Catastrophic Emby search bug on the new stable version.

[Dan_86 9]

It seems multi word search on the latest Unified Emby Android release causes the entire server to hang which will interrupt other users.  I cannot repeat this behaviour using the Android for TV app, web browser or the exact same unified Android APK on my phone. it only seems to be affecting the last unified Emby app installed on Google TV's

Very strange. I've attached a log,  according to claude:

What's actually happening:
Every time you search, the mobile Emby app fires several parallel queries behind the scenes to populate different result sections (movies, shows, episodes, people, etc.). One of those is:

 

IncludeItemTypes=Person&Recursive=true&SearchTerm=<your query>

That's a recursive search across your entire library for matching cast/crew — not a lookup of "people whose name matches," but a scan checking every item's Person associations against the search term. On a 1PB library, this single query takes 29–31 seconds to complete, every time (How I Met Your Mother: 29380ms, 30995ms, 30001ms; Breaking Bad: 29993ms, then 10351ms on a retry).

embyserver.txt

[Luke 43165]

Hi, we are looking into this. Thanks.

[devsky88 8]

@Lukeany update thus far on findings or anything with this? Makes search pretty useless on certain apps/clients.

[Luke 43165]

Hi, we are looking at it. Thanks.

[devsky88 8]

@Lukedo we have a timeline on pushing the current beta build to stable? In my testing the current beta build completely fixed this search issue. However the stable version as is now, is completely unusable in multi word search on numerous apps/clients including your own Emby app. So even a small push of the current beta to stable would be crazy helpful.

[Luke 43165]

Hi, hopefully soon. We are working on it. Thanks.

[devsky88 8]

They keep releasing more betas but they won't release even a small stable with the 1 item needed to fix a completely broken piece of Emby. One of your own clients (Emby app on Android TV) can't even search and is completely broken. Can we get a small push for just the search fix? Kind of ridiculous when we can't even use the Emby client as it stands.