Emby Won't Use Embedded Cover, Genre, or Original Year for Music

[marktaff 14]

My music library is structured as flac/[artist]/[album]/[the album's songs].  There is also a cover art photo; that doesn't follow emby's naming recommendations, but no matter, that image is embedded in every song.  These are large, manually fixed and color corrected images; highly curated, much better than Internet images.

Each file is also tagged with musicbrainz, replaygain, as well as normal tags, and some custom tags for the original year.  The custom original year is needed because, imo, an album or a song shouldn't display a year of 2015 if it was originally released in 1976, just because the copy of the CD you own is a 2015 re-issue.

The genre is also tagged in the files.

No matter what I do, emby sources poor quality/incorrect cover art from the Internet rather than using the embedded art.  It also grabs the genre from the Internet (in one case, for example, it lists an album as Pop, when I have the metadata set to Rock).  It is not supposed to be getting album and song information from the Internet.  There seems to be no way to delete the wrong art, either.

Here is one such case of (partial) tags (a 2015 re-issue of a 1984 album) output by metaflac:

   comment[8]: CUSTOM_ALBUM_ORIGINAL_YEAR=1984
   comment[9]: CUSTOM_TRACK_ORIGINAL_YEAR=1984
   comment[10]: DATE=2015
   comment[11]: DESCRIPTION=<rating>6</rating>
   comment[12]: DISCNUMBER=1
   comment[13]: DISCTOTAL=1
   comment[14]: GENRE=Rock
   comment[17]: MEDIA=CD
   comment[24]: ORIGINALDATE=1984
   comment[25]: ORIGINALYEAR=1984

Album and tracks need their own years due to compilations (Various, greatest hits).

Also, I'd like to not have artist images in the background of the music player, nor do I want any blurbs from wherever emby gets them about the album.  I can't find anywhere to turn that off.

Thanks for the help.

[marktaff 14]

I tried to create an NFO file to get emby to use reasonable data (cover art, date, genre, etc).  Somehow it got the genre, but that's it. I tried making a new library, that didn't work either.

The first image shows the wrong cover, and a very low quality version at that.  It also show a "Links" section which has no business being there; I'd like to disable it and hide it.  There's no reason for anyone to need links to MusicBrainz, and other than *maybe* grabbing artist images, no reason for Emby to do anything with that data.  It also shows a "6" under the Play button.  That is custom xml in the comments tag that is rendered as html (the data is actually my rating of the song).  The year is also wrong, as noted above: this is a 1984 album, reissued in 2015.

The second image shows the top of the album page.  What is new (and wrong!) here is Emby fetched an unwanted opinion about this album from *somewhere*, despite not being allowed to get metadata from the Internet.

 

The third image is the bottom of the album page.  It shows a 'More Like This' section I don't want, of music I don't have, from the Internet, where again, it isn't supposed to be getting any metadata from.  I want to disable/hide that.  Same with the 'Links' section below that.

 

I have a program I wrote to manage my collection, and I've already implemented a method to produce NFO files for music albums, I just need Emby to use them, and also to know what the correct XML tags/structure is.

In the alternative, Emby could just actually use the embedded tags and images, either letting us map those tags to Emby fields, or even just to blacklist the tags Emby mis-uses.

Thanks.

album.nfo

[Luke 42078]

@marktaffthis is why date is used rather than original, and also what we plan to do so that you can see the original year:

Does that answer your question on that?

[Luke 42078]

Embedded images are most certainly supported. What image fetchers do you have enabled on the library and in what order?