TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U6.1 vs Emby 4.9.0.8β ... and all I want to do is stream play my audiobooks

[Mark Holtz]

And all this because Plex does not support audiobooks, but Emby does... yet the Plug-Ins for Emby on Truenas 13.0-U6.1 are stuck on older versions of Emby Server-Stable 4.7.14.0_11 and Emby Server-Beta 4.8.0.78. It should be noted that the current versions of stable is 4.8.1.0 and beta is 4.9.0.8. Yes, I know that Plug-ins are effectively depricated at this time. That's another story...

So, anyways, I initially had Emby running. I had initially set up the 4.7.14.0_11 plug-in, and then, by pure misunderstanding, installed the an earlier version of the beta at something like 4.9.0.4 which was working fine and improved functionality... until 4.9.0.8 toasted by setup. With some annoyance, I tried the beta plug-in and upgraded again, but lost all functionality. The heck with the plug-ins.

So, I performed the following:

1. Installed Emby per https://emby.media/truenas-server.html via CLI . That works.
2. Verified functionality and added libraries.
3. Upgraded the packages per https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html
4. Installed the beta package pkg add -f https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.9.0.8/emby-server-freebsd13_4.9.0.8_amd64.pkg per https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html.
5. Watch as the Emby instance die.
6. Restart the jail.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

 

[gb123]

I’m running the Emby stable plugin on Truenas core 13.0u2 without issue. My jail, created by the plugin, is 13.2, Emby version is 4.8.3.0 and it’s doing just fine. I’d stick with the stable version of the plugin. I did manual install for awhile, but you can run into release issues with ffmpeg.

 

[adrianwi]

At step 4 above you are installing the emby package designed for FreeBSD 14 in your v13 jail?

 

[Mark Holtz]

Typo, I meant FreeBSD 13 in that jail.

It doesn't matter anymore. I'm going to leave both my Plex and Emby jails "as-is" for now and let them be destroyed when I upgrade to TrueNAS Scale. At least Plex has a method for migrating the library metadata. Not sure about Emby, so it's a rebuild from scratch.