Library picking up content in another source

[BruceCPippin 3]

I created an "Audio Books" library.  The Author\Books appear as expected after pointing it to a folder called "Audio Books".  Unfortunately, it is also including content that is definitely not in the "Audio Books" folder.  It is picking up content from a "Music" folder which was not included when setting up the library.  It's not a great deal of music but I have no explanation for this behavior.  Can anyone provide an explanation?

[Luke 42682]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

[BruceCPippin 3]

The following folders full of music are not in the "Audio Books" folder yet appear in the "Audio Books" library:

- Unknown

- Various

- Various Artist

- Sound Tracks

There are others.

Screenshot attached.

As you see in the screenshot, "Audio Books" is the only folder referenced in the library setup.  "Audio Books" contains no music.  It is certain that EMBY is including music tracks from a folder called "Music".

[Neminem 1770]

If you look at the audiobook files with mp3tag,

do you see those unwanted artist in those files?

[BruceCPippin 3]

No. As previously posted, "Audio Books" contains no music files.  None. 

All music on my Synology device is contained in the "music" folder which (as seen in the screenshot) was not added as a target folder when setting up the library.

[Neminem 1770]

Yes but you audiobook can also have mp3tag's.

[BruceCPippin 3]

Yes, in fact, many of my audio books do have MP3 tags, but that was not my posted question which is why is music from a different and unlisted folder appearing in the library?

[howllor 38]

If you go to the info page for those songs, which path does it show at the bottom of the page? Like this:

 

[BruceCPippin 3]

It does not show the same path that was added to the library (see screenshot above) which is:

/volume1/Audio Books/Audio Books

All of the music that appear in the "Audio Books" library have the path:

/volume1/Music/Music

 

[GrimReaper 5037]

Something doesn't sound right there. Could you share a screenshot of your server Settings>Library tab in the sidebar, where all your libraries and their paths are listed?

[BruceCPippin 3]

[GrimReaper 5037]

This is the second time I'm scratching my head on your issues today. 

Have you tried removing that Audio Books library and rebuild it from scratch? 

If same occurs, post server log afterwards. 

How to Report a Problem

 

[user24 393]

Hi, I don't use Audiobooks myself, but have a suspicion of what may be occurring...

If you have identical tags in common fields, across both your Audiobook library and your Music library (even with completely different paths) then you may get cross-pollution between the two. From your screenshot example, it appears to be "Various Artists" and  "Various" and "Unknown". If these are common across Authors/Artists or Books/Albums, then the problem will perhaps occur.

I just did a small test to confirm - created an Audiobook library with one unique book/album - changed Album Artist on one track to "Various Artists"  and then suddenly 45 Albums from my music lbrary appear. So perhaps have a look at this and make the tags unique to your two libraries. e.g. change "Various Artists"  to "Various Authors" or whatever, and see if that stops the cross-pollution?

[BruceCPippin 3]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

This is the second time I'm scratching my head on your issues today. 

Have you tried removing that Audio Books library and rebuild it from scratch? 

If same occurs, post server log afterwards. 

How to Report a Problem

 

my "Audio Books" library was deleted and rebuilt with same results as described above.

Log file attached.

 

6 minutes ago, user24 said:

Hi, I don't use Audiobooks myself, but have a suspicion of what may be occurring...

If you have identical tags in common fields, across both your Audiobook library and your Music library (even with completely different paths) then you may get cross-pollution between the two. From your screenshot example, it appears to be "Various Artists" and  "Various" and "Unknown". If these are common across Authors/Artists or Books/Albums, then the problem will perhaps occur.

I just did a small test to confirm - created an Audiobook library with one unique book/album - changed Album Artist on one track to "Various Artists"  and then suddenly 45 Albums from my music lbrary appear. So perhaps have a look at this and make the tags unique to your two libraries. e.g. change "Various Artists"  to "Various Authors" or whatever, and see if that stops the cross-pollution?

 

If Emby can't be trusted to display only files that are in the chosen folder, what's the point of choosing a folder?  This seems a serious flaw that would cause havoc in every library.  

 

embyserver.txt

[GrimReaper 5037]

27 minutes ago, user24 said:

If you have identical tags in common fields, across both your Audiobook library and your Music library (even with completely different paths) then you may get cross-pollution between the two. From your screenshot example, it appears to be "Various Artists" and  "Various" and "Unknown". If these are common across Authors/Artists or Books/Albums, then the problem will perhaps occur.

I just did a small test to confirm - created an Audiobook library with one unique book/album - changed Album Artist on one track to "Various Artists"  and then suddenly 45 Albums from my music lbrary appear.

That was a nice line of thought.  

And if that is truly the case (your test strongly indicates it is), it should absolutely not be happening, polluting one library with content from another - regardless of metadata - is utterly unacceptable, under no conditions. 

@Luke

[BruceCPippin 3]

@user24 I agree with GrimReaper's comments. <high-five> 

@GrimReaperPlease let us know your findings after reviewing logs and ...

Thank you!

[BruceCPippin 3]

Sorry for the double post but I had an additional observation to share that may be relevant.

When I set up the library, I choose "Perfectly organized into author\books folders" and then EMBY promptly ignored my choice and the effort I put into organizing my folder and used meta data instead. Since the top-level of my "Audio Books" folder are the authors names, I expected to see these and nothing else when choosing "Authors".  Instead, I see every name that is in the meta data (with all if not most of the extras being the names of voice actors) 

So, I suppose the question is: should the meta data be used at all when folders are "perfectly organized"?