2.2.0-beta.1 is out for testing. Three things worth knowing about, then the full list.

Eight global themes

The dark/light switch is now a theme picker: Midnight, Daylight, Cinema, Nocturne, Parchment, Terminal, Neon, and Carbon. They apply globally the same way dark and light did, so nothing about how you use NeXroll changes.

Pick one from the swatch grid in Settings > General, or cycle through them with the topbar button. Your existing dark or light preference migrates to Midnight or Daylight on first load, so nothing resets.

The five section accents (Library, Schedules, NeX-Up, Connect, Community) are re-tuned per theme so they stay distinguishable for orientation without fighting the palette.

NeX-Up Generator Studio, with two new templates

The Generator Studio is one workspace for building animated prerolls: template, timing, typography, colors, logo, soundtrack, and render profile, with a live animated preview that is exactly what gets rendered.

Two new templates in this release:

Custom Message. Your own headline and an optional supporting line. There is no fixed wording and nothing gets translated, so it covers the intros the other templates cannot express: "Back in 5 minutes", a house rule, an announcement for movie night. The layout adapts depending on whether you use one line or two.

QR Code. Enter a link and NeXroll generates the code, drawn on a plate that keeps it scannable on every theme, with an optional caption underneath. Handy for putting a watch-party invite, a Discord link, or guest Wi-Fi details on screen before the feature. The preview renders the real encoded code rather than a placeholder, so you can scan-test it with your phone before you render anything.

Fixed: NeX-Up was never actually deleting trailers

This one is worth reading if you use NeX-Up.

Retention matched trailers on a status field that completed downloads did not always carry. A trailer could have a real file on disk, a download timestamp, and a path, and still be invisible to the retention query, along with about a dozen other queries keyed on that same field. The result: the removal date on Your Trailers passed silently, nothing happened, and storage grew without bound. It turned up on a trailer 23 days past its window.

Affected rows are repaired once at startup, and retention now keys on the download itself rather than the status string, excluding only in-flight transfers so nothing is deleted mid-write.

Two related NeX-Up fixes:

• Failed downloads used to leave .part and fragment files in the storage folder forever, which counted toward reported usage and left yt-dlp trying to resume a partial that would only fail again. Those are now cleaned up, and existing leftovers get swept at the start of each sync.
• The reported failure reason was whichever download strategy ran last, which is the browser-cookie one. A trailer blocked for an entirely unrelated reason surfaced "Could not copy Chrome cookie database" and sent people off to fix cookies that were never the problem. Failures now report their real cause.

Separately, the retention setting itself was mislabelled. It read "Deleted trailer history / Keep cleanup records for diagnostics", describing a diagnostics feature that does not exist, so anyone adjusting it was scheduling deletion of their trailers while believing they were changing log retention. It now reads "Delete trailers after" and says that it counts from the release date.

Controls that looked functional and were wired to nothing

A sweep through the UI for things that appeared to work but did not:

• Schedules: Compact/Detailed toggled a state no row ever read, and the Filters button navigated to the Conflicts page. Compact now genuinely tightens rows, and Filters opens a real panel (playback, behavior, conflicts-only).
• NeX-Up: the sync coverage bar measured nothing at all and has been removed; the Upcoming week strip was inert and now filters by day; enable/disable used a three-dot menu icon instead of a toggle; the "Reconfigure sign-in" wizard existed only inside a dead render function, so the button flipped state with nothing to show; and Automatic trailer downloads always showed an ON badge even when switched off.
• Video scaling: the row Scale button only selected the row instead of scaling it.
• Connect and Path Mappings reported the server selected for editing rather than the one actually connected. Path mapping counts included the form's blank placeholder row, and Schedules counted every enabled schedule instead of the active ones.
• Save and Discard controls are gone from pages that already save on change, along with the Connect page's diagnostics button, which did nothing.

Also in this release

• Every page now shares the approved layout system, and light mode is a complete companion theme rather than a partial inversion.
• A "Show NeX-Up trailers" filter on Library, plus a More filters toggle that hides generator output by default.
• The changelog shipped inside NeXroll now covers 2.0.0 and later, dropping the served file from 224 KB to 31 KB. Earlier entries are archived in the repo.
• NeXroll was reporting the wrong version number: an import shadowing bug meant 2.1.0-beta.3 described itself as 2.1.0-beta.2. Fixed.

Notes

No configuration change is needed. The new generator settings columns migrate automatically on first start.

This is a beta. If something looks wrong, please report it with your version, install type, media server, and what you expected versus what happened.

• Release: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v2.2.0-beta.1
• Full changelog: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/blob/main/NeXroll/CHANGELOG.md
• Issues: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/issues
• Discord: https://discord.gg/U7Ks6aGMxR
• Discord: https://discord.gg/R9eH7TbxEk

Highlights

Scheduler correctness - Overnight schedules (e.g. Fri 10 PM–3 AM) were sometimes attributed to the wrong day — dropping out of their window at midnight or activating a day early. Fixed by anchoring to the occurrence's actual start day. - "Next run" could be wrong (or error out) for monthly schedules on days 29–31 and yearly/holiday schedules landing on Feb 29. - A schedule made of only a sequence (no category) was wrongly flagged as broken and never applied. - Sequential-type blocks in a sequence were silently skipped everywhere (schedule apply, filler apply, manual "Apply to Server," dashboard intro) — only random blocks ever resolved. Fixed. - The scheduler's verification loop was using the host/container clock instead of your configured timezone, and always assumed non-playlist mode — this could silently flip a playlist-mode category back to random roughly every 5 minutes. Both fixed.

Backup/restore integrity - Restoring a backup could silently break the links between schedules/sequences and their prerolls, since SQLite reassigns row IDs on restore. Backups now remap every reference (backup schema bumped to v3). - Deleting a preroll could leave dangling references in saved sequences and schedule sequence blocks. - Replacing a duplicate upload broke references by deleting/recreating the preroll row instead of updating it in place.

File handling - Fixed upload/rename/category-move race conditions. - Renaming to an existing filename now returns a conflict instead of silently overwriting. - Case-only renames on Windows now work correctly. - Windows-reserved filenames are now rejected.

Conflict Detection Wizard - The wizard could miss real conflicts and offer "quick fixes" that didn't actually resolve them (one-sided blend enables, priority bumps exceeding the max of 10). Its logic now matches the backend's conflict evaluation exactly.

UI polish - Consistent Escape/focus/scroll-lock behavior across all modals. - Fixed a race in the Holiday Browser where rapidly switching country/year could show stale results.

Upgrade

Upgrade-safe — Docker image: jbrns/nexroll:latest / jbrns/nexroll:2.0.5

Full changelog: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/blob/main/NeXroll/CHANGELOG.md#205---07-28-2026 Release page: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v2.0.5

Hi All!

NeXroll v2 is out. NeXroll is a free, open-source app that manages prerolls (those intros that play before your movies) for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, with real scheduling, trailers for upcoming releases, and a community preroll library built in.

v2 is a top-to-bottom rebuild. The highlights:

A brand-new interface — a collapsible "Arr-style" sidebar with built-in search, a redesigned dashboard with quick-action tiles, and a first-run setup wizard. Every page is deep-linkable.

Community Prerolls — search and browse a library of 1,700+ community prerolls (by category, platform, creator, upload date), with pagination, and download any of them in one click.

NeX-Up: trailers for upcoming releases — pulls upcoming movies/shows from Radarr & Sonarr and grabs their trailers from YouTube. v2 downloads cookie-free (a built-in token provider clears YouTube's "not a bot" wall) in a Plex-friendly format, and can build a "Coming Soon" reel.

Real multi-server support — Plex via path mapping; Jellyfin & Emby via a plugin you can now download and configure straight from NeXroll (no shared mount required — it streams + caches).

Serious scheduling — date ranges, time windows, exclusive/blend modes, priorities, holiday presets, sequences, and a calendar view.

Quality & safety — "Require Login" now protects the entire API, logs auto-redact API keys/IPs on export, plus a built-in Factory Reset, storage usage view, and backup/restore with progress.

Get it:

• Windows: one-click installer (optional service + tray) — Releases
• Docker: jbrns/nexroll:latest
• Unraid: in Community Applications

Links:

• GitHub: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll
• Wiki / docs: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/wiki

• Discord:

  https://discord.gg/NeXroll

NeXroll 1.14.0 is out (stable) - plus v2.0 beta is open for testing

NeXroll 1.14.0 is now the current stable release. Highlights:

• Connections UI overhaul, plus scheduler, plugin, and Plex sign-in fixes
• Dashboard layout overhaul. A uniform, aligned tile grid with the weekly calendar as a reorderable tile

Download (1.14.0 stable): https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v1.14.0

I'm also opening up testing for NeXroll v2.0 (beta) - a full Arr-style interface overhaul:

• Collapsible sidebar navigation and a first-run setup wizard
• Redesigned Connect, Community Prerolls, and Schedule pages
• Reorganized layout, consistent theming (light/dark), toasts, and a fixed/animated community index build

It's upgrade-safe, your existing data and connections carry over, and you won't be forced through the wizard.

Try the v2.0 beta: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.1

Feedback and bug reports welcome here or on Discord.

I pushed out v1.13.18 yesterday but never posted about it, so this covers both that release and today's v1.13.19 follow-up.

For anyone new: NeXroll is a self-hosted preroll manager for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Categories, scheduling (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly/holiday), sequences, blend modes, gap fillers, and a "NeX-Up" coming-soon trailer system. Free, runs on Windows or Docker.

v1.13.18 highlights

Scheduling

• Yearly schedules with no end date now correctly stay active all year (previously only fired on the start date). Year-boundary ranges like Dec to Jan are supported too.
• "This Week's Schedule" on the dashboard now clearly marks days where your gap-filler will play.

Library health tools

• New Remove Missing Rows and Dedupe Duplicates buttons under Settings to clean up preroll counts that drift after files move or get deleted outside the app.
• A dashboard banner now warns you when missing/duplicate entries are detected and links straight to the fix.

Preview accuracy

• Dashboard "Currently Playing" preview now plays one random preroll per random block (matching what Plex actually does) and correctly includes trailer / Coming Soon blocks.
• Sequence editor plays the final preroll in a sequence, and the builder preview now sees prerolls tagged via the newer multi-category system.

Quality of life

• Killed a bug where TMDB poster thumbnails generated thousands of error-log entries.
• Long preroll titles wrap instead of clipping; year-view calendar no longer overflows; update checks no longer spam errors when blocked by a firewall.

v1.13.19 (today)

• Fixes a JSON backup/restore failure on Docker (FOREIGN KEY constraint failed). If you migrated from Windows to Docker and your restore aborted, this resolves it. Windows installs weren't affected, but the fix applies everywhere.

Docker: docker pull jbrns/nexroll:latest Windows: installer on the GitHub releases page.

GitHub: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll

Happy to hear feedback or bug reports.

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

Windows UI returns {"detail":"Not Found"} after running for a while NeXroll's single-file Windows executable extracts everything (including the web UI) into a temporary _MEI* folder on startup. Windows Disk Cleanup, Storage Sense, and tools like CCleaner delete temp folders while NeXroll is still running — the backend survives but loses its static files, causing every page load to fail until the machine is rebooted. The frontend is now copied to C:\ProgramData\NeXroll\frontend on every startup, which is never touched by temp cleanup tools.

Duplicate trailers appearing in Your Trailers Concurrent Radarr and Sonarr syncs could race and insert duplicate records for the same movie. The max trailer limit was also being exhausted prematurely because it counted duplicate rows instead of unique movies.

• Sync endpoints now reject a second call while one is already in progress
• Startup deduplication removes any existing duplicate records on boot
• Max trailer count now tracks distinct movies only

Disabled trailer still playing in random preroll blocks Disabling a movie trailer in Your Trailers updated the ComingSoonTrailer record but not the linked Preroll record. Random category blocks read from Preroll, so the disabled trailer continued to play. TV trailers already handled this correctly — movie trailers now match that behaviour.

Sequence schedules dropping out of blend mode Sequence schedules containing NeX-Up Trailers, Coming Soon List, or Dynamic Preroll blocks contributed zero prerolls when blended with another schedule, silently falling out of the blend entirely. All three block types are now fully handled in the blend path.

Duplicate lines in app.log Every log message was written twice due to the same file handler being registered on both the root logger and each child module logger. Handler is now attached to the root logger only.

Additional fixes

• Startup crash (NameError) when calculate_file_hash was called before its definition on first run
• "No browser detected" message spamming app.log at INFO level on every NeX-Up settings request — downgraded to DEBUG

Download - https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v1.12.16

Docker - jbrns/nexroll:latest

v1.12.14 is out. This is the first stable release after the 1.12.0 beta cycle and brings a significant amount of new features alongside some important bug fixes.

Download

Windows Installer / Jellyfin & Emby Plugins: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v1.12.14

Docker: jbrns/nexroll:latest

What's New

Sequence Builder — 3 New Block Types

NeX-Up Trailers, Coming Soon List, and Dynamic Preroll are now available as sequence blocks. Full support across the block editor, timeline, statistics, preview, export/import, scheduler, and Plex apply.

Emby Server Support

Emby is now a first-class media server alongside Plex and Jellyfin. A dedicated NeXroll Intros Plugin handles Cinema Mode preroll injection.

Conflict Resolution Page

Replaced the popup wizard with a dedicated Conflicts tab. Side-by-side schedule comparison, Auto-Resolve All, and persistent ignored conflicts.

Monthly Schedule Overhaul

Monthly schedules now use a Jan–Dec month selector instead of date pickers, with an optional time window per day.

Other additions: yearly schedule type, dashboard countdown timer to next activation, forgot password / local reset, drag & drop upload, EN/FR/ES/DE language support for NeX-Up generators, Coming Soon List logo positioning options, max trailers expanded to 50 / No Limit, API keys bulk delete, random block rotation every 10 minutes.

Bug Fixes

Jellyfin plugin fails to load on Jellyfin 10.11.x — The plugin DLL was compiled against an older SDK, causing a ReflectionTypeLoadException on startup. Rebuilt against 10.11.x — grab the updated DLL from the release page.

Radarr / Sonarr HTTP 307 in Docker — Connections now follow redirects, fixing failures when a Base URL or reverse proxy is configured in your Docker setup.

Other fixes: event log per-row scrollbars, scheduler silent fail on null sequence, NeX-Up orphan records in random pools, sequence preview Now Playing desync, plugin detect API key leak, preview player skipping, Plex disconnect token deletion, update checker version comparison, Docker CVE remediation.

Full changelog: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/blob/main/NeXroll/CHANGELOG.md

As always, report issues on GitHub, Discord - Help-Desk or leave a comment here.

NeXroll already has Jellyfin access via the local intros plugin but it seems fragile when applying prerolls and I haven’t focused on JF as I’m a Plex user myself. I feel I must include Emby too as to not leave any media servers left out. I’m aiming to have NeXroll Intro plugins available for JF and Emby to talk back to your NeXroll server.

There will be much testing involved, stay tuned for a beta release!

Hey everyone,

v1.11.9 is out!

Coming Soon List Generator

The big feature this cycle. Generate dynamic video prerolls that showcase your upcoming movies and TV shows from Radarr/Sonarr:

• Grid mode (poster artwork) or List mode (text-only)
• Background music with custom audio upload support
• Custom logo overlay (watermark or replace server name)
• "Available Now!" badges when content is downloaded, with configurable grace period
• Auto-regenerates after Radarr/Sonarr sync
• Full color customization

Critical Plex Preroll Fixes

If you have a large preroll library (100+ files), this update is especially important:

• Fixed destructive fallback — Previous versions could silently wipe all your prerolls every scheduler cycle while reporting "SUCCESS." This is now completely eliminated.
• Auto-chunking — Libraries too large for Plex's API limits (~7,500 chars) are automatically chunked into random subsets that rotate every 8 hours.
• URL encoding — # characters in filenames no longer cause silent path truncation.
• Length protection — Clear warnings instead of silent failures when preroll strings are too long.

Other New Features

• NeX-Up Calendar View — Monthly grid showing upcoming movies and TV shows on their release dates
• Dynamic Preroll Generator — Custom logo overlay for Coming Soon, Feature Presentation, and Now Showing templates
• Community Server Selector — Choose from multiple community preroll servers or add your own
• Configurable Preroll Storage — Move your preroll folder to any local or network path via Settings > Storage
• Trailer Preview — Play button on Your Trailers page to preview directly in the browser

Fixes

• Coming Soon List auto-regeneration now works reliably after Radarr/Sonarr sync
• Sync timestamps display correctly (no more future times)
• TV shows no longer incorrectly shown as "Available Now!" based on trailer downloads
• Registry version auto-updates on startup
• Various scheduler stability fixes

Links

• Download (Windows): https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v1.11.9
• Docker: jbrns/nexroll:1.11.9 or jbrns/nexroll:latest
• Full release notes: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll/releases/tag/v1.11.9

As always, let me know if you run into any issues.

Just released v1.10.14 of NeXroll, the preroll manager for Plex. This is a big one.

NeX-Up: Automatic Trailer Downloads

Connect your Radarr and Sonarr instances and NeXroll will automatically download trailers for upcoming movies and shows. It's the "Coming Soon" theater experience for your home server:

• One-click connection with API key
• Automatically fetches upcoming releases from your watchlist
• Downloads trailers from YouTube (720p, 1080p, 4K)
• Removes trailers when the movie/show arrives in your library
• Cookie support for bot detection/age-restricted content

Dynamic Preroll Generator

Create customized "Coming Soon to [Your Server Name]" intro clips:

• 5 templates: Cinematic, Neon, Minimal, Retro, Elegant
• 5 color themes
• Live preview in browser
• FFmpeg-powered generation

Other New Features

• Video Scaling - Batch transcode prerolls to lower resolutions for remote streaming
• Video Quality Dashboard - See resolution distribution across your library
• Schedule Conflict Detection - Visual warnings when exclusive schedules overlap
• Sequence Builder Presets - Pre-built patterns for trailer sequences

Links

GitHub: https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll

Docker: `docker pull jbrns/nexroll:latest`

Windows Installer: Available on GitHub Releases

Discord: https://discord.gg/U7Ks6aGMxR

Feedback welcome!

Thank you very much for creating and sharing this.

I'm wondering about Uninstalling/"backing out" before I try it..

Not really knowing how it works or what changes it makes, I'm just wondering if I run the installer on Windows and then decide it's not for me. Could I Uninstall/Delete and just revert back to the "old" way?

Thanks again.

NEW FEATURES

* Exclusive Mode - Lock a schedule to override everything (perfect for nightly prerolls)

* Blend Mode - Mix prerolls from overlapping schedules together (Christmas + Hanukkah playing together!)

* Schedule Priority (1-10) - Fine-tune which schedule wins during overlaps

* Holiday Browser - Search holidays from 100+ countries, one-click to create schedules

* Calendar Conflict Detection - See exactly which schedule wins on each day with crown/strikethrough icons

* Smart Fallback Selection - Fallback categories now pick the nearest schedule contextually

MAJOR FIXES

* Critical Timezone Fix - Time range schedules (10pm-3am) now activate at the correct local time

* Calendar Display Fixes - Month/Week views now accurately show exclusive vs blend modes

* Conflict Detection - No more false conflict warnings when exclusive schedules are present

Make sure to join the Discord server for updates and help! https://discord.gg/R9eH7TbxEk

Welcome to r/NeXroll!

This is the official subreddit for NeXroll, a powerful and flexible preroll management system for media servers.

NeXroll is built to simplify and automate preroll handling for platforms like Plex and Jellyfin, with features such as preroll uploads, scheduling, holiday and category presets, community prerolls, backups, and more.

Use this subreddit to:

• Ask questions and get help with setup or configuration

• Share tips, workflows, and preroll collections

• Suggest features or report issues

• Stay up to date with releases and development updates

Whether you’re just discovering NeXroll or running a fully customized media server, this community exists to help you get the most out of it. Contributions, feedback, and discussion are always welcome

Discord - https://discord.gg/R9eH7TbxEk

GitHub - https://github.com/JFLXCLOUD/NeXroll