New Backup Restore Metadata saver for Music: artists & albums

[Vicpa 611]

Hi,

NFO's or the xml saver are used to backup and restore (written and read) for all media types except music. Music is only written never read.  The changes to music primarily relying on actual tag values, is great but does not capture all the rich metadata emby provides or allows users to enter.

Rather than kludge around with nfo etc. which are used by and can be created by other programs. A simple approach would be for emby to create and read as needed, it own metadata file, of only the elements that are not derived from the tags in music files. 

A small xml or json file designed and controlled by the emby team, saved with the media would provide recoverability, ability to rebuild the main library.db.

Thanks

-vicpa  

[pünktchen 1409]

Why reinvent the wheel with another type of metadata saver when all that needs to be done is enable reading of the already written nfo files?!

[Vicpa 611]

12 minutes ago, pünktchen said:

Why reinvent the wheel with another type of metadata saver when all that needs to be done is enable reading of the already written nfo files?!

There seems to be a reluctance to do that. I have been asking for that since the 4.6 beta started, going on a year. 

Besides you would need to selectively read items from the nfo, which I am sure is doable. But bottom line nfo format is driven by Kodi (I think).  It is nice it can serve  dual purpose, but with the maturity of emby,  it may be time to have a file with just the data emby needs. 

 

[Luke 42079]

We generally do mold our nfo support to what they're doing, but so far it hasn't presented an issue just yet.