Music Metadata and Rips

[JaredC79 0]

I have a very large library of music - about 350k songs and growing.  While some titles and artists are obcure, i know that I will have to manually input the metadata.  On rips, the song times and numbers willl be displayed however in some cases they dont carry to EMBY and show up as RIFFINO_IART or RIFFINFO-INAME.  If this was a small amount of albums I would take it on the chin but at least 100 that I know of are showing up that way.  Is there away to automate it?  Also the linking of metadata is not as smooth as with movies and while i basically want everything, logos and covers arent always populating without a few steps.  Also album covers arent being carried to every album so all songs have to manually have the pic added.  What is the best way to automate this?

[CFC 25]

I believe Emby uses id3 tag information from the files to generate most of its information.

You need to be sure that is set up properly for your music.

You can use a tool like "MP3Tag" or "MusicBrainz Picard" to help you with that.

 

CFC

[JaredC79 0]

thanks i will try those tools.  I even tried renaming the files however some of the data stuck and some didn't.  Any suggestions?

[pir8radio 1312]

With a 350k collection, its hard to believe you don't already run your tunes through a ID3 tool of some sort..   You can never trust people to name files correctly...  and no one has the time to scan all of the images embed them in the MP3 with lyrics etc....    I have what I like to think as a large collection, one that I pride myself on making sure I don't have doubles and what not (unless its the same song different album)...   I use jaikoz audio tagger, it will "listen" to each track give it an acoustid and match it, so you can tag and rename files that have no ID3 tag, nor file name... I have had a handful of mismatches, 4 that I recall,  in 140k songs.   Here is a link:  http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/        Picard listed above also does this, I have not used mp3tag.

 

I would try changing those fields with an ID3 tool as CFC said..   Windows media player used as a ripper would sometimes put those values in ID3 tags, I never found a solution other than not using WMP.

Edited August 9, 2016 by pir8radio