'Various Artists' showing up numerous times

[ErelyesNZ 3]

Hi, my music library's 'Album Artists' section has 'Various artists' listed about 14 different times.

It appears that it's recognising about half of the albums in one group, however the other half it's putting in their own separate and different category for some reason.

I've tried editing the metadata with MusicBrainz Picard, making sure to override the tagging so that the albumartist, Album Artist, Album Artist Sort Order are always set to 'Various Artists' but still no luck.

Is Emby perhaps overriding the file id3 metadata with some that it's picked up? If so can I set the file metadata to have priority?

On that topic, Emby seems to get album artist art only about half of the time - if there is a more reliable source/way of populating that I'd be keen to know what it is. Some of the artists are perhaps obscure but Stan Rogers is an example where it's missing for a well-known artist.

Cheers

[Luke 42077]

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Is Emby perhaps overriding the file id3 metadata with some that it's picked up? If so can I set the file metadata to have priority?

Hi, no it's not, and file metadata already has priority. Can you use the metadata editor on each of these artists and check the external id? Are they filled out or empty? If they're filled out, are they the same value?

[ErelyesNZ 3]

Hmmm, yeah they have differing MusicBrainz IDs.

Would just changing them all to the same one and refreshing metadata solve the issue?

Edit: Or would I be better just wiping them all?

Edited November 25, 2022 by ErelyesNZ

[Luke 42077]

Hi, you'd have to set the data on all of the tracks. You can do this in the metadata editor, but editing the embedded information within the files would probably be better.