Downloads in Emby

[SirJMD 15]

Emby is great, really great. However, the download function is really lacking a lot of love and attention. Every time I have to use it, it's a pain. 

Here's some thoughts and feedback, but don't take it the wrong way, I appreciate all the effort put into Emby, else I wouldn't have bought into it  

 

No size on device for downloaded items. No info on whether it was encoded or not. 

"Ready to download" with no option other than cancel. No force start? No restart? 

No ETA for downloads, no progress bar, no speed indicator, no total size for remaining/queued downloads. A pause button would be great too, or option to pause download while streaming. 

When initiating download of an item, no info is show. Would be nice with file size and remaining free space on download target. Also, when choosing a lower bitrate, an estimate of the encoded filesize would be extremely helpful. 

Convert progress on server is sometimes extremely slow, in the order of several days for one movie, even though there are hardware encoders (4K HDR seems troublesome). 

Convert media in server management show no info whatsoever. Nothing about why, what, who, how etc. Nothing. No ETA either. Which hardware encoder being used would also be nice. 

Downloads are not shown in server management. Neither are queued encodes for download. Would be nice so you can see if downloads are done soon so you can reboot. 

"Manage downloads" is a big mix of movies and TV show episodes, hence a pain to locate a single movie or episode you want to delete. No sort function, no added dates, no file sizes.. Nothing.

Downloads can't be removed from the download folder, you have to go to "manage downloads" and find it on the non-sorted list of hundreds of items.

Download queue can't be reorganized or changed. Want to prioritize one over others? Can't. 

 

I hope at least some of the observations can be implemented. Thank you for reading this far on my semi-rant