There is a new build of the Media Browser server that enables you to have a more control your server. It gives you more control over where your metadata comes from and what formats the data is saved. It also makes sure that locally stored metadata always takes priority over internet data so it will never over right your carefully crafted metadata. There are other new features like status monitoring of live TV tuners and more permissions for users so you can enable or disable live TV on a per user basis.

There are also changes like a new TV and audio fetcher as well as improved cpu usage when transcoding. All in all it looks like a big improvement over the previous version, more details on mediabrowser3.com

Finely grained control over metadata settings. Choose where your metadata comes from, prioritize internet fetchers, and choose what formats your metadata gets saved to.

Local metadata is king. If we see local metadata for an item, we will not go out to the internet. Period. This means as new features are added you may have to manually re-scan, but having predictability is better for everyone involved.

Bottom up scanning for music means all data is based off of the media files, e.g. embedded artwork comes first at the album level, and we can read musicbrainz id’s from id3 tags, which @steve1977 I’m sure will be happy with.

New audio fetcher added – TheAudioDB.com

New TV fetcher added – TheMovieDB.org (Currently only at the series level. No season or episode data yet, but it will come with time).

There’s also a new nifty auto-organize feature for episodes that can monitor a download folder and move episodes to your series folder. It also includes the ability to manually correct when we can’t determine the series it belongs to.

More user permissions – enable/disable live tv per user, as well as enable/disable any kind of media playback per user.

Path substitution features

More improvements in regards to lowering cpu usage when transcoding

Easier setup and sharing of libaries

Status monitoring of live tv tuners, and the ability to reset a tuner

Choose from all languages when downloading images manually

 

 

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