EduardoSantos 40 Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Hi, Is there any chance to have the composer on Emby music catalog? To search for composer, or list by composer? This may seem a bit uncommon to general music lovers but for classical music it is really very useful. Thanks 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfgang 17 Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 It's not only useful but absolutely necessary in classical music to find pieces. Why can my 2004 iPod do what a sophisticated 2015 streaming solution can't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 It's not only useful but absolutely necessary in classical music to find pieces. Why can my 2004 iPod do what a sophisticated 2015 streaming solution can't? Probably because music is the least developed function, IMO, and classical music isn't a super popular format. I'd suggest checking the feature request forum and raising a request there if there isn't one already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfgang 17 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 I see. But it's just another tag, shouldn't be that hard to implement, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 I see. But it's just another tag, shouldn't be that hard to implement, right? If there is community interest, if the info exists in the source data Emby uses, and if implementing it won't cause issues for the other programs that also process the metadata NFO\XML file Emby creates...nah, probably pretty simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 This has been requested in the past. I know I read it a couple months ago. Would be interesting to see who actually wrote the songs, compared to who actually performed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfgang 17 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Welcome to classical music, chef That's how it works. Especially if you have like three ensembles performing the same piece. Then stuff gets complicated Deathsquirrel: Wow, I'm happy it's that simple. Should be implemented soon I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Since a search for composer in the feature request forum turns up no relevant hits, I'd be very surprised if it happens at all, let alone soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2493 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 The real problem is composers are not listed on musicbrainz or theaudiodb, which is where metadata is sourced from for music. How about manually adding them as person and setting role as writer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicpa 552 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Hi, Musicbrainz nicely tags composers, matter of fact it will tag composer, writer and lyricist. Emby only grabs composer however. really need the other two. Lennon and McCartney are always listed a writers for instance. metadata is grabbed as if they are movie or tv folks so is kinda hit or miss. -Vicpa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfgang 17 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Actually I cannot find a single modern video/music streaming server capable of supporting the composer tag. Also Plex does not support this. I guess since for people interested in classical music and soundtracks this is essential (like me) it would be the definite argument about which software to use. You see, movie streaming works equally well on Plex and Emby for me. But music not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Here us an online api which will return composer info: https://freemusicarchive.org/api/docs/ Might be worth lookin into Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 And here is HUGE list of API to sort through: http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37045 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Support for composers is coming in Emby Server 4.6: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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