MartynB85 0 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Hi I have recently made the jump from Plex to Emby, both are great but I prefer Emby with the exception of one issue. My local movies and tv shows are great on Emby, so is the live tv. However I have quite a bit of music tracks that are not very well known artists, I have a small number of folders with 300-ish tracks that are just random artists but of the same genre. I want to just be able to play my music according to which folder it is stored in, I don't care for metadata. Surely this must be straightforward to implement? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) close but slightly diff is to go to your music library then the folder view at the top then on your chosen folder - ... menu and add to playlist - then play that bit more cumbersome but a work around till play from here is added to the ... menu for album foldrs or go into the folder and choose the play all button at the top Edited September 16, 2020 by PenkethBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynB85 0 Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) Emby doesn't show the tracks it doesn't 'know', even in folder view. So I have a folder called Random, it is literally random tracks that I grab from Soundcloud, Basecamp, Youtube etc. I have 304 tracks in there but when I use the folder view in Emby (iOS), it only displays 10 tracks from a single artist. Edited September 16, 2020 by MartynB85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Probably they are not showing up - because Emby expecta metadata in the files - as a guess you have not looked at this as its just a "dump" for things you are interested in So as a test - try adding metadata to a few to see if emby can find them after that or its something else going on If you try searching can you find them in emby as they might have been miss identified if lacking in metadata Note going forward Music is going to be fully metadata driven - at some point - Luke has mentioned it several times - as an when - no idea - what fully driven will actually mean - again no idea as yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidmarks 188 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 6 hours ago, MartynB85 said: Emby doesn't show the tracks it doesn't 'know', even in folder view. So I have a folder called Random, it is literally random tracks that I grab from Soundcloud, Basecamp, Youtube etc. I have 304 tracks in there but when I use the folder view in Emby (iOS), it only displays 10 tracks from a single artist. You are going to have to add meta to that folder. I have a folder, a trash can called Ungrouped Singles (that i may at some point take care of), that has roughly 1500 songs in it. If all you care about is seeing the songs, my suggestion would be to use mp3tag open that random folder and bulk rename some of the metadata. Make album artist = Various Artists Make Album = Random Number All the tracks! Not what you are looking for in regards to a Feature Request, but emby is going to be really besides itself (as you are finding out) without metadata. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 So this is really this request? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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