Issues/suggestions for 4.8 Music Library

[nospotify 184]

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. Could you be clearer? LITERALLY what mouse clicks will get a File Folder to rescan and UPDATE embedded metadata?

[Happy2Play 9780]

11 minutes ago, wordlover said:

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. Could you be clearer? LITERALLY what mouse clicks will get a File Folder to rescan and UPDATE embedded metadata?

Full test

Added comment tag to all the tracks of an album.

went to Music folder view AC/DC folder and did a Scan Library files.  But you can do the scan a different level.

navigated to track via folder view.

Now removing existing data is a little different and requires a metadata Refresh

went to mp3tag and removed comment and Refreshed the specific album.

 

Really don't know how to make it any more specific.

[nospotify 184]

Thank you very much @Happy2Playfor the detailed, specific example. Aha - so now I see that Emby is showing DIFFERENT three-dot menus depending on view/level. Clicking three-dot menu at the top level of a Artist Folder (which is what I was doing, given @Luke's guidance) pops up only the View choices, not the data menu that includes Scan Library Files and Refresh Metadata:

After following your example on my own data, it's clear that updating only affects some categories of metadata: rescan and metadata refresh on one album within a "perfectly organized" artist directory will trigger only a partial refresh of all albums in that file directory, i.e. only add new metadata (despite selecting "Replace all metadata"), but not removing or updating existing metadata (like removing a genre). I guess it's good that I now understand how to avoid SOME full library rescans, but this is inconsistent, poorly labelled, poorly documented behavior from Emby that I hope they will rationalize and communicate better. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Updating/changing metadata is a simple scan but clearing/completely removing fields requires refreshing as that is the only way to clear populated database fields.

 

[nospotify 184]

Which takes us back to the start of this thread and so many others over the last year or two: Emby should provide some way (which should be doable with the highly-touted new database structure?) to truly, fully edit/delete metadata for a full Album or Album Artist without requiring a multi-hour "refresh metadata" of an entire library or a track-by-track manual refresh.