Cover art is VEEERRRYYYY presisent

[Marc0 29]

Hi,

I'm just add music to Emby.... I change the Cover art of the albums. 

When I revert in back to the original. The change cover art keeps showing up when I refresh the library,

I can't seems to get rid of the faulty cover art,,,, I am pulling my hear out.. and I already don't have much

How the I PURGE the cover art so the "rerfresh" pick out my new covers,?? (This really drives my bananas!!)

[Luke 42080]

Hi there, can you please go over an example? thanks.

[Marc0 29]

What do you need?

- a walk through?

- a picture?

 

[Luke 42080]

Hi, yes and yes please. Thanks !

[Marc0 29]

FIXED:  I had to go through each individual track in EMBY "EDIT IMAGES" and delete the "PRIMAIRY IMAGE" form the track in the list.

Then refresh metadata and then refresh the browser.... Now it is fixed....

The refresh metadata in EMBY does not do this for you.

Edited December 7, 2021 by Marc0

[Luke 42080]

What exactly were you changing the cover art on?

[Marc0 29]

On music. 

The music was imported with the wrong covered art, which was in the metatags of the mp3's

When I corrected the images in the meta tags, and did a "refresh" of the metadata, the images would not change.

I had to delete the "primair" image and then to do a refresh. 

Seems like EMBY is importing the image to it's own store... where they become persistent.

[Ronstang 294]

Since emby reads the info from the tag in the audio file I think the easiest thing to do is correct your tags in a good editor like Tag&Rename or the like, which is easy and fast, then simply delete the music from the emby library that had the wrong tags, have emby scan the files in it's database, then add the music with the corrected tags back into the emby library and then rescan the files and refresh the metadata again.  Then you don't have to do it manually in emby after you have already done it to the tags.

Someone with more knowledge correct me if I am wrong.  I am thinking on the fly since I only added one album (of 6000) into emby for music as a test and haven't messed with it in 2 years.

[Marc0 29]

Thanks Ronstang. I actually did that. But dat does not help. Emby caches the images and they seem persistent. 

Deleting de music does not help. Emby keeps the images in the database. 

[Ronstang 294]

31 minutes ago, Marc0 said:

Deleting de music does not help. Emby keeps the images in the database. 

Hmm, what if you delete the entire library and then redo your tags and then build the library again. 

[Marc0 29]

That would probably work. But not what you want to do every time if you made a mistake. 

 

That's a high price to pay. 

[Ronstang 294]

7 hours ago, Marc0 said:

That would probably work. But not what you want to do every time if you made a mistake.

If you only have a mistake here an there then doing them manually isn't that big of a deal.  Personally, I use Tag&Rename to quickly look at every album I have to have a quick glance and see the tags are correct and if I decide to change my tagging regimen then I can quickly implement changes.  I do this every so often when making a backup.  I look at  the tags, verify or chang, then copy to a new hard drive.  Then when my whole collection is verified I delete the old hard drive and copy the contents of the new one back to it so I always have an in hand copy ready to put in a machine.  One of the reasons I love this program so much.  I bought it so long ago I forgot when....but I have over 6000 albums on CD and am really particular about my tags.

[Marc0 29]

For me it's not a big deal.

But my intention is to report this so it can be improved. 

It does not work as aspected.

[Luke 42080]

On 12/8/2021 at 12:32 PM, Marc0 said:

On music. 

The music was imported with the wrong covered art, which was in the metatags of the mp3's

When I corrected the images in the meta tags, and did a "refresh" of the metadata, the images would not change.

I had to delete the "primair" image and then to do a refresh. 

Seems like EMBY is importing the image to it's own store... where they become persistent.

@Marc0 was this an album or a song that you were editing the image on?

[Marc0 29]

I think it was on the album.... but this was 3 months ago.... so I am not sure anymore.

[dc12345 4]

Hi. Did anyone ever get to the bottom of this as I have the same issue? I have started to create my own album artwork so it it all in a uniform style and have embedded it into each track. In My tag editor I deleted the old artwork for each track and added the new one. When I reimport the same album into the tag editor (as a check) it shows the new artwork on each track but the only way I can get it to show in emby is to manually delete the existing artwork for each track. I plan to make my own artwork for my whole library and really do not want to manually update each track every time as will take forever. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Luke 42080]

12 minutes ago, dc12345 said:

Hi. Did anyone ever get to the bottom of this as I have the same issue? I have started to create my own album artwork so it it all in a uniform style and have embedded it into each track. In My tag editor I deleted the old artwork for each track and added the new one. When I reimport the same album into the tag editor (as a check) it shows the new artwork on each track but the only way I can get it to show in emby is to manually delete the existing artwork for each track. I plan to make my own artwork for my whole library and really do not want to manually update each track every time as will take forever. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, the server won't be aware that the embedded artwork has changed. What you'll need to do is refresh metadata on the tracks and select the option to replace existing images.

[dc12345 4]

Hi Luke

Thanks for the reply. I love using Emby btw. 

I should have said I did try that already (tried lots of things!) but I tried again and it didn't work.

ps I am assuming you wanted me to refresh the metadata and download new image at a track level (which is what I tried).

If it helps here are my current settings:

Folders : Perfectly Organised into artist/album with tracks directly in album folders
Metadata Readers : NFO enabled
Album Metadata Downloaders: Enabled
Artist Metadata Downloaders: Enabled
Music Video Metadata Downlaoders: Disabled
Metadata Savers: NFO enabled
Album Image Fetchers: Disabled
Artist Image Fetchers: Enabled
Song Image Fetchers: Disabled (but have tried enabled also. Worth noting I'm sure this was set to enabled when I originally imported my library)
Save artwork into Metadata folders: Enabled
 

This is the first time I have posted on this forum. I tend to get myself in a bit of a muddle generally regarding the whole configuration and find that historically I have to delete entire libraries and start all over again.

What I would really like to understand is where the current (non-embedded) artwork is pulling from? I tried looking at an album with no embedded artwork in my tag manager, when i deleted the artwork and saved it in the tag manager, it did not reflect this change in emby (after a metadata refresh). Is this correct as I was expecting emby to then show no track artwork being present? 

If I knew where it was pulling this artwork from, could I then go into that folder directly and delete the full content of all the images across all tracks (as opposed to having to manually delete each track image 1 at a time which will take forever) I would be happy to bulk delete any stored album cover & track images and then reimport them manually  (I just don't want to have to manually delete the whole library again and then reimport it) I have tried looking everywhere but cannot find where the rogue images are being pulled from

Ideally if would also be great if someone can tell me what each of the above settings need to be saved to if I want to use my own embedded track images and my own album cover artwork?

Thanks again

 

 

 

 

[dc12345 4]

Hi Luke

As a follow on I just ran the following test:

1.Deleted an album with the correctly embedded artwork which seemed to be using a non-embedded image for each track

2. rescanned the library so the album was removed from library

3. Re-added the album with the embedded artwork

4. Rescanned the library again so it was newly added

This then seemed to work and it now picks up  the correct artwork

 

I will continue with this approach as it seems to work but if you can come up with any alternatives happy to try

Thanks again

 

[ebr 16185]

Hi.  You have the option to prefer embedded artwork selected?

[dc12345 4]

23 minutes ago, ebr said:

Hi.  You have the option to prefer embedded artwork selected?

Hi ebr. Thanks for the reply. Not sure. Where do I find that?

 

[Luke 42080]

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Song Image Fetchers: Disabled (but have tried enabled also. Worth noting I'm sure this was set to enabled when I originally imported my library)
 

You probably want to keep the one enabled that extracts embedded images.