Moonfin, a new cross platform client

[bingbong69_ 12]

yup this was brought up and has been added to the 2.3.1 patch update this week, its going into testing tonight

[arrbee99 1858]

While I remember - themes...are the themes on the JF site just for a browser, same as Emby?

And the theme maker you mentioned, I should have looked properly, but does it do anything with positioning of items, or is it more colours / effects ?

[bingbong69_ 12]

the themes apply to all clients for all platforms and as of now, its more of changing colors, font, and effects. keeping things simple because reordering things around entirely on clients makes dpad navigation impossible which is why I add different things like different home row types as well as different detail screen types to kind of fill that gap. I'm always open to suggestions to what people might like though. variety is the spice of life.

[arrbee99 1858]

Hokey dokey. Moving thing about would get complicated.

My main hint is what I've bored you and everyone else with at every opportunity, move everything down / out of the way of the backdrops...

[gluk147 4]

All my movies are organized into collections. In the standard Emby app, when I'm in the movie library, they're all grouped.
But this doesn't work in the Moonfin app. Switching to group by collection in the settings doesn't change anything.

[buba 3]

On 18/7/2026 at 4:13, bingbong69_ said:

Lectores de libros electrónicos, cómics y audiolibros, además de una biblioteca de juegos retro si te gusta eso (sé que te gusta, no mientas)

esto como lo activo 

[arrbee99 1858]

I imagine there's an obvious answer to this, but anyone spotted a shuffle button, eg to shuffle all my music videos (of which I don't have many).

[arrbee99 1858]

When I go to say Movies and it shows the posters, All definitely isn't all -

 

[GrimEvil 87]

Feed back

moonfin does not support the spotlight feature or I can not see away to enable the one I use, I have it displaying a different list each day of the week, the example below is bond films

I also have a custom row of streaming media providers, that once clicked takes my to all media from the provider,  this does not show in moonfin as well

In moonfin if you take my james bond spotlight as an example above, moonfin shows your version miles two large (your version of spotlight). it covers the full window and as a user you would not realise to scroll down to other media, can this be make smaller?

Then when you do scroll down, the images are all two small/compressed so are more difficult to read and are out of focus. 

Live TV currently does not work at all and never loads and shows a blank screen, but on my backend it is playing, this works fine in emby standard clients.

On my setup I have a trailer play before movies, but in moonfin I am unable to skip these if I want, as no controls show, this is missing from the player window(emby default)

 

We do get controls on the movie as below

As per the above, I do not see any option to select sub titles for the media that is playing, same content in Emby

As you can see it give me an option for Sub titles that I can not see in the above playback in moonfin.

That's it for now, but Its looking quite good so far

 

 

[arrbee99 1858]

I updated Moonbase and Moonfin to the dot 1's - shut down, move files over, restart.

I get a permanently spinning circle on the plugin in Emby.

In the Moonfin app in widows I just get the rows My Media, Continue Watching & Next Up, Live TV, On Now and Rewatch. No Latest rows anywhere.

[arrbee99 1858]

And web page still doesn't work, but thats says it on 2.3.0. I thought that updated with the Moonbase update ?

[arrbee99 1858]

Webpage is working (now that I'm doing the right thing....)

Scrolling is really slow with the mouse scroll wheel though.

[arrbee99 1858]

Not sure how it works, but on the Home screen, and maybe others too, changing the size of the poster on the web app or the Windows app changes sizes on both, whereas I want one to be small and the other to be medium (or something like that).

[GrimEvil 87]

@bingbong69_any update?

[IAmHugh 76]

On 7/18/2026 at 1:39 AM, kikinjo said:

We asked emby devs, but of course they needed 3 weeks to respond and after that nothing is clearer, we know even less. 

Being more than a bit generous saying only 3 weeks.

[bingbong69_ 12]

HI @arrbee99the web app uses the Desktop profile if visited from desktop and mobile is visited from your phone, there is no web only profile.
Hi @GrimEvilsorry for the late reply been working the emby related issues submitted on github first. There are 5 different versions of the media bar, my version of your spotlight. At the time I couldn't find an API equivalent on Emby for the spotlight and even then it's a custom feature since Jellyfin doesn't have native media bars either. The playback controls are disabled for intros, our version of your trailer, because people were complaining about it since intros are usually short and it blocked their view. Interesting about the subtitles, it SHOULD be displaying, let me look at it today

Edited Tuesday at 11:41 AM by bingbong69_

[bingbong69_ 12]

@bubanecesitas tener una libreria de libros

Edited Tuesday at 11:42 AM by bingbong69_

[vdatanet 1636]

On 7/18/2026 at 7:59 PM, Neminem said:

I have no dev experience, but I do loath AI and AI created anything.

In the beginning, programming meant patching cables and flipping switches. Then came punch cards, assembly, high-level languages, compilers, frameworks, and IDEs with autocomplete, automated refactoring and static analysis. Every one of those jumps drew exactly the same criticism AI is getting now: "that's not real programming", "the next generation won't understand what's happening underneath". And every time, the same thing happened: we moved up a level of abstraction and got to build bigger, more ambitious things.

AI is the next rung on that ladder, not the end of the craft.

And here's the part I think gets overlooked most often: developing an application is far more than writing code. It's understanding what the person asking for it actually needs (which they often don't know themselves), choosing an architecture that will hold up, weighing cost against performance against deadline, thinking about security and data privacy, integrating with legacy systems nobody wants to touch, testing, deploying, monitoring and maintaining the whole thing for years. Code is the visible output of that work, not the work itself.

AI writes code fast, and often well enough. What it doesn't do is decide which problem is worth solving, or know which trade-off makes sense in your specific context, or remember that the function which looks absurd is written that way because of a business decision made five years ago. And it isn't the one answering to the client when things blow up in production on a Friday afternoon.

That said, the risks being raised here are real: generated code that looks correct and isn't, people accepting it without reading it, juniors skipping the stage where you learn to debug. But that's not an argument against the tool, it's an argument for using it with judgement. A compiler never saved anyone from a bad design either.

What changes isn't whether developers are still needed, but where the hours go: less typing out boilerplate, more design, more review, more decisions. Which, honestly, was always the hard part.

[IAmHugh 76]

Sorry NO AI PERIOD. Nice ignoring the horror stories that keep cropping up not to mention the AI data centers stealing our resourses.

[vdatanet 1636]

36 minutes ago, IAmHugh said:

Sorry NO AI PERIOD. Nice ignoring the horror stories that keep cropping up not to mention the AI data centers stealing our resourses.

Honestly, I agree with more of this than you'd expect. AI has genuinely dark sides, and the one that worries me most isn't the one people usually name: it's that the computing power is ending up in the hands of a very small number of companies. That's a concentration of leverage we're going to regret if nobody pushes back on it. The data centre costs you mention are part of that same picture.

But here's where I'm standing. I'm a developer. This is what feeds my family. If I decide on principle not to touch these tools, the industry doesn't stop — someone else adapts, does the same work faster, and takes the job. My refusal costs the companies nothing and costs me everything.

So I'd rather be inside it with my eyes open: using it, understanding its limits, being loud about what it gets wrong and who's paying for it. Opting out feels like the more principled position, but in practice it just removes people like us from the conversation while leaving the problems exactly where they were.

[Lawrage 14]

This plugin looks really good in theory and I love how it integrates with seerr.

Installed it to have a test but ran into a few issues.

1. Plugin install. I copies the moonfin.emby files and restarted emby. I see Moonfin in the plugins tab but a blue loading ring appears in the middle of the page and will not go away so unable to change any settings.
I remove the files and used the 2.0.0 release and that seems to work. No idea what went wrong or where to find logs on it.

2. The :8096/moonfin/web web URL doesnt load, just a spinning Loading Moonfin logo.

3. LG OS app. Looks decent. I really like the rotating banners on the home page. However once i enable seerr integration and go back to the home page the banners are just a blank screen and  writing "no description available" appears. Disabling seerr and this works normally again. Also changing user or reloading the app makes them load ok but once you click around a bit and come back to the home screen it goes back to being broken.

4. Apple TV. Again app looks nice but for some reason my libraries are not showing in the library settings menu so unable to add rows to my home page. Strange thing is it loads fine on my iphone (same account, same login etc...)

[Lawrage 14]

On 7/25/2026 at 5:15 AM, arrbee99 said:

I updated Moonbase and Moonfin to the dot 1's - shut down, move files over, restart.

I get a permanently spinning circle on the plugin in Emby.

In the Moonfin app in widows I just get the rows My Media, Continue Watching & Next Up, Live TV, On Now and Rewatch. No Latest rows anywhere.

You arent alone, I am getting the same.

[bingbong69_ 12]

1 minute ago, Lawrage said:

You arent alone, I am getting the same.

An issue has been submitted and I'm planning to work it this week along with the new plugin and core client release
https://github.com/Moonfin-Client/Plugin/issues/208

 

[arrbee99 1858]

I see its been mentioned as well on Github.

Personally for number 2, I bookmarked this type of thing - 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8096/Moonfin/Web/#/server-select'

[Lawrage 14]

3 minutes ago, arrbee99 said:

I see its been mentioned as well on Github.

Personally for number 2, I bookmarked this type of thing - 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8096/Moonfin/Web/#/server-select'

Thanks, same spinning when I use this URL with my IP