Plugin: EmbyIcons release.

[sergiovassari 1]

50 minutes ago, sergiovassari said:

and this also

only works on movies

 

Regarding the last post: it was working for music, but the browser had a terrible lag. Even after restarting after every change and clearing the Emby cache folder, the update only finally appeared when I added and then removed a cover image.

Even after realizing it works, small changes don't update automatically like they do for movies. I have to delete the covers, restart, refresh (F5), and maybe then something shows up.

Anyway, I used Edge; since there was no pre-existing cache there, I was able to see the plugin working.

 

But... Of all these options, only two appear.

 

Tag based still nothing on music, but works on movies

 

 

[sergiovassari 1]

24 minutes ago, yocker said:

@sergiovassari
The tag and filename-based icons should work.. Will look into it.

For normal icons, you need to supply your own icons for now as i haven't made any yet.

I'll go into detail so you can see if I'm doing anything wrong:

 

My file for test.

 

Preview. Tag is there.

 

setting

Tag the album

Clear cach, refresh...

 

Clear metadata

 

Delete cache folder on emby.

Restart Server.

 

Only this 2 things

 

If I clear the cache directly in the browser (Chrome), I can see the test results faster. Why does this matter? Any changes to movies and series show up instantly. So, it seems like music album art behaves differently, and I suspect I know why: movie and series covers are physically stored in a folder, whereas *my* album art is embedded within the .FLAC file itself—added using Mp3tag. That might change how the whole caching process works.

That’s just my hunch.

Edited 19 hours ago by sergiovassari
more info

[sergiovassari 1]

23 minutes ago, yocker said:

@sergiovassari
The tag and filename-based icons should work.. Will look into it.

For normal icons, you need to supply your own icons for now as i haven't made any yet.

I'll make a few and test them. They should show up...

[yocker 1708]

@sergiovassariCheck if the tag is still there on the music number you want to have a tag on.
Emby can not add tags to numbers while you are listening to them for some reason.

[sergiovassari 1]

19 minutes ago, yocker said:

@sergiovassariCheck if the tag is still there on the music number you want to have a tag on.
Emby can not add tags to numbers while you are listening to them for some reason.

If I understood you correctly, yes, the tag gets saved. I’ve gone back and forth, and it’s always there. In fact, I’ve used this tag on other albums as well.

I wasn't listening to the song or the album at the time; everything was turned off.

The tag definitely gets saved. In fact, that same tag works for movies and series, but not on music.

 

 

[yocker 1708]

@sergiovassariPlease send me an Emby log file and if possible the embyIcons.xml located in the plugin/configurations folder.

[sergiovassari 1]

15 minutes ago, yocker said:

@sergiovassariPlease send me an Emby log file and if possible the embyIcons.xml located in the plugin/configurations folder.

I'll simplify the test: I applied 4 tags to just one album.

That Album

 

The tags don't show up, no matter what I do. If I repeat the process for a movie, the tags appear like magic.

Icon Manager on 

EmbyIcons

5.55.9.0

 

Regarding the logs, I don't know where the Emby one is located. Please check if this is it.

embyserver.txtembyicons.xml

 

And there are these other two here...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by sergiovassari

[yocker 1708]

@sergiovassariFound the problem, basically i misunderstood you.
The tag based system is.. Problematic for album covers and will only work for individual music numbers.
In other words, the tag and filename based systems only works for individual music numbers and not the album cover.

A little quirk i need to fix (if possible because of the way Emby works) is that adding the tag to the first number of an album will actually show the tag on the album cover.
I will look into getting tags to work for the album cover but i doubt it is something that can be fixed.  

[sergiovassari 1]

4 minutes ago, yocker said:

@sergiovassariFound the problem, basically i misunderstood you.
The tag based system is.. Problematic for album covers and will only work for individual music numbers.
In other words, the tag and filename based systems only works for individual music numbers and not the album cover.

A little quirk i need to fix (if possible because of the way Emby works) is that adding the tag to the first number of an album will actually show the tag on the album cover.
I will look into getting tags to work for the album cover but i doubt it is something that can be fixed.  

"First number of an album"? What is that? Firts track?

If I understand correctly, then I can't add tags to albums, only to artists? But if I add the tag to the artist, it's pointless, since each artist has albums of varying values, defeating the whole purpose.

ps Meanwhile, yes, 16 and 24 are correctly identified. Everything else you created that doesn't have icons should probably work too.

Oh man, and I really wanted the custom ones.

Edited 18 hours ago by sergiovassari

[yocker 1708]

1 hour ago, sergiovassari said:

"First number of an album"? What is that? Firts track?

If I understand correctly, then I can't add tags to albums, only to artists? But if I add the tag to the artist, it's pointless, since each artist has albums of varying values, defeating the whole purpose.

ps Meanwhile, yes, 16 and 24 are correctly identified. Everything else you created that doesn't have icons should probably work too.

Oh man, and I really wanted the custom ones.

 

First track yes, seems that and album shares their poster.
Well you can.. Any tag added to the first track in an album will be shown on the album poster because of said way Emby works.

Understandable, I will see what i can do to work around it but for now it looks grim as i don't know if it's possible to separate those posters or how to do it.

[sergiovassari 1]

23 minutes ago, yocker said:

First track yes, seems that and album shares their poster.
Well you can.. Any tag added to the first track in an album will be shown on the album poster because of said way Emby works.

Understandable, I will see what i can do to work around it but for now it looks grim as i don't know if it's possible to separate those posters or how to do it.

I set something up using the file-based method; I managed to get tags working as long as the info is in the album title. And in most cases, I do have that in the album title. So, it’s doing the job for now.

 

As for Hi-Res—well, any 24-bit song counts as Hi-Res, all 16bit it's cd most cases, so I swapped "bitrate" for "Hi-Res," and it works.

 

It becomes a semi-automated process if you know how to handle filenames.

 

I look forward to the day when customizable ones are available.

 

I'm here if you need any help.

[yocker 1708]

New beta version (v5.56.0.0) up in the catalog.

Some bug fixes and optimizations.
Added some icons for the music libraries.