Music Genre Question

[Pancho 9]

Question for you.   I have all of my local music collection tagged to just a few Genre's.   My biggest category is one I have called 'POP/ROCK'.    In Emby (All interfaces), I see this genre broken into 2 separate categories.   I imagine this is due to slash I used to separate.   I have another Genre called 'RAP & HIPHOP' that works just fine, but it is separate by an ampersand.     I have no issue keeping the music genre combined in my tagging software or WMC music, only in Emby.  Is there way to have it ignore the category and leave it as it (without having to re-tag all of my music)?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28, 2016 by Pancho

[Luke 42083]

@@ginjaninja can comment, but i think most music tagging software would consider that multiple genres

[ginjaninja 605]

short answer to op =no...there is no way...

 

'/' is a separator for Emby, '&' is not, but you already know this..Emby does not support custom separators..

There is an Emby plugin 'Genre cleaner' which transforms one source genre into another in so far as what Emby clients show......but this operates on the results post separation of '/' i think, so wont help..

 

Emby is not alone in using '/' as a separator for genre...so its not a massive surprise.

 

the solution is always the same....identify a set of separators which are compatible with all your softwares, and programatically alter your tags to  fit (i use mp3tag)...in Emby's case you wont be able to use '/' in genres (or any tag) unless intended as a separator.

[punchycool 6]

Should we stay clear of trying to get the Genre values for music to work properly? For instance AC/DC artist with album Back in Black shows in Emby's Artist interface a genre "Avantgard" and "Folk" despite there being no such values in any of this data. And yes, I rescanned my library via emby's admin interface.

 

• Any related *.nfo files
• Any of the ID3 data
• Any of the emby metadata (as viewed within Metadata Manager)

Edited February 29, 2016 by punchycool

[Deathsquirrel 745]

 

Should we stay clear of trying to get the Genre values for music to work properly? For instance AC/DC artist with album Back in Black shows in Emby's Artist interface a genre "Avantgard" and "Folk" despite there being no such values in any of this data. And yes, I rescanned my library via emby's admin interface.

 

• Any related *.nfo files
• Any of the ID3 data
• Any of the emby metadata (as viewed within Metadata Manager)

 

 

Same album sits exactly in the genre I specified in my id3 tags, which is cetainly not 'avantgard' or 'folk'.

[ginjaninja 605]

Should we stay clear of trying to get the Genre values for music to work properly? For instance AC/DC artist with album Back in Black shows in Emby's Artist interface a genre "Avantgard" and "Folk" despite there being no such values in any of this data. And yes, I rescanned my library via emby's admin interface.

 

• Any related *.nfo files
• Any of the ID3 data
• Any of the emby metadata (as viewed within Metadata Manager)

Have you tried refreshing the individual album and checking the genre metadata is not locked.

 

The ultimate debug is to run ffprobe against the tracks.genres have come from ffprobe for a long time.

 

Numbers in tag values eg. 50s, used to cause ffprobe to substitute apurious genres.

 

Along time ago genres came for lastfm extended data but no longer.

 

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Edited March 4, 2016 by ginjaninja

[punchycool 6]

Have you tried refreshing the individual album and checking the genre metadata is not locked.

 

The ultimate debug is to run ffprobe against the tracks.genres have come from ffprobe for a long time.

Numbers in tag values eg. 50s, used to cause ffprobe to substitute apurious genres.

 

Along time ago genres came for lastfm extended data but no longer.

 

Yes none of the albums in question have locked metadata.

Yes despite re-identifying the albums in the emby UI and re-picking the album from the list, the albums still hold these rogue genres both before and after a library sync.

[ginjaninja 605]

Yes none of the albums in question have locked metadata.

Yes despite re-identifying the albums in the emby UI and re-picking the album from the list, the albums still hold these rogue genres both before and after a library sync.

'Identify' wont affect genres...genres come from the file tags themselves not their identity/providor info..

 

Ffprobe is what u need to use to troubleshoot..to confirm ffprobe is reading unexpected genres from your files...ffprobe is what emby uses to determine genres.

 

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Edited March 5, 2016 by ginjaninja