Backdrop Slideshow Duration Options

[Halliphax 8]

Hopefully relatively trivial to implement… 

I’ve configured ten backdrops to download for every TV and Movie in my library settings (variety is the spice of life and all that) but they’re rarely seen because it takes so long for backdrops to cycle when viewing an item. 
 

Ideally, this should be configurable in the library settings (or app settings?) so you can decide how often Emby will cycle through them i.e every 3, 5 or 10 seconds. 

[Luke 43568]

Hi, yes this is something that can be made configurable. Thanks.

[bananananana 1]

Hi Emby Team, while you are at it can you also allow the slideshow cycle to be randomized? 

[Luke 43568]

On 10/20/2026 at 3:15 PM, bananananana said:

Hi Emby Team, while you are at it can you also allow the slideshow cycle to be randomized? 

I guess that could be an option. Someone else just recently asked for this. I don't' think that would be good to enable by default because in my experience, unless you are manually curating your backdrop images, backdrop quality tends to degrade after the first one.