Home Movies library not showing Year tag

[Fweep 11]

When browsing MP4s in a Home Videos & Photos type of media library, the Emby app on my Roku Streaming Stick does not show the Year tag data, even though its display is enabled in the 3-dots menu. It works correctly on the web app. Is there anything else I should check?

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, can you please show a screenshot example? Thanks.

[Fweep 11]

Here is the view in the Roku app:

(The date on Black Is King is coming from the releasedate field in an NFO file in that particular folder. That NFO also has a year field of 2020. So it seems Year is getting mixed up with Release Date?)

Here is the view in the desktop app:

(As you can see, the year field is appearing on all items.)

Edited August 18, 2025 by Fweep
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[Happy2Play 9780]

Dev would have to confirm, but isn't there a row/line limit on the Roku making all these fields not really possible?

Roku is wrapping more text then web client also.

But yes there does appear to be mixed results per your images.

Do you see the same if you limit to title and year?

Edited August 18, 2025 by Happy2Play

[ebr 16169]

Yes, it does appear it is showing release date instead of year.  Thanks.

[speechles 2055]

On 8/18/2025 at 1:57 AM, Happy2Play said:

Dev would have to confirm, but isn't there a row/line limit on the Roku making all these fields not really possible?

Roku is wrapping more text then web client also.

But yes there does appear to be mixed results per your images.

Do you see the same if you limit to title and year?

There is a limit to the Roku display when at the extra large scale. Otherwise part of the text/image flows off the screen edges. It is possible to allow more than 5 lines when using a lower image setting than extra large. The amount of lines possible is called the gap. That gap could be increased when the image sizes are smaller than extra large. It would require making "states" for each of these sizes so the gap template would understand. Right now the gap template understands the single state. The Roku is able to wrap the title, subtitle, tagline, and/or overview into the gap because it must always be consistent. The web app is using a flexible template that allows it to adjust more giving it near infinite "states" for the gap.

The actual issue is the fields are still being populated during metadata gathering. Rather than being built by the card when render happens. So some calculation time is actually spent on things you may never scroll far enough to see. The metadata gathering part needs a cleanup to adjust better to calculate at time of render rather than ahead of time. That would speed up some of the screens a bit.

The date field is one of those fields being processed too early. In the old card logic isn't able to be changed by the user what is shown as text so we prepare what we think is best. In the new card logic users can select their fields and we build dynamically from that. But the metadata part is stuck in the past. Hope this explains it enough. We are in the process of fixing this issue and it is on the tracker.

Edited August 20, 2025 by speechles