[Music] Adding music library for the 1st time

[Roodee 39]

Hi all,

I want to add my music library to emby.  Those are my albums that I have been transferring from my CDs and  then tagging and cleaning up and down. (I did download the covers).

I want Emby to serve the music, but I don't want emby to add or modify any files. Especially no metadata. How should I configure this?  I am asking because for all my movies, I want emby to do the matedata-handling. What should I watch out for?

Thanks, all your help is appreciated!

Cheerios,
Roodee

[pwhodges 2012]

Emby does not modify your files.

My music collection is such that Internet metadata is useless for most of it (many of my own recordings; many commercial recordings too rare to have reached the Internet databases; and the standard metadata structure simply do not cope with stuff like operas).  So I have simply chosen to make folder view my default for it, because the files are presented basically as I have them arranged on disk.  If the files have metadata such as titles and artists, those do still get displayed, but the files that have none are also accessible.  The main restriction to watch for (and it's a big failing on Emby's part IMO) is that if a directory contains both audio files and a subdirectory, then the audio files won't play - all the audio must be in "leaf" directories of the folder tree.

There are still other improvements I'd like, but I've stopped (for now) agitating for them.

Paul

[Happy2Play 9780]

What tags do you have?  But Emby only reads tags and possibly does name/title searches per provider if mbz info is not there.

Also verify your music folder structure library setting.

[Roodee 39]

9 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

What tags do you have? 

Basically any kind of ID3 tags (and similar).

 

10 hours ago, pwhodges said:

... simply do not cope with stuff like operas ...

Here are two two examples. The first one is a tribute album.  Many performers, but I want the album to stay together as one and be sorted under Elton John.

The second of which is a challenge to tag. I was worried emby might go out and reorganize the folder structure or add different ID3-tags if it finds them in internet databases.

Why is the 2nd CD such an issue? Well,

• you have 3 different performers... ok, let's call them "The three Tenors".
• you have a director, Zubin Mehta
• you have an orchestra
• and you have a composer per song / track

Many people tag an album like this differently (in ID3-tags). I would not want freedb-tagging to overwrite my tags (or any other db for that matter).

I will do some test by adding albums (copies), and check the log and folder structure.

10 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

But Emby only reads tags and possibly does name/title searches per provider if mbz info is not there.

I was puzzled by "mbz". Google did not help. So I thought the "M B" in mbz could stand for "Emby", but what is the "Z" in mbz for then?

Then it struck me: mbz is MusicBrainz, right?

10 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Also verify your music folder structure library setting.

Thanks, I will.

Cheers,
Roodee

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

18 minutes ago, Roodee said:

Then it struck me: mbz is MusicBrainz, right?

Correct, as Musicbrainz, AudioDB and discogs are the online providers for looks of your tagged metadata.  So technically wrong releases can be found as there really in no such thing as 1 release of any album.

[Luke 42077]

Are you actually having a problem?

[Roodee 39]

12 hours ago, Luke said:

Are you actually having a problem?

Thank you for asking!

But no, it was just a precaution.  itunes recently messed up my collection really bad.  That is why I am careful and thought I would ask ahead for some "good practices" of what I should look out for and should and should not do.

So far, all is well.
Cheers,
Roodee

[Luke 42077]

On 11/22/2022 at 6:10 AM, Roodee said:

Thank you for asking!

But no, it was just a precaution.  itunes recently messed up my collection really bad.  That is why I am careful and thought I would ask ahead for some "good practices" of what I should look out for and should and should not do.

So far, all is well.
Cheers,
Roodee

OK from the above screenshot your tags look pretty good to me.