Wrong song covers when adding songs to an album

[Painkiller88 250]

Hi,

Server: Win11 with Emby version 4.9.3.0
App: android/ web browser... all the same behavior

 

I reported this years ago, and i still have the same problem.

I have an album eg. of DJ Mixes all from the same DJ, i add it to an album and call it "mixes".

Every Song in this album has its own cover, and i just add a folder.jpg file for the album itself.

But when i play the songs, most of them just take the cover of a random song added to the album so emby is not using the embedded cover of every song.

Screenshots below.

 

 

 

In mp3tag every song has its own cover, see this is the same song like in the above screenshot but it is taking a random cover

 

I would really love to see this fixed in the next update as i reported this about 3 years ago.

1 Image for the Album itself is the folder.jpg, but every song has its own embedded cover which is not recorgnized correctly when emby scans and imports the music



Thanks

 

 

[Painkiller88 250]

UP

[Happy2Play 9794]

You have to check in the api but what is your library value for "ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages"?

"ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages": false,

 

[Painkiller88 250]

On 2/14/2026 at 12:37 AM, Happy2Play said:

You have to check in the api but what is your library value for "ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages"?

"ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages": false,

 

I guess this is something i need to change directly in the emby database file? as i can't find this in the GUI for the music library or where can i check/change this?

thanks

[Painkiller88 250]

On 2/14/2026 at 12:37 AM, Happy2Play said:

You have to check in the api but what is your library value for "ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages"?

"ShareEmbeddedMusicAlbumImages": false,

 

I wrote a script to change this setting as it was enabled, seems to be enabled by default or it was a few server versions back.

But as i changed it and refreshed my library, this solved my problem.

Thanks a lot for this info  

[Luke 42114]

On 2/16/2026 at 4:39 PM, Painkiller88 said:

I guess this is something i need to change directly in the emby database file? as i can't find this in the GUI for the music library or where can i check/change this?

thanks

Yes this option hasn't been added to the user interface yet.