Emby is an application useful to set up and manage your own media center, and connecting several devices within your network (or outside of it) to your home server, to stream media and enjoy your content wherever you are. In this regard it is similar to Plex, and you could compare both to find out their strong and weak points against each other. [Read:Plex vs Emby: A Comprehensive Comparison]
Emby lets you install plugins, in order for you to be able to get interesting content. You can also enjoy your media library collection, and there are options to do it even if you are not at home. Some of the plugins let you listen to radio stations around the world, such as the TuneIn Radio Emby Plugin. Others let you look at videos in popular sites; this is the case of the Vimeo Emby Plugin. You can control Emby through a variety of devices, including your Kodi HTPC, with the Emby addon for Kodi.
Emby Server 3.0.5971 Release
What's New in Emby Server 3.0.5971 Release?
The Emby Server 3.0.5971 release brings some new features, bug fixes and performance improvements. With this release, you will be able to browse Emby apps faster, and the playback is also improved thanks to reduced transcoding. The performance while browsing will be increased even further after the first run of the "Clean Database" scheduled task.
Playback in Firefox browser has been improved, and video transcoding was reduced as well, even at high bitrates. Furthermore, improvements have been also made on Roku and Apple TV playback. Emby server now supports embedded titles within audio and subtitle tracks, which allows you to personalize the track selection menu on Emby apps.
An updated TV guide, sync improvements, DLNA improvements and a new Live TV setting that allows you to preserve original audio when converting recordings, are also included on this Emby upgrade, adding even more options for you to enjoy your media with this application.
Fixes in Emby Server 3.0.5971 release
Fix searches with special charcters returning empty results
Use https provider urls
Faster cleanup of missing episodes
Don't remember track selections for live tv channels
Add fixes for episodes directly in season folders
Fix m4a transcoding
Support direct stream level 51 in web browsers
Auto-select audio codec based on available encoders
Fix people names ending in a period
Allow dynamic images with unset content type
Fix local trailer metadata
Support multiple user data keys
Fix channel logos not downloading
Fix content sometimes not appearing after server restart
Improve image lazy loading with IntersectionObserver
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You can read more about these changes in the Emby Blog website. If you're interested in finding out the best Emby client device, you could take a look at the best Plex client devices to get an idea of what to look for in an Emby client device.
You can follow the instructions in our guide to install Emby Server on Windows, if you use that operating system. Alternatively, stay tuned for more guides to install Emby in other operating systems: it can be installed on Linux, NAS Devices, MacOS or freeBSD.
Enjoy managing and streaming your media with Emby Server!
Alejandro is an electrical engineer, working as a software developer and part-time writer. He has a passion for technology, languages and games, and has been around the web since 2004.
