Emby ignores some tracks' embedded cover

[fuzy01 1]

I have a well organized selection of New Jack Swing songs but I have a little problem with the covers...

 

Thanks in advance!

[Abobader 2947]

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[Luke 37086]

@fuzy01let's look at the Whitney Houston examples in more detail. How are your Whitney Houston files named and organized? What else is in the directory with the music files? Can you please show that? Thanks !

[fuzy01 1]

First of all, thank you for trying to help.

 

Your first question:

„How are your Whitney Houston files named and organized?”

 

I don’t know what you're thinking.

I would rather show you the example of MC Hammer:

In MP3tag only these tags are filled and all tracks are tagged the same way.

 

 

Comparison between what I see in MP3tag and Emby:

In my opinion the problem is that:

Same Album Aritst tag, same Album tag and same Artist tag for each tracks, Emby thinks that each tracks have the same cover, because this is an album by the same artist. But this is a selection not a specific album.

In the case of the fourth MC Hammer track, there is multiple artists in the artist field and in this case the embedded cover is used.

In summary, for those tracks where these 3 tag field are the same, the cover of the first track is automatically used, not the embedded.

 

Your second question:

„What else is in the directory with the music files?”

Nothing just the mp3 files.

[Luke 37086]

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Same Album Aritst tag, same Album tag and same Artist tag for each tracks, Emby thinks that each tracks have the same cover, because this is an album by the same artist. But this is a selection not a specific album.

@fuzy01You're right. I think we're doing the right thing for most users. If you want a separate image extraction for every single track then we'd have to add a library option to control that.

I'll try to get this into the settings UI for the 4.8 release, but if I don't, I'm adding a hidden config switch for the library options xml, ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages. You'd set that to false.

And then like changing any library option, you'd have to refresh metadata on existing tracks and check the box to replace existing images.

[fuzy01 1]

First of all, thank you for your work!

I don't want to make demands so you don't get it wrong but I would be interested when is the 4.8 release expected because we are at version 4.7.14

[Luke 37086]

57 minutes ago, fuzy01 said:

First of all, thank you for your work!

I don't want to make demands so you don't get it wrong but I would be interested when is the 4.8 release expected because we are at version 4.7.14

Hi, hopefully soon. We're working hard on it.

[fuzy01 1]

Hi,

I would like to inquire that my request in the topic was included in any of the updates?

I haven't noticed any changes in this topic, but maybe I just don't know where to check.

Thanks for your reply in advance

[Happy2Play 8292]

8 hours ago, fuzy01 said:

Hi,

I would like to inquire that my request in the topic was included in any of the updates?

I haven't noticed any changes in this topic, but maybe I just don't know where to check.

Thanks for your reply in advance

Looks like yes but as library option.xml are database only now you would have to change this hidden switch via the api

"ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages": true,

 

[Luke 37086]

We can also add this to the settings ui.

[fuzy01 1]

I found the switch in the settings ui and it is also turned on, but nothing has changed. 

I put this hidden switch to the library options.xml but nothing has changed.

After all my attempts i restarted the server and refreshed the metadata and checked the box to replace existing images.

Then I deleted the server and created a completely new one from scratch (4.8.3.0) and still nothing changed.

I do something wrong?

do I need to turn something off for the setting to work?

[Happy2Play 8292]

9 hours ago, fuzy01 said:

I found the switch in the settings ui and it is also turned on, but nothing has changed. 

I put this hidden switch to the library options.xml but nothing has changed.

After all my attempts i restarted the server and refreshed the metadata and checked the box to replace existing images.

The file is no longer used as it was imported into database only in 4.8.
 

9 hours ago, fuzy01 said:

Then I deleted the server and created a completely new one from scratch (4.8.3.0) and still nothing changed.

I will guess a new install the option is set to true and can only be changed via the api or directly in the database.

A music library per the api

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[Luke 37086]

We can add this option to the ui. Thanks.

[fuzy01 1]

Sorry for the questions but I'm not a pro. Where can i change music library via api? I spent a lot of time searching the forum before asking, but I couldn't find a solution.

[Happy2Play 8292]

8 hours ago, fuzy01 said:

Sorry for the questions but I'm not a pro. Where can i change music library via api? I spent a lot of time searching the forum before asking, but I couldn't find a solution.

Almost everything is covered in this example.

You will query to get your libraries, copy your music library setup, then look at /libraryoptions at payload and apply your library settings noting not slight difference from query to options post .

[Luke 37086]

We'll look at getting this option into the user interface. Thanks.

[fuzy01 1]

On 4/19/2024 at 6:36 PM, Happy2Play said:

Almost everything is covered in this example.

You will query to get your libraries, copy your music library setup, then look at /libraryoptions at payload and apply your library settings noting not slight difference from query to options post .

It was difficult to me, but I managed to do it.

@Happy2Play thank you very much.