Metadata location: Music

[thekingswolf 49]

I have saving local metadata files on, and the .nfo files populate for artists and albums correctly into their local folders.  placing art in either the artist folder or album folder using proper naming conventions works great. 

I am experimenting with several custom albums that are basically mix tapes, songs from different albums, sleep sounds like thunderstorms, ect.  I've got the metadata and naming conventions all worked out, with one single exception.  the art at a track by track level.  I have embedded images into the file tags myself, and they show correctly when viewing local files as thumbnail in windows explorer. 

when loading files onto server, emby does not display the embedded images in each track, nor does it use the album art for the track art.   it will choose, seemingly at random, one of the embedded images from one of the songs, and apply that image in a lower quality to all songs. 

I can go in and edit the metadata of each individual track through emby using the edit images, and that will generally work, however if I do a refresh metadata on the library (which I do often getting everything right for newly added content), the track level images wipe back to the bad quality random track image.  I went looking for the .nfo files that contain the metadata for the tracks themselves so I can just add folder to project in my sublime editor for easy editing, but the only .nfo files I can see are only for artist and album, and the album .nfo doesn't contain track level information.  I went into the AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\ folder, but that metadata folder in there was all just images.  I didn't see any .nfo files to edit, and the folders are in database format so they are just random numbers and letters and not searchable.  Using the metadata manager in the server dashboard doesn't edit images as an option. 

What is the file path to the .nfo files containing the track level information?

Edited May 5 by thekingswolf

[Luke 42528]

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when loading files onto server, emby does not display the embedded images in each track

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

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[Luke 42528]

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What is the file path to the .nfo files containing the track level information?

Hi, there currently is no nfo file for songs, but you don't need this for images to show.

[Luke 42528]

What image fetchers do you have enabled on the music library?

[thekingswolf 49]

screens showing imagefetchers

I don't think they are fetching though.  You can see the windows explorer thumbnails of the actual files, showing that each has the correct image attached in the tag.  However when playing the album you can see it picked one to use for them all.  The one it used is the Lofi Zen one, and it didn't even use the actual image from the file it made a super low quality version of that and applied it to them all.  

[Neminem 1735]

Tbh you should fix your metadata in you media files for music.

I use mp3tag to tag my music and Various Artist abbums.

And it works great.

[thekingswolf 49]

thats what I already do, it's why the files have the media in as a tag.  everything is displaying exactly as intended, it's only the track images that aren't displaying as they should.  since editing the metadata in the actual files didn't work I was looking for the .nfo files

Edited May 7 by thekingswolf

[Luke 42528]

What images are being displayed?