Emby

Changes

4.10.0.22

• improve search performance

Cumulative Changes Since Stable Release

• wake on lan fixes
• improve search performance
• fix favorite live tv channels still showing after removing live tv access
• wake on lan fixes
• add retry for failed conversions
• add subtitles to stats for nerds
• Fix media probe regression
• Fix trailer support in season folders
• Fix ass/ssa rendering regression
• Update to sqlite 3.53.3
• Update ffmpeg build to disable magicyuv decoder
• Fix genre screens showing emptry genres
• Fix empty results on some screens when filtering by genres and studios together
• Resolve issue of copying user settings requiring server restart to take effect
• Fix regression when marking certain items as favorites
• Fix recently searched showing incorrect data
• Subtitle rendering Fixes
• Fix live tv content being included in search in Emby for Roku
• Support played filter with more home screen sections
• Fixes for played filter with new home screen settings
• Refresh metadata on all versions of a video when refresing metadata manually
• Fix detail screen regression with previous build
• Update to sqlite 3.51.3
• Add played filter to home screen sections
• Add display mode option to home screen sections
• Fix realtime monitor not working in some cases for directories with periods in the name
• Update to sqlite 3.51.3
• Add played filter to home screen sections
• Add display mode option to home screen sections
• Track date last searched of items
• Fixes for youtube urls inside strm files
• Fix queries for some home screen sections returning wrong items
• Add new spotlight home screen section option
• Add new home screen section type called dynamic media with sorting and filtering functions
• Update to sqlite 3.51.2
• Fix regression with hiding users from login screens on remote connections
• Add sorting options to new home screen editor
• Add Copy Data to Users context menu command
• Fixes with home screen sections migration
• Revamp home screen section options with new section editor
• Add banner text option to server settings
• Support person credits at the bottom of person detail screens
• Playback fixes for Chromecast
• Fix subtitle encoding regression with LG TV's
• Fix Hardware Transcoding for HDR Video when Tone Mapping is enabled

Changes

4.10.0.21

• wake on lan fixes
• improve search performance
• fix favorite live tv channels still showing after removing live tv access

Cumulative Changes Since Stable Release

• wake on lan fixes
• add retry for failed conversions
• add subtitles to stats for nerds
• Fix media probe regression
• Fix trailer support in season folders
• Fix ass/ssa rendering regression
• Update to sqlite 3.53.3
• Update ffmpeg build to disable magicyuv decoder
• Fix genre screens showing emptry genres
• Fix empty results on some screens when filtering by genres and studios together
• Resolve issue of copying user settings requiring server restart to take effect
• Fix regression when marking certain items as favorites
• Fix recently searched showing incorrect data
• Subtitle rendering Fixes
• Fix live tv content being included in search in Emby for Roku
• Support played filter with more home screen sections
• Fixes for played filter with new home screen settings
• Refresh metadata on all versions of a video when refresing metadata manually
• Fix detail screen regression with previous build
• Update to sqlite 3.51.3
• Add played filter to home screen sections
• Add display mode option to home screen sections
• Fix realtime monitor not working in some cases for directories with periods in the name
• Update to sqlite 3.51.3
• Add played filter to home screen sections
• Add display mode option to home screen sections
• Track date last searched of items
• Fixes for youtube urls inside strm files
• Fix queries for some home screen sections returning wrong items
• Add new spotlight home screen section option
• Add new home screen section type called dynamic media with sorting and filtering functions
• Update to sqlite 3.51.2
• Fix regression with hiding users from login screens on remote connections
• Add sorting options to new home screen editor
• Add Copy Data to Users context menu command
• Fixes with home screen sections migration
• Revamp home screen section options with new section editor
• Add banner text option to server settings
• Support person credits at the bottom of person detail screens
• Playback fixes for Chromecast
• Fix subtitle encoding regression with LG TV's
• Fix Hardware Transcoding for HDR Video when Tone Mapping is enabled

Changes

4.9.5.0

• Fix sporadic cases of wrong subtitle encoding
• Fix sporadic cases of subtitles not showing
• Fix strm files containing youtbue urls
• Add additional Estonian language codes
• Fix realtime monitor ignoring folders with a dot in the name
• Add new spotlight home screen section option (requires Emby Server 4.10+)

• Add user option to set user's auto remote quality
• Add library option to use legacy folder scanning method
• Music transcoding fixes
• Add landing tab option for book libraries
• Support volume control with youtube trailer player
• Update mixed content tabs to combine Movies & Shows
• Fix maintenance mode blocking some settings screens
• Fix embedded audio fields not getting rescanned on file changes
• Fix loss of genre and collection images after deleting a movie

• Fix lists scrolling back up to top after editing metadata
• 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
• 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

• Improve library scan performance
• Improve live tv guide refresh performance
• Improve database performance
• 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.
• 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
• Update ffmpeg with fixes related to image extraction and OpenCL
• Improve performance of the realtime monitor
• Increase remote quality default value
• Fix collection content restrictions with search
• Fix video rotation when transcoding
• Debut of new WebStreams plugin
• Add library option to merge contents of top level folders in folder view
• Fix year being doubled in recording folder names
• Fix trailer metadata being lost on refresh channels scheduled task
• Improve results of multi-word searches
• Add user option to hide spoiler information from unwatched episodes
• Split remote quality setting into two, remote and cellular
• Support changing subtitle appearance settings during video playback
• Add Video codec, audio codec and framerate selectable and sortable fields
• Reorganize user and app settings
• 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
• Fix special episodes affecting unplayed episode counts
• Improve hevc bitrate with conversion feature
• Show three recent items in add to collection and add to playlist
• 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
• Support fb2 book extension
• Shorten display name for episode extras
• Support external audio tracks for movies and episodes
• 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
• Support playback correction in the web app
• Add a sleep timer menu option in the web app audio player
• Improve title for external SDH subtitles
• Add A-Z picker to add to collection/playlist
• Support date played as a selectable field in poster view
• Add library options to control generation of chapters when none are embedded within video files
• Improve usage of embedded .ass fonts in the web app
• Separate specials from episodes on series detail screen
• Improve title for external subtitles
• Artist sorting fixes
• Improve camera upload error handling
• Fix people search not respecting library access
• Sorting fixes for items with long digits in name
• Add episode title to recording notifications
• Fix person sort order
• macOS networking fixes
• Smb file system fixes
• Support locking artists
• Rtsp protocol fixes
• Improve separation of music and audiobook content in favorites
• Remove songs section from audiobook author screen
• Support setting shuffle state in audio player
• Add Polish ratings
• Fixes for sorting multi-part files
• Improve titles and descriptions for numerous notifications
• Fix scanning quirks with season scanning without season folders
• Fix 3D flag being lost in some cases on initial import
• Add Group By option on collection screens to choose between grouping collection items by media type or displaying all items in a single list
• Transcoding fixes for audio only strm files
• Increase image extraction timeout
• Show ratings from all libraries on user config screen
• 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
• Fix incorrect number of tracks displayed for a music artist
• Run database integrity checks before backups
• Add date to notification descriptions
• M3U Live TV regression fix
• Fix sorting by composers and artists when there are multiple values
• 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
• Factor in disc number to audio image uniqueness when extracting images from audio files
• Fix import collection options not showing in Emby library setup
• Fix error after adding a new person using the metadata editor
• Improve chapter support with multi-version videos
• Fix series scanning regression related to year in folder name
• Improve camera upload error handling
• Support alternative encodings of playlist files
• Improve photo scanning error handling
• Support multiple episodedetails nodes in nfo files
• Add workaround for older Dlna devices to fix playback failures
• Fix temp files from database backup process not being cleaned up
• Add channel groups picker above the guide
• Improve remote image content-type detection
• Fix playlist library folder not generating an image
• 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
• Fix CA-A parental rating value
• Improve server log anonymization
• Adjust timing calculations for unaired/missing episodes
• Fix incorrect items when shuffling or playing all on a music genre
• 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
• Fix extras being played with remote control play commands
• Fix external dvdsub delivery
• 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
• Fix unable to lock People
• Fix person nfo not being saved
• Set container field when importing all books
• Search all subtitle providers on manual subtitle downloads
• Fix collections getting lost after subtitle downloading when no nfo file is present
• Fix intermittent issue of new recordings not having media info
• Various content visibility fixes for newly created libraries
• 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
• Add series recording option to check all libraries for existing episodes
• Restore collections library
• Fix adult metadata option not being used with Identify
• Add option to group notifications
• Fix rotation value for videos not being saved
• Fix genres tab missing from music videos library
• Support inherited images for music videos
• Add date last episode aired sort order to tv shows
• Support drag and drop reordering in all library settings
• Add playback speed directly to video player OSD
• Add up next to video OSD
• Support -other for extras
• 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
• Add photo slideshow time per slide option
• Add Play Slideshow context menu action for photos
• Fix links section not showing for Collections
• Fix .sdh missing from subtitle download file name
• Refresh metadata on tracks when music albums are refreshed
• Fix Referer header in log not being anonymized
• Fix thumbnails for extras not being created

Full Changelog: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/compare/4.9.1.35...4.9.1.80

• Treat "other" folder as extras for episodes

Cumulative changes since stable release:

• Improve library scan performance
• Improve live tv guide refresh performance
• Improve database performance
• Update to .NET 8
• Update to sqlite 3.49.2
• Support macOS on all betas going forward
• 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
• Update ffmpeg with fixes related to image extraction and OpenCL
• Increase remote quality default value
• Split remote quality setting into two, remote and cellular
• Reorganize user and app settings
• Add experimental hevc transcoding option
• Add option to limit resolution of all transcoding to conserve server resources
• Fix special episodes affecting unplayed episode counts
• 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
• Support fb2 book extension
• Shorten display name for episode extras
• Support external audio tracks for movies and episodes
• 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
• Support playback correction in the web app
• Add a sleep timer menu option in the web app audio player
• Improve title for external SDH subtitles
• Add A-Z picker to add to collection/playlist
• Add library options to control generation of chapters when none are embedded within video files
• Improve usage of embedded .ass fonts in the web app
• Separate specials from episodes on series detail screen
• Improve title for external subtitles
• Artist sorting fixes
• Improve camera upload error handling
• Fix people search not respecting library access
• Add episode title to recording notifications
• Fix person sort order
• macOS networking fixes
• Smb file system fixes
• Support locking artists
• Rtsp protocol fixes
• Improve separation of music and audiobook content in favorites
• Remove songs section from audiobook author screen
• Support setting shuffle state in audio player
• Add Polish ratings
• Fixes for sorting multi-part files
• Improve titles and descriptions for numerous notifications
• Fix scanning quirks with season scanning without season folders
• Fix 3D flag being lost in some cases on initial import
• Add Group By option on collection screens to choose between grouping collection items by media type or displaying all items in a single list
• Transcoding fixes for audio only strm files
• Increase image extraction timeout
• Show ratings from all libraries on user config screen
• 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
• Fix incorrect number of tracks displayed for a music artist
• Run database integrity checks before backups
• Add date to notification descriptions
• M3U Live TV regression fix
• Fix sorting by composers and artists when there are multiple values
• 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
• Factor in disc number to audio image uniqueness when extracting images from audio files
• Fix import collection options not showing in Emby library setup
• Fix error after adding a new person using the metadata editor
• Improve chapter support with multi-version videos
• Fix series scanning regression related to year in folder name
• Improve camera upload error handling
• Support alternative encodings of playlist files
• Improve photo scanning error handling
• Support multiple episodedetails nodes in nfo files
• Add workaround for older Dlna devices to fix playback failures
• Fix temp files from database backup process not being cleaned up
• Add channel groups picker above the guide
• Improve remote image content-type detection
• Fix playlist library folder not generating an image
• 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
• Fix CA-A parental rating value
• Improve server log anonymization
• Adjust timing calculations for unaired/missing episodes
• Fix incorrect items when shuffling or playing all on a music genre
• 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
• Fix extras being played with remote control play commands
• Fix external dvdsub delivery
• 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
• Fix unable to lock People
• Fix person nfo not being saved
• Set container field when importing all books
• Search all subtitle providers on manual subtitle downloads
• Fix collections getting lost after subtitle downloading when no nfo file is present
• Fix intermittent issue of new recordings not having media info
• Various content visibility fixes for newly created libraries
• 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
• Add series recording option to check all libraries for existing episodes
• Restore collections library
• Fix adult metadata option not being used with Identify
• Add option to group notifications
• Fix rotation value for videos not being saved
• Fix genres tab missing from music videos library
• Support inherited images for music videos
• Add date last episode aired sort order to tv shows
• Support drag and drop reordering in all library settings
• Add playback speed directly to video player OSD
• Add up next to video OSD
• Support -other for extras
• 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
• Add photo slideshow time per slide option
• Add Play Slideshow context menu action for photos
• Fix links section not showing for Collections
• Fix .sdh missing from subtitle download file name
• Refresh metadata on tracks when music albums are refreshed
• Fix Referer header in log not being anonymized
• Fix thumbnails for extras not being created

• 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
• Improve server network change detection
• Add more data to recording events
• Fixes for m3u's with rtsp url's
• 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
• Fix users not being able to edit image of their own playlist

• Fix hardware transcoding regression on some Linux platforms

• Improve camera upload error handling
• 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
• Improve multi-version default selection
• Improve remote image content-type detection
• Fix database error when removing libraries with overlapping paths with other libraries