Pitchshift 13 Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Can one of the devs help please? I'm still unable to see all metadata within my artist folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 what do you think is missing? could you show an image of your artist folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharleyVarrick 277 Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 hi @@Pitchshift, we don't have a pure export function, but if you refresh an artist manually it will save metadata using your new settings. Then what you can do is use the metadata manager to refresh from a top level folder. It will take a little while and there is currently no progress monitor when doing that, but it will do the trick. thanks. I'm not sure this top level refresh works. If its related and can help pinpoint a bug, see: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/43707-music-artist-bio/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 (edited) what do you think is missing? could you show an image of your artist folder? I'll show some image examples (I have given examples in previous posts in this thread). Here is my artist folder for Braintax, this only has an artist.nfo file in there. Here is my artist folder for Akala, this has an artist.nfo and a fanart.jpg file in there. Here is the artist folder for Rebel MC (Congo Natty), this has an artist.nfo, fanart.jpg and folder.jpg. This is how I want all my artist folders to look like. None of my music artists in Emby have missing images so why are they not showing in the artist folder when "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" option is enabled? I have gone back through each artist and saved them individually, plus tried from a top down level, neither has helped. I am paranoid that with each new Emby server release it will loose all my metadata again. I need to know I will not loose another 6 hours work. Edited February 28, 2017 by Pitchshift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicpa 570 Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Hi @@Pitchshift Did you verify/change if needed the setting @@Luke mentions in #11 in this thread? If the art shows up in emby, check your \metadata\artists folder. I needed to make that change. As I was having some created there despite the "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" once I did that everything is working as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Hi @@Pitchshift Did you verify/change if needed the setting @@Luke mentions in #11 in this thread? If the art shows up in emby, check your \metadata\artists folder. I needed to make that change. As I was having some created there despite the "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" once I did that everything is working as expected. @@Vicpa - Yes, I set the value EnableSimpleArtistDetection to false within system.xml config file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 @@Vicpa - I just checked the \metadata\artists folder within appdata and it's empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicpa 570 Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Hi I don't know of other places where they could be stored, sorry... I guess we need someone else to chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 3, 2017 Author Share Posted March 3, 2017 (edited) Can the admins shed anymore light on this issue please? @@Luke @@ebr Edited March 3, 2017 by Pitchshift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37230 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 I apologize but unfortunately without having enabled saving to local metadata your older edits might not be recoverable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 I apologize but unfortunately without having enabled saving to local metadata your older edits might not be recoverable. @@Luke - I know I have lost all my data, if you read my previous posts I said I have updated all my metadata again. The issue now is I want to prevent it from happening again so I have enabled "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" but not all metadata is showing in my artist folders. Please can you read my previous posts and provide help with new issue I am facing? Should I start a new thread to make the issue clearer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8351 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" This only applies to newly added media, everything else will not save to folders without Refreshing the media as the information is either stored directly to the database or somewhere else. Edited March 4, 2017 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) This only applies to newly added media, everything else will not save to folders without Refreshing the media as the information is either stored directly to the database or somewhere else. As mentioned previously, I have since gone back through my artists and tried to refresh individually and from a top level - it made no difference. Edited March 4, 2017 by Pitchshift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharleyVarrick 277 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 When you refresh individual item (one that's missing art), do you put a checkmark to replace existing images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) When you refresh individual item (one that's missing art), do you put a checkmark to replace existing images? No. At least 40% of the 250 artists in my library had images not found from the scraper so I uploaded my own so doing this would loose my work. None of my current artists in Emby have missing artwork, they either have artwork that was scraped or that I uploaded myself. Am I going to have to go back through each artist and find these images and upload them again to get them sitting in my artist folders? Please don't tell me this is the case as it took my 6 hours to fix the original issue of Emby loosing my metadata from their update. Can someone please tell me how I get the artist images that are currently in my Emby library to save into my artist folders? Edited March 4, 2017 by Pitchshift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharleyVarrick 277 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) Can someone please tell me how I get the artist images that are currently in my Emby library to save into my artist folders? I had kind of similar issue a while back with Network logo images, and I was told Emby treats images differently whether they're found by Emby itself (thru Edit image) or if they are user added (like you're doing). The later (user added) do not show up in the former (Edit image). Never understood why. I'll try to dig up this thread if it can help pinpoint things for you. EDIT: Here's the thread I was refering to, its a little long and refer to network logo, but near the end, Luke hops in and confirm the different treatment to user added picture (local) vs Emby's (global) https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/42811-mediatvnetwork-odd-display/ Edited March 4, 2017 by jlr19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Can someone please tell me how I get the artist images that are currently in my Emby library to save into my artist folders? @@Luke @ebr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14958 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 With "Save metadata with the media" enabled, if you use the web app to upload a new image for an artist, does it save that image in the artist folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 With "Save metadata with the media" enabled, if you use the web app to upload a new image for an artist, does it save that image in the artist folder? I've just done a test and it does. How do I get it to save the current images I have uploaded? Or alternatively how do I access those images so I can re-upload them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14958 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Okay, so the issue must be that you did the initial image updates before that option was set. @@Happy2Play - any suggestions here on how he can hunt down the images? Perhaps your check the url for the id trick...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8351 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 With music there is only two location I have seen this information in. C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\metadata\artists or Your music location C:\Media-Test\Music\AC-DC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 With music there is only two location I have seen this information in. C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\metadata\artists or Your music location C:\Media-Test\Music\AC-DC My \metadata\artists folder within appdata is empty. Is there any other locations these images could be? Or if it's possible to extract them from the database? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8351 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 So none of the Artists that appear in Emby point to /metadata/artists? I find that rather odd since almost every additional artist/various artist should be in there. No images go into the database. If you have images that are not in one of those two places, I am not sure where it would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8351 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 You have shown screenshots of folder view, how about the web client view for a artist and edit info for that artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchshift 13 Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 Here's a screenshot of my /metadata/artists folder. Here's a screenshot of an artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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