{"id":"linuxserver-emby","name":"emby","af_score":25.5,"security_score":44.5,"reliability_score":36.2,"what_it_does":"Emby (emby) is a self-hosted media server for organizing and streaming personal media libraries (e.g., movies, TV shows, music, and photos) to clients over a network. It typically provides a web interface and native/media-player compatible playback, along with background processing for metadata/transcoding.","best_when":"You want to run your own media server and control storage, networking, and client access for a personal library.","avoid_when":"You need guaranteed, well-documented machine-to-machine APIs (OpenAPI/SDKs) or fully cloud-managed uptime/SLA.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:36:41.563293+00:00","has_mcp":false,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["Session-based/auth via Emby server access (commonly username/password and/or tokens), but exact method details not provided in the prompt data"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Self-hosted services require network reachability, firewall/NAT configuration, and correct client-server connectivity","Media/transcoding operations can be long-running; agents may need to handle timeouts and polling (not described in provided prompt data)","Exact API surface, schemas, and error formats are not provided in the prompt data"],"error_quality":0.0}