Per track / album musician listing

[FredFrin 5]

Hi,

I'm a  big fan of Emby, but (unless I've missed something) there seems to be very limited support for listing musicians appearing on an album (or even track). 

I happen to listen to a lot of jazz - where the set of musicians appearing on albums published by a particular artist / band is very 'fluid', which makes it a prticular area of interest of who is playing what on a track / album. 

I think it would be great if there was an option to list band members during playback. I realise the info has to come from somewhere, so I took a random album as example and quickly found a page on Musikbrainz that supplied the info:

https://musicbrainz.org/release/7dca5d94-ae00-48fe-ae27-2c8dd86bf614

I've not explored if their API readily supports retrieval of this info - but it looks a promising approach.

So to my qu: Is there parhaps already some support for this (plugin perhaps?), if not, could this be a future feature enhancement?  

Looking forward to any responses,

cheers, FF

[Luke 42085]

Hi there, have you tagged these values into your tracks with embedded metadata?

[FredFrin 5]

Ok, you're saying I can embed this info into the track files with a metadata editor.

1. Can you expand on where this info would appear on the client interfaces (I'm mainly using web & android clients).

2. With a lot of music doing this manually would be a mamouth task - which is why I was wondering if Emby auto-retrieval from eg Musicbrainz is an option

cheers,

FF

[Vicpa 611]

Hi @FredFrin,

Picard, musicbrainz's tagging app will embed this info for you. See below using your example.

There is a plugin and a setting to enable, but it is straightforward

Currently emby does a great job identifying and displaying multiple Artists. But as you can see above,  alot of times musicians only get Performer credits.  At present emby doesn't capture "Performers" so even if the a track is tagged they are not displayed.  My music is tagged with performers, Picard does it automatically,  as I think they add value.

Inclusion of performers has been a "Feature Request" in the past. 

@Luke, ffprobe reads the tags if they are present.  I have higher things on my wish list, but capturing performers is on it.

 

-vicpa