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.
The Emby Server 3.0.6050 release is part of a series of small releases, 3.0.600, 3.0.620, 3.0.630 and 3.0.650 which aim to resolve a few issues that were present in the Emby Server 3.0.5986 release. These releases introduce new features such as drag handles to reorder your playlists and better music genre images, as well as several bugfixes. You can see the complete list of new features and bugfixes for each release below.
Bug Fixes in Emby Server 3.0.6000 release
Fix saving of country code setting in nfo's
Other Improvements in Emby Server 3.0.6000 release
Speed up database upgrades
Unify voice components
Add new stream builder options
Improve performance of all episodes view
Support photos in home video libraries
Add ability to edit user profiles from admin screens
Improve subtitles for Apple TV
Update resume menu to show resume time
Support username and password within xmltv urls
Support more subtitle language conventions
Display "more from artist" on album screen
Add playlist item drag handles
Set default directory picker path for QNAP
Issues Resolved in Emby Server 3.0.6020 release
Prevent incorrect default movie rating
Fix file date modified change not refreshing content
Improve mobile safari loading problems
Prevent media from being blocked when user access to transcoding is disabled
Resolve music randomly stopping on Android
Other Changes in Emby Server 3.0.6020 release
Improve performance of metadata editor
Update mac server to newer garbage collection model
Added additional fixes for Mono 4.4, specifically relating to the library scan
Resolve DLNA failure with Media Monkey
Improved incorrect detection of multi-resolution movies
Other Changes in Emby Server 3.0.6030 release
Added more transcoding details of active sessions to the server dashboard
Issues Resolved in Emby Server 3.0.6050 release
Fix queue menu options
Other Changes in Emby Server 3.0.6050 release
Support mp4 timed text
Validate hardware encoder presence before attempting to use
Improve library scan performance
Improve people refresh performance
Improve server shutdown performance
Improve server dashboard loading performance
Improve performance of loading artist lists
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.
Install or upgrade Emby Server
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.
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