What’s new in this version:
Emby Server 4.9.1.90
– Improve music now playing background blur
– Update recordings display
– DVR – don’t save series image if there already is one
– Support quoted search queries
– Improve search performance
Fixed:
– Fix lists scrolling back up to top after editing metadata
– Fixes for multi-part detection
– Fixes for external subtitles encoded in ansi
– Fixes for external .sup subtitles
– Fixes for subtitle font extraction
– Fix redirect for windows start menu option
Emby Server 4.9.1.80
Added:
– Add new maintenance mode feature
– Add up key action option to video player
– Add tv mode display setting to show remote control functions
– Add network request protocol option to server network settings
– Add library option to merge contents of top level folders in folder view
– Add user option to hide spoiler information from unwatched episodes
– Add Video codec, audio codec and framerate selectable and sortable fields
– Add experimental hevc transcoding option
– Add option to limit resolution of all transcoding to conserve server resources
– Add user preference to exclude libraries from search
– Add copy user data as an option when creating a new user and initializing with data from another user
– Add option for folder view to auto open single items in folders
– Add Duplicates library filter
– Add library options to control whether multi-part detection is enabled
– Add library options to control whether multi-version detection is enabled
– Add a sleep timer menu option in the web app audio player
– Add A-Z picker to add to collection/playlist
– Add library options to control generation of chapters when none are embedded within video files
– Add episode title to recording notifications
– Add Polish ratings
– Add Group By option on collection screens to choose between grouping collection items by media type or displaying all items in a single list
– Add date to notification descriptions
– Add prompt for playback when a channel is recording
– Add workaround for older Dlna devices to fix playback failures
– Add channel groups picker above the guide
– Add series recording option to check all libraries for existing episodes
– Add option to group notifications
– Add date last episode aired sort order to tv shows
– Add playback speed directly to video player OSD
– Add up next to video OSD
– Add photo slideshow time per slide option
– Add Play Slideshow context menu action for photos
Improved:
– Improve library scan performance
– Improve live tv guide refresh performance
– Improve database performance
– Improve performance of the realtime monitor
– Improve results of multi-word searches
– Improve hevc bitrate with conversion feature
– Improve title for external SDH subtitles
– Improve usage of embedded .ass fonts in the web app
– Improve title for external subtitles
– Improve camera upload error handling
– Improve separation of music and audiobook content in favorites
– Improve titles and descriptions for numerous notifications
– Improve played filter for series in folder view
– Improve searching for titles with dots in the name
– Improve Emby Connect address reporting after network changes
– Improve chapter support with multi-version videos
– Improve camera upload error handling
– Improve photo scanning error handling
– Improve remote image content-type detection
– Improve server log anonymization
Fixed:
– Fix collection content restrictions with search
– Fix video rotation when transcoding
– Fix year being doubled in recording folder names
– Fix trailer metadata being lost on refresh channels scheduled task
– Fix special episodes affecting unplayed episode counts
– Fix people search not respecting library access
– Fix person sort order
– Fixes for sorting multi-part files
– Fix scanning quirks with season scanning without season folders
– Fix 3D flag being lost in some cases on initial import
– Fix incorrect number of tracks displayed for a music artist
– Fix sorting by composers and artists when there are multiple values
– Fix import collection options not showing in Emby library setup
– Fix error after adding a new person using the metadata editor
– Fix series scanning regression related to year in folder name
– Fix temp files from database backup process not being cleaned up
– Fix playlist library folder not generating an image
– Fix CA-A parental rating value
– Fix incorrect items when shuffling or playing all on a music genre
– Fix extras being played with remote control play commands
– Fix external dvdsub delivery
– Fix unable to lock People
– Fix person nfo not being saved
– Fix collections getting lost after subtitle downloading when no nfo file is present
– Fix intermittent issue of new recordings not having media info
– Fix more like this not hiding played media when the option is set
– Fix sporadic cases of live streams ending early
– Fix multiple live tv views showing
– Fix adult metadata option not being used with Identify
– Fix rotation value for videos not being saved
– Fix genres tab missing from music videos library
– Fix Live TV view not being hidden after removing Live TV from the server
– Fix manage collaboration showing for playlists when permission to share personal content is denied
– Fix links section not showing for Collections
– Fix .sdh missing from subtitle download file name
– Fix Referer header in log not being anonymized
– Fix thumbnails for extras not being created
– Update to .NET 8
– Update to sqlite 3.49.2
– Support macOS on all betas going forward
– Support viewing books in the web app in pdf, epub, mobi, cbz, fb2 and other formats.
– Update ffmpeg with fixes related to image extraction and OpenCL
– Increase remote quality default value
– Debut of new WebStreams plugin
– Split remote quality setting into two, remote and cellular
– Support changing subtitle appearance settings during video playback
– Reorganize user and app settings
– Show three recent items in add to collection and add to playlist
– Support fb2 book extension
– Shorten display name for episode extras
– Support external audio tracks for movies and episodes
– Support playback correction in the web app
– Support date played as a selectable field in poster view
– Separate specials from episodes on series detail screen
– Artist sorting fixes
– Sorting fixes for items with long digits in name
– macOS networking fixes
– Smb file system fixes
– Support locking artists
– Rtsp protocol fixes
– Remove songs section from audiobook author screen
– Support setting shuffle state in audio player
– Transcoding fixes for audio only strm files
– Increase image extraction timeout
– Show ratings from all libraries on user config screen
– Run database integrity checks before backups
– M3U Live TV regression fix
– Support incremental seek speed using arrow keys
– Show more rows in video OSD guide
– Support launching videos from photo slideshow
– Auto-scroll the guide to the last played channel
– Factor in disc number to audio image uniqueness when extracting images from audio files
– Support alternative encodings of playlist files
– Support multiple episodedetails nodes in nfo files
– Start running hardware detection earlier on startup to try and avoid playback errors
– Support drag and drop reordering of transcoding codec settings
– Portuguese tv naming fixes
– Support ja-jp language code
– Adjust timing calculations for unaired/missing episodes
– Increase realtime monitor delay to help avoid repeated scanning
– Support drag and drop reordering in home screen settings library order
– Support drag and drop reordering in the metadata editor for genres, tags, people and studios
– Support launching videos from slideshow
– Prompt user when playing live channel with an active recording to ask if they want to start from the current live position or the start of the recording
– Convert subtitle offset dialog to a slider
– Set container field when importing all books
– Search all subtitle providers on manual subtitle downloads
– Various content visibility fixes for newly created libraries
– Restore collections library
– Support inherited images for music videos
– Support drag and drop reordering in all library settings
– Support -other for extras
– Refresh metadata on tracks when music albums are refreshed
Emby Server 4.8.11.0
– Improve server network change detection
– Add more data to recording events
– Various fixes with transcoding disk space cleanup
– Various fixes with SMB folder access on Linux, macOS and Android servers
– Various fixes for DVR checks if episode is already in the library
– Save converted subtitles using two-character language code
– Support HEAD requests with system/ping
– Minor re-organization of user and app settings
– Add startup behavior option to app settings
– Add tabbed view for book libraries
Fixed:
– Fix sporadic macOS crash caused by network change listener in dotnet runtime
– Fix sporadic cases of playlist files not being written when changes are made
– Fix sporadic no compatible streams error when playing a multi-version episode from continue watching
– Fixes for m3u’s with rtsp url’s
– Fix users not being able to edit image of their own playlist
Emby Server 4.8.10.0
– Fix hardware transcoding regression on some Linux platforms
Emby Server 4.8.9.0
Fixed:
– Fix libvips image conversion with smb paths
– Fix automatic reconnect of live tv m3u
– Fixes related to matching recordings with episode files already in the library
– Fix database error when removing libraries with overlapping paths with other libraries
Improved:
– Improve camera upload error handling
– Improve multi-version default selection
– Improve remote image content-type detection
Emby Server 4.8.8.0
– Support setting shuffle state in the audio player
– Add Group By option on collection screens to choose between grouping collection items by media type or displaying all items in a single list
– Fix import collection options not showing in Emby library setup
– Fix error after adding a new person using the metadata editor
– Add prompt for playback when a channel is recording
– Support incremental seek speed using arrow keys
– Show more rows in video OSD guide
– Support launching videos from photo slideshow
– Auto-scroll the guide to the last played channel
– Improve log anonymization
– Transcoding fixes for audio only strm files
– Increase image extraction timeout
– Factor in disc number to audio image uniqueness when extracting images from audio files
Emby Server 4.8.7.0
– Add server shutdown warning when there are active playback sessions or active recordings
– PGS subtitle position fixes when transcoding
– Convert subtitle offset dialog to a slider
– Fix unable to lock People
– Add Up Next to video OSD
– Search all subtitle providers on manual subtitle downloads
– Fix collections getting lost after subtitle downloading when no nfo file is present
– Various content visibility fixes for newly created libraries
– Improve log anonymization
– Support drag and drop reordering in all library settings
– Add playback speed directly to video player OSD
Emby Server 4.8.6.0
– Improve log anonymization
– Extract video images at full resolution
– Fix incorrect items being played with play all or shuffle on a genre
– Fix incorrect http response code on failed login (should be 401 rather than 403)
– Support drag and drop reordering in home screen settings library order
– Support drag and drop reordering in the metadata editor for genres, tags, people and studios
Emby Server 4.8.5.0
– Fix OpenCL regression affecting some Linux platforms
Emby Server 4.8.4.0
– Improve missing episode error handling
– Add collections library
– Don’t generate images for playlist libraries
– Add option to group notifications
– Improve camera upload error handling
– Improve ass/ssa support with conversion feature
– Freshen up web app fonts and icons
– Group collection items by media type
– Support drag and drop with transcoding codec settings
– Add series recording option to check all libraries for existing episodes
Fixed:
– Fixes related to scanning multi-part videos
– Fix duplicate live tv views
– Fix some subtitles being downloaded repeatedly
– Fix video rotation value not being scanned
– Fix library option for adult metadata not being used with Identify feature
– Fix genres not showing in music videos library
– Fix extras getting included when playing multiple items via remote control
– Fix person nfo not being saved when enabled
Emby Server 4.8.1.0
Fixed:
– Fix startup crashes on 32-bit Windows
– Start running hardware detection earlier on startup to try and avoid playback errors
– Portuguese tv naming fixes
– Support ja-jp language code
– Fix CA-A parental rating value
– Fix more like this not hiding played media when the option is set
– Fix sporadic cases of live streams ending early
– Fix multiple live tv views showing
– Fix manage collaboration showing for playlists when permission to share personal content is denied
– Various content restriction fixes
Emby Server 4.8.0.80
Added:
– Add new profile pin feature. Useful for devices shared by multiple users.
– Add new table view option
– Add more fields for selection in poster views
– Add new theme options
– Add FR-TP content rating
– Add hidden config switch to disable ssl renegotiation
– Add library option to cache images in server data folder to reduce disk access to original media folder
– Add View Missing Episodes context menu option for series and seasons
– Add option when creating a user to copy data from an existing user
– Add subtitle position settings
– Add sample file ignore size to library options
– Added New Episodes section under Live TV suggestions
– Add new indicator on Live TV program posters
– Add options to hide played media from More Like This and Suggestions
– Add user locked out notification to Notifications and Webhooks
– Add camera upload user permission
– Add new configurable home screen sections – Playlists, Collections, and Recently Released Movies
– Add more fields for display in User and Device management
– Add HDR filters to video list screens
– Add sorting controls to user and device management screens
– Add additional subtitle color options
– Add Remove Identification feature to reset metadata
– Add warning for duplicates when adding items to playlists
– Add automatic metadata refresh option for episodes with placeholder titles such as TBA
– Add guide display options to control visibility of channel names, images and numbers
– Add HK ratings
– Add user option to hide media info from detail screens
– Add media deleted notification and webhook event
– Add option to limit the number of genres displayed at the top of detail screens
– Add image size display option
– Add lock screen function to video player on mobile devices
– Add three way toggle nav menu to web app
– Add option to control display of rating information at the start of video playback
– Add Select None to multi-select lists
– Add intro detection library options
Fixed:
– Fix songs not being grouped into album when the album title contains an emoji
– Fix empty genre filters on playlists
– Fix anamorphic image extraction
– Fix transcode temp path in startup logging
– Fix 172.X addresses always being considered private
– Fix swagger docs with reverse proxies
– Fix restricting by tag hiding the tag itself
– Fix multi-episode file titles not using series display order
– Fix hide from Continue Listening only hiding a single track and not the entire album
– Fix live tv recordings being stopped in rare cases when the limit to keep is set to 1
– Fix green bottom line with QSV+OpenCL tone mapping
– Fix single image extraction with MPEGTS
– Fix support for simultaneous music and photo playback
– Fix sort by sort title being case sensitive in some views
– Fixes for multi-part and multi-version videos being used together
– Fixes for movies having file names starting with years
– Fix Intro Detection scheduled task not being visible
– Fix a/v sync regressions with live tv and recordings
– Fix changes to url-only nfo files not being recognized
– Fixes for downloads automatically redownloading
– Fix graphic subtitle position when burning in subtitles with transcoding
– Fix unnecessary ffmpeg dependency on Windows Media Foundation
– Fix sporadic cases of errors when reordering live tv channels
Improved:
– Various database performance improvements
– Merge webhooks into notifications
– Support keyword-based recordings
– Display all episodes directly under series without using season layer (with user display option to control behavior)
– Update Intel Media Driver
– Minor database performance improvements
– Support extras for seasons and episodes
– Various fixes for iOS 17
– Revamp backup plugin to be a more complete backup
– Support saving images locally for extras
– Import hearing impaired attribute for both internal and external subtitles
– Remember audio and subtitles across a tv series
– Improve support for audio-only live streams
– Support random sorting on list screens
– Improve country and language list sorting
– Improve program dialog in live tv guide to show complete information
– Improve user interface of Play On menu
– Support more conventions with provider id values in folder names (moviedb, imdb, etc)
– Improve series name detection by getting the series name from episode file names, in some cases
– Support multiple languages with user audio and subtitle preferences
– Improve performance of server activity viewer
– Improve support for folders being used in multiple libraries of same content types
– Clear external ids for episodes when using Identify feature on Series
– Improve search for single title movies
– Support swipe down to close all dialogs that slide up
– Improve searching titles containing quotes and periods (e.g. Agents of S.h.i.e.l.d or Shield)
– Anonymize manifest.json
– Support both nb and no Norwegian language options
– Rework Trakt plugin to be an option that each user can configure, rather than server settings
– Rework Notifications to be an option that each user can configure, rather than server settings
– Improve automatic reconnection for live streams
– Display preview of matched items when setting up a keyword recording
– Reduce database queries in audio fingerprint process
– Improve support for “subs” and “subtitles” folders
– Don’t allow local network addresses to be specified in x-forwarded-for and x-real-ip
– Support multi-select drag and drop add to playlist
– Support multi-select operations on downloads and conversions lists
– Update default subtitle font
– Rework playlists to be saved as m3u and deprecate the previous xml format
– Support extras in Collections
– Various image processing fixes
– Improve episode number parsing when episode file name is gibberish and parent folder name is readable
– Support sorting for playlists and collections
– Revamp webhooks plugin, supporting new events and configuration options
– Include activity log database file when vacuuming databases
– Rework scanning of extras, allowing more flexible usage of video extras
– Resolve issue of multi-part and multi-version not being able to be used together
– Improve the use of internet metadata with recordings
– Support shift to multi-select
– Use tone mapping for image extraction
– Allow separate images for audio book tracks
– Stop scanning at the top of a library when it’s unreachable
– Change wording of transcoding reasons to be more user friendly
– Improve filter menu indicator
– Initial RTL support in web interface
– Make tagline field lockable
– Make overview field lockable
– Rework Live TV recording options to be based on selected folders, rather than raw paths
– Support .actors folder for people images
– Resolve long-standing metadata quirks when removing data from nfo files and having it not get cleared in Emby
– Nfo plugin: Stop saving nfo files for additional parts
– Improve photo loading performance
– Remember subtitle selections even when user option is set to None
– Improve support for musicbrainz illegal character replacement
– Improve drag and drop scrolling
– Sanitize new playlist and collection names
– Improve automatic channel mapping with xml tv
– Support sort by composer
Emby Server 4.7.14.0
– Web app compatibility updates for iOS 17
– Compatibility updates for FreeBSD, TrueNAS and Arch Linux
– Improve playback of transcoded video in the Emby web app
Emby Server 4.7.13.0
– Improve artist splitting for artists that have a / in their title
– Handle invalid data when parsing video rotation information
– Fix error with conversion feature and videos that have audio streams with 0 channels
– Various intro detection bug fixes
– Fix errors with SMB access on Linux when non-default server port is used
– Various transcoding related fixes
– Increase default server database cache size for new installs
Emby Server 4.7.12.0
– Fix 172.X addresses always being considered private
– Don’t allow local network addresses to be specified in x-forwarded-for and x-real-ip
– Adjust web app html tags to avoid false detection from Chrome as impersonating the Emby domain
Emby Server 4.7.11.0
– Fix intermittent scroll problem with Live TV Guide
– Add new display options in Live TV guide to control visibility of channel name, image and number
– Improve intro detection error handling
Emby Server 4.7.10.0
– Fix HeaderLiveTV missing translation text
– Delay triggering new item additions under after metadata download. This should help improve the experience with Trakt, Webhooks, notifications, etc.
– Fixed intermittent issue of recordings being stopped when series keep limit is set to one
Emby Server 4.7.9.0
– Support copying settings from an existing user when creating a new one
– Improve library scan handling of unavailable folders
– Fix regressions related to user device restriction management
– Add several new webhooks, including new media added
– Support sorting playlists
– Improved right to left (RTL) support
– Update default subtitle font
Emby Server 4.7.8.0
– Fix regression on artists list screen
Emby Server 4.7.7.0
– Various database performance improvements
– Stop scanning at the top of a library when it’s unreachable
– DVR: Don’t use episode title for comparison when it matches the series title
– DVR: Support keyword-based recordings
– Improved RTL supported in the web interface
– Add lock screen function to video player for mobile devices
– Support three way navigation menu toggle, to switch between full, mini and flyout modes
– Add more fields for selection in poster views
– Add image size display option
– Fix support for simultaneous music and photo playback
– Add option to control display of rating information at the start of video playback
– Change wording of transcoding reasons to be more user friendly
– Improve filter menu indicator
Emby Server 4.7.5.0
– Fix a/v sync regressions with live tv and recordings
– Fix web app subtitle sizes being too small
– Various fixes with new table view feature
Emby Server 4.7.4.0
– Fix glibc errors on certain NAS devices
– Image processing fixes on FreeBSD/TrueNAS
Emby Server 4.7.3.0
– Add Episode Intro Detection and Skipping feature
– Add new table view option
– Add more fields for selection in poster views
– Add new theme options
– Fixes for downloads automatically redownloading
– Remember subtitle selections even when user option is set to None
– Fix graphic subtitle position when burning in subtitles with transcoding
– Fix sporadic cases of errors when reordering live tv channels
– Improve automatic channel mapping with xml tv
– Support sort by composer
Emby Server 4.7.2.0
– Add episode intro detection feature to library options
– Add user profile options for episode intro skipping
– Fix regression with episode number parsing from file names
– Fix file names of home videos being truncated after last dot in the file name
– Fix downloads redownloading on deletion
– Remember subtitle selections if enabled, even when user subtitle mode is set to default to None
Emby Server 4.7.1.0
– Windows – Fix unnecessary ffmpeg dependency on Windows Media Foundation
– Improve Chinese language detection of embedded audio and subtitle tracks
– Remove errant play/shuffle buttons appearing on various list screens in server web interface
– Display timestamps with lyrics
Emby Server 4.7.0.60
– Update to .NET Core 6.0
– Update to ffmpeg 5.0
– Fix android database errors on deletion
– Fix display of incorrect video format names
– id3v2 parsing: Read full null seperated list for text info frames
– Add AC-4 decoder
– Add Log anonymization feature
– Add now playing screen style options
– Support display of embedded lyrics and lyrics in txt, lrc files
– Reduce port mapper network traffic
– Avoid detection of duplicate DX11VA devices
– Support manual recordings based on a channel and time
– ASF: Fix regression bug when reading image attachments
– Separate theme and accent color options to allow independent choices
– Add universal closed captions support to all Emby apps
– Add library option to control importing of playlist files
– Add log file rotation option
– Fix search displaying previously aired programs
– Move M3U tuner support into dedicated plugin
– Clean HLS segments during playback when disk space is low
– Reduce sizes of server log files when debug logging is not enabled
– Add subtitle download max age option
– Add subtitle download option for forced subtitles only
– Fix incorrect photo orientation in slideshows
– Fix Roku playback failures with very long recordings
– Support comment tag as description for audio files
– Preserve subtitle track language with conversion and download features
– Safeguard against junk year values when probing audio files
– Save writers as composers when probing audio files
– Windows: restart scheduled task and dvr times when system time changes (daylight savings)
– Support a-z picker in descending order
– Support a-z picker when sorting by album artist or album
– Support reading roontracktag for music
– Clear episode external ids when changing series display order in metadata editor
– Improve deriving hw devices
– Support Audio Book resume
– Adjust for QSV changes in ffmpeg
– Fix QuickSync HW overlay with tone mapping
– Add Info, Chapters, Cast, On Now and Guide sections to video OSD
– Add subtitle background color and opacity options
– Add logo as title display option
– Add resume rewind playback option
– Fixes for Apple TV top shelf content
– Fix cbr books sending wrong mime type
– Support negative recording padding values
– Fix dvd & bluray folders not being hidden via .ignore files
– Make context menu header texts clickable
– Resolve performance issues associated with having large numbers of devices in the server database
– Update Tvdb plugin to newer Tvdb API
– Fix transcoding throttling not occurring with Chromecast
– Update multi-episode metadata fetching to work with all metadata providers
– Fix classic image series extraction
– Add south african ratings
– Improve camera upload error handling
– Fix music album parsing error when album name is ()
– Fix folder images getting replaced when not saving images in media folders
– Fix identify feature with music videos
– Fix episodes with season numbers greater than 200
– Support convert feature with multi-select tool
– Improve multi-version display names
– Don’t show video OSD on double tap skipping
– Rework Active Devices display into Now Playing
– Add view settings to Recordings tab in Live TV
– Improve audio book detail screen
– Improve audio OSD
– Improve efficiency of real-time monitor
– Support selecting multiple channels for series recordings
– Support specifying a max recording length for series recordings
– Fix photo scanning getting stuck in a loop with certain files
– Various fixes with manual subtitle downloading for multi-version videos
– Catch some corner cases of streams being left opened after stopping playback
– Improve DSD audio support over Dlna
– Simplify server dashboard to display more data
– Fix occasional display of incorrect video format names
– Minor adjustment of detail screen buttons
– Display chapter name in seek thumbnail previews
– Move emby guide data to plugin for easier updating
– Fix occasional duplicated Sign Out entry
– Fix list view multi-select in FireFox
– Add channel name and channel number as dvr post processing command line arguments
– Improve scan metadata folder scheduled task progress reporting
– Fix hide from resume getting unhidden after adding a new episode
– Improve performance of playlist detail screen
– Add sort by track number option to folder views
– Add Copy to Clipboard support in Api Keys screen
– Enable chapters for audio books
– Update decision making for periodic refreshes
– Support tcm as composer
– Show full Chinese display name in track languages
– Fix local nfo ignoring date added value in certain cases
– Update top tab design to be more discoverable
– Improve layouts with docked sidebar
– Set Dlna Server to off by default
– Fix graphic subs burn-in with tone mapping on QSV
– Fix scaling of wrong-sized graphical subtitles
– Fix incorrect hw context indication for D3D11VA decoders
– Allow for higher audio stream copy bitrate
– Support subs and subtitles folder case-insensitive
– Update album/song links with Included In section
– Make DVR wake server optional on supported platforms
– Set subtitle filename when downloading subtitle files to the browser
– Always display sort title in the metadata editor
– Make sort title lockable in the metadata editor
– Add Italian ratings
– Always record episodes when the option to check existing library is not selected
– Adjust recording image save behavior for series episodes that are sports
– Don’t convert really large images to webp
– Improve album Identify search results display
– Support audio description and studio from copyright tag
– Fix av1 direct play
– Support wm/year and original year tags
– Improve same subnet detection
– Improve episode parsing with episode titles contain numbers
– Add paths to log file for reference
– Allow deleting albums and artists
– Update folder queries to fix metadata manager sorting for albums
– Log DX detection into main log if debug logging is enabled
– Avoid resetting real-time monitor to parent folder when possible
– Adjust continue watching query
– Improve series grouping in mixed content
– Remove rejection of large camera uploads to allow any file size
– Support .mid audio files
– Support sort_with embedded sort title for videos
– Fix album items being added to playlist alphabetically
– Update sort by date last episode added to not be impacted by virtual episodes
– Prevent split button on missing episode detail screen
– Fix transcoding audio channel count with convert function
– Fix artists inheriting genres from albums when they shouldn’t
– Fix sporadic cases of burned in subtitles not appearing
– Fix detection of video stream vs. embedded image
– Fix web app playback failures in cases of videos that played successfully with Emby Server 4.5
Emby Server 4.6.7.0
– Fix regression with local network multiple subnet detection
– Improve cleanup of transcoding processes
Emby Server 4.6.6.0
Fixed:
– outgoing SSL errors on some Linux distros
– android server database errors on deletion
– android server ffmpeg errors on android 11
– android server SSL errors with fanart.tv
– QuickSync HW overlay with tone mapping
– for Apple TV top shelf content
– cbr books sending wrong mime type
– transcoding throttling not occurring with Chromecast
– classic image series extraction
– music album parsing error when album name is ()
– folder images getting replaced when not saving images in media folders
– identify feature with music videos
– episodes with season numbers greater than 200
– scaling of wrong-sized graphical subtitles
– incorrect hw context indication for D3D11VA decoders
– artists inheriting genres from albums when they shouldn’t
– detection of video stream vs. embedded image
– Add south African ratings
– Improve camera upload error handling
– Improve efficiency of real-time monitor
– Improve DSD audio support over Dlna
– Allow for higher audio stream copy bitrate
– Support subs and subtitles folder case-insensitive
– Update album/song links with Included In section
– Set subtitle filename when downloading subtitle files to the browser
– Add Italian ratings
– Always record episodes when the option to check existing library is not selected
– Adjust recording image save behavior for series episodes that are sports
– Don’t convert really large images to webp
– Support audio description and studio from copyright tag
– Support wm/year and original year tags
– Improve same subnet detection
– Add paths to log file for reference
– Allow deleting albums and artists
– Avoid resetting real-time monitor to parent folder when possible
– Improve series grouping in mixed content
– Remove rejection of large camera uploads to allow any file size
– Support .mid audio files
– Support sort_with embedded sort title for videos
– Prevent split button on missing episode detail screen
Emby Server 4.6.4.0
– Resolve cause of sporadic database locked errors
– Fix graphic subs burn-in with tone mapping on qsv
Emby Server 4.6.3.0
Fixed:
– web app playback regressions of videos that successfully played in previous server version
– sporadic cases of audio playback stopping in the web app
– sporadic cases of subtitle burn in not working
-ate sort by date last episode added to not be affected by virtual items in the database
– Synology dashboard showing Emby Server as stopped when it is still running
– album items being added to playlist alphabetically
– transcoding audio channels for converted files using the convert media feature
Emby Server 4.6.2.0
Fixed:
– incorrect season 0 content showing in series next up list
– queries by album ids not respecting user library access
– sessions getting dropped from active devices display when the server admin has restricted their own remote control access of other devices
– detail screen for light themes
– legacy next up not respecting library access
– incorrect horizontal scroll position after using metadata editor
– year not showing in search results
– special episode sorting
– sporadic duplicated backdrop image
Improved:
– support for following redirects when downloading xmltv
– release date sorting
Emby Server 4.6.1.0
– Resolve sporadic database locked errors (may require an additional server restart)
– Various fixes related to non-standard episode naming
– Fix library options sometimes appearing to not save
– Fix regression in xmltv series identification
– Fix clicking see all on next up showing an empty list
– Fixes for GameBrowser
– Fix multi-select remove from playlist when removing the same track with multiple selections
– Improve metadata editor lock icon
Emby Server 4.6.0.50
– Improve database/user interface performance in all Emby apps
– Add WMC-inspired channel management screen to support disabling channels, reordering, and remapping guide data.
– Rework storage model for Collections
– Support reading Collections from movie nfo files
– Merge AutoBoxSets plugin features into the server as movie library options
– Improve Linux QuickSync support
– Add more field options for display in lists
– Support HDR tone mapping when transcoding
– Group programs in live tv suggestions and search
– Add Other Showings section to live tv program detail screens
– Add LIVE button to live tv guide
– Adjust extracted images for HDR videos
– Add favorites to context menu
– Add mark played to context menu
– Run sqlite optimize on server shutdown
– Unify live tv channel sorting options in all places (guide, channels tab, on now, etc)
– Add “Clear Manual Mapping” button to live tv channel mapper
– Fix rare case of tuner being left open following a recording with a series whose name ends in a dot
– Fix episode images being saved with incorrect file name
– Fix custom collection images reverting to default auto-generated images
– Rework display of locked fields in metadata editor
– Add hidden config switch to optimize databases on shutdown
– Improve detection of supported formats for Dlna devices
– Support multi-select in list views
– Support drag and drop backdrop reordering
– Support multi-select remove from playlist/collection
– Support setting an image from a URL
– Improve single channel program list display
– Include all subtitle streams with conversion and download features, when possible
– Prefer D3D11 QuickSync codecs by priority
– Add h264_mmal decoder
– Improve performance of Live TV Guide refresh
– Improve 3D detection from file names
– Support SXXEXX episode numbers in xml tv guide data
– Ensure proper handling of yuv422p10 color format
– Fix repeated unzipping in xmltv provider, causing excess disk space to be consumed
– Improve Dlna device detection
– Significantly reduce Dlna message chatter with devices on the network
– Support series-id tags from xmltv
– Fix genre screen occasionally being empty depending on where you came from
– Support discnumber audio tag in addition to disc
– Fix odd, alternating behavior when refreshing metadata while replacing images
– Make determination of series recording path a little smarter about finding existing series in the library
– Fix incorrect conversion job status being reported when converting
– Restore death date on person detail screen
– Default folder browsing to list when all items are audio tracks
– Improve dynamic data refreshing on detail screen
– Fix key presses affecting video OSD while popup dialogs are open and have focus
– Fix remote control restarting playback in some cases
– Add adult metadata library option
– Move option to save metadata as hidden files to per-library option
– Fix custom genre images being replaced
– Sanitize data from metadata editor to prevent accidental user error such as trailing spaces
– Support special episodes in Continue Watching & Play All
– Update scheduled task logging to try and avoid preventing Synology NAS servers from being able to sleep
– Improve MMAL codec support
– Improve Roku remote control support
– Rework device access with new user permission to hide users from login screens on devices they’ve never signed into before
– Support episode backdrops in season folder
– Support extras in playlists
– Add additional fixes for downloading txt format subtitles
– Add user profile options to control if audio & subtitle track selections are remembered per video
– Add buttons in user profile options to clear all existing saved audio and subtitle track selections
– Add HDR info to video stream titles
– Check first ip of x-forwarded-for
– Have realtime monitor ignore .DS_Store
– Support downloading live tv channel logos in multiple colors to allow Emby apps to choose the most appropriate logo depending on the user’s chosen color theme.
– Prefer Artist tag over Artists when there is only one artist
– Improve handling of invalid content-type header when downloading images
– Support Live TV channel groups by adding channels to Collections
– Support reading live tv channel group information from m3u tuners
– Add multi-select filtering support
– Merge next up into continue watching
– Support remove from continue watching
– Add home videos landing screen option
– Support clicking individual text items in list items
– Support add to play queue with drag and drop
– Support add to playlists and collections with drag and drop
– Add profile checking for MP2Video hardware decoders
– Add title and image to context menus
– Support playback speed control during audio playback
– Add button to clear filters when no results are returned
– Add Nvidia NVDEC decoder variant for HEVC
– VAAPI: Use color formats from detection
– Prevent ffmpeg hw processing of 10bit when device doesn’t support it
– Fix play all/shuffle on collections comprised of folders
– Support EP.01 episode naming
– Resolve slow file read/write performance on Windows
– Improve recovery from invalid configuration in the lan networks setting
– Fix successful audio conversions misinterpreted as failures
– Various fixes for codec level detection
– Improve detail screen backdrop display
– Fix Nvidia HEVC level detection
– Make media info visible accessible in TV display mode
– Reduce messaging from server to android and iOS apps causing the app background processes to run
– Fix interlaced video being incorrectly stream copied with HLS
– Fix remote play of playlists being sorted by name
– Show songs on artist detail screen
– Add delete, download and preview functions to external subtitle tracks in media info section
– Support downloading subtitles during video playback
– Support manipulating the play queue of remote controlled players
– Fix webp image support not being used in certain cases
– Update same time recording threshold to 15 minutes
– Improve local network address detection
– Block windows 8 & 2012 from using http2
– Fix repeated subtitle downloads of .sub format
– Add http version to server log
– Improve subtitle track selection when always show subtitles is selected
– Expand artist split whitelist
– Fix undefined dlna display name
– Improve ability of other devices to discover emby server
– New search interface for mobile and desktop
– Add top results section to search
– Improve searching for songs using album name
– Fix channel logos intermittently disappearing while scrolling the guide in Firefox
– Fix incorrect iOS scroll after cancelling context menu
– Fix artists added to collections not showing
Emby Server 4.5.4.0
Fixed:
– Fix regression in 4.5.3 causing slow browsing and search performance in certain situations
– Fix regression in 4.5.2 causing incorrect items to be queued to conversion tasks
– Fix Nvidia HEVC level detection
Emby Server 4.5.0.50
– Support adjusting subtitle offset in web app video player
– Support adjusting playback rate in web app video player
– Update to .NET Core runtime 3.1.7
– Re-activate http2 features
– Improve scrolling performance in Live TV guide
– Fix Nvidia color conversion from mjpeg with yuvj422p
– Fix Nvidia level calculation
– Fix Live TV radio playback
– Improve http server performance by consolidating layers of data flow
– Improve database performance via index adjustments
– Reduce database writes when saving new items and refreshing metadata
– Improve conversion chances of downloaded txt format subtitles
– Add mmal into ffmpeg builds for RPI
– Fix pageup/pagedown in Emby web app
– Fix admin editing settings for other user
– Fix transcoding of m4v files
– Fix space bar during video playback with Vivaldi browser
– Handle multiple addresses in x-forwarded-for
– Resolve intermittent active recordings display problem
– Fix multi-select refresh metadata
– Fix automatic restart to avoid attempting to restart multiple times
– Fix download jobs getting duplicated
– Allow include tags to override parental rating restriction
– Alac playback fixes
– Opera browser playback fixes
– API: require admin to get full server configuration
– Fix extras with multi-version movies
– Improve image downloader presentation
– Fix adding playlist to a playlist
– Improve scrolling performance in Live TV guide
– Fix season 0 items out of order
– Fix manual metadata edits of movie extras being lost
– Support embedded creation_time in exif data for videos
– API: Require admin rights to get all users list
– API: Require admin rights to get list of detected hardware transcoders
– Fix active sessions filter
– Fix add to collections/playlists menu getting cut off in certain situations
– Fix certain situations where an admin editing another user’s profile would not be able to see all options
– Fix H264 preset configuration
– Improve cleanup of missing episodes
– Fix rotation of dynamic images
– Ignore unsupported subtitle formats when searching for downloads
– Support other folder as alias to extras
– Add au/ra artist exception
– Support .aax audio files
– Adjust backdrop image save file names
– Support tags in people queries
– Improve performance of adding to collections
– Fix crash when uploading jfjf user image
– Add audio language filters
– Add subtitle language filters
– fix India and Kazakhstan parental ratings
– Ignore @Recently-Snapshot for QNAP
– Fix the list of available parental rating choices in the metadata editor when the library metadata language differs from the server default
– Fix HD Homerun with TVHeadend
– Disable missing episodes for dvd and absolute order
– Fix second theme song being played in foreground
– Fix occasional errant scrollbar on video detail screen
– Incorporate resume into Ends at display
– Show music videos for artist
– Add favorite channels
– Improve codec selection when streaming with Edge browser
– Minor freshening up of dark themes
– Fix configuring series settings right after creating series
– Fix query with AlternateMediaSources
– Rtsp fixes
– Fix rare transcoding failures when media info is absent
– Add green subtitle color option
– Don’t download subtitles for disc placeholders
– Improve Denmark rating options
– Support yyyyMMdd episode by date format
– Improve multi-version display names
– Fix cinema mode with local trailers that don’t have a rating
– Fix multi-select delete option not showing
– Fix content type being lost for restored libraries
– Fix videos that were split apart getting rejoined on next scan
– Improve recovery from bad image urls
– Allow left menu to be pinned as a sidebar
– Allow left menu sections to be collapsible
– Various fixes for adding items to playlists
– Avoid duplicate terms in version display name
– Support backdrops on list screen
– Remove background overlay from context menus
– Fix remote content (strm files) ignoring quality setting
Emby Server 4.4.3
– Improve performance of live tv guide
– Fix movie extras with multi-version videos
– Fix adding playlist to playlist
– Improve cleanup of missing episodes
– Fix rotation of dynamic images
– Fix manual metadata edits of extras getting lost
– Fix active sessions filter
– Work around a bug in MSDK where VPP processing hangs under certain conditions
– Fix qsv color conversion: Older devices 3,4 and 5th gen CPUs do not support 10bit and the color conversion cannot be done in hardware
– Ignore unsupported subtitle formats when searching for downloads
– Convert downloaded txt subtitles to srt
– Don’t extract thumbnails for extras
– Improve display language of manual image downloading
– Deactivate GraphRunner debug messages
Emby Server 4.4.2
– m4v transcoding fixes
– alac audio playback fixes
– opera browser direct play improvements
Emby Server 4.4.1
– Fix Nvidia color conversion from mjpeg with yuvj422p
– Fix Nvidia level calculation
– Fix Live TV radio playback
– Support tags in people queries
– Fix pageup/pagedown in Emby web app
– Fix admin editing settings for other user
– Fix transcoding of m4v files
– Fix space bar during video playback with Vivaldi browser
– Handle multiple addresses in x-forwarded-for
– Resolve intermittent active recordings display problem
– Fix multi-select refresh metadata
– Fix automatic restart to avoid attempting to restart multiple times
– Fix download jobs getting duplicated
Emby Server 4.4.0.40
– Added virtual scrolling for most vertical lists
– Update all platforms to .NET Core 3.1
– Improve support for transcoding 10-bit content with hardware acceleration
– Fix Nvidia scaling problem with anamorphic video
– Fix sort title comparisons with special characters
– Various fixes and improvements with QuickSync transcoding
– Support http2 on Windows and Linux
– Allow downloading multiple subtitles in same language
– Unify all web app settings areas
– Improve performance of download and convert features
– Improve automatic multi-version selection
– Fix direct streams of in-progress recordings
– Improve detail screen for music albums and playlists
– Update play button on series posters to play next episode
– Added Indian parental ratings
– Improve detail screen for videos and series
– Redesign add to playlists & collections
– Improve 3D format detection
– Fix user access not being enforced with multi-version movies
– Support parsing 8-digit Imdb Id’s in nfo files
– Fix chapter image extraction for .ts files
– Support extracting years from file names beginning with braces, as well as more messy bracket patters
– Fix invalid output file duration with graphical subtitle overlay
– Fix web socket notifications not respecting library sub-folder access
– Shorten several web app urls
– Image extraction: fix formatting negative duration
– Fix invalid audio filter use (-af)
– Improve channel logo assignments
– Fix logos cropping whitespace
– Allow nfo’s for extras
– Improve auto-generated audio track display names
– Reduce scheduled task logging to address hibernation problems on Synology
– Various sorting fixes (most apply to new server installations only)
– Improve search results messages when no items are found
– Prevent 2017-2019 from being picked up as season and episode numbers
– Fixes for display of Chinese language name with subtitles
– Improve performance of android server
– Support Brotli compression with android server
– Fix folder sync deleting original files
– Support searching for tags
– Improve instant mix when no genres are present
– Improve replace existing images option with metadata refreshes to be less destructive
– Add 8K display title
– Various fixes for detecting multi-part videos
– Fix sorting for multi-part videos
– Fix wma audio files with Dlna
– Write HVC1 tag when converting videos with hevc to an MP4 container
– Update Norwegian parental ratings
– Add Swedish parental ratings
– Improve camera upload error handling
– Allow preview of manual subtitle downloads
– Fix wav file playback with DTS audio
– Don’t group into collections when filtering on favorites
– Reduce http request logging
– Clear metadata lock when using identify feature
– Add channel number sort option
– Add additional view options to playlists tab under music
– Fix subtitle conversions from smb shares
– Update multi-select to only show applicable options based on selections
– Fix repeated download of Chinese subtitles
– Fixes for manual grouping/ungrouping of multiple videos
– Fix parsing of 2020 year in movie file names
Emby Server 4.3.1.0
– Fix arm64 transcoding crashes
– Fix stopping live streams killing recordings
– Fix m3u tuners with m3u8 sources
– Fix photo downloads
– Fix missing PlaybackPositionTicks in PlaybackStart event – Trakt
– Fix server uninstaller
– Fix changing audio tracks when remote controlling another app
– Add black theme option
– Improve light theme
Emby Server 3.5.2.0
– Fix music playback freeze on Xbox One
Emby Server 3.5.0.0
– Update to .NET Core 2.1 RC1
– Update to ffmpeg 4.0
– Update to SkiaSharp 1.60
– Update to sqlite 3.24.0
– Support Emby Server for Western Digital NAS
– Mono-based releases now require mono 5.4+
– Improve live tv recording process from m3u
– Rework hover menus
– Fix click destination on photo albums in search results
– Virtualize persisted metadata paths
– Fix dlna server availability in mono releases
– Fix xmltv support in mono releases
– Update collection visibility per user
– Update default audio track selection
– Update date in recording file names
– Resolve sporadic issue of not being able to start live tv
– Update naming for next up sync jobs
– Fix Romanian text encoding
– Fix Thai text encoding
– Improve tvdb series queries
– Improve musicbrainz artist queries
– Add playlists to search results
– Fix playlist queries
– Fix issue when attempting to sign into local server using Emby Connect credentials
– Fix m2ts files not showing up in DLNA
– Fix subtitle resizing on window resize in firefox
– Add blue radiance theme option
– Add convert option to replace original files
– Rework devices display
– Fix erroneous Emby Connect invitation error messages
– Fix recognition of episode numbers greater than 365
– Update albums per artist to be based on album artist only
– Update more from albums to be based on album artist only