Emby Not Adding New Genres to Music After Editing Metadate

[warpedrevolutio 1]

I've used MP3tag to update the genres of my music collection, using the format {GENRE1, GENRE2, GENRE3}. All of this music had already been added to the Emby server prior to updating the metadata.

I've tried both scanning my library files and refreshing the libraries metadata, picking the option to replace all metadata, but none of the music is being updated with the newly added genres. I've gotten it to work for one album by manually deleting all genre information for the album then refreshing metadata, but I don't want to have to do that for each album individually.

My questions:

1) Am I missing something in refreshing metadata to get the server to accept the new genre information?

2) Is there a way to bulk delete the genres for all albums to see if that works?

3) Is there another third solution I can try.

I think just recreating the library and deleting the old one would work, but I initially set it to not have cover art stored in the library folder, so I'm worried about having to manually find some cover art.

Thank you for any and all help!

[Abobader 3477]

Hello warpedrevolutio,

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Emby Team

[Luke 42128]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

[warpedrevolutio 1]

Yes,

The music in my Emby library was initially given genre metadata from Windows Media Player, then those albums were added to the library. Later I used MP3tag, to change the genre metadata on the file to add additional genres. I used the format {Genre1, Genre2, Genre3}. Below is a screengrab from mp3tag showing the genre information I've added for BRAT.

I've since run a Metadata refresh, selecting the option to replace all metadata.  (the Server Logs from a refresh I just ran are attached) Emby is still just displaying the genre information that Windows Media Player originally assigned to the files as seen in the screenshot below.

I have previously tried deleting all of the genre information from an album and then refreshing, and that worked for that individual album. The screenshot below is the Emby genre data for that album, which matches the genre metadata of the file.

embyserver Log.txt

[Luke 42128]

OK, can you please go through this topic and see if it helps:

As we'd probably just end up asking the same questions. Thanks.

[warpedrevolutio 1]

I read through, it appears tow ant me to use FFProbe for more information, could you let me know how to run that process so I can continue to troubleshoot?

[warpedrevolutio 1]

As an update, the issue appears to have spontaneously fixed itself, during a period when the Emby was on but not in use. 

[AxlZedd 0]

This problem is really a pain in the a**. I moved from Plex Premium to EMBY premium and I deeply regret it.
 

EMBY does what it wants. the last 3 days I added the Tags of every single song with Taikoz. I refreshed the database, the metadata, everything twice. Reinstalled it. Still EMBY shows strange music genres which I cant find whrere they get fetched. I added a new folder, nope, Emby dont like to add the added genres even when scanned 10 times. and from then to now all the song cover pictures are overwritten by a single image. yay! And this is just my 78rpm folder. Not to mention that my other over 900 Albums have superstrange linkings with actors I never knew that they make music or are now splitted in several different albums, or arfe not played because they are flac. Its a mess. and my blood is boiling honestly scrolling through all the entries here in the forum seeing that the emby team just asks questions and wants some infos but nearly never give answers. The community does. 

TV Shows and Movies might work properly, Audiobooks . . .forget it. And music - honestly, I was so happy to find a system which proveides a proper genre archive setting - nope . . . .  the waist of money is one thing - but the time which I spent menticulously correcting dates, tags, genres from every single file just for getting ignored by this  . . . system. 

I am out and will tell you if I have found a more stable solution.