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Posted (edited)

New user - apologies if I am being thick. I have searched and not found this issue, but if it is already discussed, please don't hesitate to link the discussion and close this thread - it will help me learn the correct search terms.

Setup:

  • Emby server on Synology NAS
  • Newly created library of type "TV"
  • Simple fileset structure:
    • TV 
      • Series name
        • Season
          • S#E##Epname
          • Extras (Two variants, but consistent within any individual series)
            • S#E2##EpName (e.g. Del scenes for ep 3 would be S#E203DelScenes), OR
              • (these show in "Ep#" order, with extras at the end of the season due to # ordering)
            • DelScenes
              • (These show annoyingly alphbetically, with some before the "S#" and some after)
              • (Is there a setting that would allow them to display the same way as Movie extras? or a feature request I can +1?)

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The Issue:

If Emby has not yet identified a series, no content is displayed and the files do not appear in a search. Once identified, all content shows as expectedimage.thumb.png.ab402789a06a3d2a4f3cc2a6b3e047b1.png

The Questions

1. Is this behavior by design

2. If it is, is there a way for me to change it?

The Concern/Need

I'm choosing a new platform atm, with Synology's EOL for first photos and now Video Station. Emby and Plex are my current 'finalists" and before I pay for a 'full' product, I'm in that "can it do what I want" testing phase. So far Emby is so much more of everything I want - "but"...  this issue is a huge problem for me.

I have quite a bit of content which I presently treat as TV Series, but is in some cases not content that would be listed in any of the TV providers. Think cobbled together collections (example: an "exercise" series that has four "seasons", each of which is actually a separate product - a yoga series, a powerwalk series, etc), master copies of content from my YouTube channel - stuff that is made much more workable by the TV format, but will never appear in TVDB. 

Yes, I tried using home movie content type - but that does not give me the series structure, which is needed. In addition, it significantly complicates interactions outside the TV library (for example, Adding Alien Nation TV show and movie to the same collection) and ofc treating every single episode of a TV show as a unique property is interface hell for features like "More Like This". 

What I'm looking for:

To understand how to make that unrecognized TV series display the content. 

  • Is this a display error of some sort that can be fixed?
  • If it's by design, are there metadata fields I can force at the file level that would make the individual 'episodes' at least show on the interface  so i can manually manage them within the interface?

Can't stress enough: home movie format is NOT a solution. I need both the series structure (for organization purposes) and more importantly, the system-level recognition of the body-of-work as a single entity that series structure provides. I'm literally in my last round of content testing, and was expecting to fork over for my premier sub after this - and if i can't make this work in a series format, I'm gonna have to settle for a lesser overall product in order to meet that need and I don't wanna settle. :)  So please tell me what simple, idiotic thing I am missing that will make everything better. :)

 

TIA for help, advice, insights, options, bright ideas - and patience.

 

Edited by TheNixie
Posted

Hello TheNixie,

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Happy2Play
Posted (edited)

Will have to test or search as I am not positive your naming scheme is supported S#E##

But appears to be 

anything_s1e2.ext

But probably need to see the server log for a specific example to see possibly why identification in not working automatically.

35 minutes ago, TheNixie said:

Extras (Two variants, but consistent within any individual series)

  • S#E2##EpName (e.g. Del scenes for ep 3 would be S#E203DelScenes), OR
    • (these show in "Ep#" order, with extras at the end of the season due to # ordering)
  • DelScenes
    • (These show annoyingly alphbetically, with some before the "S#" and some after)
    • (Is there a setting that would allow them to display the same way as Movie extras? or a feature request I can +1?)

 

As for these type of extra the should be at episode level requiring and additional folder layer or correct naming extension.

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/55915-emby-server-theater-additional-extrasspecial-folder-types-for-tv-series-similar-to-movies/page/3/#findComment-1189225

 

 

Edited by Happy2Play
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Posted

@Happy2Play Thanks for your reply. 

I abbreviated (cuz...wall of text) but as you can see in the SS, the series name does precede the ep nomenclature, precisely as presented in the guide, and those items named at ep level appear just fine at the end of the series listing - so FWIW, yeah, that works just fine :)

The thing that is problematic is that core question: if the series is not identified (and some of my "series" cannot - ever- be identified using external metadata sources), the content does not display at all - it's treated as if it doesn't exist. Doesn't appear in the series area, doesn't come up in search.

It seems like search does *not search actual filenames, just meta or db entries in some way (?) - which makes it much more challenging to locate 'unidentified' content.  When, for example, two files get conflated/merged into a single entry, I've mostly been able to identify that by

  • forcing metadata to nfo
  • comparing fileset to interface to figure out which thing it has been merged into, and
  • copying/editing the NFO to force separate recognition of the file.

That's my next test - to see if I can manually create NFOs for these unrecognized files to at least force them to appear on screen...  I was just hoping someone had a magic answer as to how to make the content of the series show up in the series area.....

Thanks again for taking time to respond. :)

 

 

 

Happy2Play
Posted
4 minutes ago, TheNixie said:

@Happy2Play Thanks for your reply. 

I abbreviated (cuz...wall of text) but as you can see in the SS, the series name does precede the ep nomenclature, precisely as presented in the guide, and those items named at ep level appear just fine at the end of the series listing - so FWIW, yeah, that works just fine :)

The thing that is problematic is that core question: if the series is not identified (and some of my "series" cannot - ever- be identified using external metadata sources), the content does not display at all - it's treated as if it doesn't exist. Doesn't appear in the series area, doesn't come up in search.

It seems like search does *not search actual filenames, just meta or db entries in some way (?) - which makes it much more challenging to locate 'unidentified' content.  When, for example, two files get conflated/merged into a single entry, I've mostly been able to identify that by

  • forcing metadata to nfo
  • comparing fileset to interface to figure out which thing it has been merged into, and
  • copying/editing the NFO to force separate recognition of the file.

That's my next test - to see if I can manually create NFOs for these unrecognized files to at least force them to appear on screen...  I was just hoping someone had a magic answer as to how to make the content of the series show up in the series area.....

Thanks again for taking time to respond. :)

 

 

 

If there is no online metadata you may run into issues of Emby making it something it is not per online provider queries.

But proper naming and structure will present a series.

Library no providers enabled

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Yes reading existing images and nfo file should work but many need to be locked for anything that does not exist online as provider queries may rewrite the nfo to something else.

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Posted

"hm" - then perhaps what I have is an error of some sort.  Because that is 100% not what I am experiencing. 

File names and structures are consistent with guide, and when the content overall is recognized, they work just fine. 

But if a series is not identified by a provider, ZERO content is displayed or findable.  You can see the file names, for example, for Alien Nation in the screenie. And once the *series* has been IDed, the content shows up perfectly.  *Until the series has been IDed, *nothing shows - the content might as well not exist.

I guess maybe I didn't explain clearly enough above, but what you're seeing in the screenies is precisely that:

  • prior to IDing the series, none of the series content is visible in any way
  • the ONLY difference between the left and right side of that image is that at the *series level, I clicked ID and found the series. 

Once the series is IDed, the content appears. NO other actions were taken, and total elapsed time between left and right images is 30-35 seconds (so it's not that files were scanned or some other server-side). I literally clicked "ID" twice, chose the series from the list - and that action caused all of the season content to display. This behavior has been consistent across 6 test library creations.
 

Posted
26 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Yes reading existing images and nfo file should work but many need to be locked for anything that does not exist online as provider queries may rewrite the nfo to something else.

I generally lock anyway - any time custom content is present, that just seems prudent. ;)  Hopefully the nfos will do the trick, then.  So far my experience with Emby is so much better than Plex in every way - I'm very motivated to find a good answer! Thanks so much for your time and assistance.

Posted

<sigh> no, premade NFOs did not help. 

I also see from your screen shots that I'm not making the issue quite clear.  In your ss, I see that you're down-level in an episode, and I see your extras folder.  But in order for that to be meaningful to me, that episode would have to appear somewhere. In my screen shot, you're looking at the main series folder - and none of the content- files, subfolder structure - nothing appears. Let's see if this picture illustrates it a little more accurately...  In every case except the ep list at bottom right, you're not looking at a subfolder - you're looking at what happens if you click the series in the main list - this is the top-level container of the series itself image.thumb.png.3501210682b8089096a0e08cb859a4f5.png

On the right, for SHIELD, the moment it matches metadata, you can see the season appear. click that season the eps appear.

On the left, for Alien Nation, it does not auto-recognize the series - and nothing is displayed - no eps, no series folders, etc.

Once identified, the content appears.

So for content that does not appear in, for example, TVDB - I get an empty space that doesn't even indicate content **exists**, much less give me the ability to tweak it. And manually creating NFOs does not appear to impact that :(

I'm sure there's some simply newbie thing I am not getting here - but every suggestion seems to be either "rename files (though they're already named to standard) or "manually edit/manipulate something that the interface does not present so it can't be accessed to manually manipulate". lolsigh.  

30 years in tech - I can do all the things to make it behave the way I need it to - If I can see it.  I just need to know how to get it to be visible on screen, rather than having 1/3 of my content folders just...blank with no way to do that...

Happy2Play
Posted

Overall we many need to see the server log for when the content is imported.

basic search from my log

	Line  5080: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.026 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5081: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.026 Debug LibraryMonitor: New file refresher created for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5082: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.027 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1
	Line  5083: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.028 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm
	Line  5084: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.028 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm
	Line  5085: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.029 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm
	Line  5086: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.029 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1
	Line  5087: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.031 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5088: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.031 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5089: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.031 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5090: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.032 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1
	Line  5091: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.067 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1
	Line  5092: 2025-10-06 10:16:08.068 Debug LibraryMonitor: Change detected to E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5110: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.605 Debug App: Found extra DeletedScene E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5113: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.647 Debug App: Running SeriesNfoProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5114: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.649 Debug App: SeriesNfoProvider returned no metadata for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5115: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.649 Debug App: Running SeriesXmlProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5116: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.651 Debug App: SeriesXmlProvider returned no metadata for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5117: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.652 Debug App: Running BaseGenreCleaner for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5119: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.703 Debug App: Running BaseStudioCleaner for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation
	Line  5123: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.756 Debug App: Running SeasonFolderInfoProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1
	Line  5124: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.757 Debug App: Running SeasonNfoProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1
	Line  5125: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.757 Debug App: SeasonNfoProvider returned no metadata for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1
	Line  5126: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.786 Debug App: Running FFProbeProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5127: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.792 Debug App: Running EpisodeNfoProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5128: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.794 Debug App: EpisodeNfoProvider returned no metadata for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5129: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.794 Debug App: Running EpisodeXmlProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5130: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.795 Debug App: EpisodeXmlProvider returned no metadata for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5131: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.795 Debug App: Running BaseGenreCleaner for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5132: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.801 Debug App: Running FFProbeProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm
	Line  5133: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.803 Debug App: Running VideoNfoProvider for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm
	Line  5134: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.803 Debug App: VideoNfoProvider returned no metadata for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm
	Line  5135: 2025-10-06 10:16:18.803 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 11686342 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5473: 2025-10-06 10:17:37.329 Debug App: Found extra DeletedScene E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5476: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.057 Info LibraryMonitor: Alien Nation (E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation) will be refreshed.
	Line  5477: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.057 Info LibraryMonitor: Season 1 (E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1) will be refreshed.
	Line  5478: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.058 Info LibraryMonitor: deleted scenes (E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm) will be refreshed.
	Line  5479: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.058 Info LibraryMonitor: Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth (E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm) will be refreshed.
	Line  5480: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.122 Debug App: Found extra DeletedScene E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5481: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.186 Debug App: Found extra DeletedScene E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm for E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5482: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.188 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Video 11686343 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth-deleted scenes.strm
	Line  5483: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.249 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 11686342 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5484: 2025-10-06 10:17:38.250 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 11686342 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5529: 2025-10-06 10:18:58.861 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 11686342 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5533: 2025-10-06 10:18:58.885 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 11686342 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5548: 2025-10-06 10:18:58.903 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 11686342 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line  5550: 2025-10-06 10:18:58.904 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 11686342 E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\Alien Nation\Season 1\Alien Nation S1E01 Fountain of Youth.strm
	Line 27787: 2025-10-06 10:43:03.669 Debug App: Found extra DeletedScene E:\Media\TV All providers disabled\

 

Posted

Thanks.  I'll pull a few series into a separate subfolder to limit log size, then add it and pull the log.

Just for clarity - My starting place was trying to understand whether this is an error to fix, or a behavior I need to understand in order to learn how to work with it.  My tentative understanding now is that "nothing at all appearing in that space" seems like an error - am I getting that right?

If you have a "buy me a coffee" link, please post it - really appreciate your willingness to dig into this. I get that you probably have things to do with your time, and this response gives me big warm fuzzy vibes about the community that comes with choosing Emby.

Happy2Play
Posted
9 minutes ago, TheNixie said:

Just for clarity - My starting place was trying to understand whether this is an error to fix, or a behavior I need to understand in order to learn how to work with it.  My tentative understanding now is that "nothing at all appearing in that space" seems like an error - am I getting that right?

In my experience no it is not normal as Emby should ingest properly structures series that way from a TV Show content type library or properly structure via Mixed Content.  As that is all I did in my example

I enabled nfo writer and refreshed Alien Nation and zipped my test here but test was without nfo files present shown earlier.

Alien Nation.zip

Posted
6 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

In my experience no it is not normal as Emby should ingest properly structures series that way from a TV Show content type library or properly structure via Mixed Content.  As that is all I did in my example

I enabled nfo writer and refreshed Alien Nation and zipped my test here but test was without nfo files present shown earlier.

Alien Nation.zip 2.4 kB · 0 downloads

TY.  I scanned, extracted, and rescanned your zip (cuz I'm suspicious lol) and then added it to my test folder for a side-by-side comparison.   Waiting for files to finish copying, then will have a test folder consisting of:

  • Agents of Shield (series that self-detects and then displays correctly)
  • Scarlet Pimpernel and my Alien Nation (series that manually detect and then display)
  • One addition series that won't detect
  • Your Alien Nation (renamed with underscore instead of space) so I can see if your folder behaves differently than mine on my server

That should be enough data for the log to be usable, and still keep it small enough to review. 

"Please stand by" - as soon as the files are done moving, I'll see about generating some log files to dig into. 

Happy2Play
Posted
3 minutes ago, TheNixie said:

"Please stand by" - as soon as the files are done moving, I'll see about generating some log files to dig into. 

Stepping out for a bit but if anyone else has not help you out by the time I have return I will take a look.

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Posted (edited)

Well.  Dropping the log just because - but...  That worked. Perfectly.

  • Three series auto-meta'd
  • The fourth can't - but is displayed with all of its subs and episodes, AND the custom NFOs worked just fine for it. 
  • And - since i left settings at default - I watched it auto-merge your Alien Nation to mine.

n.b. I created a custom folder and copied the content over - so the new-name path is the obvious variable.

Theory: I've been creating and dropping test libraries as I poke through the functionality.  Database debris tied to the old path interfering with [insert process here]?  

If that's the case, is there a reliable database scrub utility/process I should be searching for? And do you have a bottle of rum big enough to address the "I've just spent two days /headdesking over minor data corruption" migraine?😵

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Edited by TheNixie
Posted
Quote

1. Is this behavior by design

2. If it is, is there a way for me to change it?

Hi, Emby does not need internet metadata for TV shows to appear, but the initial library scan does have to be completed. So for example, if you had internet metadata disabled, that would be fine.

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Posted

I'm guessing the server is not able to extract season and episode numbers from your files due to the names? 

In 4.7 I guess that might cause display issues. This has probably been improved in 4.8 and even more so in 4.9.

Is there a reason you're on an old version? I'm not even sure tvdb will work with that.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Luke said:

I'm guessing the server is not able to extract season and episode numbers from your files due to the names? 

In 4.7 I guess that might cause display issues. This has probably been improved in 4.8 and even more so in 4.9.

Is there a reason you're on an old version? I'm not even sure tvdb will work with that.

I'm running the most recent version available from Syno's store for my DSM. 

That said - skim to the end as the issue *seems resolved - looks like it was more likely data confusion. 

Thanks fore taking time to look!

Happy2Play
Posted

Note version: 4.7.14.0 is over 2 years old.  As we just release 4.9.1.80 a couple days ago.

@Lukeis the Synology store version that far behind?

But @TheNixieyou get the most updated version on GitHub or the download page

Emby Server for Synology NAS - Emby

Releases · MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.9.1.80/emby-server-synology7_4.9.1.80_x86_64.spk

 

Happy2Play
Posted

OT:  You need to edit iNotify also as RealTimeMonitoring is not working.

The configured user limit (8192) on the number of inotify watches has been reached,

 

Posted

4.8.11 is in Package Center for DSM 7+.

FrostByte
Posted

That's a very old version of unix kernel, I'm guessing TheNixie isn't running DSM 7.

Posted
On 10/7/2025 at 1:23 AM, FrostByte said:

That's a very old version of unix kernel, I'm guessing TheNixie isn't running DSM 7.

TheNixie is indeed running DSM 7 :)

Running 7.2 - older NAS, so 7.3 has not yet been made available though I'd expect it to be any day (possibly even before I replace the unit...)

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Posted
On 10/6/2025 at 11:55 PM, Happy2Play said:

Note version: 4.7.14.0 is over 2 years old.  As we just release 4.9.1.80 a couple days ago.

@Lukeis the Synology store version that far behind?

But @TheNixieyou get the most updated version on GitHub or the download page

Emby Server for Synology NAS - Emby

Releases · MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.9.1.80/emby-server-synology7_4.9.1.80_x86_64.spk

 

Thanks @Happy2Play
Remember this was "initial test of the app to see whether it is gonna be my next answer" (which it is!!) - so I just grabbed the latest one in my store - an easy couple of clicks in order to be able to poke at the app and see if it's even a viable option. 

Now that all my worries are solved - I'll look at grabbing latest versions and doing All The Things. 

Thanks so much again for your time and assistance.  Now please post a nice one-liner that says something on the order of "minor data corruption from all those tests using the same folder. new folder name for the root path solved the issue.  Vacuum your database" so I can mark it as "the answer" and ensure the credit goes to you ;) 

 

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