How does one update album artists in Emby?

[buysell2555 0]

I cannot change the album artist that shows up below the album name on Emby. Using tag and rename, musicbrainz, mediamonkey, I changed all the tags possible (for each of the audio files) but still the album artist does not change. I tried to change the metadata in Emby for the audio files but they are ignored. 

 

I believe that the album artist data is what was originally captured by Emby and there does not seem to be a way to access this data and override it. 

 

But I cannot be the only one with this problem so there must be a way. Please share it with me.

 

Thanks

[Luke 37028]

 

 

I changed all the tags possible (for each of the audio files)

 

Hi there, you did the right thing. Did you try running a library scan after doing this?

[buysell2555 0]

Yes I did. I also created a test directory with just a few albums and ran a scan. In order to find out where the information is coming from, I often create an empty directory and rescan. This should remove all data on the database. Then I place albums again and rescan.

 

I also deleted all the tags from musicbrainz on an album, it does not seem to be getting the info there since the same artist comes back. 

 

The information keeps appearing even though I cannot find where it comes from. But I found that when I change the artist tag (below the album title which is under the image of the album) manually by editing metadata in Emby, the artist tag displayed for several albums is also affected. 

 

This suggests that artist names are indexed on the emby databased; this is why, as I wrote above, I tried deleting the musicbrainz tag data. But since this did not work, I have no idea where the index value is kept.

 

I tried to access the database file using sqlite but there are many files and I know that since this is just an index value pointing to the artist name, it would be difficult to find the culprit. Anything done would just corrupt the database even if I could find the index that points to the artist name.

 

I am at a loss.

[Luke 37028]

@@buysell2555 can you please discuss an example of this? Thanks !

[Happy2Play 8252]

Best guess would be the musicbrainz tag overriding other AlbumArtist tags.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/65906-album-artists-not-displaying-correct/?p=677588

 

Ultimately you need to see what ffprobe returns for the tracks.  Example in post 34 of linked topic.

Edited July 10, 2019 by Happy2Play