Artist and Album scrape not working correctly (only for 1 artist)

[jkasanic 12]

So I have a music library consisting of approx. 700 albums and 100 artists.  They all have the same folder structure:

 

/music/artist1/album1 --> album2 etc.

/music/artist2/album1

 

On all but 1 artist, the artist is being recognized correctly but instead of having 5 individual albums from this artist I have 1 album with track listings from all the albums (e.g. 5 track 1's listed, then 5 track 2's etc.) but the artist, album artist, album and track no. are all listed correctly for each individual track.  I tried entering MusicBrainz as well as TheAudioDb info manually but no effect.

 

Is there any way to fix this manually?  I don't see any options to make certain tracks part of a different album especially if that album doesn't exist in the dB.  I've also tried removing and adding the affected artist to no avail.

Edited September 19, 2016 by jkasanic

[Luke 42079]

do any of your artist folders have songs directly in the artist folder?

[jkasanic 12]

do any of your artist folders have songs directly in the artist folder?

 

You know what, there is one track in this folder.  Should I create a "Misc Tracks" folder?

 

EDIT:  So adding the "Misc Tracks" folder for this single track sorta works.  All of the albums are picked up correctly but it also creates a Misc Tracks album even though the track metadata doesn't have an album.  I just noticed the track does have an album artist tag so I'll try removing it and reporting back.

Edited September 19, 2016 by jkasanic

[MBSki 1114]

I'm having the same problem. I've got about 10 Bon Jovi albums and they aren't showing up. it's just a long list of songs in 1 recognized album. Is there a fix for this?

[MBSki 1114]

The albums are showing up correctly now. I had 2 songs outside of Album folders, so i moved those into album folders. Looks like I've got a lot more with the same problem. It's going to be a big pain trying to move all these songs around and then have to update my playlists with the new locations of the files. Isn't there a way Emby could be configured to handle this type of situation? Why does it care about the folder structure if it's pulling all the metadata from the id tags? I hope there's a fix. really not looking forward to updating every artist folder since I have more than 550.

Edited December 15, 2019 by mbarylski

[Happy2Play 9780]

But if there are no id tags Emby can only depend on structure.  I know there will be improvements in the future but currently any loose song in a artist folder makes the folder a album.

 

 

@@Luke @@cayars

 

Can we get this added in the wiki.

[MBSki 1114]

Ok, but all my files have id tags. Shuoldn't it look to see if there's an id tag first, and if there is then correctly organize into album? I could understand if my files didn't have id tags, but they do so i'm not sure why Emby would be prioritizing the folder structure over the id tags.

[Carlo 4561]

But if there are no id tags Emby can only depend on structure.  I know there will be improvements in the future but currently any loose song in a artist folder makes the folder a album.

 

 

@@Luke @@cayars

 

Can we get this added in the wiki.

Happy2Play, can you PM the info you feel needs updating?

 

Music really should be tagged prior to adding them to Emby. <-- is that your point?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Happy2Play, can you PM the info you feel needs updating?

 

Music really should be tagged prior to adding them to Emby. <-- is that your point?

No, Luke's answer.  Individual tracks within sub-folder make that folder a album.

[Luke 42079]

Well you're both right. We should be fully tag driven and not rely on having folders for music albums, and we will, we're just not there yet today. But hopefully soon. In all other respects we are fully tag driven.