Emby Explorer (Qt) - (w) 2025 Jan Buchholz

Emby Explorer (Qt) is a lightweight Qt6 application to explore your Emby media server.

• Browse collections including movies, series, and home videos
• Configure the level of detail to fetch (cast, directors, genres and more)
• View a popup dialog with cover art and summaries for movies and series
• Export media details directly to Excel

Welcome screen

Preferences - Configure connection to server

Preferences - Configure level of detail

Preferences - Select font and font size

Fetched Home videos collection

Collection exported to Excel

Credits

Daniel Nicoletti (dantti) and Jay Two (j2Doll) for "QXlsx"

Known issues

On macOS, the app requires network access permission.
The first login to the Emby server may fail until access is granted.

Updates

2025-09-11

• Fixed broken ToolBar → ToolButton style on macOS (no hover/click effect)
• Added .json extension to preferences file
• Minor enhancements

2025-10-15

• All releases now built with Qt 6.10
• Code review completed
• Preferences now use ascii85 format (instead of base64)
• Minor fixes

2025-11-28 – Release v1.4

• Added timeout for REST API
• English translation overhaul
• Removed German translation
• This README :)

Have fun.