Force Media Type to Artist not Album

[Luke 42077]

i was just hoping to get more information in case it be something we can support.

[Luke 42077]

forcing isn't the answer. it's a matter of how does your folder structure compare to our supported structures in the library wiki. so i need to know what the differences are.

[likeabeach 0]

Here is a screenshot of my folder structure. 

 

 

Edited January 7, 2014 by likeabeach

[likeabeach 0]

I think the difference is that I have a genre folder at the beginning. I believe the wiki wants the first folder to be artist. Correct?

[Luke 42077]

no i woudl think that's ok. it probably has more to down folder contents at the lower levels

[likeabeach 0]

First of all. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Love this software. Clean, simple and extremely flexible.

 

Now my problem. I see that the media data is mainly controlled via small xml files written to each folder. I am having some troubles with the Music media. My music is stored by: genre / artist / album / song. This works for the most part, except for my "swing" folder. On initial scan MediaBrowser recognized "swing" as an artist, so it labelled the subfolders as albums (and folders), which doesn't give me the right metadata.  Since there is no "type" option available in the server interface I had hoped I could drop in a modified "artist" xml file into the correct folder and all would be good. But I'm not having any luck. It keeps dropping in a new "album" xml file.

 

This works for my other genre's. Is there anyway I can force MediaBrowser to pick up the right information?

 

Thanks.

 

Sandy

[likeabeach 0]

I removed all the xml files from all those folders and subfolders. Put in an album.xml file in one of the album folders and refreshed the data "backwards". For all the album subfolders first and then for the artist and it eventually worked. Not sure why this occurred but I have a ton more music files to re-organize into this structure, I'll let you know if I find something that may lead to more details.