Album images

[lbkBrad 5]

I've started converting to MP3 and I seem to have an artwork issue:  Emby does not appear to be pulling any album cover-art.  I figure I have some settings wrong and am looking for some tips hopefully.  Here's details:

-each new MP3 subfolder is an album
-my metadata tags are good including all artist/album/year tags updated (no artwork imported during conversion)
-if it matters, file name is usually the song name but subfolder name is a custom scheme
-during song playback, a 'generic' artist background loads; in the web interface, this same generic background is shown for all songs/folders/albums; in the Roku app, album folders show no art
-library settings:  real-time monitoring on (have also manually scanned); all artist/album metadata providers on; all album/artist image fetchers on; save artwork into media folders on; download images in advance off
-confirmed the emby system acct has read-write to the music-library share

Since images don't download in advance, I wasn't sure if manual scans or meta-refreshes really did anything.  Also, I'm not sure what kinds of files should get saved into the folders (jpg?).  So those maybe some things, but if anyone spots a problem with these, let me know.  Thanks.

[Luke 43182]

4 minutes ago, lbkBrad said:

I've started converting to MP3 and I seem to have an artwork issue:  Emby does not appear to be pulling any album cover-art.  I figure I have some settings wrong and am looking for some tips hopefully.  Here's details:

-each new MP3 subfolder is an album
-my metadata tags are good including all artist/album/year tags updated (no artwork imported during conversion)
-if it matters, file name is usually the song name but subfolder name is a custom scheme
-during song playback, a 'generic' artist background loads; in the web interface, this same generic background is shown for all songs/folders/albums; in the Roku app, album folders show no art
-library settings:  real-time monitoring on (have also manually scanned); all artist/album metadata providers on; all album/artist image fetchers on; save artwork into media folders on; download images in advance off
-confirmed the emby system acct has read-write to the music-library share

Since images don't download in advance, I wasn't sure if manual scans or meta-refreshes really did anything.  Also, I'm not sure what kinds of files should get saved into the folders (jpg?).  So those maybe some things, but if anyone spots a problem with these, let me know.  Thanks.

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

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[lbkBrad 5]

I should have dug a bit deeper before my previous post as I've realized the issue is more complex.  My default view for music libraries is usually 'folder' but that was hiding some things like for instance artist 'duplication'.  I'm uploading a few images of one example.  One of the artist 'IDs' has coverart, while the other has an artist description but contributing-artist value with no coverart.  As one might guess, I've found the '3 Doors' value in the contributing artist tag of some of my files, so that is a root cause and I've already found where I would need to make changes to start cleaning that up.

I also noticed that I was not seeing a way to play albums in correct song order, like by track #, while in 'folder' view (my subfolders are albums).  It wanted to play the songs in alphabetical order instead and I didn't see an opton to sort by track#.  does that sound correct/expected?