Guest petwri Posted July 8, 2016 Posted July 8, 2016 So i got this thing going on. When i look for those artists by name, they are listed by name, but browsing through the ui only displays the mbid. Ideas?
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 8, 2016 Posted July 8, 2016 What client and server version? Don't see this behaviour in web client beta 3.1.59.0.
Guest petwri Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) On the web app, I see the same behaviour. Version is 3.0.5984.0, but it's been there for quite a long time, it started a few versions ago. Log File attached server-63603656762.txt Edited July 9, 2016 by petwri
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 Can you post a screenshot of what appears it click edit on one of those Artists.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 Has it always been like this? Is any of the music actually tagged? Looks like Emby is just reading the folder title. Does the mbid show in external ids on the metadata page?
Guest petwri Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 Has it always been like this? Is any of the music actually tagged? Looks like Emby is just reading the folder title. Does the mbid show in external ids on the metadata page? That music is tagged! It is there on the top level of browsing.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 So it only shows mbid on "If you like xxxx" section. Only thing I can think of is maybe try a refresh of Music library via the Metadata Manager.
Guest petwri Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) So it only shows mbid on "If you like xxxx" section. Only thing I can think of is maybe try a refresh of Music library via the Metadata Manager. Yes, only there. Will do a library reset and rescan, try if that helps. Edited July 9, 2016 by petwri
Guest petwri Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) So I did a full music library reset, upgraded to the latest version of emby server, still the same problem. Log file attached. emby-server.zip Edited July 9, 2016 by petwri
Luke 42079 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 i wonder if your audio files have mbz id's in the places where we normally get artist names
Guest petwri Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 i wonder if your audio files have mbz id's in the places where we normally get artist namesNope.mediainfo.txt
Luke 42079 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 we use ffprobe, not mediainfo, so that information doesn't really help us.
Guest petwri Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) Just saying that mediainfo also contains all of the files metadata. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/578168693b2d2/ffprobe.txt Edited July 9, 2016 by petwri
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 @@Luke would this have anything to do with folder structure since Artist title is MBID (post #5)? Will test this adding an artist by MBID.
Guest petwri Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 @@Luke would this have anything to do with folder structure since Artist title is MBID (post #5)? Will test this adding an artist by MBID. I hope this is not by intention, because I do not want to have to change my folder structure.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) Can you click on one of those artists in "If you like" as shown in post #3 and post a screenshot of what you get. Is it not similar to this? Edited July 9, 2016 by Happy2Play
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 This appears to be the "If you Like" logic looks at artist.nfo <title> tag (in folder) and since your folder structure is folder by MBID that is what "If you Like" presents you. From my test Your structure creates dual artist metadata. One located in media folder with folder title in <title> tag and another in Emby-Server\metadata\artists\ with proper information so that top level works.
Guest petwri Posted July 10, 2016 Posted July 10, 2016 This appears to be the "If you Like" logic looks at artist.nfo <title> tag (in folder) and since your folder structure is folder by MBID that is what "If you Like" presents you. From my test Your structure creates dual artist metadata. One located in media folder with folder title in <title> tag and another in Emby-Server\metadata\artists\ with proper information so that top level works. So I guess there will be a fix for that.
Guest petwri Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 @@Happy2Play any infos if this will be fixed? Is the error reproducible?
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 @@Luke is the only one that could say, but post #19 explains the problem. Yes it is reproducible but how many people store music in a folder by artist MBID? That would be why the wiki recommends Artist-album structure not MBID-? (are your albums by MBID also)?
Guest petwri Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 @@Luke is the only one that could say, but post #19 explains the problem. Yes it is reproducible but how many people store music in a folder by artist MBID? That would be why the wiki recommends Artist-album structure not MBID-? (are your albums by MBID also)? The motivation is pretty obvious, there are certain artists/albums which have characters in their names that cause problems with the filenames/filesystem. Therefore using mbids is less critical and also way clearer according uniqueness. I always thought the reason why tags were invented was not having to rely on filenames, which emby here sadly does.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 (edited) Manual fix is to correct the Artist Title. This makes your MBID folder take priority over Emby-Server\metadata\artists folder. to Edited July 11, 2016 by Happy2Play
Guest petwri Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Thats not really a fix. Are you planning on dropping the need to have a certain folder structure?
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