Embycon Music view in Kodi

[RonB26 1]

@TeamB

Hello,

I am having an issue with the view in Kodi.

I have a Folder Called Music-Flac on Emby Server (Windows 11).

I've Added as a Favorite - Embycon\Emby Libraries\Music-Flac\Album Artists,
and when selected, It shows the artists correctly.

When selecting an artist (I.E. The Police) it will show all albums and the songs together
instead of just the albums.
Is there a way to stop this, or is it perhaps a Kodi issue?
I've tried all sorts of things, but no luck.

I even tried multiple settings in the Embycon "custom nodes" but no luck.

I notice that in the "Select Values" field that for music the only choices are "MusicAlbum" or "audio"
Where in the Kodi Media Type, there are "MusicAlbums", "MusicArtists" and "MusicVideos"

Would it be possible (or even helpful) to add "MusicArtists" to the Select Value field?

Thanks in advance for your input.

 

[TeamB 2411]

what version of kodi and emby are you running?

message me a kodi log where you

- restart kodi
- reproduce the issue
 

Edited October 1, 2024 by TeamB

[RonB26 1]

Kodi Version 21.1
Emby Version 4.9.0.30

It's been a while since I've done it, but I'll get you a log ASAP.

Thanks!

 

[RonB26 1]

Just some additional info.

Kodi is running on an NVidia Shield, Emby on a Windows 11 server.

[TeamB 2411]

can reproduce this, it has something to do with the latest Emby Beta, I will look into it.

[TeamB 2411]

This should now be fixed in the latest version on EmbyCon 1.11.30

I have released this version to the new Kodi EmbyCon repository

https://faush01.github.io/embycon_kodi_repo/

You will need to switch to using this repo and reinstall EmbyCon from this new Repo to get the new version. This is due to a change I made recently to use GitGub pages to host the EmbyCon repo.

- Follow the instructions above to install the new Repo
- Remove the old Emby Kodi repo
- Reinstall EmbCon from the new Repo

[RonB26 1]

@TeamB

I seem to be having an issue with album covers. Some of them show, and some do not.

When testing Roku and Android TV (NVidia Shield)
All Album covers works fine. However, I had to update an older version of Android TV before it worked correctly.
(It was missing the exact same album covers as Embycon).

If you need any more info or logs, let me know.

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

[TeamB 2411]

some are missing and some are not? yeah that is weird.

try going into the embycon addon and clearing the local cahced server data

EmbyCon -> AddonActions -> Clear cached server data

might help, apart from that try to work out what is different between the ones that work and the ones that dont.

[RonB26 1]

Clearing Cache didn't work, Message was "0 Files deleted"

I did find a work around. This problem started after I started to use Picard to help
correctly identify my collection.

It seems that when Emby server is scraping, it is not flagging/marking the album cover as the "Primary" image
when it is replacing/adding the album cover. This was discovered when comparing images. The Covers that show up
are showing as the "Primary" image.

Once I replace the album covers either by selecting the image file, or search for a new image,
it is then marked "primary" and it shows up correctly in Embycon.

It's not convenient, but it works.

 

[TeamB 2411]

1 hour ago, RonB26 said:

Clearing Cache didn't work, Message was "0 Files deleted"

I did find a work around. This problem started after I started to use Picard to help
correctly identify my collection.

It seems that when Emby server is scraping, it is not flagging/marking the album cover as the "Primary" image
when it is replacing/adding the album cover. This was discovered when comparing images. The Covers that show up
are showing as the "Primary" image.

Once I replace the album covers either by selecting the image file, or search for a new image,
it is then marked "primary" and it shows up correctly in Embycon.

It's not convenient, but it works.

 

yeah that makes sense, glad you got the to the bottom of it.

[RonB26 1]

Well, Looks like I spoke to soon.

After checking today, Some of them reverted back to the way they were (Primary flag removed),
and now album covers are not showing up.

I'm in the process of re-doing the affected images, and will now lock the metadata down on both the artists, and the individual albums.
This time I'm not updating anymore images until I know this works.

Maybe @LukeMight know what's going on.
After they changed back, I went into the "Album Image Fetchers" and made sure "Primary" was ticked (it was).
So I unticked it, then rebooted the server, and re-ticked it.
However, after rescanning the affected Artist, It would not update the image with a "Primary" image.
I had to go through each album and "Edit image/Search for a new image. Select a new image, and it is saved as "Primary"

Now once again, they all show up.

 

 

 

[TeamB 2411]

You are using the Beta server, so it might have something to do with that.

It might be best to post this on the beta test forum, it might not get enough eyes on it here in the EmbyCon sub forum.

 

[RonB26 1]

22 hours ago, TeamB said:

You are using the Beta server, so it might have something to do with that.

Yeah, I figured as much. I just figured I'd start here, as the issue is only happening with Embycon.
The other platforms don't exhibit this issue for some reason.

 

22 hours ago, TeamB said:

It might be best to post this on the beta test forum, it might not get enough eyes on it here in the EmbyCon sub forum.

At this time locking the metadata seems to be working.
If I have anymore issues, I'll post it in the beta forum.

Thanks for your help. TeamB.