Genre's Not Updating Any Longer

[dalezjc 14]

Yup, did a search through the forum, but couldn't find anything.  Anyway, Emby isn't updating genres any longer.  I've been using multiple genres (mp3tag) using the genre\\2nd-genre method for years successfully, but now it's no longer working.  Here's the log:

 

embyserver.txt

[Luke 42078]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

[dalezjc 14]

Not sure what else to provide.  Info is in the log file, and I described what's happening.  I did discover that if I remove the albums from Emby, rescan, and then add them back in, it seems to work.  So maybe the database is corrupt?

[Luke 42078]

On 6/9/2025 at 10:14 AM, dalezjc said:

Not sure what else to provide.  Info is in the log file, and I described what's happening.  I did discover that if I remove the albums from Emby, rescan, and then add them back in, it seems to work.  So maybe the database is corrupt?

@dalezjc

What genre(s), what file(s), how are your files tagged? Can you please show an example of all of that? Thanks.

[dalezjc 14]

I'm using MP3tag to add the genres, and am using Rock\\Seventies.

[Neminem 1518]

@dalezjcTry with a single semi colon ; 

[dalezjc 14]

I have other songs that have worked for years with the genre\\genre style.  Something must have changed.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Test adding  Rock\\Seventies to this album.

Refreshed metadata, now Genre changed to Rock

ffprobe from 4.8

C:\Users\Media>C:\Users\Media\Desktop\TEST\system\ffprobe.exe -i file:"E:\Media\Music - emby metadata\Bruno Mars\Unorthodox Jukebox (2012)\Bruno Mars - 01 - Young Girls.mp3" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_format -f mp3
ffprobe version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25 Copyright (c) 2007-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC
  built with gcc 12.2.0 (Rev10, Built by MSYS2 project)
{
Input #0, mp3, from 'file:E:\Media\Music - emby metadata\Bruno Mars\Unorthodox Jukebox (2012)\Bruno Mars - 01 - Young Girls.mp3':
  Metadata:
    album           : Unorthodox Jukebox
    artist          : Bruno Mars
    album_artist    : Bruno Mars
    MusicBrainz Album Status: official
    disc            : 1/1
    genre           : Rock;Seventies;Pop
    TMED            : CD
    TORY            : 2012
    publisher       : Atlantic
    title           : Young Girls
    track           : 1/15
    MusicBrainz Album Release Country: US
    artist-sort     : Mars, Bruno
    TSO2            : Mars, Bruno
    SCRIPT          : Latn
    Acoustid Id     : 5bdc040f-be2a-4dd6-bf55-1ae677189969
    MusicBrainz Album Type: album
    MusicBrainz Album Artist Id: afb680f2-b6eb-4cd7-a70b-a63b25c763d5
    MusicBrainz Artist Id: afb680f2-b6eb-4cd7-a70b-a63b25c763d5
    Artists         : Bruno Mars
    MusicBrainz Release Track Id: 0920d83f-3139-3266-809b-48e3fe31eed2
    CATALOGNUMBER   : 533064-2
    MusicBrainz Release Group Id: 978d88db-60ec-41d9-ade7-beea020941b0
    MusicBrainz Album Id: 1afd0318-1049-4156-ba12-aeb7ed770d08
    date            : 2012-12-11
    id3v2_priv.WM/Provider: A\x00M\x00G\x00\x00\x00
    id3v2_priv.WM/MediaClassPrimaryID: \xbc}`\xd1#\xe3\xe2K\x86\xa1H\xa4*(D\x1e
    id3v2_priv.WM/WMCollectionGroupID: 8\x8b\x916G\xf2#L\xa1\xd2-d\x15R\xd7\x09
    id3v2_priv.WM/WMContentID: \xd2C\xeb7\x91\xf5\xe5G\x8c\xef#5\xce\xdaP\x9c
    id3v2_priv.WM/WMCollectionID: 8\x8b\x916G\xf2#L\xa1\xd2-d\x15R\xd7\x09
    id3v2_priv.WM/UniqueFileIdentifier: A\x00M\x00G\x00a\x00_\x00i\x00d\x00=\x00R\x00 \x00 \x002\x006\x002\x003\x005\x004\x001\x00;\x00A\x00M\x00G\x00p\x00_\x00i\x00d\x00=\x00P\x00 \x00 \x001\x001\x000\x007\x006\x009\x001\x00;\x00A\x00M\x00G\x00t\x00_\x00i\x00d\x00=\x00T\x00 \x002\x008\x005\x00
    id3v2_priv.WM/MediaClassSecondaryID: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00

@Lukeisn't this a deficiency in 4.8.x.x?  Will have to look for other similar topic.

And 4.9.x.x got this

ffprobe from 4.9

C:\Users\Media>C:\Users\Media\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffprobe.exe -i file:"E:\Media\Music - emby metadata\Bruno Mars\Unorthodox Jukebox (2012)\Bruno Mars - 01 - Young Girls.mp3" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_format -f mp3
ffprobe version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25_p4 Copyright (c) 2007-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC
  built with gcc 12.2.0 (Rev10, Built by MSYS2 project)
{
Input #0, mp3, from 'file:E:\Media\Music - emby metadata\Bruno Mars\Unorthodox Jukebox (2012)\Bruno Mars - 01 - Young Girls.mp3':
  Metadata:
    album           : Unorthodox Jukebox
    artist          : Bruno Mars
    album_artist    : Bruno Mars
    MusicBrainz Album Status: official
    disc            : 1/1
    genre           : Rock;Seventies;Pop
    TMED            : CD
    TORY            : 2012
    publisher       : Atlantic
    title           : Young Girls
    track           : 1/15
    MusicBrainz Album Release Country: US
    artist-sort     : Mars, Bruno
    TSO2            : Mars, Bruno
    SCRIPT          : Latn
    Acoustid Id     : 5bdc040f-be2a-4dd6-bf55-1ae677189969
    MusicBrainz Album Type: album
    MusicBrainz Album Artist Id: afb680f2-b6eb-4cd7-a70b-a63b25c763d5
    MusicBrainz Artist Id: afb680f2-b6eb-4cd7-a70b-a63b25c763d5
    Artists         : Bruno Mars
    MusicBrainz Release Track Id: 0920d83f-3139-3266-809b-48e3fe31eed2
    CATALOGNUMBER   : 533064-2
    MusicBrainz Release Group Id: 978d88db-60ec-41d9-ade7-beea020941b0
    MusicBrainz Album Id: 1afd0318-1049-4156-ba12-aeb7ed770d08
    date            : 2012-12-11
    id3v2_priv.WM/Provider: A\x00M\x00G\x00\x00\x00
    id3v2_priv.WM/MediaClassPrimaryID: \xbc}`\xd1#\xe3\xe2K\x86\xa1H\xa4*(D\x1e
    id3v2_priv.WM/WMCollectionGroupID: 8\x8b\x916G\xf2#L\xa1\xd2-d\x15R\xd7\x09
    id3v2_priv.WM/WMContentID: \xd2C\xeb7\x91\xf5\xe5G\x8c\xef#5\xce\xdaP\x9c
    id3v2_priv.WM/WMCollectionID: 8\x8b\x916G\xf2#L\xa1\xd2-d\x15R\xd7\x09
    id3v2_priv.WM/UniqueFileIdentifier: A\x00M\x00G\x00a\x00_\x00i\x00d\x00=\x00R\x00 \x00 \x002\x006\x002\x003\x005\x004\x001\x00;\x00A\x00M\x00G\x00p\x00_\x00i\x00d\x00=\x00P\x00 \x00 \x001\x001\x000\x007\x006\x009\x001\x00;\x00A\x00M\x00G\x00t\x00_\x00i\x00d\x00=\x00T\x00 \x002\x008\x005\x00
    id3v2_priv.WM/MediaClassSecondaryID: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00

 

[dalezjc 14]

Thanks for the follow-up!

[Luke 42078]

I don't recall it off the top of my head, but yes there could be an issue in 4.8.

[dalezjc 14]

You can delete/close this issue.  I'm fine with removing my albums from the library, re-scanning them, adding them back, and scanning again.  If this is the worst part of my day, then I'm doing alright.