Metadata manager - Music - am I doing it wrong?

[StuartKicks 0]

Okay so this highlighted Calvin Harris album has many guests and they each get a credit on whatever track.

Emby displays this;

 Jellyfin displays this;

 

No problem I'll just head select the multiple albums from the current view and edit the meta data, whoops can't edit artist or album artist.

 

No problem I'll just head over to Metadata Manager select the album and manually set the album artists, whoops can't do that either.

 

No problem let me cycle through each track copy pasting in the album artist and then hit save at the end. LOL you just updated one track, you have to hit save on every. single. track!

 

Is there an easier way that doesn't include 'set the tags how Emby prefers', hopefully also I am just being dumb and you can tell me I've missed something super obvious! 

 

[user24 313]

Hi, a good method of updating/correcting music embedded metadata is to use a third party music tagging program such as Picard or Mp3tag. (I mainly use Mp3tag myself). Then rescan your library (or the relevant parent folder) and Emby will import the changes.

If you don't update your embedded Tags, you may lose your Emby changes if you rescan the library and/or update metadata.

The programs are relatively easy to learn the basics and then not only Emby, but also other music apps should be able read the same info from your files.

(Note: You could have either "ALBUMARTIST" and/or "ALBUM ARTIST" tags embedded into your files. If you try Mp3tag, you need to View>Extended Tags to see all tags, not just rely on the default LHS tag panel.)

Oh, I forgot to mention, in Mp3tag you can update a whole Album (or more) at once. No need to update by individual track.

Edited February 1, 2025 by user24

[Luke 42078]

@StuartKickshas this helped?

[StuartKicks 0]

On 2/1/2025 at 9:30 PM, Luke said:

@StuartKickshas this helped?

Hey Luke not really no.

I understand Emby is doing something different to Plex and JellyFin that causes this issues. I understand the solution provided, I explicitly stated not to suggest the reply as a solution.

The main issue is how unintuitive editing meta data with Emby is, as described in OP. I tried 3 fairly common ways to interact with the information and all failed. 
 

I will of course fallback to editing the files directly but would appreciate if my feedback could be considered. TIA 

[Happy2Play 9780]

22 hours ago, StuartKicks said:

The main issue is how unintuitive editing meta data with Emby is

Really from a music standpoint there is no editing metadata in Emby as embedded is always used.  So next scan/probe of tracks really would override UI unless you potentially locked stuff.

[Luke 42078]

On 2/6/2025 at 12:18 PM, StuartKicks said:

Hey Luke not really no.

I understand Emby is doing something different to Plex and JellyFin that causes this issues. I understand the solution provided, I explicitly stated not to suggest the reply as a solution.

The main issue is how unintuitive editing meta data with Emby is, as described in OP. I tried 3 fairly common ways to interact with the information and all failed. 
 

I will of course fallback to editing the files directly but would appreciate if my feedback could be considered. TIA 

@StuartKicksOK yes we can certainly add this editing. I'm just curious why you'd prefer it given that editing tags will actually improve the appearance in any software you may choose to use.