scoson 1 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I posted about this in the Windows forum but thought I'd ask here as it MAY be the Emby Roku channel that's at fault, I don't know? May be some weirdness on my part? My music/mp3's are tagged perfectly. I've been using Mp3tag for years for this. If I use folder view everything looks fairly normal but I'm missing some of my music. If I use enhanced view I don't even list ANY artists except one of my Steve Vai albums (Fire Garden) shows up as "Indomp3z". Yeah I don't get that and double checking the tag every field is normal. The weird part is that my Emby library on the web is normal, if I use the (Roku media channel) using either Windows or Emby server everything is normal. Anybody else either have have this problem or know something to look at or try? I have a feeling I'm the only one this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 best thing to do is compare to the server's web interface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoson 1 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 I tried in my own terms to mention in first post that it's normal there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoson 1 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 In enhanced view in Emby channel I believe all ALBUMS and albums in GENRES are available and correct as well as artwork, but zilch for artists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 so artists are coming up empty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoson 1 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) Bazinga Sheldon!.... ok that was uncalled for Luke, much respect:) I've read a number of threads in the forums and you're way helpful, and new guy thinks he's funny lol Edited October 14, 2015 by scoson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoson 1 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 I just tried removing Music and re-adding it as a different type library, first I tried Music Video then Movies hoping that folder view might work at least showing and playing all, but it was a fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 if you could provide more info about what you're seeing in the roku app i'm sure it can be resolved. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speechles 1917 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) I see this too on some albums. But it is endemic usually of missing metadata or not following the guide/wiki ( https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/wiki/Music-Library ).The guide/wiki wants ..music/artist/albums/song.mp3Some of mine use..music/various/top100-feb2015/debuts/song.mp3..music/various/top100-feb2015/song.mp3The expected behavior is artist is "various" and album is "top100-feb2015". The guide/wiki suggests this is what should happen. The nested folder "debuts" is navigateable but known as a child of the parent, it is treated like a "music collection" when browsed to. How it works is the nested album is added as "debuts" with the artist as the first entry in the album with metadata. The root album is also added as an album "top100-feb2015" but the artist is assigned different because its the frist entry in the album with metadata again. This makes linking the two albums singularly as a unit more difficult. Why isn't there a way to group music into "collections" like movies can do with boxsets? The folder layout would easily identify whether to create a singular album, or a music collection. Hopefully I am explain this clearly enough.To get around this, you have to use the metadata editor and change the albums to their correct names, and fix the artist it assigned too. The music management in emby server needs work to support folder layout versus metadata detection. Edited October 15, 2015 by speechles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoson 1 Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 (edited) Thanks for replying guys. Speechles, coincidentally I do have a folder called various that I put music in if I only have 1 track by the particular artist, they all show up as a list in folder view, except the folder calls itself Superunknown (from the Soundgarden track that's in there). Tags are all correct for these too. I do have a few other folders that are artists put together. I can understand if some of this throws Emby for a loop in whatever way, but the stuff that's not showing up in folder view seems arbitrary, some of it that I've seen is in proper folder format anyway. I still don't understand why in enhanced view album, genre, and art is showing up proper but no artists (again, ALL artists show on the web). But, in any case you're probably right that I just have enough weirdness in my collection to wreck stuff just enough, I don't know. I've taken years of collecting and thought to organize the way I have though and I'm kind of set in my way about that. I'm old My collection is only somewhere aroung 3500 songs but a LOT of different albums, not complete ones. I can live with this if that's the way it is for now, I'm not complaining, Emby works GREAT in every other way. Edited October 15, 2015 by scoson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 37065 Posted October 15, 2015 Solution Share Posted October 15, 2015 the artists list in roku is showing album artists so it would be equivalent to that tab in the web interface 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoson 1 Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 Ah ha!! So that's the deal? Well my music is backed up several different ways and places so I'm a gonna load em all up in Mp3tag and see if it will give me a batch conversion for that. It might not, but where there's a will there's a way! Thanks Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoson 1 Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 Luke, go ahead and put sprinkles on your cone it worked! I found this page http://shawnoster.com/2008/01/mp3tag-action-to-populate-album-artist/ that told a way to do this with Mp3tag. The Roku is getting ever more populated with artist names as we speak! Case closed, problem solved, question answered 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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