Duplicate artists

[selassie75 1]

Hi, im trying to transition from plex and the artists tab gave me headache all day. I couldnt figure how to get rid of my duplicated artists in the media library. my plex DB shows 190 artists where Emby shows 600+. Title and Title sort is the same, i removed musicbrainz plugin, AudiodbID is the same. I cannot figure please help me if possible, i'm about to give up although i subscribe to premiere for a month to try. Artist sorting is my main use, and i want to be able to group my artists the way i want regardless, especially in Jazz artist feat is very common and now i have like 4 or 5 duplicates for 1 artist

[Abobader 3464]

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[Luke 42077]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

[user24 313]

Hi, perhaps read this for some initial tips (if you haven't already?).

https://emby.media/support/articles/Music-Naming.html

Also, while Emby imports much music info from embedded metadata, it doesn't currently import Artist Sort Titles (unless there has been a recent update I don't know about?).

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/126206-music-library-nfos-question/#comment-1328045

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The sorttitle embedded tag in audio files is currently not used, but this has come up before and is likely to be supported in future updates. Until then you'd have to just edit the sort title of the artist using the metadata editor.

Anyway, as per what Luke said, if you post a specific example (with screenshots) then we can investigate further and perhaps help out?

Cheers!

[selassie75 1]

15 hours ago, Luke said:

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

Thanks for answering, here is one example

the first one shows all albums

and shows that one "beatles for sale" as contributing artist

the second artist shows that album only

with same external ID's

the album shows :

Also showing the proper IDs

the tracks are also showing proper external ID's

i hope this is helping

[selassie75 1]

11 hours ago, user24 said:

Hi, perhaps read this for some initial tips (if you haven't already?).

https://emby.media/support/articles/Music-Naming.html

Also, while Emby imports much music info from embedded metadata, it doesn't currently import Artist Sort Titles (unless there has been a recent update I don't know about?).

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/126206-music-library-nfos-question/#comment-1328045

Anyway, as per what Luke said, if you post a specific example (with screenshots) then we can investigate further and perhaps help out?

Cheers!

my structures are like that :

thanks for helping

[user24 313]

Yes, the extra info is helpful and possibly starting to narrow down the problem...

Because the "Beatles for Sale" album is showing under "Albums as Contributing Artist" with the first artist entity and under "Albums" with the second artist entity likely means that the "Artist" embedded metadata per track is correct, but there is possibly an issue with your "Album Artist" embedded metadata.

Do you use Picard or Mp3tag or any other program to tag your music???

I use Mp3tag, so would open the suspect Album in this program and check what "Extended Tags" is showing. Depending on where/how the files were originally ripped/downloaded/acquired,  you may have discrepancies with the "Album Artist" tag or even "Album Artist" and "AlbumArtist" tag variations. Emby will import this, giving you two Album Artists instead of one. (Note: even though the Emby menu tab shows "Artists" this tab is actually a combination of "Album Artists" and "Artists".)

It could be that Emby is fetching and displaying the right info for both artist entities, because of the MusicBrainz IDs, but still separating them because of Album Artist embedded metadata issues?

Over to you..!

[selassie75 1]

1 hour ago, user24 said:

Yes, the extra info is helpful and possibly starting to narrow down the problem...

Because the "Beatles for Sale" album is showing under "Albums as Contributing Artist" with the first artist entity and under "Albums" with the second artist entity likely means that the "Artist" embedded metadata per track is correct, but there is possibly an issue with your "Album Artist" embedded metadata.

Do you use Picard or Mp3tag or any other program to tag your music???

I use Mp3tag, so would open the suspect Album in this program and check what "Extended Tags" is showing. Depending on where/how the files were originally ripped/downloaded/acquired,  you may have discrepancies with the "Album Artist" tag or even "Album Artist" and "AlbumArtist" tag variations. Emby will import this, giving you two Album Artists instead of one. (Note: even though the Emby menu tab shows "Artists" this tab is actually a combination of "Album Artists" and "Artists".)

It could be that Emby is fetching and displaying the right info for both artist entities, because of the MusicBrainz IDs, but still separating them because of Album Artist embedded metadata issues?

Over to you..!

no i was not using any tag editors, so i just installed mp3tag and yes some Album Artist were showing Beatles and not The Beatles i corrected it inside the tag editors and it is working now.

Not sure if i need to rescan the librairies after editing or if it will rescan automaticalkly after a change tho.

 

Anyway it solves the issue thanks for helping

[user24 313]

That's good that you have it sorted!

You can go to the Music Folders tab and rescan just the parent folder, based on your folder structure. This should pick up the changes in most instances. If this doesn't work as a first pass, then scan and/or refresh metadata on the album itself (and/or all the underlying tracks).

This way you can check the changes straight away and you don't need to wait for a full library scan to complete.