Music and Emby Shenanigans!!

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Had Emby for a long time now but I never ventured into using it for music. At some point I had an iPod so ripped my music to that, then went onto Google Music and with kids I subscribed to YouTube Premium.

Streaming has been my only way to consume music so I let my cassette and CD players bite the dust and not replace them. I now have smart/castable speakers all around the house and it all works fine, except my days of music discovery has gone, I don’t even track if my favourite artists have created any new music since 2015…I switch between 2/3 playlists and occasionally I hear something new on tv.

I’ve been avoiding work and suddenly got inspired to see what a music library on Emby looks like. Imported a few of my albums, found some obscure dts and flac tracks I had but had never the hardware to play them before. Amazed that everything just worked, and on devices that can’t Emby transcoded the audio files. Not sure why I was so surprised at Emby for doing this but I had never thought about it!

I’m now on a journey of ripping to flac and rediscovering the joy of albums (Baby D - Deliverance  ).

Never really listened to lossless flac and still trying to work out if they sound better than my old mp3 and streamed YouTube music. I think I can but not sure if it’s the excitement I’m hearing. A/B/C comparisons are tricky to do, that’s probably my next rabbit hole I venture down into.

Oh and for anyone else who uses Emby for music, are there any visualisations possible, even a music card or a moving slideshow?

All I’m getting is the static album cover and the playback controls, after a while my Emby screensaver kicks in and starts showing my movie posters…

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moving slideshow

Hi, what would you want in the slideshow?