different album artists with same name

[tsunami1701 6]

Hi there

I have 2 different artists with the same name.

I have set metadata for both artists and for their album using the correct ids from music brainz.

But in the Music page, list of Artists or list of Album Artists, only the first band appear; even in the search page only the first artist is found (with the correct album).

If I search by album, I can found the album of the second artist and reach the artist page.

The artists are

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2043e849-1a10-4994-9ed2-de9643d258f3

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9e8f1d18-525f-41ac-94b2-600e2243c1a1

 

Thank you!

 

[user24 315]

Hi, I think you could be nearly there with setting up the MusicBrainz info to get the result you need...

As well as setting the MusicBrainz ID for both the Artists and the Album, you might also need to check/set it for the individual Songs?

I did a very quick test by downloading 1 track of 1 Album for each of your Artists and used your MusicBrainz IDs (I added the IDs in Mp3tag) and imported into Emby). In my library directory I also had separate folders for the two Hydra Artists. The initial result was the correct two separate Hydra Album Artists with 1 Album each BUT I ended up with 3 Hydra Artists!

With further investigating I found that there were TWO MusicBrainz Artist IDs within Emby at the song level (The Artist one was blank causing the error I was seeing). Also, if BOTH are BLANK at a SONG level you will only get one Artist and one Album Artist, even if you have the correct info in the Emby Artist metadata.

While I didn't fully configure all of the images and other info, I was then able to get the proper Album Artist and Artist separation with my test.

 

So, perhaps check the MusicBrainz IDs on the individual tracks (if you haven't already). If you have nothing in these fields, or only one is used, then Emby may still be combining the Artists???

If you then are still having problems, please post some more details with screenshots of your metadata within Emby that might give some more clues to figuring out the issue. Cheers!

Edited November 9, 2024 by user24

[tsunami1701 6]

I added artist and album artist id to song level and worked

 

Thank you!!