cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) Hi I just added a new music album for the artist Elvis. In Kodi track #1 - Burning Love is missing and cannot be seen. It is however present in the Emby web GUI OK and the Kodi log file also suggests that track was added, so not sure why I cannot see it in Kodi? 16:05:05 T:5276 NOTICE: EMBY WriteKodiMusicDB -> ADD song to Kodi library, Id: 9c427b76bb30ec9e6a6ccb11a63d40a2 - Title: Burning Love I have double checked the files metadata with mp3tag which all looks to be OK. http://xbmclogs.com/pj5xqlqxx Thanks Edited December 15, 2015 by cw-kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Track #1 is not missing in native Kodi / MYSQL as I just scanned this new album in to the that library OK. Just seems to be missing in Kodi with the Emby add-on on my test machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) Think I just found a bug as well? For some of my albums I have back.jpg images in their folders. Even though XBMC never showed these back cover images I collected them anyway for some albums for possible future use etc. In Kodi with the Emby add-on in the Confluence skin when viewing the music albums in list view. some of the albums are showing the rear covers and not the front covers. Strange though if I press the INFO button on the album then the front cover is displayed OK. If I change the view in Confluence from List to Thumbnail then the problem goes away and all the albums that were showing the back covers are now correctly showing the front covers. Native Kodi I don't appear to have the same problem in native Kodi / MYSQL, in the Confluence skin in the album list view the problem albums are all showing the front covers fine. So only seems to be an issue with the Kodi PC with the Emby add-on etc. Not sure if this is a Kodi or Emby issue though. Edited December 13, 2015 by cw-kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Please confirm the track shows up in the web client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Please confirm the track shows up in the web client? Hi Yes it does show in the web GUI. The missing track was also seen on a Roku client but not in Kodi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) If you restart Kodi does it show up? Is there any errors in the log? Or do you see a message saying the commit was successful? As for the artwork, I assigned them as it was done by marcelveldt. In the code it treated backcover as primary and front cover as thumb (could be the other way around, I don't have the code infront of me). Kodi does not support back covers. This is an emby thing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited December 13, 2015 by Angelblue05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Can you do a manual search in music, to see if it finds the title? Maybe it's there but missing the album link? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Can you do a manual search in music, to see if it finds the title? Maybe it's there but missing the album link? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yes if I search for the missing track "Burning Love" it does find it But under the actual album its missing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 If you restart Kodi does it show up? Is there any errors in the log? Or do you see a message saying the commit was successful? As for the artwork, I assigned them as it was done by marcelveldt. In the code it treated backcover as primary and front cover as thumb (could be the other way around, I don't have the code infront of me). Kodi does not support back covers. This is an emby thing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk No restarting Kodi has no effect and track #1 is still missing for this album, So the back cover art thing, I am not sure I understand. I know Kodi doesn't support back covers and normally it never displays them any where. But it just so happens I do have some back.jpg cover images for some of my albums. Native Kodi / MYSQL never displays these back covers but it seems Kodi with the Emby add-on does (In the list view) instead of displaying the front cover which seems to be incorrect to me. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Ok if it's being treated as a single, maybe there's missing metadata when we queried. Can you try to do a refresh on the one song in the metadata manager to see if it resolves the issue? @@marcelveldt your opinion for back cover artwork? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 The mp3 metadata was all correct before I moved the new album in to the music folder which Emby is monitoring. However I have just refreshed the #1 track in the Emby metadata manager. And now after launching Kodi and it doing an incremental sync track 1 is now showing under the album OK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Sometimes, when an item has just been added, the server sends the websocket message even before the item is scraped fully into the emby library (loaded all the existing metadata). It's like the date added/nfo scenario. At least, that's my guess as to what happened 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Yeah I know what you mean. Can't remember if I had Kodi open whilst Emby was scanning the media library / new content. I don't add new music albums often so not seen this before. So what's your opinion on the back covers? Mine is they should not be displayed in Kodi and only the front covers should be, as is the case in native Kodi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 The image treatment depends on the skin and the view. Normally, thumbs will be used over primary for albums. Waiting on marcelveldt's response on this. I don't want to go messing around with this, unless he tells me it's ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 The image treatment depends on the skin and the view. Normally, thumbs will be used over primary for albums. Agreed as only in Confluence skin in list view did I see some back cover images being displayed. In Confluence in thumbnail view only front covers were shown for the albums. And also in the Xperience1080 skin, in thumbnail view all albums show the front covers. So as I never use Confluence in list view normally I never noticed this issue before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcelveldt 736 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 @@marcelveldt your opinion for back cover artwork? Sorry, no idea... Kodi should just use whatever was inserted by Emby. Notice that Kodi also tries to locate any images inside the mp3 file itself so for individual songs it may be possible that Kodi located an image that was embedded in the mp3 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Unlikely only the front cover images have been embedded in to the mp3 files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) Just double checked that AC/DC album in mp3tag and the front cover is embedded in to the mp3 files. Also looking at this album in the Emby web GUI the front cover is displayed OK as expected. If I select Edit Images it then shows three images Primary = Front Cover BoxRear = Back Cover Disc = Disc Image So not sure why Kodi (Confluence) with the Emby add-on in the Music Albums (List View) is displaying the back cover and not the front cover as it should. Native Kodi (Confluence) / MYSQL in the Music Albums (List View) is displaying the front cover for this album. Thanks Edited December 15, 2015 by cw-kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Ok well, if it's not a big deal, I could simply take out back covers from the artwork we add to Kodi? This would fix the weird artwork output for albums if posters (primary) are used over thumbs in the listing display. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Well Kodi doesn't support back cover art images natively unless some skins do? But I've never seen back cover images used for music albums before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Kodi doesn't support backcovers type, indeed. As I mentionned, Currently, emby back covers are added as poster type and the front covers are added as thumbnail images. Usually, for albums, skins will use thumbnails, so you'll never see the back cover. However I wasn't sure if marcelveldt was using the album poster to display a special view to show the poster(back cover). It doesn't seem to be the case so I will just remove backcover treatment all together and only use the front to import into Kodi. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) This would fix the weird artwork output for albums if posters (primary) are used over thumbs in the listing display. I still don't get how back.jpg images are picked up as posters (primary) anyway's ? Its not as if they are set as primary in the Emby web GUI as its showing it as BoxRear. EDIT: Just read your reply above. Edited December 15, 2015 by cw-kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Read the reply right above yours. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw-kid 192 Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Yeah you posted right before I did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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