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Hi, I've been going through my flac collection and cleaning up the incorrect metadata directly in the files. I ended up adding missing genres to a lot of the files. After doing this I then copied all my music across to my server and rescanned the library, but none of the newly added genres are shown. I also noticed that in cases where I had changed the genre, the old genre is still displayed for those albums and the new one is ignored. I have the genre display limit set to five, so it shouldn't have any problems displaying multiple genres for each album. Any idea where I might be going wrong? Is there a simple way to get Emby to refresh the genres from the tags embedded in the flac files? Thanks, Dylan

This is currently for testing purposes only - use at your own risk Use on a test library before even attempting to use on your main server. Plugin For Albums in their own folders ! Emby doesnt seem to be able to do this correctly , every track gets the first ones scanned embedded image. Unless i am doing it wrong. ?? But doing it this way it makes absolutely no difference what the embeded images are or what emby does or doesnt do, you are in control. Use it with realtime scanning then you dont have to mess with embys metadata editor, only to loose all the settings if i have to redo anything. You can drop an artist image in the folder or a track Image (I use singles cover images for the tracks- i like them that way) and it just adds it when RTM picks up a change, or a refresh metadata happens. So the EXAMPLE album cover is the 1977 one but the track covers are all different Its a local Metadata Reader , so it scans the local directory when any metadata refresh happens or library scan happens. Set settings in Library Edit screen. It doesnt use embeded images, it looks for an image with the same name as the track name I dont think I ever publically posted it before??? - probably because I never officially finished it! I cannot remember but I think they can be in subfolders too. Anyway it scans the local directories for song track covers, album covers and artist images. - nothing embeded! (supports jpg/gif/png/bmp/webp/tiff) Album covers will be Poster.jpg Cover.jpg Front.jpg folder.jpg 1.jpg 0.jpg f.jpg filename-front.jpg filename-poster.jpg R-xxxxxxxxxxxx.jpg // this one is for directly downloaded discogs R- filename images Artists are the same but name can be hyponated, underscored etc, probably can be in a sub folder. Rod Stewart.jpg Rod-Stewart.jpg Rod_Stewart.jpg Song Tracks Must be the same as the mp3 filename, but with a different extension Album cover backdrops are also supported by the plugin *-backdrop*.jpg *-background*.jpg *-landscape*.jpg *-fanart*.jpg backdrop*.jpg background*.jpg landscape*.jpg fanart*.jpg As it assigns the local image, beware that if you remove the image in emby it will probably remove the image from the drive (I cannot exactly remember if it does or not). I know it just returns a result to emby, so it probably depends on your settings within emby. if you are on windows and want to extract your embeded album art you can create a batch file and use ffmpeg (copy them both to the album directory and run it) Batch file contents - for jpg extract from mp3s for %%f in (*.mp3) do ffmpeg.exe -i "%%f" -an -vcodec copy "%%~nf.jpg" Anyway you are welcome to try it (as always with my plugins - try at your own risk) If you do try it, create a test library first becuase I have not tested the Album backdrops work correctly! - they should... Still to do... whenever I can be bothered. Make a config screen so you can dissable the logging - sorry its just on for now! LocalAlbumCoverImporter.zip Fixed Artist Import Throwing Errors into Emby Main log, and now only scans the current directory (test code was looking in all directories that the artist existed on tracks) LocalAlbumCoverImporter-12.09.2024.zip

I like listening to my music through my roku/emby setup. However, I don't need to know how the artist is while listening. I was wondering if there is some way to set up a virtualization like on windows media player? I can wait and my roku will go to it's screen saver, but I would like to make a choice. Or even display the lyrics on screen, all of my music files have the lyrics embedded.

Hello, I hope you are doing well. Sorry to bother you... I'm having an issue with my music, as you can see. I added a music album, and everything seems normal in my files, but Emby detects a duplicate for each track. They all work, and I don't understand what's going on. I am also providing my settings. Thank you very much in advance, and I wish you a wonderful day and a great start to the week !

When I play a song or a playlist the app hangs when I go into the now playing/play queue screen. If multiple songs are in the queue the app will play about 3-4 songs before it crashes and playback ceases. I am able to play media from my Android TV and web browser without any issues. Please let me know if you need additional details. Thank you! (I love Emby) ---- Server Version: Version 4.9.0.26 beta (Premiere) App Version: 3.4.11 Phone: Pixel 6 Pro Android Version: 14

Hey, a new music channel has launched on Sky and Virgin in the UK called "Now90s00s". https://www.tvguide.co.uk/channel/now-90s00s Could I possibly (very nicely) ask your guide data boffins if they'd look in to it to see if the EPG data could be added please ? Thankyou

I have some large boxsets (upwards of 66 discs) and it would be massively convenient if multi disc albums had the option to be treated more like collections (so select boxset, then album, then track) rather than one massive album (select boxset, scroll..., select track). If each disc could be titled it would be even better. All this info (disc names etc) is already available of musicbrainz.

例如这首歌的歌词文件，在Emby中歌词翻译并没有显示在原文的下面 Picture - dee holt、Chris James.lrc

I appreciate this may well not even be possible but no harm in asking I suppose Has anyone been able to get any of the UK Music channels working in Live TV with EPG data ?. I'm thinking the likes of Now 80's and Clubland specifically but anything in general. I did find a couple of M3U files a few nights ago that have allowed me to add Now 80's/Now Rock/Trace Urban/Vevo 80's/Vevo Country and Vevo Pop which all work nicely but all have zero in the way of EPG data and even Channel Logos (which I added manually). My old guilty pleasure was recording a lot of the one-off shows and countdowns on these channels so it would be nice to be able to do that again through Emby.

I did a search, and the only request that I saw similar was included here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/76011-music-queue-list-improvements/?hl=%2Bshuffle+%2Bmusic That discussion seemed to be more focused on lyrics rather than the shuffle piece, so I figured I would create a separate FR. One of my biggest pet peeves with using the web interface (when listening to music at my desk) and the android app is my inability to to select a song from a playlist and have emby shuffle the playlist after the current song ends. The current behavior is that after the song I selected finishes, the next song in the playlist is played (which in my case is alphabetical order). The native android music players (the app retro player in my case) allow me to select a song from my playlist, and then click on the shuffle button on the now playing screen and my playlist queue is automatically shuffled. I realize that the simple answer is to just use the shuffle button to randomly start a playlist and shuffle the songs, but sometimes I just want to start listening to one song, and then listen to the rest of my playlist at random. Additionally, when listening to music with my kids, they ALWAYS want to start with a specific song, and then don't really care what happens after that. This causes me to have to select the song they want to listen to, then when that song is over, go back and hit the shuffle button, which is annoying to have to do. Hopefully my ramblings made sense - and thanks for your consideration.

Prior to 4.8.1.0, I added music by tagging and embeding high quality album artwork (fanart) using picard and Emby would use the high quality artwork for both the album and also each song. In 4.8.1.0, it appears the use the fanart embedded image but down scales it to 600x600 for each track. I can delete the album cover and add the high quality album cover but it must be done for each track. Is this the expected behavior? The included images show the embedded image (1000x1000) but the image screen shows the down scaled album cover.

Music is an integral part of our daily lives, and its impact is often tied to the mood it helps evoke or express. I would like to propose a feature that I believe could significantly enrich the music listening experience on Emby: the addition of mood tags for music tracks by reading the mood descriptors from embedded metadata in music tracks, enabling users to filter and create playlists based on their emotional tone.

And also comments over here: I admit I had left emby back in late 2019 - for that slow scan issue -- and then gave 4.8 a chance, but was no game changer. So here I'm in 2024, gone through some hoops to get Emby BETA 4.9.0.11 running on TrueNAS Core, but things are not flying. As of writing -- and I guess long before finished -- it's scanning 45min by now On the other hand I also just compiled Logitech Media Server(LMS) from ports. (for those who don't know, it's more a server/client system, with hardware endpoints like Squezebox Radios, not so much a "streaming to app" system) I only have on data source (_Music_HiRes) I use and its my CD collection, with many compilations of 2, 3,4 sometimes more discs and it's the same for Emby and LMS. The entire scan on LMS is done: It also has the Total Artists: 5,671 because of all those compilations. Actual Album Artists are 347 In a way I'm asking, if it is time to maybe add a different method to scan Librarys? One the user can simply select with "Just use my Tags and Images - no extra Metadata - Fast Scan/Less Metadata" Or, as Emby is what it is now, give an option "Don't collect Metadata for Artists in compilations - Fast Scan" (if this would help to scan faster) When you buy a compilation you get a cover and back you remember, not a booklet with 50+ pages for every Artist on that compilation AND that's just fine in my opinion! My thoughts so far and I will add how the initial scan went. Cheers

Hola, como puedo hacer para que la descripción del artista y del álbum la haga en español? Mi orden de proveedore es: 1. MusicBrainz 2. Discogs 3. AudioDb Son artistas conocidos como Dire Straits, Creedence, Bob Dylan, y otros nacionalea como Fito Fitipaldis. Lo extraño es que tras el primer escaneo de la biblioteca si que salia la descripción en español, pero tras un reset del server por actualización ya no, ahora sale en inglés. (server: Synology Docker, clients: iOS, Samsung Smart TV). Gracias

In my library, some albums appear multiple times even when they have the Ids (MusicBrainz). These IDs are from one double:

So I'm trying to have emby as a backup to my plex server and everything goes great with all my video libraries....until I get to making my music library. It doesn't import all artists and albums. I have deleted and tried numerous things but it constantly misses 100's of albums and about 20 artists. I have 390 artists and 3,870 albums total. Emby does 376 artists and 3600ish albums. I don't know what to do or why it's not scanning everything in. Much appreciated for some help thanks.

Audirium Roadmap Tracker Need feedback from music lovers and emby integration. the plan is to create seperate music app for mobile devices, but keep it integrated for desktop and tv apps. i really would love your input for An app that gives a good look and feel(spotify, Amazon music, itunes, android) what functionality needs to be included and be specific. I.e. playlists, visualisers, landing page, sorting options,etc…. Literally anything you can think of! Anything you feel is missing from any apps you use.

Chinese/Japanese language garbled in music metadata. This problem only display on wav files.And I try to use Mp3tag rewrite metadata with UTF-8 but it doesn't work. 生命線.wav

What is the proper way to import m3u playlsits (from Swinsian for Mac)? Do I place them into the main music folder or create "Cool List [playlist]" folder with m3u file in the /Data/userplaylists folder?

Emby Music Ideas In the beginning I want to say once again that I LOVE EMBY Because I love music same as movies. Emby now replaced all my Qnap apps, Plex, and maybe in the future even more? Some my ideas how to make Emby Music better (in my opinion): Music: Click on the TITLE to show on track the Playlist window - most of the times playlist is fixed position if you don’t scroll. I have 30k tracks, so it’s impossible for me to find actual playing song ———————————— Music: add “Play 100 Random Track” , “Top Rated”, “Never Player” - please, please, please ! Qnap made this very nice -> ————————— Settings -> Home Screen -> Music -> Default Screen: add: SONG from the drop menu. It’s my default place where I go. And maybe Favourite would be nice touch, as well ————— Add: Editing tab order Add: Favorite tab is missing ———— Add: Sorting by name, folder, date, time, size. Add: Visible Bpm, Size MB, Year info, when song plays. Add: 1-5 star rating for songs, would be nice. Add: Track number (!) Add: SEARCH box ! Please Add/Missing: Shuffle playlist - There is one Shuffle in the “Song” tab and when you press on the #tag. But missing on the actual player/playlist. Next to "loop/repeat" it's perfect place. ———— iOS Emby Music: I think me like many iPhone users love sliding across aps, photos, FB, Instagram, settings, when you actually don't have to press "BACK" button, or any other button but just slide... It would be amazing if we could slide "previous/next song", same as "volume up&down". ------ I'm not sure if it's even possible, but Emby it's more NAS tool. So maybe "Share this strack"? --------- Error/Bug: Missing "3 dots" for extra menu. I can't add song to favorite. ---------- Otherwise Emby "Music" is beyond what I could imagine Thank you Emby Team! Keep Going .

Possibly this is answered but I couldn't find the answer: I started a new music library in Emby and scanned it overnight. Some of the artist names are showing up as the names of the artist folder names instead of the metadata in the files. For example, the artist "Alicia Keys" is showing up in Emby as "alicia_keys". Or "Louis Armstrong" shows up as "louis_armstrong". This is a problem with most of the artists but not all of them. Some of the artists do show up correctly: "Willie Nelson" shows up correctly as "Willie Nelson". I've verified that my metadata tags are correct. Is the library still being built and I don't see that? The dashboard doesn't say anything is happening and the scheduled tasks say the media library scan was completed 11 hours ago. Any advice is appreciated.

Hi Everyone, Just a quick one, I have had a look in the forums but can't find what i'm looking for. Is anyone using gapless flac and how do you do it. At the moment I convert CDs into separate tracks, but I have quite a few that would be better as a whole disk. Has anyone had any success doing this? Cheers

Not sure if what I want to do is currently possible, but here's what I'm encountering. I have a library "Music", in the specified directory is a bunch of audio files and subdirectories. I have some subdirectories ignored with .ignore files, these directories contain audio files that don't come from specific albums, aren't "songs" per se, or are soundtracks or sound libraries from video games and other ancillary media that isn't "Music" and I would rather not have cluttering up the library. What I'm attempting to accomplish is to have certain files within subdirectories of the ignored directory included in playlists, but not scanned and included and cluttering up the "Music" library. I've attempted to create another library with those directories, and ran into the cant have libraries who's target is a subdirectory of another library problem, so then I created a symlink to the desired directory and created a library with that which worked, but then if i remove that library from my user (essentially to hide the library from normal viewing as its unorganized and most of the files don't have any metadata worth using) the playlist with items from the library are gone (likely intended behavior). So I guess what I'm asking is as follows: - Is it possible to add files to a playlist without them being included in a library (or if they're in an ignored subdirectory of the library target) - If not, is it possible to hide a library from a user and not bar them access to it so a playlist can access the files?

After playing songs in a playlist, scrobbling stops, yet music continues to play to next selections in playlist. They aren't scrobbled. When looking at the log, find this: 2022-06-22 15:53:29.331 Info HttpClient: POST https://api.listenbrainz.org/1/submit-listens 2022-06-22 15:53:29.847 Info ListenBrainz: gbcox played 'Más Fuerte Que Yo' - VIDA - Luis Fonsi 2022-06-22 15:53:30.019 Error ListenBrainz: Error reporting playback start to ListenBrainz *** Error Report *** Version: 4.8.0.2 Command line: /opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /bzb/bzb1/vault/emby -ffdetect /opt/emby-server/bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-rpm_{version}_x86_64.rpm Operating system: Linux version 5.18.5-200.fc36.x86_64 (mockbuild@bkernel01.iad2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc (GCC) 12.1.1 20220507 (Red Hat 12.1.1-1), GNU ld version 2.37-2 Framework: .NET 6.0.2 OS/Process: x64/x64 Runtime: opt/emby-server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 8 Data path: /bzb/bzb1/vault/emby Application path: /opt/emby-server/system MediaBrowser.Model.Net.HttpException: MediaBrowser.Model.Net.HttpException: BadRequest at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpClientManager.CoreHttpClientManager.SendAsyncInternal(HttpRequestOptions options, String httpMethod) at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpClientManager.CoreHttpClientManager.SendAsync(HttpRequestOptions options, String httpMethod) at ListenBrainz.Api.ListenBrainzApiClient.NowPlaying(Audio item, ListenBrainzUser user) at ListenBrainz.ServerEntryPoint.PlaybackStart(Object sender, PlaybackProgressEventArgs e) Source: Emby.Server.Implementations TargetSite: Void MoveNext()

oops. nothing to see here. will do as requested.