Wrong album name

[PatrickStar 2]

Hey,

a release that i have originates from a Steam DLC containing a games soundtrack. This release is being updated with new tracks as content is being released, so i have updated the release group on MusicBrainz by creating a new release with the additional tracks and withdrawing the old release.

This is the release on the MusicBrainz site i have created and used in Picard to tag the files: https://musicbrainz.org/release/de204003-fa01-4272-8135-ff6b5bebaa3e
I have checked that it is correctly tagged in Picard :

When i check the metadata from the emby ui it does show the same MusicBrainz Album ID as the correct album it should have been added to (de204003-fa01-4272-8135-ff6b5bebaa3e).

But instead of adding the new tracks to the existing release, emby created multiple new albums named "Trailers" (which is the name of the CD these tracks are on):

Any clue what could be wrong here?

[user24 406]

Hi, perhaps try checking your Album Artist field, if you haven't already (couldn't tell from your screenshot).

If this happens to be blank or different, then Emby will split the tracks into separate Albums.

https://emby.media/support/articles/Music-Naming.html

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Tagging your albums and tracks should be straightforward with the possible exception of various artist or compilation albums.

For these types of compilation albums if you want all tracks to show up as a single entity you want to make sure both the "album" and "album artist" fields are the same for all tracks. Otherwise the album will be split up for the various artists listed.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by user24

[PatrickStar 2]

37 minutes ago, user24 said:

Hi, perhaps try checking your Album Artist field, if you haven't already (couldn't tell from your screenshot).

If this happens to be blank or different, then Emby will split the tracks into separate Albums.

https://emby.media/support/articles/Music-Naming.html

The Album Artist field has the same contents, i copied them from Picard and compared (track 4 & 5):

 

These are the tags of the last "old"/working track from the release:

And these are the tags of the first track that has the wrong album created:

[Luke 43051]

In the metadata editor in the server, how does the data for the two tracks compare?

[user24 406]

Hi again, if you have checked all the embedded metadata and it is consistent/correct, but Emby does not update as you expect, and the Emby metadata editor still shows the old info, no matter what you try with library rescans, metadata refreshes etc. Perhaps you could try this as a test...

• Add a suffix to the Album folder name (e.g.) if it was originally "Album" change it to "Album Updated" or something similar. Just the folder, not the metadata Album name tag.
• Then rescan your library, or even just the parent folder one level above "Album Updated" may be sufficient.

So your folder structure and audio files are all still as they were, with the new metadata, but Emby should see this as 'new' music and delete all the 'old' info from the database and add the "Album Updated" music with the revised metadata and additional Songs, as a whole 'new' Album.

Sometimes (not always) I need to do this for modified files. So will be interested to know if this helps you or not???

I know this isn't a "fix-all" solution, and not something to do as a standard process, but perhaps could be useful as a troubleshooting step when all else fails...

Edited 17 minutes ago by user24