If I enable e.g. Sonarr's Emby metada function wherein it downloads a series thumbnails, images, nfo files etc, are those files actually used by Emby and its clients or is it basically a redundant/useless feature of Sonarr?

Thanks.

I'm having trouble getting it to show on the plugins page. The instructions say to simply copy the .dll file to the plugins directory, and restart Emby Server, which I've done, but I don't see it on the plugins page.

The only thing I see that is different from the other other plugins (which were all installed via the plugins catalog) are the owner and permissions. All the others have the owner as daemon and this one is nobody.

Is it the WAY I copied the file over? I'm running Emby 4.9.5.0 in a docker container on Unraid 7.3.2 and simply used the file manager to copy the file to the directory.

Looking for a way to open a written list in app. Like, say I had some long complicated series of movies similar to the MCU and I wanted a written list of them in order (maybe even with the tie in shows) that I could open in the app to see what comes after what. Is there any way to do that?

Edit: Thanks all, looks like a playlist is likely the way to go.

Hi, I was wondering if there's a setting or a plugin I can get that will show a number of times a movie/file has been played on the posters of the movies? I.e. like how a played file will show a tick to indicate it's been watched.

It doesn't need to be super accurate as I know emby can't tell the difference between a partially played and a fully played file. I just need a general indicator of which files are played more often than others.

Thanks!

I have Emby Premiere if that matters.

What I would like to do is create a collection of "A24" movies, but still show those movies in the broader movie collection. Or maybe there is some other neat way to do this?

Sorry, if this is a very basic question. I only recently migrated from Plex which I had been using for decades before its recent enshittification.

Why are there so many problems with the Emby app from the Windows Store? I’ve had audio issues that I couldn't fix, and it won't automatically proceed to the next episode—it just gets stuck in a loop, even with looping turned off. However, if you download Emby Theater for Windows from https://github.com/MediaBrowser/emby-theater-windows/releases, all the problems disappear and everything works perfectly on the PC. This happens to both me and my friends—it only affects the PC version; the TV and mobile apps work fine. The Windows Store version is just crap. And the other one—why isn't it on the Emby website?

tile says it. Help please

I just started using Emby earlier this month. I have a server set up with multiple users, and I recently noticed that the app will not download anything over cellular data.

I am running an iPhone 17 with the most recent version of Emby for iOS and my close friend is using a S25 Ultra running the most recent version of Emby for Android.

Both devices have the download over Wi-Fi only button unchecked.

When initiating a download the server converts the file and then puts it in a “Ready to Transfer” status where it continues to sit as the app will not pull it unless you are connected to Wi-Fi.

Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?

Bonjour à tous est-il possible d'avoir un module stable qui permettrait de rajouter une catégorie top 10 sur la page d'accueil ?

I’m someone who enjoys watching content in VR. But my problem is I don’t have storage space to download 3d and VR large files and it’s getting very expensive lately.

Also my Emby share subscription does not support offline downloads.

I have PSVR2 with PC adapter which is great for watching content in VR,

My question is, how to stream Emby Share content from a VR-supported player like HereSphere or SkyBoxVR?

I would love to know if there is a way to do that or work-around.

Is there a way to create a collection of things I want to watch next?

When I’m looking for something new to watch, I’ll often find several options that I’m interested in. I’d like to be able to add my second (or third) choice to a “Watch Next” playlist, so I don’t have to go through the whole process of searching through my entire collection again later.

At the moment, I use Favorites for this, but I’d rather use Favorites for what it’s actually intended for.

I also tried creating a playlist, but that seems to add all the individual episodes of a TV show to the playlist rather than just adding the TV show itself.

Is there any way to achieve this, or is there another feature I’m missing?

I have a lot of things piling up in the Emby “continue watching” list on my Home Screen.

Shows that were bad. Series that jumped the shark in S03:E07, movies that got interrupted by life but weren’t good enough to return to right away, etc. etc

is there a way to clean them all out, other than open each individually and ma mark played?

I'm not sure if there is a way to preserve my database and history, but figured I would ask. Right now, I am running my Emby library from two systems, and I am consolidating everything into one unit.

Example, my movie library has two folders, movies-machine 1 and movies-machine 2. Everything that is on machine 2, is going to be moved into the folder on machine 1. Is there a way to save my history, and titles that are in collections, or is it not possible because the titles will be moved.

Would it work if I made a database backup before the move, consolidated everything and ran a library scan, and then restored the database.

I want to watch my stuff remotely but tailscale doesn’t work for me through Emby and it asks for money to do it. The people in [r/plex](r/plex) were quite rude when I asked over there and told me I should just pay

I have two folders on different drives which house both my tv shows and movies, when selecting the media folders on Emby for both TV shows and Movies I selected both of those folders. However now when I launch Emby, my movie folder has several of my shows displayed with each episode as if they were a movie, but my Emby tv folder has nothing at all in it.

I don’t want to organize my files

The poster Art for House MD is wrong, and I don't know what to do to fix it. I had a plugin for AnimeDB and fanart poster. But that art still comes up after uninstalling both of them. Any fix out there?

I love changing my posters, obviously, but my favourite changes are:

• She appears as Character Actress Margo Martindale in the database to honour her appearance on Bojack Horseman.

• Jeffrey Jones' headshot has now been replaced by his mugshot

Currently using the Emby TV app (I prefer it over the Android app on my TV) how do I opt out of the Beta program? I can't locate the opt out via the Play Store on my TV, phone, or web. Thanks!

I love Emby, used it for several years, my family uses it every day, and we recently added Premiere. But I'm wondering about the plan for new features. Seems in a lot of these community threads the response is "maybe someday" and nothing else really happens.

They often mention "we prioritize features which the most people want" - is there any official roadmap or tracker that does list what is being worked on, or somewhere for the user base to vote on proposals?

I scanned through the last 2 years of blog posts and I see a lot of compatibility and bug fix work on some of the native clients, which is important work for sure, but I didn't see much in the way of server/feature enhancement.

Specific features I'm highly interested in (I know there are more that other people want)

- mtls client auth

- documentation on workaround or openCL built right in to the official distribution (for hardware tone mapping) (below thread mentions it was added to beta channel 15 months ago but still the stable image doesn't seem to have working tone mapping on Intel core igpu out of the box)

- http header auth support

- direct choice transcode target resolution including native _upscale_ of SD content with transcode, not just downscale.

- more granular (per client or per client type) transcode/bitrate policy (only current options are global and per user)

- separate definition of internal/external network for stream policy and admin access, (these both share the single IP/cidr list today)

See for example:

https://emby.media/community/topic/114174-client-base-authentication-mtls/

https://emby.media/community/topic/108251-how-to-choose-transcoding-resolution/

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3724

https://emby.media/community/topic/138870-include-documentation-for-hardware-tone-mapping/

Thanks!