Metadata not found with MusicBrainz album ID

[Kanejo79 1]

Hi there,  I recently uploaded an album to my Synology Emby server and no metadata was found.  This also occurred on Windows media player so I wasn't surprised.  However, I thought after finding and adding the MusicBrainz album ID, emby would be able to fill in the gaps.  Unfortunately, after refreshing the library this did not occur.  I then decided to add other metadata myself, artist and album.  Emby was then able to add the tracks to the Artist, however it does not seem to be able to add them to an album, so each track is just individually listed and can't be played as an album. Is this a bug? should the MusicBrainz album ID fill in the gaps in Metadata? (the album exists on MusicBrainz)  After adding the album name, why doesn't this put the songs together as an album? 

Edited March 28, 2025 by Kanejo79

[Luke 42078]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

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[Kanejo79 1]

Yes I only have one example out of the many I have loaded, but I assume it should find the data with the MusicBrainz album ID right?  I will attach screenshots of the metadata editor for one of the songs. 

[Luke 42078]

Your tracks are not tagged with albumartist values. This is the reason why they are not being grouped together as an album.

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[Kanejo79 1]

OK sure i can fix that but why does the Musicbrainz id not populate all of the fields? It has this information. If this is not how it works why is the musicbrainz ID field there?

[Luke 42078]

On 3/28/2025 at 5:04 PM, Kanejo79 said:

OK sure i can fix that but why does the Musicbrainz id not populate all of the fields? It has this information. If this is not how it works why is the musicbrainz ID field there?

@Kanejo79 the server uses the musicbrainz ids to fetch metadata about the artists, but the actual list of artists as well as the album title come from the embedded info.