r/emby

Hi all,
with this post I want to talk again of AudioMuse-AI, a free and open source selfhostable software to analyze your song and automatically create playlist on your supported music server like Jellyfin, Navidrome (or open subsonic api based), Emby and Lyrion:

• https://github.com/NeptuneHub/AudioMuse-AI

With this post I want to celebrate two big things, first of all AudioMuse-Ai born on May 2025, so it's stil live and fully mantained after 1 years, 217 issue closed and 182 PR closed !

We also want to celebrate the new AudioMuse-AI v1.1.0 release that introduce Lyrics Semanthics similarity throug different functionality.

I'm very proud of this release because multiple time we heard that yes the mood is similar but totally different lyrics, now you can search your song also semathically with:

• Axis-based search: Explore songs across 5 defined semantic axes, selecting one or more values that best describe the target mood or meaning.
• Text search: Simple natural language queries (e.g., “love”, “run”) focused on lyrical meaning, not musical groove (distinct from DCLAP search).
• Song similarity search: Use a reference track to find similar songs, weighted by default as 75% lyrical meaning and 25% audio similarity to preserve genre consistency.

Lyrics functionality off course need lyrics, the best way is to have already them in your music server OR configure in AudioMuse-AI your favourite API in the setup wizard:

Example API formats supported in Setup Wizard:

https://api.example.com/get?artist={artist}&title={title}
https://api.example.com/v1/{artist}/{title}

Anyway as a fallback is also supported the transcription with Whisper Small and if needed can be disabled in the setup wizard by setting LYRICS_ENABLED=true

Important: after the update a new analysis will do the Lyrics analysis on the already analyzed song (if enabled, enabled by default) or a full analysis (Musicnn + Clap + Lyrics) for new song. This new analysis is mandatory to use the new functionality.

I hope you will like both of this milestone and as usual, if you want to support AudioMuse-AI, please add a start on the github repository.
Thanks to be with us for our first year!

Putting the finishing touches to a watch party app, with a few other bits thrown in like trakt integration and playlist management, send missing items to radarr ( damn it, suppose sonarr needs to be there also, forgot)!

Right now I have it running on docker on an upgraded gen 8 microserver running xpenology (xeon cpu) and it uses virtually 0 processing power.

The basic function is, the control user chooses something to watch, creates a party, another user of the same emby server joins on a link, joins party, select the devices to play on and it plays..

The initial sync is a bit off, I have been testing on local device and a iphine connewcted to 5G. So the sync issue is fixed with a seek to 1:00 and the sync is about 100 to 200ms off.

Pause/Play/Seek and end (end party closes player down on all devices).

Chat room is a work in progress, can send chats but the socket is refusing them.. Eyes are bulging looking at a screen lol..

I'm not going to make a docker image. I'll upload it to git.

Logins/api/client ids etc will be through a .env file. Although I'm thinking about changing that to encrpyted after initial login and stored to the database.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/926YgJJ

Some images of the watch party, dont ask me why the camera didnt focus properly..

Hey guys,

I love Emby for movies and shows, but the built-in photo viewer on Google TV is just not good in my experience. the UI just feels kind of clunky. Photo's for me personally are important, I always got my tv on with them showing.

Since I'm a developer, I created my own app to view them, it's called Pixee 🙂 the focus of Pixee is high customizability and a premium look and feel. Next to Emby, you can connect to Plex, or the cloud like OneDrive or Dropbox, or webdav, smb...

It's on the Play Store. A premium license is 8 USD (free version has a self closing popup every 6 minutes and is perfectly usable).

I made a set-up guide for Plex, but it's the same for Emby: https://youtu.be/zApKU3Je6lk?is=FPXgm9PkiCUHdhtR

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixee.tv

Would love to get some feedback. Have a nice day and I hope your team is still in the World Cup! 🙂

Cheers! ✨🙏

How's this thing on the right part of my movie search?

I was looking to update ID for the movie Deep Dark (2015) which was mistaken for the movie The Deep Dark (2023).

Both are great movies but totally different genres btw. I don't know about that third one right here, might be a good one too if you're into that kind of thing...

Hello, r/emby! I'm sorry it has taken me this long to introduce Coax to y'all, but I wanted to wait until the Emby support was good enough to ask for your attention.

I believe it is now! So let me tell you a little about this weird silly but also super-fun app:

• Experience your content like never before... actually wait that's not true, you're experiencing it like it's 1990
• Fast, frictionless, zero-config schedules appear as if magic, based entirely on your media server's content
• Fill time between programs with your own commercials or bumpers if you like
• Combine Movie and TV Show libraries together, or keep them separate with Lineups
• If you have a TV tuner connected to your server, you can mix those channels in too!
• Customize your Lineups by year, age group, watched status... make as many or as few channels as you want

This app has been in development since October of last year - and I hope you can tell how much I've put into it. It runs on tvOS, iOS, macOS, and visionOS.

There's a subreddit here if you want to see what the support picture looks like. There's a week-long free trial, and I hope you check it out!

Hi All,

I originally wrote this for Plex (its built-in preview generation is single-threaded, CPU-only and slow), and have since added Jellyfin and Emby support. I shared the Plex version over on r/PleX recently and people found it useful, so figured I'd post here for the Jellyfin folks in case anyone has use for it.

Jellyfin already does hardware-accelerated trickplay, which is great.. but it shares CPU/GPU with playback. On a busy server that's resources you'd probably rather give to the player. This runs preview generation on a separate machine, uses every GPU it finds (NVIDIA / AMD / Intel), and processes files in parallel. It writes Jellyfin's trickplay tiles in the format Jellyfin expects and if you also run Plex/Emby on the same files, it does all of them in a single FFmpeg pass.

What it does:

• Off-media generation — point it at your media + Jellyfin config, it writes trickplay tiles without loading your server
• Automation — Sonarr/Radarr/Tdarr/FileFlows webhooks, recently-added polling, cron/interval schedules, all on one inbound URL. Auto re-runs on quality upgrades, skips when nothing changed.
• GPU + automatic CPU fallback — if a codec fails on the GPU it retries on CPU automatically. HDR / Dolby Vision tone mapping included.
• Web UI (Docker-only, no CLI) — manual generation by searching your library: whole show, movie, folder, or single file.

Full transparency on two things:

1. This project is AI-assisted (Cursor + Claude). I hand-wrote the original, recent development is AI-assisted, and all changes are reviewed and tested. AI also helped me write this post.
2. The Jellyfin support is newer and I haven't done extensive testing across every setup yet — but I'm usually quick to fix bugs if you report them. Just sharing in case it's useful.

GitHub (MIT, Docker): https://github.com/stevezau/media_preview_generator

my theme.

Been working on a system that adds sonically intelligent music discovery to an Emby library — similar tracks, track radio, a "sonic adventure" between two songs, and auto-curated mixes, all based on how the music actually sounds rather than genre tags. Comes with an Android app (liquidWave) that ties it all together.

It's fully self-hosted, nothing leaves your network, and runs on whatever you've got — a NAS for the coordinator, any box with spare CPU or GPU for the analysis.

Currently in private beta looking for a few testers. Full details and a quickstart guide over on the Emby forum: liquidWave - Emby Forum Post

Quick rundown of the main features:

• Sonically similar tracks / artists / albums — based on how the music sounds (neural audio analysis), not genre tags.
• Track Radio — an endless queue seeded from any track.
• Sonic Adventure — pick a start track and an end track, and it builds a journey that morphs from one to the other.
• Auto-curated Mixes — sonically consistent mixes built from your library; refresh any mix, or save it as a real playlist.
• Stations & Guest DJ — Library / Random Album / Decade radios, plus a Guest DJ that injects sonically matched tracks into your queue.
• Artist Mix Creator — pick an artist and the grid repopulates with sonically similar artists; keep adding the ones you want, then build a shuffled mix that spans the whole selection.
• A proper player — Media3/ExoPlayer, queue, shuffle/repeat, crossfade with an artwork cross-dissolve, an in-app equalizer, a Now Playing home-screen widget, Android Auto, and Google Cast to a Chromecast / Android TV / Shield.
• Offline buffer — the next few tracks in your queue are silently pre-cached in the background, so brief Wi-Fi blips don't interrupt playback. No manual download needed; you'll see "Offline buffer ready" in Now Playing when it's topped up.
• Audiobooks — browse by book/author, durable resume, speed control.
• Offline downloads — download any playlist or a whole audiobook (the original source files, no transcode) to your phone and browse + play it with no connection at all — on a plane, underground, wherever. Downloads get their own row on Home (with cover art) and a badge in your Playlists; an online/offline indicator shows the connection state; downloads are Wi-Fi-only by default. Audiobooks keep durable resume even fully offline, and your position syncs back to Emby the moment you reconnect. Managed under Settings → Downloads (Playlists and Audiobooks), with a one-tap "remove download" that leaves the item itself untouched.
• Themeable — follows your system dark/light theme automatically.
• Search across music, audiobooks, or everything.

Happy to answer questions here too.

Yes, I wrote it with AI... doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing....works perfectly for me...

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