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Emby Premiere Lifetime Subscription

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Emby is offering Emby Premiere Lifetime Subscription for $99.

Thanks to community member JeffS2776 for finding this deal.

Note: The license is for single household use and carries a 25 device limit. The terms of service can be found here. Emby is a Personal Media Server platform.

Product Features
  • Offline Media
    • Download your media to your smart phones and tablets for easy offline playback. Supported on Android, iOS and Windows.
  • Emby DVR
    • Schedule individual recordings, series recordings, and more with Emby DVR.
  • Free Apps
    • Enjoy full access to Emby for Android, Fire TV, iOS, Xbox One and PS4.
  • Cover Art
    • The Cover Art plugin creates fun covers and other treatments for your media images. Choose from over 30 different styles of treatments and overlays for 3D, subtitles, audio, and more.
  • Cinema Mode
    • Cinema Mode gives you the true cinema experience with trailers and custom intros before the feature.
  • Cloud Sync
    • Sync your media to the cloud for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Emby Theater
    • The latest and greatest Emby app for your TV. Runs on Windows, Xbox One, PS4, Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
  • Automatically Convert Content
    • Convert your content into streaming friendly formats on a schedule or when they are added.
  • Folder Sync
    • Sync your media to folders and external hard drives for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Backup and Restore
    • Backup and restore your server configuration with ease, or migrate to a new environment in a snap.
  • Podcasts
    • All your favorite video and audio podcasts in the PodCasts channel.
  • Smart Home
    • Use your Amazon Echo or Google Home device to control your Emby apps by voice.

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this Service:
    • On cordcutting.com they discuss the differences between Plex and Emby: "So, if it helps, you can think of Emby as a Kodi-lover's Plex. Emby is for the power-users, the Kodi users, and the people who are comfortable trading clean interfaces and easy setup for increased functionality."
  • About this Deal:
    • This offer matches this previously popular Frontpage Deal that received over 50 thumbs up from the community.
    • Please refer to the Forum Thread for additional discussion regarding this deal

Original Post

Written by JeffS2776
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Community Notes
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Emby is offering Emby Premiere Lifetime Subscription for $99.

Thanks to community member JeffS2776 for finding this deal.

Note: The license is for single household use and carries a 25 device limit. The terms of service can be found here. Emby is a Personal Media Server platform.

Product Features
  • Offline Media
    • Download your media to your smart phones and tablets for easy offline playback. Supported on Android, iOS and Windows.
  • Emby DVR
    • Schedule individual recordings, series recordings, and more with Emby DVR.
  • Free Apps
    • Enjoy full access to Emby for Android, Fire TV, iOS, Xbox One and PS4.
  • Cover Art
    • The Cover Art plugin creates fun covers and other treatments for your media images. Choose from over 30 different styles of treatments and overlays for 3D, subtitles, audio, and more.
  • Cinema Mode
    • Cinema Mode gives you the true cinema experience with trailers and custom intros before the feature.
  • Cloud Sync
    • Sync your media to the cloud for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Emby Theater
    • The latest and greatest Emby app for your TV. Runs on Windows, Xbox One, PS4, Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
  • Automatically Convert Content
    • Convert your content into streaming friendly formats on a schedule or when they are added.
  • Folder Sync
    • Sync your media to folders and external hard drives for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Backup and Restore
    • Backup and restore your server configuration with ease, or migrate to a new environment in a snap.
  • Podcasts
    • All your favorite video and audio podcasts in the PodCasts channel.
  • Smart Home
    • Use your Amazon Echo or Google Home device to control your Emby apps by voice.

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this Service:
    • On cordcutting.com they discuss the differences between Plex and Emby: "So, if it helps, you can think of Emby as a Kodi-lover's Plex. Emby is for the power-users, the Kodi users, and the people who are comfortable trading clean interfaces and easy setup for increased functionality."
  • About this Deal:
    • This offer matches this previously popular Frontpage Deal that received over 50 thumbs up from the community.
    • Please refer to the Forum Thread for additional discussion regarding this deal

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Written by JeffS2776

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Dan15
One of the reasons I'm still using Plex and not Jellyfin is because of the Plexamp app. It's a pretty polished music app with lots of unique features. I haven't seen an app anywhere near as good for other self-hosted media servers.
fbueller
Dunno about DVR, but Jellyfin is free and works well. A few rough around the edges things, but not a beast like Plex.

Plex downloads still are non-functional, and it angers me to no end. They rewrote the entire thing, and it still doesn't work. WTF?
a_land
I am sticking to Plex from a 'wife approval' standpoint. She can use Plex easily

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JustinP3030
Nov 24, 2023
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I've been debating Emby for a long time. I've been a plex user for many years but I'm fed up with live tv/recording bugs. Anyone know if Emby is more seamless?
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Quote from JustinP3030 :
I've been debating Emby for a long time. I've been a plex user for many years but I'm fed up with live tv/recording bugs. Anyone know if Emby is more seamless?
Dunno about DVR, but Jellyfin is free and works well. A few rough around the edges things, but not a beast like Plex.

Plex downloads still are non-functional, and it angers me to no end. They rewrote the entire thing, and it still doesn't work. WTF?
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Nov 24, 2023
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Quote from JustinP3030 :
I've been debating Emby for a long time. I've been a plex user for many years but I'm fed up with live tv/recording bugs. Anyone know if Emby is more seamless?
It's definitely nowhere close to having the polish of a big-tech app like Apple Music or Spotify, etc. If you play music and pause it, after a while the app dies in the background and it doesn't store your playing song / state.

The shuffle algorithm is bad since it keeps repeating some songs more often than others.

Scrolling through folders is not easy since on the iOS/Android apps there's no letter-based scrolling. I was able to enable letter-based scrolling on the desktop browser after some googling but it's gone away again. Sometimes if you tap a folder and go back, it'll go all the way to the top.

99$ is a lot of money for the ability to download music locally. All the rest of the "Premium" features are not features I care for.
Last edited by urover November 23, 2023 at 08:55 PM.
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Quote from urover :
It's definitely nowhere close to having the polish of a big-tech app like Apple Music or Spotify, etc. If you play music and pause it, after a while the app dies in the background and it doesn't store your playing song / state.

The shuffle algorithm is bad since it keeps repeating some songs more often than others.

Scrolling through folders is not easy since on the iOS/Android apps there's no letter-based scrolling. I was able to enable letter-based scrolling on the desktop browser after some googling but it's gone away again. Sometimes if you tap a folder and go back, it'll go all the way to the top.

99$ is a lot of money for the ability to download music locally. All the rest of the "Premium" features are not features I care for.
One of the reasons I'm still using Plex and not Jellyfin is because of the Plexamp app. It's a pretty polished music app with lots of unique features. I haven't seen an app anywhere near as good for other self-hosted media servers.
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munkle
Nov 24, 2023
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Quote from JustinP3030 :
I've been debating Emby for a long time. I've been a plex user for many years but I'm fed up with live tv/recording bugs. Anyone know if Emby is more seamless?
I did the monthly sub a year or two ago to try their live TV recording and it kept freezing on me and so I stuck with Plex. Maybe it's better now but at that time it wasn't better than Plex for live TV recording.
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choli0090
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Quote from JustinP3030 :
I've been debating Emby for a long time. I've been a plex user for many years but I'm fed up with live tv/recording bugs. Anyone know if Emby is more seamless?
Can you clarify what you would like to know? I've been using Emby with a HDHR Prime and Channels DVR for a while, but not sure exactly what the Plex recording bug is
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JustinP3030
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Quote from choli0090 :
Can you clarify what you would like to know? I've been using Emby with a HDHR Prime and Channels DVR for a while, but not sure exactly what the Plex recording bug is
Any bugs? What I experience with plex is specific to recordings. Example: I will record a football game and start watching it half way though. At any giving point, the recording will throw an error and when it restarts it's live. It's spoiled more than just a few games.
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Quote from fbueller :
Plex downloads still are non-functional, and it angers me to no end. They rewrote the entire thing, and it still doesn't work. WTF?
By "Plex downloads", do you mean downloading (offline-ing) songs/videos to watch later when you might not have internet access? That works for me -- I had a 4+ hour music playlist that I played at a veterans appreciation dinner we hosted at our church not that long ago and it played without a hitch.
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Quote from JustinP3030 :
I've been debating Emby for a long time. I've been a plex user for many years but I'm fed up with live tv/recording bugs. Anyone know if Emby is more seamless?
In my experience their DVR is much more stable than Plex's. The bug preventing you from watching while recording has been around for a while and Plex has a history of ignoring even worse issues for years before even acknowledging them. On the other hand Emby staff is usually very responsive on their forums and seems to care a lot more about the stability of their product. The only real downside to their live TV is that most channels can take about 7-10 seconds to tune, but I can live with that. They also have a complete rework of their live TV in the works, though there's no telling when that might actually be released since it was first mentioned in their forums a year ago and they seem to have other priorities at the moment.
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Tigga573
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Quote from munkle :
I did the monthly sub a year or two ago to try their live TV recording and it kept freezing on me and so I stuck with Plex. Maybe it's better now but at that time it wasn't better than Plex for live TV recording.
Did you ever try posting in their forums to troubleshoot? That's likely something they could have helped you resolve.
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corkypa
Nov 24, 2023
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We still use Windows Media Center with a HDHomeRun cable card tuner, but WMC support ended years ago and I'm keeping an eye out for what might eventually replace it. Anybody know how the Emby DVR compares to WMC for ease of use?
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a_land
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I am sticking to Plex from a 'wife approval' standpoint. She can use Plex easily
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Quote from Dan15 :
One of the reasons I'm still using Plex and not Jellyfin is because of the Plexamp app. It's a pretty polished music app with lots of unique features. I haven't seen an app anywhere near as good for other self-hosted media servers.
This. The Plex amp via CarPlay gives you your own High Res streaming service which I prefer over any of the paid ones.
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munkle
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Quote from Tigga573 :
Did you ever try posting in their forums to troubleshoot? That's likely something they could have helped you resolve.
No, Plex worked out of the box so I ended up using that.
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Quote from corkypa :
We still use Windows Media Center with a HDHomeRun cable card tuner, but WMC support ended years ago and I'm keeping an eye out for what might eventually replace it. Anybody know how the Emby DVR compares to WMC for ease of use?
Depends who's using it. Originally I used wmc, hdhomerun prime and Xbox 360s as media extenders. I would have kept using them if Comcast didn't slowly switch the encoding on their channels to a format the Xbox didn't support, them dropping guide data was the final nail that made me look into emby and Plex. This was a set up for my mom, she had 3 TVs and paying Comcast for a box for each TV was super expensive. She figured out the Xboxes fine because you can get a remote that takes you straight into media center. I swapped them for rokus to use with Plex and emby. She could kind of figure them both out but it was a lot more difficult and frustrating for her. She would randomly record things she didn't mean to or get lost places. For my mom wmc was way easier.
Last edited by munkle November 24, 2023 at 09:16 AM.

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