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

[TheFreeMan 39]

On 10/25/2026 at 9:35 AM, quickmic said:

New BETA version available 12.5.0:

Comment:

Database reset is mandatory and will be automatically triggered.

For some reason, the file is not published in the public testing folder (also not sure about the beta repo update). You can sideload from github or https://embydata.com/downloads/addons/xbmb3c/repo-install/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-12X/

The repo and webserver is not under my control.

 

Howdy and thanks for your continued hard work!

I looked in the standard http://kodi.emby.tv/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-12X/ download location, and I looked at the sideload location you listed in the release note https://embydata.com/downloads/addons/xbmb3c/repo-install/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-12X/ but neither seem to have a 12.5.anything version. They both end with 12.4.24.

 

What am I missing?

[quickmic 1772]

1 minute ago, TheFreeMan said:

Howdy and thanks for your continued hard work!

I looked in the standard http://kodi.emby.tv/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-12X/ download location, and I looked at the sideload location you listed in the release note https://embydata.com/downloads/addons/xbmb3c/repo-install/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-12X/ but neither seem to have a 12.5.anything version. They both end with 12.4.24.

 

What am I missing?

I know, it's broken and there is nothing I can do (not my server). You can either load it from github (link on page 1) or via repo.

[TheFreeMan 39]

OK, I thought the 2nd link was the fallback in case the first didn't work. 
I'll go grab the GH link from page 1.

Thanks again!

[Andy2k 77]

Hi, it looks like since 12.5.0 (and also 12.5.1) syncing emby favorites with kodi favorits is broken. After i saw some (alot) movies in kodi favorits without being ion emby favorits i tried to switch of favorit syncing in the plugin menu, deleted the favorite.xml, restarted and switched back on favorite syncing.

After that E4K "hang" with a status "updating boxset favorites / Boxset-Favoriten aktualisieren", till i reboot...

At this point only the tv-show favorites are updated.

 

[quickmic 1772]

5 minutes ago, Andy2k said:

"updating boxset favorites / Boxset-Favoriten aktualisieren", till i reboot...

Can you send me a kodi.log including the issue?

Thanks, I see you sent me a PM.

Edited November 1 by quickmic

[FrostByte 5670]

On 10/31/2026 at 1:17 PM, FrostByte said:

Does the same thing with my large music library.  I ended up just scanning my music in using Kodi and then using E4K for the rest.

I think I had to remove the service plugin to make it stop as just removing my music library didn't do a thing and it just retried to add music after rebooting every time.

 

On 10/31/2026 at 1:33 PM, quickmic said:

Also here, I need a log for review, thanks.

Just for reference.  Because of qm's help I got my music to finally sync using E4K.  I had to decrease the amount of audio paging because the large amount of music files in my library was using all the Shield's memory which crashed Kodi. 

It looked like I still had 2gb out of 3gb memory available with logging on, but I guess with random spiking it suddenly maxed out.  Changing the default paging for audio down to 5000 did the trick.  Though now that my music is added I'm guessing I could bump it back up and it would still work for any new music.

Before the change I just used Kodi's scrapers for music and used E4K for everything else.