Music Add a record label tab

[Vicpa 602]

Hi all,

 

As the title suggests It would be a nice addition if a Label tab can be added to music. We have studios and networks for movies and tv, Labels would help round out music functionality. This data is already captured and albums by record label is available currently from an individual album

 

A top level view is the key easily access the info. The art is readily available. and could easily be incorporated with studio art as that is how labels are treated anyway.

 

Better still the art is available through an api already used.... fanart.tv  @@softworkz you seem to be a metadata guru  maybe this is up you alley? As I understand emby would need to capture the musicbrainz record label id as that is the key for lookup on fanart. I am sure @@Kode can provide further details as needed.

 

 

the fanart labels look really nice... so vote up this request and perhaps we can get Luke and softworkz to take a look.

 

 

 

thanks

-vicpa

 

[JBloom91 11]

Man I hope one day this function gets added,

[Vicpa 602]

Hi @Luke, @ebr

Eight years and counting, yikes...Let's review. Standard Tag,  Available artwork online (back in the day when emby had it's own image library - I personally contributed hundreds) but hey the collage thing works as well. 

No real need for a separate tab. 

But I am sure as Luke said "Hi, yes this is certainly possible for future updates. Thanks for the feedback." 

Just do it like video 

[user24 197]

Wow, this IS an old Feature Request!!! No wonder I hadn’t seen it before, but also surprised it hasn’t had very much response!

For anyone with a reasonable size media library the 'publisher' becomes more important as the collection grows and it makes increasing sense to group selected media items accordingly, as a sometimes preferred view, e.g.:

• Movies (Studio)
• TV Shows (Network)
• Music (Record Label)
• Audiobooks (Publisher)

If Emby can have a dedicated “Studios” Tag for Movies, then why doesn’t it have an equivalent “Labels” Tag for Music???

On 8/26/2024 at 12:08 AM, Vicpa said:

Just do it like video

This would likely be the way to do it consistently with the current UI and a good suggestion.

Digressing...

I have many groupings of Indie Labels and Sub-Labels of special Album series that I find useful to browse and play. Therefore, I’ve tried four different ways to do this within the current Emby fields. All have their pros and cons:

• Tags
• Collections
• Genres
• Album Artists

Tags

Albums can be tagged with a Label within Emby now, but cannot be imported from embedded metadata, unless using RoonTrackTag at a track level. RoonAlbumTag is not currently supported.

Collections

This is a nice way to add Label artwork and some overview info, but the Collection sits ‘outside’ the Music library, so therefore perhaps less useful for cross-referencing.

Genres

A Label Genre can be directly imported from embedded Genre metadata and the Genre view within Emby splits into the sub-sections of Artist, Album and Song. No overview though. (Yes, a Label is not technically a Genre).

Album Artists

Adding the Label as a secondary Album Artist gives all the benefits of the detailed Album Artist pages and the relevant Albums can still be listed under the primary Album Artist. (Yes, a Label is not technically an Album Artist.)

(There are more pros and cons for each method, but this post will become too long! There may also be more ways that I haven’t thought of yet?)

I’ve set up Label Tags, Label Genres and Label Album Artists for approx. 20 Labels of interest so far. Using these three methods combined gives very good cross-referencing within a music library, from multiple viewpoints. Here’s one example:

(Note: MusicBrainz happens to list Jam in the Van as an Artist, hence the Link.)

Emby already has great flexibility with the above-mentioned fields. Adding a dedicated Record Label tag would make Emby even better!!!

Ideally it would import from “Label” and “Publisher” embedded metadata fields and perhaps also be able to utilize any relevant MusicBrainz APIs? (I would likely keep my set-up above for selected special series, but a dedicated Label Tag would be great for ALL my albums)

Thanks for considering!

Edited August 28 by user24

[JBloom91 11]

Hopefully, this suggestion hasn't died, would still love to see it!

[Luke 38500]

5 hours ago, JBloom91 said:

Hopefully, this suggestion hasn't died, would still love to see it!

Hi, yes it is certainly possible. Thanks.

[JBloom91 11]

Eyyyy