Software Update: Emby 4.7.2

Version 4.7.2 of Emby Server has been released. This media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and various NAS devices can index and serve content to clients on the same machine, within the local network or over the Internet. Until version 3.6 it was open source, but is that no longer† Clients are available for the aforementioned operating systems, but content can also be viewed on iOS, Android, various media players and Google TV, for example. The program is thus comparable with Plex Media Server. Since version 4.7, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in Emby version 4.7.2.0

• Add episode intro detection feature to library options
• Add user profile options for episode intro skipping
• Fix regression with episode number parsing from file names
• Fix file names of home videos being truncated after last dot in the file name
• Fix downloads redownloading on deletion
• Remember subtitle selections if enabled, even when user subtitle mode is set to default to None

Changes in Emby version 4.7.1.0

• Windows – Fix unnecessary ffmpeg dependency on Windows Media Foundation
• Improve Chinese language detection of embedded audio and subtitle tracks
• Remove errant play/shuffle buttons appearing on various list screens in server web interface
• Display timestamps with lyrics