Display performer info in Album pages of Music Libraries

[FredFrin 7]

As a Jazz lover I'd love to see Info about which musicians are playing (which instrument) on music albums - or even individual tracks.

Obviously I'm aware jazz is a minority interest these days, but this kind of info appears on the back of every CD I've seen - so I'm sure fans of other genres would also be happy about such a feature.

It occurred to me this is almost (except for the instrument) exactly the same as is provided in Actor listings in Video Libraries, so I would expect much of that code to be re-usable,  except the Info would be scraped from another source - MusikBrainz instead of Imdb.

But please hurry - I'm already 66 this year!

Edited 8 hours ago by FredFrin
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[user24 397]

Hi, this is an interesting idea and would definitely be a "nice to have" for all music genres, but it may be difficult to get the data you want, across all your albums???  It seems like popular albums in MusicBrainz have the data, but many others do not.

Looks like this has been asked for at least twice previously, one of which is an older post (5 years ago) from you:

https://emby.media/community/topic/31937-music-performers-and-other-musings/

https://emby.media/community/topic/103370-per-track-album-musician-listing/

Just curious - did you try the Picard/Plugin suggested by Vicpa? Was it of any benefit?

A couple of ideas if you have the relevant embedded metadata already, in fields that Emby does not currently import:

• Use Mp3tag to bulk copy/append the tags to the Artist field - Emby will then import to Artist field.
• Use Mp3tag to bulk copy the tags to ROONTRACKTAG - Emby will then import to Tag field.

I hate to suggest this in an Emby forum, but have you trialled Roon to see what that does? It's expensive though and can't be greatly customised, which is why I prefer Emby myself. But if you want no fuss implementation, and now, before you turn 76...!!!, could be worth investigating...???

Edited 2 hours ago by user24

[sydlexius 322]

6 hours ago, FredFrin said:

As a Jazz lover I'd love to see Info about which musicians are playing (which instrument) on music albums - or even individual tracks.

Obviously I'm aware jazz is a minority interest these days, but this kind of info appears on the back of every CD I've seen - so I'm sure fans of other genres would also be happy about such a feature.

It occurred to me this is almost (except for the instrument) exactly the same as is provided in Actor listings in Video Libraries, so I would expect much of that code to be re-usable,  except the Info would be scraped from another source - MusikBrainz instead of Imdb.

But please hurry - I'm already 66 this year!

There'd definitely need to be some way to limit this behavior...for example, a blanket rule would make pieces performed by orchestras might make the screen a huge wall of text.  Thankfully most such examples have a Musicbrainz type of "orchestra", I'd hope such a feature could let one choose to allow, say, allow-list solo/person and group types, but omit others.  Just my tuppence.

[user24 397]

26 minutes ago, sydlexius said:

Thankfully most such examples have a Musicbrainz type of "orchestra"

I think this data is accessible via the MusicBrainz API, therefore it could potentially be used by Emby. I tried a small test on this a while back, but then promptly forgot about it! Thanks for indirectly reminding me! I want to do something more with it later, but not sure exaclty what just yet.

https://emby.media/community/topic/29750-add-a-specific-content-type-for-classical-music/page/3/#findComment-1472263

It's also a wider interesting discussion about showing more music info in Emby (e.g.) Classical, Jazz, other...