Rocky9 0 Posted January 4, 2025 Posted January 4, 2025 Hi, I recently got a QNAP and Plex is driving me crazy. It's so strict with metadata and file directory structure. Plex is scrambling my music. Is Emby the same? I want to control how to label the artist, album, song, and album art. If nothing is there, I want it to be blank for me to enter. Will Emby do that? How do I install it on a QNAP TSV h474? Which version of Emby?
Neminem 1518 Posted January 4, 2025 Posted January 4, 2025 Emby uses the metadata you supply in you music files. Never used a qnap, can't help you there.
Kyrunner 86 Posted January 4, 2025 Posted January 4, 2025 14 minutes ago, Rocky9 said: Hi, I recently got a QNAP and Plex is driving me crazy. It's so strict with metadata and file directory structure. Plex is scrambling my music. Is Emby the same? I want to control how to label the artist, album, song, and album art. If nothing is there, I want it to be blank for me to enter. Will Emby do that? How do I install it on a QNAP TSV h474? Which version of Emby? I use Docker on my qnap for Emby. first, find where you want to install Emby then create a folder >mkdir emby> Once inside the Emby folder > touch docker-compose.yml> then vi docker-compose.yml to edit the file. Add below to your docker-compose file... once you save your docker-compose file then run docker compose down && docker compose up -d --build services: emby: image: emby/embyserver:beta container_name: embyserver network_mode: host environment: UID: 1000 GID: 1000 volumes: - /path to Emby folder/Emby/programdata:/config - /share:/share devices: - /dev/dri:/dev/dri restart: on-failure
Rocky9 0 Posted January 4, 2025 Author Posted January 4, 2025 I don't know what Docker is not have I ever used it. How is Emby vs Plex? Will follow it's own metadata rules and scramble my music?
Rocky9 0 Posted January 4, 2025 Author Posted January 4, 2025 47 minutes ago, Neminem said: Emby uses the metadata you supply in you music files. Never used a qnap, can't help you there. So if a wav file is blank, no album art, etc, how will Envy display it? Blank?
Luke 42077 Posted January 4, 2025 Posted January 4, 2025 1 hour ago, Rocky9 said: So if a wav file is blank, no album art, etc, how will Envy display it? Blank? Emby doesn't require any specific folder structure for music. I think you'll be OK.
Rocky9 0 Posted January 5, 2025 Author Posted January 5, 2025 Does emby have trouble with wav metadata? Plex cannot recognize wav file metadata.
Luke 42077 Posted January 5, 2025 Posted January 5, 2025 27 minutes ago, Rocky9 said: Does emby have trouble with wav metadata? Plex cannot recognize wav file metadata. HI, not that I'm aware of. But we both use ffmpeg to do this for us.
lh120503 6 Posted January 5, 2025 Posted January 5, 2025 I use a QNAP and it's great. I spent a long time trying to get it to work in docker, but it's unreliable and troublesome. Running directly as a server though works wonderfully. I believe the QNAP TSV h474 is an x86 machine so head over to https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases and find the version you want, either stable or Beta. I am always running the latest betas and they work well. Go to your app install on the QNAP and select manual install and then select the file you just downloaded from GitHub, you will see a warning about certificates not signed, ignore that and install anyway. For music though your files and meta data have to be correct. I use MP3Tag https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ to make sure the metadata fields are correct, you can also edit from there. Make sure you organise your library correctly and it should work out fine. I have done it this way and have over 2000 albums all correctly identified and listed correctly with relevant album art. MusicBrainz is also helpful.
Rocky9 0 Posted January 5, 2025 Author Posted January 5, 2025 (edited) What are Emby's metadata rules and file directory structure rules? Plex cannot recognize wav metadata. Is Emby the same? Flac and mp3 only? I have bootleg vinyl wave files. I don't want to use muscbrainz. Music databases will not recognize it and mess it up. If metadata is missing, I want Emby to just leave it blank. Can Emby do that? Edited January 5, 2025 by Rocky9
lh120503 6 Posted January 5, 2025 Posted January 5, 2025 I have not edited WAV files for a long time, I used to have to convert to FLAC and then programs like MP3Tag work well. These links may help https://videoconverter.wondershare.com/edit-video/wav-tag-editor.html
Luke 42077 Posted January 5, 2025 Posted January 5, 2025 8 hours ago, Rocky9 said: What are Emby's metadata rules and file directory structure rules? Plex cannot recognize wav metadata. Is Emby the same? Flac and mp3 only? I have bootleg vinyl wave files. I don't want to use muscbrainz. Music databases will not recognize it and mess it up. If metadata is missing, I want Emby to just leave it blank. Can Emby do that? HI, no specific folder structure is required for music. I think you will be fine.
Luke 42077 Posted January 5, 2025 Posted January 5, 2025 To answer your question about which package, try the Intel/AMD 64-bit package.
Luke 42077 Posted January 6, 2025 Posted January 6, 2025 4 hours ago, Rocky9 said: Ok? How do I install it on my QNAP?, HI, did you try following the instructions here: https://emby.media/qnap-server.html
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