mjdbb1 8 Posted October 17 Posted October 17 Hi all. I'm having a weird issue with metadata on music files. My library is set up with no issues and I've cleaned up and locked some metadata. I'm running the latest version of emby on an older intel nuc. I occasionally like to make a whole disk image backup so I shutdown emby, move all my music (and other media) to an external drive. I do this to cut down on the size of the image backup. When it's done, I move all the media back and then start emby server up again. However it seems to then go through my music files and makes some changes that I don't want (even on locked items), for example it will go and add album artists to singles and make them look like whole albums, which I don't like. If emby server is shutdown while I'm moving things around, what's causing it to mess with my metadata the next time it starts? This doesn't happen unless I move the files around so I'm a little confused. Appreciate any help!
user24 426 Posted October 17 Posted October 17 4 hours ago, mjdbb1 said: I've cleaned up and locked some metadata. Hi - exactly how have you "cleaned up" your metadata? Is it via the Emby metadata editor only??? If so, you may also need to ensure that the embedded metadata of your music files is also updated. If you haven't done this (using Picard, Mp3tag or a simlar music tagging app) then it is possible that Emby will import the unmodified embedded metadata again and overwrite any changes you have made in Emby only. This will potentially occur on any library rescan or metadata update, even without moving the music files to other locations and back again.
mjdbb1 8 Posted October 17 Author Posted October 17 Just now, user24 said: Hi - exactly how have you "cleaned up" your metadata? Is it via the Emby metadata editor only??? If so, you may also need to ensure that the embedded metadata of your music files is also updated. If you haven't done this (using Picard, Mp3tag or a simlar music tagging app) then it is possible that Emby will import the unmodified embedded metadata again and overwrite any changes you have made in Emby only. This will potentially occur on any library rescan or metadata update, even without moving the music files to other locations and back again. Yes, I have the embedded metadata cleaned already.
user24 426 Posted October 17 Posted October 17 Can you provide any specfic info, examples, screenshots that may give some clues about what the problem could be? Are you embedded metadata Album Artist fields/tags, for the Singles tracks, blank? How are your music files structured and what is in the Emby settings for this? Emby may be populating the Album Artist field based on this info: https://emby.media/community/topic/119465-music-compilations-with-blank-album-artist-field/ Quote Hi, there needs to be an album artist. If you really don't want to tag your files, then in your music library options you can set the music folder structure to perfectly organized into artist/album folders. Then the folder name from two levels up will be used as the album artist. However, don't set the folder structure option unless your files actually match that, or you'll run into other problems. Without specific examples, I'm really just guessing about what the problem/solution may be... but this is something else you could perhaps check... 1
mjdbb1 8 Posted October 17 Author Posted October 17 19 minutes ago, user24 said: Can you provide any specfic info, examples, screenshots that may give some clues about what the problem could be? Are you embedded metadata Album Artist fields/tags, for the Singles tracks, blank? How are your music files structured and what is in the Emby settings for this? Emby may be populating the Album Artist field based on this info: https://emby.media/community/topic/119465-music-compilations-with-blank-album-artist-field/ Without specific examples, I'm really just guessing about what the problem/solution may be... but this is something else you could perhaps check... Ok so I think you're onto something. I followed that link and I was unaware that an Album Artist is required. The tracks that are acting up are all of the ones that I specifically tried to leave that field blank in order to keep them from showing up as albums. I tried keeping that field filled in and so far I haven't been able to make this happen again. So that may have been the problem. Thank you! 1
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