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Metadata writer edits it into .FLAC files + Option to stop Emby searching for external music ID's


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julianlocal
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Since many albums are quite trash listed on the Music Brainz and sometimes you need to reedit your library it would be cool if EMBY would be able to directly write onto your flac files. E.g. at the moment I have the problem that some albums such as some from The Hooters, are listed as two, even with identical metadata on their flac files, the internal meta data manager & on their album setting. Would be cool if Emby can edit that with one click and not like at the moment with 3 to XX different things, like if I edit something with the metadata manager it should be changed on the original flac file, on my library, on the artists page & on each song under that directory. 

Also some other things, that are not working and were already mentioned previsouly here:
The Hooters e.g. appear twice, with the exact same metadata on every file/ album/ sorting name/ artist name and meta data on their flac files.
By the way I had that with some artists, there the things others wrote in the forum they tried worked, just for them it is impossible to get them merging, no matter what I try, they always appear twice.
If I click "lock the file for further edits" on the meta data manager it works BUT then when re add them to my library they are NOT named anymore as I named them on their .flac metadata, they are just named like the filename so "01 title" "02 title" and so on.. speaking of whyever Emby still tries to find their online tags and still ignored my sorting.
I think here the problem is emby always tries to get an Music Brainz ID, and whyever some people put on Music Brainz their own "collections/ sorting orders" and that makes emby breaking in some ways, e.g. in the hooters case one time the sorting name is "The Hooters" and band name "The Hooters". Whyever someone has it "Hooters" and "Hooters" and it is impossible to get it out of emby as long as it can find these IDs.
I think basically with a local metadata editor, this issue with editing files 5 times for one edit is fixed and an option to stop emby trying to get any online id for music would fix the other problems.

 

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julianlocal
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Another thing if that issue with the artists appearing multiple times, can't be fixed would be just add a function when I select 2, 3, 4 artists or albums to merge them together. (ofc. with locking their metadata to local only and not again searching for online IDs which breaks everything up)

Happy2Play
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Almost all issues will come back to embedded metadata and/or multiple versions of embedded tags.

As it is really impossible to troubleshoot music content without actually having the content as no ones music is tagged the same.

In the end since Emby relies on what ffprobe returns from the tracks you would have the compare the ffprobe results per track per album.

 

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