Music Metadata consistency

[s3thg3ck9 0]

I have troubles getting my music collection set up properly and can find info about the following:

 

When the Web client is sorted by albums it sometimes shows album title and interpet (what would be correct) and some times only the album title for albums that are properly linked to musicbrainz.

 

On "While a Nation Sleeps" the interpret is properly shown above the album title.

On the Rookie EP it's not shown.

 

Both are properly linked to musicbrainz and "show artist" does display both of them correctly.

 

 

Any ideas?

[Luke 42077]

what do the tags within the audio files look like?

[s3thg3ck9 0]

what do the tags within the audio files look like?

 

Boysetsfire is set as Interpret AND Album-Interpret

For the other two only the Interpret Tag is set.

 

Guess that makes the differences, although that's prett odd...

[Luke 42077]

what does Interpret AND Album-Interpret mean? we just look at the tags data that comes out of ffprobe

[s3thg3ck9 0]

what does Interpret AND Album-Interpret mean? we just look at the tags data that comes out of ffprobe

 

Directly from ffprobe:

 

Boysetsfire:

 

Input #0, mp3, from 'bsf.mp3':

  Metadata:

    album           : While a Nation Sleeps...

    artist          : BoySetsFire

    album_artist    : BoySetsFire

    TSRC            : US2Y71300041

    title           : Heads Will Roll

    track           : 3

    date            : 2013

 

Proleter:

 

Input #0, mp3, from 'pro.mp3':

  Metadata:

    album           : Rookie EP

    composer        : ProleteR

    genre           : electroswing

    encoded_by      : Jamendo:http://www.jamendo.com| LAME

    title           : My Melancholy Baby

    artist          : ProleteR

    track           : 5

    date            : 2014

[s3thg3ck9 0]

PUSH. Any idea on this?

[Happy2Play 9780]

If there is no Album Artist tag you will only see the Album name, not artist and album as your screen shot shows.

[s3thg3ck9 0]

If there is no Album Artist tag you will only see the Album name, not artist and album as your screen shot shows.

 

Thanks, thought so. As this can not be set via Emby's Meta Data Manager what would be best practice to get this on track?

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Thanks, thought so. As this can not be set via Emby's Meta Data Manager what would be best practice to get this on track?

 

I use MP3Tag to ensure all my desired tags are filled in for my music files.  Emby picks up the data I enter without issue.

[Raff 51]

I will echo Deathsquirrel on the MP3Tag suggestion. It is my favorite tool for making bulk edits to music file tags. Specifically, I do bulk edits on the Genre tag quickly and painlessly with that tool all the time.

 

However, if you need to do more than just set a bunch of singular tags (like album artist in a specific directory) you may want to try Musicbrainz Picard. It will help you identify the tracks and fill in many of the missing or wrong data elements. I also have MediaMonkey installed, because it does a better job of getting album covers.

[s3thg3ck9 0]

I will echo Deathsquirrel on the MP3Tag suggestion. It is my favorite tool for making bulk edits to music file tags. Specifically, I do bulk edits on the Genre tag quickly and painlessly with that tool all the time.

 

However, if you need to do more than just set a bunch of singular tags (like album artist in a specific directory) you may want to try Musicbrainz Picard. It will help you identify the tracks and fill in many of the missing or wrong data elements. I also have MediaMonkey installed, because it does a better job of getting album covers.

 

This is helpful indeed. Thank you very much!