Covers NOT showing in Music Multiple Folder Directory

[bartpet 3]

Hello,

I arranged my Music Library as follows:

Music

        16 bit folder

                ALAC

                        Genre

                                Albumname

                                                01-01 - Filename.m4a

                                                01-02 - Filename.m4a

                                                etc

                                       CD 02

                                                02-01 - Filename.m4a

                                                02-02 - Filename.m4a

                                                etc

                                       

        24 bit folder

                FLAC

                        Genre

                                Albumname

                                                01-01 - Filename.flac

                                                01-02 - Filename.flac

                                                etc

                                       CD 02

                                                02-01 - Filename.flac

                                                02-02 - Filename.flac

                                                etc

All the information and the cover art are in the tag of the music file including discnumber, tracknumber etc.. As subdirectories of the 16 bit folder i have ALAC, FLAC and MP3. As subdirectories of the filetypefolder i have 6 genre folders. As subfolders of the albumfolders i have at least 2 CD folders up to 20 CD folders.

Filenames are not to big. In case of mp3 i use version ID3v2.3. I use MP3TAG as my music tagging app. I use my own title naming and artist naming (last name first) in particular in classical albums. Covers are 1200p x 1200p baseline jpg.

2 times I made a library in Emby using the "other-unstructured method" and the "perfectly organized into album folders method". In the Library settings i disabled the scraping of covers, playlists, artists, Music Video Metadata Downloaders and collections. In both cases most covers are not displayed, Especially CD Boxes containing 1 or more CD folders aren't shown with the embedded covers. All music is playable, so it's not a network or permission problem 

Is my folder structure to complicated for Emby? Why doesn't the artwork show up? In PLEX this worked flawlessly. I noticed that in many cases Emby doesn't see the albums with CD subfolders named CD 01, CD 02 etc.. I use

I bought Emby in the first place to make my Movie and TV show libraries because PLEX doesn't handle NFO's very well even when using plex xbmc nfo importer. Though it would be nice if Emby would handle my music library the way PLEX does: displaying all cover art embedded in the music files. It's very disappointing that it isn't the case. I'm not going to re-arrange my Music directories for the sake of Emby. There are more than 5000 CD's, all of them perfectly tagged and arranged. It would be a shame if I would have to put all the music files of music boxes in just one directory. That doesn't make any sense. So please get this fixed

I did not make my Movie and TV-Show libraries yet in Emby. Hopefully that won't be such a problem as the Music Library. 

Greetings

Bart

                       

                   

[bartpet 3]

I give you a few examples here. Mostly multi CD albums don't have cover art. I checked everything. The coverart is embedded in every music file. There are no other jpg or png or whatever together with the music files in the CD folders. All Multi-CD albums don't show up

[bartpet 3]

This is the way I made the Music Library in Emby. Every downloader switched off

[Luke 42083]

@bartpetwhat version of Emby Server are you running?

[Luke 42083]

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Is my folder structure to complicated for Emby? Why doesn't the artwork show up? In PLEX this worked flawlessly. I noticed that in many cases Emby doesn't see the albums with CD subfolders named CD 01, CD 02 etc.. I use

Are your tracks actually tagged with disc numbers or are you just relying on subfolders for this? Emby Server only pulls the disc number from the embedded metadata.

[bartpet 3]

That's a good suggestion. Unfortunately my NAS broke down a couple of days ago. The whole problem could be related to a faulty NAS. My whole collection is properly tagged, all tracknumbers and discnumbers are in the tags. Luckily all media are still on the hdd's and have enough backups. First i want to buy a new NAS, restore the RAID and than i can try again make libraries in EMBY. Thanks for the info 

 

[Luke 42083]

Hi that's a shame. Keep us posted. Let us know how this goes. Thanks !