Incorrect Artist Identification / Search Results

[Rumzzz 74]

Hello, 

I have had a long time issue with incorrect/duplicate artist identification, they are most obvious in search results.

The most common example is when searching for Kanye West:

Clicking on the first artist will show a Lil Wayne biography, and will show a single track he is credited on:

For that single track, here are the tags where "Lil Wayne" is credited on:

However this single-track Lil Wayne page is completely different than the "actual" Lil Wayne page (that has 1000+ songs).

This is revealed when I play "See You in My Nightmares" and click the Lil Wayne artist link, which takes me to his full page:

Not sure what tags/credits are causing Emby to create a separate artist page/credit, but there are a lot of these instances.

 

Edited August 15 by Rumzzz

[Luke 42946]

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Not sure what tags/credits are causing Emby to create a separate artist page/credit, but there are a lot of these instances.

Differences in spellings or different music brainz ids.

[Rumzzz 74]

Well what's odd is that all 3 artist IDs are the same between the single-track artist page and the "correct" artist page (MD, AudioDB, Discogs). I did not see any spelling differences on the album tags.

On the file itself, there are no artist IDs (only MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID). 

Running the files through Picard, saving them, and forcing a rescan in Emby does not fix the incorrectly identified artists in the search results.

[Luke 42946]

Going over your first issue again, it's hard to say what might have happened when this content was first imported into your database. Do you have a way of testing this with a fresh install, or with all new content where the tracks, album and artists have never been in your server database before?

Otherwise we're kind of guessing about how it got that way, whether be through some defect in an older server version, various tinkering you might have done, etc.

[Rumzzz 74]

It's true this may have been an issue from a previous server version (I've been using Emby for a while). I don't really have a way to test this on a fresh install but even when I manually delete the album containing the "incorrect" artist identification, after a rescan the issue persists.

I agree that nailing down the original cause would be hard to do, mostly just throwing this out there. If anything, I am more so interested in how to get Emby to clean up / recognize any incorrect artist identifications