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I have recently removed my old music collection of MP3s and added a new music collection of FLACs. Emby matched around 80% of the artist with MusicBrainz correctly while I manually updated the MusicBrainz ID with the rest. Emby has pulled down fan art metadata but not the artist 'Overview' information. Is this by design? If not then how do I get Emby to update the 200+ artist in my library? Also, does the Metadata manager section work anymore? My artist artwork does not mirror up with what is shown in my library view. Library view of artist +44 images Metadata manager view of artist +44 images

It would be great to have full support of m3u playlists so that external playlist can be easily imported and modified through Emby. It would be a much stronger music server! Plex doesn't do that, so it would be a point in favour of Emby too

Hi, (maybe) stupid question: How can I shuffle play all music of my music library in ET 3.0.0? Quickmix will only play similar songs based on the actual selection, AFAIK. Thanks & Ciao, Alfred

Hi! I have some collections (just music) with two different kind of objects, in this case just "Artists" and "Albums". When sync (Android) those objects one by one the sync works great, but if I try sync the collection object don't work properly. Sometimes say "failed" or another times stay in "transfering" state forever. Sync music collections is officially supported? My emby server version: 3.3.1.15 beta Thx a lot!

Good afternoon, first of all, congratulate yourself for your good work. Quick context: My library has mp3, flac and some m4a. When I synchronize mp3 I do not use transcoding, but the flac files use a lot of space on my phone and I need to convert them to mp3. Up to here everything is correct. I have the problem when I need to set the bitrate to 320Kbps. I have tried several different test and the maximum bitrate I get is 192Kbps. These are the details of the flac that I used to test: Input #0, flac, from '01 - Lone Digger.flac': Metadata: ALBUM : <I°_°I> ARTIST : Caravan Palace BPM : 122.9 DATE : 2015 GENRE : Electro Swing RATING : 5 TITLE : Lone Digger track : 01 Duration: 00:03:49.50, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 891 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: flac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16 Stream #0:1: Video: mjpeg, yuvj444p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 600x600 [SAR 300:300 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc Metadata: comment : Cover (front) Test 1 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.1): 2018-03-25 16:00:09.295 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.295 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.297 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:00:09.297 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:00:09.298 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:00:09.374 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.374 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 100000 2018-03-25 16:00:09.376 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 100000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/33ec7295814b4256a3aa37e96c66ba88/08304eea9c1a493d9a47da25e4ecb53b/7d3e9b2042154e9082ae7c4cfe757a0e.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:00:17.142 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:00:17.593 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 8 seconds 2018-03-25 16:00:17.593 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:00:17.593 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Test 2 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.2): 2018-03-25 16:03:40.545 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.545 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.547 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:03:40.547 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:03:40.547 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:03:40.627 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.627 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 200000 2018-03-25 16:03:40.629 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 192000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/e874a1108a364216bfd76a18e5fbfc8f/659cf58dec884d59b9ac5cf129e90580/9d249c370a02496483580034b732cf93.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:03:48.203 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:03:48.307 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 7 seconds 2018-03-25 16:03:48.307 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:03:48.307 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Test 3 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.3): 2018-03-25 16:05:26.190 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.190 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.192 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:05:26.192 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:05:26.193 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:05:26.277 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.277 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 300000 2018-03-25 16:05:26.280 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 192000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/113e8b6457a544428609c97c48d42a15/cbf27e49c06c4d0cb274f13ea7a47e15/1d9f8b3f0c184dd79d2d1c398bd117ee.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:05:34.047 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:05:34.142 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 7 seconds 2018-03-25 16:05:34.143 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:05:34.143 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Test 4 (Quality: Custom, Bitrate: 0.4): 2018-03-25 16:06:14.368 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.368 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.369 Info TaskManager: Queueing task SyncConvertScheduledTask 2018-03-25 16:06:14.369 Info TaskManager: Executing Convert media 2018-03-25 16:06:14.369 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to x.x.x.x. Time: 12ms. http://x.x.x.x:8096/emby/Sync/Jobs 2018-03-25 16:06:14.445 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.445 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 891336, max bitrate: 400000 2018-03-25 16:06:14.448 Info MediaEncoder: /bin/ffmpeg -i file:"/mnt/share1/Caravan Palace/[2015] I°_°I/01 - Lone Digger.flac" -threads 1 -vn -ab 192000 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 -y "/config/sync/7a6bceb4a4e542ae9f9fa505fd25b996/ac9a6e03b2fd4320ac68bbe5630856bb/20646f2bdccc42d8a933029612c0fe10.mp3" 2018-03-25 16:06:22.120 Info MediaEncoder: FFMpeg exited with code 0 2018-03-25 16:06:22.220 Info TaskManager: Convert media Completed after 0 minute(s) and 7 seconds 2018-03-25 16:06:22.220 Info ServerManager: Sending web socket message ScheduledTaskEnded 2018-03-25 16:06:22.220 Info TaskManager: ExecuteQueuedTasks Summary results: In both test 3 and 4, the bitrate is set to 192Kbps. Maybe I'm wrong but my logic tells me that the correct behavior should follow the rules of the following table: Max bitrate: 0.1 -> transconding 96Kbps Max bitrate: 0.2 -> transconding 192Kbps Max bitrate: 0.3 -> transconding 256Kbps Max bitrate: 0.4 -> transconding 320Kbps This is the screen where I configure the custom max bitrate: Is there any way to configure the details of the transconding? Is there any way to do transconding using a bitrate of 320Kbps? Is this the correct or recommended way to use offline flac? Is it possible to add advanced options for the music transcoding? Any criticism, comment or help are welcome. Thank you very much. transcode-test1.txt transcode-test2.txt transcode-test3.txt transcode-test4.txt

Guten Morgen, ein kleines Problem habe ich noch nicht lösen können. Manchmal wird, obwohl in album artist "Various Artists" eingetragen ist, dieser Wert nicht in das Abum übernommen (Screenshot links). Bei anderen funktioniert dies jedoch. Frage: Wo kann ich diesen Wert nachträglich pflegen? Unter Info bearbeiten … kann ich das nicht. bkh ---------------- Good morning, I haven't been able to solve a little problem yet. Sometimes, although album artist "Various Artists" is entered, this value is not included in the subscription (screenshot left). With others, however, this works. Question: Where can I maintain this value afterwards? Under Edit info... I can't do that. bkh

I just downloaded and installed the Emby server to my computer so that I could more easily and reliably stream the music I have to the TVs in my house. Dish Home Media is recognizing the Emby server on my computer, but it's not recognizing the music folder I synced to it. My computer is running Windows 7 Home Premium, the music is on an external hard drive, and my Dish receiver is a Hopper with Sling. Could any of those factors contribute to the folders and files not showing up?

When I go to play an album on my phone, it gets pretty jittering since it's streaming it, without much of a buffer. It also doesn't buffer/sync ahead, so this makes it very internet-sensitive. I would really love it, if that when I play an album it syncs the whole album, or whole "scope" of what I told it to play. Syncs it to the phone. This way as my internet fluctuates, it buffers a-head. If there is some way we can set (on the client/phone) how far a-head it syncs based on Wifi/Cellular I think that would be rad too. Say X number of songs if you're on Cellular, Y if you're on wifi (with the option for unlimited for either). As for other forms of multimedia, this may be helpful, but I'm not 100% sure how that would translate to video content... Thoughts?

Grüß Gott, eine Frage bzw. Anregung. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit für die Musiksammlung eigene Sammlungen zu generieren, die nicht unter den Sammlungen für Filme erscheinen, sondern als eigene Musikcollections auftauchen. Denn Film- und Musiksammlungen gemeinsam werden schnelle unübersichtlich. Wenn nicht, wäre das vielleicht ein Feature, das in einer der nächsten Releases eingebaut werden könnte, wenn Interesse dafür besteht. bkh

I have more than 2000 songs in mp3 and flac format and the emby apps I use (android for smartphone android TV and windows 10) doesn't show the albums, genres and tracks. is there something wrong with emby server? Is there any workaround for this issue? Has this issue been addressed by emby developers?

Hi there, anyone has the ability and the capability to create a plugin for playback via Magnatune (magnatune.com)? The API can be found here: http://magnatune.com/info/api There is already a plugin for Rythmbox (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Rhythmbox?action=show&redirect=Apps%2FRhythmbox) Maybe this can be easily ported? Cheers.

I am running Emby version 3.2.70.0 Emby will set year to 9999 on both newly added or re-scan on any music album. As far as I am concerned, this behaviour started on this version.

I am running Emby Server 3.2.70 When new multi-disc albuns are added to the library, Emby will set the same cover image to all tracks, on every disc from the album. It is intuitive and seems pretty much logic to think that all discs from the same album have the same image but that's not what happens on various classical music albuns. I am tagging Mozart's complete works and, though each disc (folder.jpg file) and track (embedded by MP3Tag) has its own image, Emby will attribute to all of them, the first image it grabs from the first disc. Thus, after tagging everything I have to change each track image using Emby's interface. No matter if I command "Update metadata": only manual change solves the problem. I must add that, curiously, each disc from a multi-disc album grabs its cover image correctly from the "folder.jpg" file located in it's own folder. This leads to tracks images different from disc images. Thanks

I'm trying to get rid of some Artists who only made appearances on songs by other artists. I removed them from the metadata for the songs they appeared on, and I re-scanned my library after doing that, but these artists still appear in my Artist section. I found them in /var/lib/emby/metadata/artists and I tried deleting them from there too, but that didn't work either. How do I delete these artists?

I have a problem with Emby sorting my music. Multiple albums are lumped together as the same album. I have one album in particular, which supposedly contains 571 songs. In the artist view I also find artists with only two or three albums showing up when there should be 6 or 7. Before putting the music into the Emby library I went through and re-tagged all of the music I own to try to avoid this problem. I used a stand-alone music tagging program and checked album, artist, album artist, and one or two more categories. In many cases I also made the artist and album artist match (using a single "main" artist rather than listing all artists). For the multiple albums being lumped together issue (571 songs in one album), the music is all in a folder called "Christmas," but is stored in separate sub folders by 1) artist, then 2) album. The album titles are not the same. I tried Emby on a Windows computer and later on a Ubuntu Linux computer that is acting as a storage/multimedia server. Both versions had the same problem sorting my music. What suggestions do you have, and what additional information do you need?

Hi trying to stream music via Android or iOS app from my emby server to my Denon AVR-X2000 and it does not work. The streaming destination is not being offered... But it works well with Amazon Music or e.g. the Synology Music App (DS Music)?! PMS and iOS, Android devices are on VLAN A the AVR is on VLAN B Any ideas why other apps are working and emby App does not? regards

Hi, On music search results there are no means as to reach the album containing the track or the artist. Are there any plans to include links such as other results on the music landing page (i.e. suggestions)? Thanks

Per my title: I am at work and trying to listen to music through the web portal. It's fine until I try to sort by artist. No list of artists load on the screen, I just get a spinning circle and then the server crashes. I've had no issues with the other music categories (by song/album). I now have to manually restart EMBY on my server when I get home to get it working again. Anyone have any explanation as to why this is happening?

Hi, I am running Emby Server 3.2.36.0 Browsing a music library according to genres > any_genre shows a "genre home" presenting - genre artists - genre albums - genre musics When there are more than 8 genre artists, Emby displays a "More" for a screen with all genre artists. On the "More" screen, if there are more than 100 artists, Emby displays a "<-" and "->" for pagination purposes. The "->" leads to a page of genre albuns, not the second, third pages of the genre artists.

@@Luke stated in a previous post (https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/49933-replaygain-music-support/) adding support for this could easily be done for at least the theater client seeing as the player used already supports replaygain. I'm making this feature request in hopes that this support is added, as I have no dev experience myself

I have just started using Emby for my music collection and am busy exploring how everything works. Perhaps this is how it is supposed to work, but I'm guessing it is not. When I navigate to an artist in the web app (or through http://tv.emby.media) and click on the 'shuffle' button, it starts playing random songs from my whole library, not (just) from the artist page that I was looking at. I'm using Emby Server 3.2.34.0 on Synology DSM 6.1.3. I can reproduce the issue with both Firefox 56.0 (64-bit) and Chrome 58.0.3029.81 (64-bit).

Is there any means as to shuffle to the now playing list all music from the library?

Hello, I've heard this is hard to do, but I also think it would be a game changer for the platform if it could be done - essentially synchronize music playback across instances of ET. One of the big advantages to a system like SONOS is that you can have music playing in multiple rooms and I use it all the time. If we could have that in Emby I'd be willing to help finance the dev! Jason

I hope this is the right forum for this issue. I'm having trouble getting Emby to see things correctly. For instance, it sees the White album, it sees the first cd of 25 Blues Masters, but it doesn't see the rest of the Blues Masters cds, and makes just silly additions to the playlist tree. The ripping program recognized the series of CDs during the rip, and suggested appropriate (used) folder names. My HDD: \Music \Blues Masters \cd1 \cd2 \cd3 \cd4 Emby: Music 25 Blues Masters 25 Blues Masters Vol. 1 J. Reed (from a totally seperate folder!) Beathovan (from a totally different - everything!) I used a professional CD ripper to do this. I successfully ripped the White Album this way and it works perfectly. Emby lists 30 songs in one directory with the folder structure: \Beatles \Disk 1 \Disk 2 Can anyone explain what's going wrong? Since it all works on tags, and the tags were all present in the ripping, where's the error? Thanks.

Hi, Music playback is stuttering when Emby is send to background or when the screen is off. When Emby is back in focus, the stuttering is gone (Android 7.0). Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks, Jelle