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Emby Server Beta 3.0.5557 Released


Luke

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A new beta of Emby Server has been released with some exciting new additions. Before we go over them, if you missed our recent Emby announcement you can read all about that here:

 

http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-179-introducing-emby/

 

Introducing Cloud Sync & Folder Sync

 

We worked really hard on sync during this release cycle to bring you new features that you'll find useful. Cloud & Folder Sync allow you to sync media to external locations, whether it be for backup purposes or to archive content in multiple resolutions. Apps can then stream the content from the cloud instead of your server, thereby sparing your upload bandwidth.

 

Let's say for example you have an original copy of a movie at 40Mbps. It looks fantastic but will require transcoding anytime you'd like to stream to Roku. Now you can sync that movie to the cloud and choose a profile that will allow Roku to direct stream:

 

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When your users stream the content, they'll direct stream from google drive rather than rely on your server for transcoding.

 

To setup Cloud Sync or Folder Sync, see the Services tab of the Sync control panel. Look for separate blog posts on these soon with detailed walk-throughs.

 

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Cloud & Folder Sync are your General Purpose Conversion Tools

 

As you sync content you're free to choose the conversion profile that will determine the output format. In future releases we intend to allow you to modify these profiles directly and even create your own.

 

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Goodbye GDI, Hello ImageMagick

We've migrated all of our image processing functions from GDI to ImageMagick, thus clearing the way for the server to run smoothly on NAS devices such as Synology. Look for a Synology package soon. While we were at it, we learned a few new tricks, and in the future you may see the server create more beautiful, automatic images such as

 

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A big thanks to t.andre for his efforts on this!

 

Emby Server Debian package now available

 

 

See http://mediabrowser.tv/download/

 

Big thanks to @hurricanehernandez

 

 

Enhanced Live TV Metadata

Live TV will now be enhanced with internet metadata for movies, and the suggestions page in the web interface now has an Upcoming Movies section. Big thanks to ChubbyArse for this!

 

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New Scheduled Task time limit

 

Now you can configure time limits for scheduled tasks, perfect for long running overnight jobs that you don't want running during usage hours.

 

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Support more WTV metadata

 

We'll now extract episode information from embedded metadata in the event the file is not named according to TV naming recommendations. This hasn't made it to auto-organize yet, but it's planned for the future.

 

DLNA Cast & Crew Setting

 

We like rich metadata, but we understand many people just want the quickest path from point A to point B. The server dashboard now has a setting to turn off the Cast & Crew feature.

 

New Fanart.TV Images

 

Support has been added for the following images:

  • Season posters
  • Season banners

Other Fixes

  • Detect incomplete nfo's and supplement with internet metadata
  • Fixed playlist content being playable when it shouldn't be
  • Resolved browser-based live tv playback issues

Join the Community

 

If you like the direction we're headed in, join us! We can find a place for anyone who would like to help, whether it be software developers, designers, testers, translators, etc. Please drop in and say hello.

 

Use our API Libraries

 

As many of you know, we have a public api, and nothing pleases us more when new people step up and find ways to use it. We have complete API wrappers available for:

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Awesome!!! i've been manually handling the varied quality sync. run in handbrake and then copy to device. this will be awesome!

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Looks cool! Can we install this over Version 3.0.5518.7 or will we have to re-do our library's?

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Koleckai Silvestri

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Looks cool! Can we install this over Version 3.0.5518.7 or will we have to re-do our library's?

 

You can install over your existing installation. I just did an upgrade. All my libraries were in a different order but that is easy to fix.

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e123enitan

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Way U Go! Emby King of Media Server, can't wait for the Emby media Client ( BMC) previously MTC.

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You can install over your existing installation. I just did an upgrade. All my libraries were in a different order but that is easy to fix.

 

How do you upgrade to the latest beta? some instructions on upgrading would be very welcomed (have searched the wiki), usually consider myself fairly savy...  my update level is set to 'Beta' I've downloaded & installed the the Mac OS server from the download page.  When launched I'm told I'm running Mediabrowser Version 3.0.5518.7

 

is there another location I should download beta 3.0.5557 from?  or has the mac OS server download not been updated yet?

 

thanks for any assistance.

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How do you upgrade to the latest beta? some instructions on upgrading would be very welcomed (have searched the wiki), usually consider myself fairly savy...  my update level is set to 'Beta' I've downloaded & installed the the Mac OS server from the download page.  When launched I'm told I'm running Mediabrowser Version 3.0.5518.7

 

is there another location I should download beta 3.0.5557 from?  or has the mac OS server download not been updated yet?

 

thanks for any assistance.

 

We'll get the Mac version out in the next day or so. Thanks.

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We'll get the Mac version out in the next day or so. Thanks.

understood...  an indication of the server version being downloaded would have saved me some time this evening :)

 

thanks for your help, keep up the great work!

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any chance of getting an updated mac server?

Or maybe some instructions on how to build the package from the the zip?

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icedragonslair

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Goodbye GDI, Hello ImageMagick

 

 

So exactly what does this mean if we are using the server version created exclusively for unraid. And wouldn't it be prudent to create (in house) a version for unraid, since there are so many of us out here?

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Well done, Emby team!  I look forward to the day when OneDrive is added as one of the Cloud options, with their new unlimited data storage policy with an Office 365 subscription, this is a perfect way to archive those TV Series and Movies you might want to watch again some day but are taking up personal server storage space.  

 

It'd be nice if one day, any TV Series and/or Movie where no episode has been watched in X period of time if the series/movie could be marked as "auto add" to the cloud, so the user wouldn't notice the difference on Emby but they would see the space on their server increasing. 

 

Loving the changes!  It's amazing how far this project has come is such a short time.  It was awesome from Day 1 and has only gotten better and better!

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thenuttyprof

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I definitely agree on the OneDrive integration rather than Google. I no longer use any Google products and all mine are Microsoft. At the moment my complete video library is on my OneDrive, but the new sync would help with automation possibly of watched movies rather than me manually having to do it.

 

Also how about a auto-delete option for watched items, where you can set up a rule to auto-delete after x amount of days or set up a rule to not delete. This could be merged possibly in folder sync, where watched items could be moved to another folder.

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We'll get the Mac version out in the next day or so. Thanks.

unless I am mistaken there is still no MacOS beta update available?  I don't mind waiting, just questioning it as you said 'the next day or so'.

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Very keen to move from MediaPortal to Emby/Kodi setup but I really want to use my Synology server as the back-end given it already handles so much of the "household duties" :) I'd be happy to perform any testing on the Synology package if needed. Just give me a shout!

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hansenetter

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Hi to all ;-)

i´m new in this area.

i have a synology ds-415+ and i want to install this emby server software on my nas. 

where can i download this software ?

thanks and cu

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