picard can handle mp4 videos as well). Therefore it has the artistinfo embedded in the mp4 metadata. When I scan the new content with Emby, if has all the infos and reports correctly to the plugin. In your case I assume, the artistinfo was added (by Emby) at a later point after the new content was already reported to the plugin, and the updated metadata are never reported to the plugin. However this is speculation, as I was not able to trigger the issue myself.

Edited May 23 by quickmic

[LongMan 121]

Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate it
If it not too much work I would suggest using descriptive placeholders, no-artist-info, no-album-info etc to provide the user with a clue as to what is happening.

Cheers,
LongMan

[Diedrich 380]

I've read a few posts talking about Kodi and the inability for it to handle a movie in multiple boxsets/collections. I enabled the Boxsets as tags, but how do I put it to use? How can I show all my boxsets and have a movie be visible if it is in multiple sets?

I have multiple Kodi profiles corresponding to my multiple Emby users. I've added the users in the E4K add-on but how do I link the Kodi profile to its respective Emby user?

Edited June 1 by Diedrich

[quickmic 1741]

9 hours ago, Diedrich said:

I've read a few posts talking about Kodi and the inability for it to handle a movie in multiple boxsets/collections. I enabled the Boxsets as tags, but how do I put it to use? How can I show all my boxsets and have a movie be visible if it is in multiple sets?

I have multiple Kodi profiles corresponding to my multiple Emby users. I've added the users in the E4K add-on but how do I link the Kodi profile to its respective Emby user?

There is a custom node "collections" in the "video add-ons"/"Emby for Kodi Next gen (Video)". You can use it to customize the skin.

Probably also disable "Media" -> "Video" -> "Show movies sets"

Edited June 2 by quickmic

[Diedrich 380]

On 6/1/2026 at 11:08 PM, quickmic said:

There is a custom node "collections" in the "video add-ons"/"Emby for Kodi Next gen (Video)". You can use it to customize the skin.

Probably also disable "Media" -> "Video" -> "Show movies sets"

Thank you. I'll see if what you mention is different than the Emby Dynamic Collections I've been using. I'm only showing a few movies, sometimes zero, in my collections where previously they were all populated correctly. 

Additional question: 

I have multiple Kodi profiles corresponding to my multiple Emby users. I've added the users in the E4K add-on but how do I link the Kodi profile to its respective Emby user? 

[quickmic 1741]

10 hours ago, Diedrich said:

I have multiple Kodi profiles corresponding to my multiple Emby users. I've added the users in the E4K add-on but how do I link the Kodi profile to its respective Emby user? 

Each Kodi profile starts blank (unless you instructed Kodi otherwise).

Each Kodi profile has its own Emby connection/session and you can use any Emby account as connection.

Edited June 3 by quickmic

[quickmic 1741]

New BETA version available 12.4.22:

Delta changelog 12.4.21 -> 12.4.22

fix server disconnect issue
add season info support (Kodi 22)
fix livetv sessions
fix remote commands play next, add to play queue
fix audio remote playback

[supermood 75]

hi @quickmic

hope your doing good!

I'm having an issue for the first time with your fantastic addon. the experts from ce (ugoos amb6+) are telling me it seems to be related to emby for Kodi. I've tried changing from http to webdav, because I read here that this might be better. no change, problem remains.

can I send you an log and you take a look? maybe it is related to your addon, I have no clue 

all the best,

[quickmic 1741]

3 hours ago, supermood said:

hi @quickmic

hope your doing good!

I'm having an issue for the first time with your fantastic addon. the experts from ce (ugoos amb6+) are telling me it seems to be related to emby for Kodi. I've tried changing from http to webdav, because I read here that this might be better. no change, problem remains.

can I send you an log and you take a look? maybe it is related to your addon, I have no clue 

all the best,

Sure, I'll check it.

[supermood 75]

thanks I've send you an pm

[Bigjohns97 5]

Good morning everyone, I just recently installed the new Coreelec-NO nightly and the progress they have made is very impressive, hoping to not have to use the CPM builds anymore.

The one issue I seem to be having on this fresh install is not being able to install this add-on, it tells me something about an invalid structure, has anyone seen this before?

It seems like a common error but the structure looks fine when I open the zip and check, I feel like there might be something else going on here.

Any assistance would be appreciated, my library is quite large and I have grown quite dependant on this awesome add-on.

[Bigjohns97 5]

15 minutes ago, Bigjohns97 said:

Good morning everyone, I just recently installed the new Coreelec-NO nightly and the progress they have made is very impressive, hoping to not have to use the CPM builds anymore.

The one issue I seem to be having on this fresh install is not being able to install this add-on, it tells me something about an invalid structure, has anyone seen this before?

It seems like a common error but the structure looks fine when I open the zip and check, I feel like there might be something else going on here.

Any assistance would be appreciated, my library is quite large and I have grown quite dependant on this awesome add-on.

Nevermind I figured it out 

[Junias 9]

Hi there,

I have a problem with the latest version of the addon.

In emby I have multiple Audio Playlists. In Kodi I use the "dynamic views". But when I use the view "Emby Dynamics: Playlists (playlistaudio)". When I click this, an item "MusicPlaylists" is shown. On this item I can click to go to the specific playlists or - via rightklick / menu - choose "play all", "shuffle", etc.
When I then click on the "MusicPlaylists" it shows my specifig music playlists - but they are shown as folders. So I cannot rightcklick on this item to choose play all", "shuffle", etc.
I only can open the folder and then it shows all music titles. When I click on one music title, Kodi plays ist - but do not put all items from the playlist in the kodi playlist - so only one item is played.

Can you help me?

[quickmic 1741]

4 hours ago, Junias said:

Hi there,

I have a problem with the latest version of the addon.

In emby I have multiple Audio Playlists. In Kodi I use the "dynamic views". But when I use the view "Emby Dynamics: Playlists (playlistaudio)". When I click this, an item "MusicPlaylists" is shown. On this item I can click to go to the specific playlists or - via rightklick / menu - choose "play all", "shuffle", etc.
When I then click on the "MusicPlaylists" it shows my specifig music playlists - but they are shown as folders. So I cannot rightcklick on this item to choose play all", "shuffle", etc.
I only can open the folder and then it shows all music titles. When I click on one music title, Kodi plays ist - but do not put all items from the playlist in the kodi playlist - so only one item is played.

Can you help me?

I'll check it, but frankly, I would sync the audio playlists.

[ACIDTER 4]

Hi, having some trouble with playback since last update. Is it possible for me to go back to 21 to figure out if has smth to do with current version?