Organize your video, audio and photo collection for your Mac

Emby Server for Mac

Emby Server for Mac

  -  139 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    Emby Server 4.9.1.80 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.14 Mojave or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Emby Team / External Link

  • Filename

    embyserver-osx-x64-4.9.1.80.zip

Emby Server for Mac is designed to help you manage your personal media libraries, such as home videos and photos. Powerful tools to manage your content, users, sharing, security, and more.

The Emby Server for macOS dashboard is designed for smartphones, tablets, and big screens, allowing you to manage your media anytime, anywhere.

Bringing all of your home videos, music, and photos together into one place has never been easier. Your personal Emby Server for macOS automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device. Emby Connect makes it easy to enjoy your personal media while away from home.

No more fumbling with IP addresses. Just sign in and play. Stream Live TV to any device, manage your DVR and enjoy your library of recordings. Easily control content access for your children. Monitor and remote control their sessions as you need to.

Take your personal home videos, music, and photos with you wherever you go, even offline with Emby Mobile Sync. Emby apps are available for Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and Windows Tablets. Sit back and enjoy Emby from the living room. Emby apps are available for Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox, Home Theater Computers, and more.

It takes the fuss out of managing your home videos, music, and photos so that you can spend more time enjoying and less time struggling. Purchase Emby Premiere and receive additional bonus features such as Cover Art, Mobile Sync, Cloud Sync, and free Android apps.

Features and Highlights

Your Media on Any Device
Emby Server automatically converts and streams your personal media on the fly to play on any device.

Easy Access
Emby Connect makes it easy to enjoy your personal media while away from home. Just sign in and play.

Live TV
Stream Live TV to any device, manage your DVR and enjoy your library of recordings.

Mobile Sync
Sync your personal media to smartphones and tablets for easy offline access. Automatically sync new content as you add it.

Beautiful Displays
It organizes your content into easy and elegant presentations. Your personal media will never look the same.

Manage Your Media
Easy web-based tools help you edit metadata and images, search for subtitles, and more.

Manage Your Home
Easily control content access for your children. Monitor and remote control their sessions as you need to.

Parental Controls
Specify parental restrictions for your children, create access schedules, time limits, and more.

Easy DLNA
It automatically detects Dlna devices on your network so that you can easily send content, remote control, and more.

Chromecast
Send videos, music, photos, and Live TV to Chromecast with ease.

Cloud Sync
Sync your personal media to the cloud for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.

How to Use
  • Install the .pkg file and follow the setup instructions
  • Launch the Emby Server from Applications or menu bar
  • Access the server via web browser at http://localhost:8096
  • Create an admin account and set up your media library
  • Add folders for movies, TV shows, music, or photos
  • Configure user profiles and parental controls
  • Install optional plugins from the Emby dashboard
  • Stream media to other devices on the same network
  • Use Emby apps on smart TVs, mobile, or streaming boxes
System Requirements

macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later

64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon processor

Minimum 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended for transcoding)

Broadband internet for metadata and remote access

Free disk space based on size of your media library

PROS
  • Local and remote streaming support
  • Organizes media with rich metadata
  • Multiple user profiles and access control
  • Live TV and DVR capabilities (with tuner)
  • Supports hardware transcoding
CONS
  • Limited features in free version
  • Initial setup can be complex
  • Requires manual port forwarding for remote use
  • Fewer plugins than Plex
  • Occasional metadata mismatches
Note: Limited functionality in demo version.

Also Available: Download Emby Server for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Added:
- Add new maintenance mode feature
- Add up key action option to video player
- Add tv mode display setting to show remote control functions
- Add network request protocol option to server network settings
- Add library option to merge contents of top level folders in folder view
- Add user option to hide spoiler information from unwatched episodes
- Add Video codec, audio codec and framerate selectable and sortable fields
- Add experimental hevc transcoding option
- Add option to limit resolution of all transcoding to conserve server resources
- Add user preference to exclude libraries from search
- Add copy user data as an option when creating a new user and initializing with data from another user
- Add option for folder view to auto open single items in folders
- Add Duplicates library filter
- Add library options to control whether multi-part detection is enabled
- Add library options to control whether multi-version detection is enabled
- Add a sleep timer menu option in the web app audio player
- Add A-Z picker to add to collection/playlist
- Add library options to control generation of chapters when none are embedded within video files
- Add episode title to recording notifications
- Add Polish ratings
- Add Group By option on collection screens to choose between grouping collection items by media type or displaying all items in a single list
- Add date to notification descriptions
- Add prompt for playback when a channel is recording
- Add workaround for older Dlna devices to fix playback failures
- Add channel groups picker above the guide
- Add series recording option to check all libraries for existing episodes
- Add option to group notifications
- Add date last episode aired sort order to tv shows
- Add playback speed directly to video player OSD
- Add up next to video OSD
- Add photo slideshow time per slide option
- Add Play Slideshow context menu action for photos

Improved:
- Improve library scan performance
- Improve live tv guide refresh performance
- Improve database performance
- Improve performance of the realtime monitor
- Improve results of multi-word searches
- Improve hevc bitrate with conversion feature
- Improve title for external SDH subtitles
- Improve usage of embedded .ass fonts in the web app
- Improve title for external subtitles
- Improve camera upload error handling
- Improve separation of music and audiobook content in favorites
- Improve titles and descriptions for numerous notifications
- Improve played filter for series in folder view
- Improve searching for titles with dots in the name
- Improve Emby Connect address reporting after network changes
- Improve chapter support with multi-version videos
- Improve camera upload error handling
- Improve photo scanning error handling
- Improve remote image content-type detection
- Improve server log anonymization

Fixed:
- Fix collection content restrictions with search
- Fix video rotation when transcoding
- Fix year being doubled in recording folder names
- Fix trailer metadata being lost on refresh channels scheduled task
- Fix special episodes affecting unplayed episode counts
- Fix people search not respecting library access
- Fix person sort order
- Fixes for sorting multi-part files
- Fix scanning quirks with season scanning without season folders
- Fix 3D flag being lost in some cases on initial import
- Fix incorrect number of tracks displayed for a music artist
- Fix sorting by composers and artists when there are multiple values
- Fix import collection options not showing in Emby library setup
- Fix error after adding a new person using the metadata editor
- Fix series scanning regression related to year in folder name
- Fix temp files from database backup process not being cleaned up
- Fix playlist library folder not generating an image
- Fix CA-A parental rating value
- Fix incorrect items when shuffling or playing all on a music genre
- Fix extras being played with remote control play commands
- Fix external dvdsub delivery
- Fix unable to lock People
- Fix person nfo not being saved
- Fix collections getting lost after subtitle downloading when no nfo file is present
- Fix intermittent issue of new recordings not having media info
- Fix more like this not hiding played media when the option is set
- Fix sporadic cases of live streams ending early
- Fix multiple live tv views showing
- Fix adult metadata option not being used with Identify
- Fix rotation value for videos not being saved
- Fix genres tab missing from music videos library
- Fix Live TV view not being hidden after removing Live TV from the server
- Fix manage collaboration showing for playlists when permission to share personal content is denied
- Fix links section not showing for Collections
- Fix .sdh missing from subtitle download file name
- Fix Referer header in log not being anonymized
- Fix thumbnails for extras not being created

- Update to .NET 8
- Update to sqlite 3.49.2
- Support macOS on all betas going forward
- Support viewing books in the web app in pdf, epub, mobi, cbz, fb2 and other formats.
- Update ffmpeg with fixes related to image extraction and OpenCL
- Increase remote quality default value
- Debut of new WebStreams plugin
- Split remote quality setting into two, remote and cellular
- Support changing subtitle appearance settings during video playback
- Reorganize user and app settings
- Show three recent items in add to collection and add to playlist
- Support fb2 book extension
- Shorten display name for episode extras
- Support external audio tracks for movies and episodes
- Support playback correction in the web app
- Support date played as a selectable field in poster view
- Separate specials from episodes on series detail screen
- Artist sorting fixes
- Sorting fixes for items with long digits in name
- macOS networking fixes
- Smb file system fixes
- Support locking artists
- Rtsp protocol fixes
- Remove songs section from audiobook author screen
- Support setting shuffle state in audio player
- Transcoding fixes for audio only strm files
- Increase image extraction timeout
- Show ratings from all libraries on user config screen
- Run database integrity checks before backups
- M3U Live TV regression fix
- Support incremental seek speed using arrow keys
- Show more rows in video OSD guide
- Support launching videos from photo slideshow
- Auto-scroll the guide to the last played channel
- Factor in disc number to audio image uniqueness when extracting images from audio files
- Support alternative encodings of playlist files
- Support multiple episodedetails nodes in nfo files
- Start running hardware detection earlier on startup to try and avoid playback errors
- Support drag and drop reordering of transcoding codec settings
- Portuguese tv naming fixes
- Support ja-jp language code
- Adjust timing calculations for unaired/missing episodes
- Increase realtime monitor delay to help avoid repeated scanning
- Support drag and drop reordering in home screen settings library order
- Support drag and drop reordering in the metadata editor for genres, tags, people and studios
- Support launching videos from slideshow
- Prompt user when playing live channel with an active recording to ask if they want to start from the current live position or the start of the recording
- Convert subtitle offset dialog to a slider
- Set container field when importing all books
- Search all subtitle providers on manual subtitle downloads
- Various content visibility fixes for newly created libraries
- Restore collections library
- Support inherited images for music videos
- Support drag and drop reordering in all library settings
- Support -other for extras
- Refresh metadata on tracks when music albums are refreshed