Change artwork files location for Music Artists ??

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

I'm on the latest Beta version.

 

Should Emby Server create the extrafanart and extrathumbs folders under the artists folder on the file server ? 

 

Also should it add artist images for Folder / Fanart / Banner / Logo in to the artists directory on the file server ? 

 

If so this is not working for me and nothing gets added in to the artists folder. 

 

I just added a new artist "Prince" which I have never had on the system before. 

 

Looking in the Emby metadata manager for this artist he has been identified OK and had a MusicBrainz and AudioDB ID's listed and if I select edit images there are images shown. 

 

Actually I have just noticed a path at the top:

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince

 

If I look at this path on the server all the images I was expecting for "Prince" are stored in here instead in a Prince sub-folder. 

 

How do I stop this ? I wanted the images in the artists folder where the mp3 files are e.g.

 

Network Path is:

 

\\whs\Music\Prince

 

Local Path on the file server is:

 

D:\ServerFolders\Music\Prince

 

I have only just realised this, but now I have two lots of music artists images. 

 

Native Kodi as I had it setup previously, put all these artists images in to each of the artists folders in the music share where the music files are located. 

 

Now Emby server has create a new artist folder list under C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists

 

What to do? 

 

Thanks

Edited April 26, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

Actually looking in the C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists folder at all the artists folders listed in here, I do no know most of them, the vast majority  don't appear to be my album artists. 

 

Also clicking in to these folders most seem to just have one artist.nfo file and no artwork images. 

 

Very confused now ! 

Edited April 26, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

If I look at the server settings for Metadata and select Music Artists the images settings look like this:

 

[cw-kid 192]

This is how an old existing artists folder looks like on the file server

 

You can see the album folders that contain the MP3 files and also the extrafanart / extrathumbs folders and the artists images fanart.jpg / folder.jpg / landscape.jpg / logo.jpg etc

 

 

This is how the new Prince artist folder looks like there are no artist images been place in here. 

 

 

If I look in the newly discovered folder:

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince

 

Then Princes artwork images are in here instead. 

 

Edited April 26, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

And here is a section of the artists sub-folders I can see in the folder:

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists

 

As I said I don't know most of these artists. Artists off compilation albums maybe? 

 

Most of my main Album Artists don't appear to even be listed in here. 

 

[cw-kid 192]

I am still using native Kodi with MySQL on my live HTPC's and native Kodi expects the music artists images to be in the actual artists folder of the main music share. 

 

Also other devices also would get the artwork files from the same network location, having them hidden away on a the local C: drive of the file server means these artwork files are not available for other none Emby devices / clients. 

Edited April 26, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

I just manually copied all the Emby generated artwork files for this artist from:

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince

 

to 

 

D:\ServerFolders\Music\Prince AKA \\whs\Music\Prince

 

and now native Kodi has just displayed the artist folder and fanart image, before these were blank / missing. 

 

I guess this is a temporary work around. 

Edited April 26, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

There is another second problem as well with metadata. 

 

I added another new artist today called "Hana Pestle" 

 

Emby server didn't seem to identify her initially, so in the metadata manager I manually added her AudioDB and MusicBrainz ID's. 

 

Then eventually in the Emby web GUI she had metadata showing. 

 

However in native Kodi her bio and other details were all missing, refreshing the artist in native Kodi would not fix the problem. 

 

I then removed the Emby generated artist.nfo file from the \\WHS\Music\Hana Pestle folder and refreshed her again in native Kodi, instantly all the metadata appeared presumably scraped from the web via the Kodi Universal Artist Scraper.

 

Here is the contents of the Emby generated artist.nfo file. Obviously something about it that native Kodi does not like. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography />
  <outline />
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2016-04-26 17:47:10</dateadded>
  <title>HANA</title>
  <enddate>2016-04-26</enddate>
  <genre>Dream Pop</genre>
  <audiodbartistid>115861</audiodbartistid>
  <musicbrainzartistid>6b9eaa19-e4a3-4f6a-a58a-d5d0e7d56f08</musicbrainzartistid>
  <disbanded>2016-04-26</disbanded>
  <album>
    <title>HANA EP</title>
    <year>2016</year>
  </album>
</artist>

I've seen a similar issue before here with Movies and the XVID / DIVX flags, the Emby generated nfo files for these types of movies breaks the media flags in native Kodi and they do not appear as a result, this was never resolved and is still a problem. 

 

Thanks

[cw-kid 192]

Here is the Emby generated nfo file for the Prince artist. This one did seem to work OK and I did not have any issues in native Kodi with it showing his metadata. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography>Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson; June 7, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. He founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of the instruments on his recordings. In addition, he has been a "talent promoter" for the careers of Sheila E., Carmen Electra, The Time and Vanity 6, and his songs have been recorded by these artists and others (including Chaka Khan, The Bangles, Sinéad O'Connor, and even Kim Basinger). He also has several hundred unreleased songs in his "vault".

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince developed an interest in music at an early age, writing his first song at age seven. After recording songs with his cousin's band 94 East, seventeen-year-old Prince recorded several unsuccessful demo tapes before releasing his debut album, For You, in 1978. His 1979 album, Prince, went platinum due to the success of the singles "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover". His next three records, Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982) continued his success, showcasing Prince's trademark of prominently sexual lyrics and incorporation of elements of funk, dance and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released the album Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name.

After releasing the albums Around the World in a Day (1985) and Parade (1986), The Revolution disbanded and Prince released the critically acclaimed double album Sign o' the Times (1987) as a solo artist. He released three more solo albums before debuting the The New Power Generation band in 1991, which saw him changing his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol known as "The Love Symbol". In 1994, he began releasing new albums at a faster pace to remove himself from contractual obligations to Warner Bros, releasing five records in a span of two years before signing to Arista Records in 1998. In 2000, he began referring to himself as "Prince" once again. He has released thirteen albums since the beginning of the 21st century, including his latest, 20Ten, released in 2010.

Prince has a wide vocal range and is known for his flamboyant stage presence and costumes. His releases have sold over 80 million copies worldwide. He has won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the first year he was eligible. Rolling Stone has ranked Prince No. 27 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Prince's music has been influenced by rock, R&B, soul, funk, rap, blues, New Wave, electronica, disco, psychedelia, folk, jazz, and pop. His artistic influences include Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder. Prince pioneered the "Minneapolis sound", a hybrid mixture of funk, rock, pop, R&B and New Wave that has influenced many other musicians</biography>
  <outline>Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson; June 7, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. He founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of the instruments on his recordings. In addition, he has been a "talent promoter" for the careers of Sheila E., Carmen Electra, The Time and Vanity 6, and his songs have been recorded by these artists and others (including Chaka Khan, The Bangles, Sinéad O'Connor, and even Kim Basinger). He also has several hundred unreleased songs in his "vault".

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince developed an interest in music at an early age, writing his first song at age seven. After recording songs with his cousin's band 94 East, seventeen-year-old Prince recorded several unsuccessful demo tapes before releasing his debut album, For You, in 1978. His 1979 album, Prince, went platinum due to the success of the singles "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover". His next three records, Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982) continued his success, showcasing Prince's trademark of prominently sexual lyrics and incorporation of elements of funk, dance and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released the album Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name.

After releasing the albums Around the World in a Day (1985) and Parade (1986), The Revolution disbanded and Prince released the critically acclaimed double album Sign o' the Times (1987) as a solo artist. He released three more solo albums before debuting the The New Power Generation band in 1991, which saw him changing his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol known as "The Love Symbol". In 1994, he began releasing new albums at a faster pace to remove himself from contractual obligations to Warner Bros, releasing five records in a span of two years before signing to Arista Records in 1998. In 2000, he began referring to himself as "Prince" once again. He has released thirteen albums since the beginning of the 21st century, including his latest, 20Ten, released in 2010.

Prince has a wide vocal range and is known for his flamboyant stage presence and costumes. His releases have sold over 80 million copies worldwide. He has won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the first year he was eligible. Rolling Stone has ranked Prince No. 27 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Prince's music has been influenced by rock, R&B, soul, funk, rap, blues, New Wave, electronica, disco, psychedelia, folk, jazz, and pop. His artistic influences include Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder. Prince pioneered the "Minneapolis sound", a hybrid mixture of funk, rock, pop, R&B and New Wave that has influenced many other musicians</outline>
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2015-05-15 20:34:11</dateadded>
  <title>Prince</title>
  <originaltitle>Prince</originaltitle>
  <genre>Folk</genre>
  <audiodbartistid>111308</audiodbartistid>
  <musicbrainzartistid>070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e</musicbrainzartistid>
  <art>
    <poster>C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince\folder.jpg</poster>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince\fanart.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince\extrafanart\fanart1.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince\extrafanart\fanart2.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince\extrafanart\fanart3.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Prince\extrafanart\fanart4.jpg</fanart>
  </art>
  <isuserfavorite>false</isuserfavorite>
  <playcount>0</playcount>
  <watched>false</watched>
  <resume>
    <position>0</position>
    <total>0</total>
  </resume>
</artist>

[cw-kid 192]

Here is the "Hana Pestle" artist in the metadata manager you can see there is metadata like the overview / bio. But it does not seem to be writing it to the artist.nfo file for some reason? Even after deleting the nfo file and refreshing the artist in the metadata manager and it creating a new artist.nfo file. 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography />
  <outline />
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2016-04-26 17:47:10</dateadded>
  <title>HANA</title>
  <enddate>2016-04-26</enddate>
  <genre>Dream Pop</genre>
  <audiodbartistid>115861</audiodbartistid>
  <musicbrainzartistid>6b9eaa19-e4a3-4f6a-a58a-d5d0e7d56f08</musicbrainzartistid>
  <disbanded>2016-04-26</disbanded>
  <album>
    <title>HANA EP</title>
    <year>2016</year>
  </album>
</artist>

[Luke 42078]

Make sure you enable saving metadata to media folders. Artist metadata goes in the artist folder if an artist folder is found, otherwise it goes to the metadata folder.

[cw-kid 192]

Make sure you enable saving metadata to media folders. Artist metadata goes in the artist folder if an artist folder is found, otherwise it goes to the metadata folder.

 

Hi Luke

 

Thanks for the reply ! 

 

The setting "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" is already turned on and has always been turned on.

 

Cheers

[Luke 42078]

See if it happens again on a brand newly added artist that does not have any existing metadata

[cw-kid 192]

See if it happens again on a brand newly added artist that does not have any existing metadata

 

Need to think of one LOL. Does that include artists who might be on compilation albums or just album artists I haven't got ? 

[Luke 42078]

artists on compilation albums will always go to the metadata folder, so that is expected behavior.

 

what i mean is an actual album artist where you have a folder for that artist.

[cw-kid 192]

artists on compilation albums will always go to the metadata folder, so that is expected behavior.

 

what i mean is an actual album artist where you have a folder for that artist.

 

OK will do and will report back.

 

Only other thing I did in a hope it might help, was uncheck the "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" setting and save and then recheck it and saved again. 

 

Cheers

[cw-kid 192]

Luke

 

OK I added a new Album Artist "Lana Del Rey", I checked she was listed on TheAudioDB and Musicbrainz first which she was. I then checked all the tags in MP3TAG were correct and then I moved the mp3 files in to a new Artist\Album folder on the file server. 

 

Emby server then starting popping up notifications about adding new songs. I then looked in the Emby web GUI and I can see its added the new Artist and Album. 

 

However the new artist has no artist image and no metadata. If I edit the artist and look for the AudioDB and Musicbrainz ID's there are none listed.

 

Also the path at the top of the edit artist page is local on the server C: drive again:

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Lana Del Rey

 

Although strangely if I actually look for that "Lana Del Rey" folder on the server C: drive its not visible.

 

There are no artwork files either in the media path:

 

\\whs\Music\Lana Del Rey.

 

The album "Born to Die" is showing a cover in the Emby web GUI, but one was embedded in to the MP3 files. 

 

Something not quite working it seems. This is the same as happened for artist "Hana Pestle" yesterday and I had to manually put in her ID's. 

 

Thanks

 

Edited April 27, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

This is the artist.nfo file that Emby created in the artists folder.

 

\\whs\Music\Lana Del Rey

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography />
  <outline />
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2016-04-27 19:26:06</dateadded>
  <title>Lana Del Rey</title>
  <genre>Dream Pop</genre>
  <album>
    <title>Born to Die</title>
  </album>
</artist>

Looking in the album folder \\whs\Music\Lana Del Rey\Born to Die

 

There is a folder.jpg  in there now, I did not put that there. Its 600x600. The image I embedded in to the MP3 files was 1000x1000 in size.

 

There is also a album.nfo

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<album>
  <review />
  <outline />
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2016-04-27 19:26:26</dateadded>
  <title>Born to Die</title>
  <year>2012</year>
  <enddate>2016-04-27</enddate>
  <genre>Dream Pop</genre>
  <artist>Lana Del Rey</artist>
  <albumartist>Lana Del Rey</albumartist>
  <track>
    <position>1</position>
    <title>Born to Die</title>
    <duration>04:46</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>2</position>
    <title>Off to the Races</title>
    <duration>04:59</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>3</position>
    <title>Blue Jeans</title>
    <duration>03:29</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>4</position>
    <title>Video Games</title>
    <duration>04:41</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>5</position>
    <title>Diet Mountain Dew</title>
    <duration>03:42</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>6</position>
    <title>National Anthem</title>
    <duration>03:50</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>7</position>
    <title>Dark Paradise</title>
    <duration>04:03</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>8</position>
    <title>Radio</title>
    <duration>03:34</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>9</position>
    <title>Carmen</title>
    <duration>04:08</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>10</position>
    <title>Million Dollar Man</title>
    <duration>03:51</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>11</position>
    <title>Summertime Sadness</title>
    <duration>04:25</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>12</position>
    <title>This is What Makes Us Girls</title>
    <duration>04:00</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>13</position>
    <title>Without You</title>
    <duration>03:49</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>14</position>
    <title>Lolita</title>
    <duration>03:39</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>15</position>
    <title>Lucky Ones</title>
    <duration>03:47</duration>
  </track>
</album>

Edited April 27, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

I am sure that this was all working at one point for me OK. I don't add new music artists that often, but I have added some since I started using Emby and don't recall having these issues before. 

 

I've just noticed a newer setting ? Its unchecked, think I should enable it. 

 

By default, most secondary images are only downloaded when requested by an Emby app. Enable this option to download all images in advance, as new media is imported

[cw-kid 192]

OK so I removed the "Lana Del Rey" folder from the music share on the server and I then ran a clean database task in Emby.

 

Ensured she was gone from the library etc. 

 

I also deleted the nfo files and that folder.jpg image. 

 

I then moved the "Lana Del Rey" folder back into the music share on the server.

 

Emby discovered the new content again and same deal as before artist has no image or metadata and no ID's are listed. 

 

And no artwork in the media folder apart from the one folder.jpg for the album cover. 

Edited April 27, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

Could Path substitution have something to do with it ? When I first setup Emby, I used the Local paths of the D: (pool) drive on the WHS server and then mapped them to the UNC paths / shares in the Path substitution settings in Emby etc. Just a thought, it never seems to have caused an issue before. 

 

D:\ServerFolders\Music

To

\\WHS\Music

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

So is this a bug? Anything else I can test?

 

Thanks

[sparkplug188 3]

@@cw-kid This could be a bug.   I am experiencing the exact same problem on Emby Server 3.1.6154.30191, Ubuntu Server 16.10.

 

Here is a link to my thread: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/41262-emby-not-saving-music-artist-metadata-to-media-folders/

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

I am still having problems with adding new music artists and their metadata files not being stored where I want them ! 

 

I added a new artist called "Trisomie 21" initially I forgot what I think @@Luke said here previously about we need to add an artist.nfo flle in to the artists root folder, for Emby to then save the metadata / artwork in the artists folder rather than in the local metadata folder on the C: drive of the server. 

 

So the path for this artist when you select Edit Info in the Emby web GUI was:

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Trisomie 21

 

So I removed the artists folder from my D:\Music folder to a temp location and Emby then removed the artist and its albums from the Emby library. 

 

I copied the now populated artist.nfo file from 

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Trisomie 21

 

to the artists folder in the temp location. I then deleted the Trisomie 21 folder in the C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists path.

 

I then moved the artists folder from the temp location back to D:\Music\Trisomie 21

 

Emby then re-detected the artist and its albums however the path is still: 

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\metadata\artists\Trisomie 21

 

When I select Edit Info on the artist in the web GUI. 

 

I really don't want artist metadata stored in this local path for album artists. 

 

For compilation album artists that is fine, but not for my main album artists. 

 

Thanks

Edited August 11, 2017 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

Also has the clean database task been removed from the server dashboard area ? 

 

As I could no longer see it. 

 

Thanks.