Showing old/wrong Album Art, must be cached or downloading it from Internet

[ColinPostsHere 4]

I manually set all my album art via the ID3 tag per track. There is no folder.jpg or cover.jpg file. My file structure is Music\<artist names>\<album name>\<tracks>. The only files are the MP3 files. When I first ripped my CD, the program I used to rip it selected a bad piece of cover art. I manually replaced it with Mp3tag while I added the other information (I do this for ever album). I doubt it matters, but I don't think I have this problem with any other albums (it's possible, but if I do, I haven't noticed it), so maybe it does: the CD is The Firm, from The Firm. 

One other odd feature, the artist and album image is blank. I only see images for the individual tracks. This is not how it works for any other albums. Everyone else gets an Internet picture of the artist, but shows my manually added album art when looking at the individual tracks. Perhaps the database that Emby is using doesn't have The Firm in it? They may not be super well-known, but they're not that obscure (the other Jimmy Page band after Led Zeppelin and the Yardbirds, with Bad Company's singer), so that seems odd. But if the album is not listed, then where is it getting the wrong image? Is that still cached somewhere from the first scan?

I have tried deleting the art from each track in Emby, then Scan Library. The bad art comes back. I have also removed the whole album folder, restarted Emby confirmed the album was gone, restarted the computer running it (a Windows 11 PC), then put the album folder back and again did Scan Library. The album re-appeared, the tracks again all had the old, bad image.

I have also tried clicking the 3 dots next to the album and selecting Refresh Metadata, with and without flipping the switch for "Replace existing images." No effect.

Under Settings -> Library -> Edit, I have the following settings (maybe one of these is the culprit), where any that I don't list are off/not selected:

Import playlist files: On

Enable real time monitoring: On

Metadata Readers, Enable and rank your preferred local metadata sources in order of priority: Nfo On

Album Metadata Downloaders: MusicBrainz On

Artist Metadata Downloaders: MusicBrainz On

After initial import, automatically refresh metadata from the internet: Never

Artist Image Fetchers: FanArt On

Song Image Fetchers: Embedded Images On

as noted above, everything else is off or unchecked.

What could be causing this problem and how would you recommend I fix it? If you need more information, please let me know what else to provide.

Thanks for any help. 

 

[Luke 43061]

Hi, can you please show a specific example? Thanks.

[user24 407]

1 hour ago, ColinPostsHere said:

Perhaps the database that Emby is using doesn't have The Firm in it?

This group is listed in the MusicBrainz database:

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c08ced1f-d248-4368-90e5-bf579b3bf5de

Also Discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/620368-The-Firm-7

Though, in each case, it looks like there are many other Artists with the exact same name. There are at least 12 on MusicBrainz and at least 20 on Discogs. 

If you are only fetching from MusicBrainz, you could try adding the correct MusicBrainz ID to your embedded metadata (if you don't have it already) and see if that helps with Emby fetching the correct Artist image?

The AudioDB does have an image for The Firm:

https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/thumb/wwz8yk1710398329.jpg

I couldn't find anything on fanart.tv

What do you have here:

What do you have here:

If this is the only problem album/artist you have perhaps try manually updating the info directly in Emby to match your embedded metadata album images and see if it holds with a library/folder rescan???

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Is that still cached somewhere from the first scan?

Perhaps even check the Emby album image folder and delete anything old/incorrect that is there (e.g.):

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\metadata\musicalbums

Perhaps that gives some clues/ideas to check out???

Edited 1 minute ago by user24