Manually added art for music not being saved in media folder, despite option being checked.

[SirSolox 9]

Hello, this is my first time attempting to report a bug, so hopefully I'm doing so correctly

Issue: Manually imported art not being saved inside the media folder despite the option to do so being selected.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure the option to save artwork in media folders is selected.

2. Right click on albun you wish to change/add art to on Emby itself with an admin account and select "Edit Photos".

3.Click the "+" to manually import your selected art.

4.Art is uploaded and is shown, but not added to the album's folder where the media is store.


Not a huge deal, but I recently had to recover a lot of my media from a backup due to some circumstances, and found that all of the art I uploaded for album covers were not store in the media folders with the backup.

Edited July 27, 2025 by SirSolox
Forgot to add to select "Edit Photos" when reproducing the issue.

[GrimReaper 4739]

Which platform your server runs on? There might possibly be some permission issues - next time you observe same occurrence, post server log. 

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[Happy2Play 9780]

Also what is your folder structure and library Music folder structure setting?  As the setting can cause images for artist and album to not be saved with media.

 

[SirSolox 9]

Here are my server logs. I just added some more covers that did not appear so it should be in there. 

My library settings for my music folder is other/unstructured.

The way I currently have the media in the folders in themselves are as follows:
/Music/Album/CD1,CD2, so on

embyserver.txt

[Happy2Play 9780]

@Lukewon't the "other/unstructured" setting only use Emby metadata folder?

 

[Luke 42077]

Yes you’ll need to pick one of the structured options in order to get images saved into media folders.

 But of course you should only choose  that if your folders match that.