Music artist bio

[CharleyVarrick 283]

I just noticed that the vast majority of artists in my music collections don't have bio displayed, some as well don't show background pics.

 

If I refresh the artist (one at a time), it does fix it for that artist but is there a way to refresh all of them?

I have seen someone else mentions this issue before but can't find back the post

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

You can tell the system to refresh the entire library in the Metadata editor.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

I just did that and nothing happenned

[Happy2Play 9781]

You have to ensure "TheAudioDB" is enabled via Metadata-Services-Music Artist "no sure if Music Albums was needed also, as I enabled both, disabled by default.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

If I do it one artist at a time, bios and background pic gets downloaded, I am assuming with same metadata services enabled.

 

Just in case, I checked and both audioDB and musicbrainz are enabled

[Happy2Play 9781]

Just tested on my Portable Stable release and only way I got bios is refreshing the item.  Will test refreshing library again.

[Happy2Play 9781]

Refreshing library didn't pull bios, only a item refresh did.

 

default information just by adding Artist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography />
  <outline />
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2017-01-13 12:57:15</dateadded>
  <title>Gwen Sebastian</title>
  <runtime>0</runtime>
  <genre>Country</genre>
  <musicbrainzartistid>b39f941e-cfc7-401c-b210-82c403b29184</musicbrainzartistid>
  <art>
    <poster>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\folder.jpg</poster>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\fanart.jpg</fanart>
  </art>
</artist>

After refreshing Artist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography>"My motto is, 'Don't settle,'" Gwen Sebastian declares. "Don't give in. If  you're not liking what you're doing in your life, you're not going to be the  person you want to be."  That's the guiding principle that led Sebastian to leave her tiny rural  hometown to go for broke in the topsy-turvy Nashville music world. It's what  led her to spend the last several years paying her dues entertaining crowds all over the country, earning one  fan at a time the old-fashioned way. And it's what shaped the full, rich musical personality heard on her  new six song EP from Open Road Records titled V.I.P.   It's a lesson she learned as a kid, growing up on a farm about 15 miles down a dirt road in the southwestern  North Dakota town of Hebron (population: 800). Her house was filled with music--her father played guitar  and fiddle, her mother played bass, and both were singers; her younger brother played drums. She took  piano lessons as a child, and by 11 replaced her cousin as the organist at her little country church. The  impulse toward entertaining came early and easily. "Ever since I was little I put on shows in the living  room and tried to perform," recalls Sebastian, whose early favorites were harmony-centric acts like the  Everly Brothers, Alabama and the Eagles.  She dreamed of making music her life, but wasn't sure how to make that happen. "I always wanted to do  something like this," she says. "When you're a kid you think it's definitely going to happen, but when you  get into high school you think, 'Maybe I should go to college.' I'm a planner. I always have to have a  backup plan." She went to college, then lasted a semester at a nursing school in Bismarck, N.D., before the  lure of her musical dream became simply too strong to resist.  Once she made the move to Nashville, Sebastian found work as a property manager ("helping people get  their toilets fixed and collecting rent," she says). She began learning her way around the business, writing  with some of country music's greatest tunesmiths and earning her stripes on the stage. Rather than play  local showcases and writers' nights like most aspiring artists in Music City, Sebastian took to the road. She  played her own shows, as well as opening for acts like Taylor Swift, Sugarland and Phil Vassar. "That's  something that not a lot of artists get to do," she says. "I was able to actually make a career out of that. I  didn't have to have a day job, and I could be a songwriter on the side. I was lucky that way." But make no  mistake about it, Gwen Sebastian made her own luck. "There's a lot of talented people out there, but you've  gotta work too," she notes. "Sometimes you don't realize that until you get into it."  Sebastian's debut release from Open Road Records is an EP that offers a compact but comprehensive  introduction to the many facets of Gwen Sebastian's talents. She co-wrote four of the six tracks, including  the single and title cut "V.I.P (Barefoot Girl)." "It's something I wrote with Dean Miller and Brian Eckert,"  she says of the song. "It's about how different my life was growing up in North Dakota versus if I had  grown up somewhere like L.A. It's about how you remember your roots, and you always go back to them."  The other tracks also reflect Sebastian's personality and sensibilities. The breakup ballad "Nothing," she  says, is really about "getting off the couch. There's things in life you're going to go through, and you can't  just sit around doing nothing. You've got to keep on going." The driving "Feel Your Love" is about taking a  chance on romance, but its themes are far larger. "It's about not being afraid to take the big plunge and give  in to love," she says. "But for me it's also about going out on the road and pursuing my dreams, while  realizing there might be something back home that's worth having as well."  Sebastian has worked hard in pursuit of her dreams, and now that they're in sight she has no intention of  stopping. She hopes to one day earn the level of respect afforded her heroes, artists like Dolly Parton, Linda  Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow. "So far, it's pretty darn cool what's happened in my life," she  says. "But I definitely have some big goals." She won't settle for less.</biography>
  <outline>"My motto is, 'Don't settle,'" Gwen Sebastian declares. "Don't give in. If  you're not liking what you're doing in your life, you're not going to be the  person you want to be."  That's the guiding principle that led Sebastian to leave her tiny rural  hometown to go for broke in the topsy-turvy Nashville music world. It's what  led her to spend the last several years paying her dues entertaining crowds all over the country, earning one  fan at a time the old-fashioned way. And it's what shaped the full, rich musical personality heard on her  new six song EP from Open Road Records titled V.I.P.   It's a lesson she learned as a kid, growing up on a farm about 15 miles down a dirt road in the southwestern  North Dakota town of Hebron (population: 800). Her house was filled with music--her father played guitar  and fiddle, her mother played bass, and both were singers; her younger brother played drums. She took  piano lessons as a child, and by 11 replaced her cousin as the organist at her little country church. The  impulse toward entertaining came early and easily. "Ever since I was little I put on shows in the living  room and tried to perform," recalls Sebastian, whose early favorites were harmony-centric acts like the  Everly Brothers, Alabama and the Eagles.  She dreamed of making music her life, but wasn't sure how to make that happen. "I always wanted to do  something like this," she says. "When you're a kid you think it's definitely going to happen, but when you  get into high school you think, 'Maybe I should go to college.' I'm a planner. I always have to have a  backup plan." She went to college, then lasted a semester at a nursing school in Bismarck, N.D., before the  lure of her musical dream became simply too strong to resist.  Once she made the move to Nashville, Sebastian found work as a property manager ("helping people get  their toilets fixed and collecting rent," she says). She began learning her way around the business, writing  with some of country music's greatest tunesmiths and earning her stripes on the stage. Rather than play  local showcases and writers' nights like most aspiring artists in Music City, Sebastian took to the road. She  played her own shows, as well as opening for acts like Taylor Swift, Sugarland and Phil Vassar. "That's  something that not a lot of artists get to do," she says. "I was able to actually make a career out of that. I  didn't have to have a day job, and I could be a songwriter on the side. I was lucky that way." But make no  mistake about it, Gwen Sebastian made her own luck. "There's a lot of talented people out there, but you've  gotta work too," she notes. "Sometimes you don't realize that until you get into it."  Sebastian's debut release from Open Road Records is an EP that offers a compact but comprehensive  introduction to the many facets of Gwen Sebastian's talents. She co-wrote four of the six tracks, including  the single and title cut "V.I.P (Barefoot Girl)." "It's something I wrote with Dean Miller and Brian Eckert,"  she says of the song. "It's about how different my life was growing up in North Dakota versus if I had  grown up somewhere like L.A. It's about how you remember your roots, and you always go back to them."  The other tracks also reflect Sebastian's personality and sensibilities. The breakup ballad "Nothing," she  says, is really about "getting off the couch. There's things in life you're going to go through, and you can't  just sit around doing nothing. You've got to keep on going." The driving "Feel Your Love" is about taking a  chance on romance, but its themes are far larger. "It's about not being afraid to take the big plunge and give  in to love," she says. "But for me it's also about going out on the road and pursuing my dreams, while  realizing there might be something back home that's worth having as well."  Sebastian has worked hard in pursuit of her dreams, and now that they're in sight she has no intention of  stopping. She hopes to one day earn the level of respect afforded her heroes, artists like Dolly Parton, Linda  Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow. "So far, it's pretty darn cool what's happened in my life," she  says. "But I definitely have some big goals." She won't settle for less.</outline>
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2017-01-13 12:57:15</dateadded>
  <title>Gwen Sebastian</title>
  <runtime>0</runtime>
  <genre>Country</genre>
  <audiodbartistid>143050</audiodbartistid>
  <musicbrainzartistid>b39f941e-cfc7-401c-b210-82c403b29184</musicbrainzartistid>
  <art>
    <poster>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\folder.jpg</poster>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\library\1e\1e90815433fc816751510f87f11c4377\backdrop.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\fanart.jpg</fanart>
  </art>
</artist>

[vmcosco 24]

I routinely have very difficult times getting music metadata to refresh even if I do it one album at a time.  I open the album in metadata manager, click refresh, select search for missing.  The end result is nothing.  I tag all of music with Musicbrainz Picard so the tags are all good.  Rating, overview and AudioDB IDs rarely get populated for albums

Edited January 13, 2017 by vmcosco

[CharleyVarrick 283]

Happy2Play's detailed post makes it clear the problem is under the hood, and I seem to undertsand it affects everyone

In the meantime vmcosco, refreshing artists on a per item basis does work, but depending on the number of artists in your collection, it might become a daunting task.

I've done a few spot-checks on albums side and over here, album descriptions seems to display just fine.

I have no clue if they were already (or not) before I refreshed the whole music collection (tru metadata manager/music library/3 dots menu/refresh).

Edited January 14, 2017 by jlr19

[CharleyVarrick 283]

 

Refreshing library didn't pull bios, only a item refresh did.

 

default information just by adding Artist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography />
  <outline />
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2017-01-13 12:57:15</dateadded>
  <title>Gwen Sebastian</title>
  <runtime>0</runtime>
  <genre>Country</genre>
  <musicbrainzartistid>b39f941e-cfc7-401c-b210-82c403b29184</musicbrainzartistid>
  <art>
    <poster>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\folder.jpg</poster>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\fanart.jpg</fanart>
  </art>
</artist>

After refreshing Artist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<artist>
  <biography>"My motto is, 'Don't settle,'" Gwen Sebastian declares. "Don't give in. If  you're not liking what you're doing in your life, you're not going to be the  person you want to be."  That's the guiding principle that led Sebastian to leave her tiny rural  hometown to go for broke in the topsy-turvy Nashville music world. It's what  led her to spend the last several years paying her dues entertaining crowds all over the country, earning one  fan at a time the old-fashioned way. And it's what shaped the full, rich musical personality heard on her  new six song EP from Open Road Records titled V.I.P.   It's a lesson she learned as a kid, growing up on a farm about 15 miles down a dirt road in the southwestern  North Dakota town of Hebron (population: 800). Her house was filled with music--her father played guitar  and fiddle, her mother played bass, and both were singers; her younger brother played drums. She took  piano lessons as a child, and by 11 replaced her cousin as the organist at her little country church. The  impulse toward entertaining came early and easily. "Ever since I was little I put on shows in the living  room and tried to perform," recalls Sebastian, whose early favorites were harmony-centric acts like the  Everly Brothers, Alabama and the Eagles.  She dreamed of making music her life, but wasn't sure how to make that happen. "I always wanted to do  something like this," she says. "When you're a kid you think it's definitely going to happen, but when you  get into high school you think, 'Maybe I should go to college.' I'm a planner. I always have to have a  backup plan." She went to college, then lasted a semester at a nursing school in Bismarck, N.D., before the  lure of her musical dream became simply too strong to resist.  Once she made the move to Nashville, Sebastian found work as a property manager ("helping people get  their toilets fixed and collecting rent," she says). She began learning her way around the business, writing  with some of country music's greatest tunesmiths and earning her stripes on the stage. Rather than play  local showcases and writers' nights like most aspiring artists in Music City, Sebastian took to the road. She  played her own shows, as well as opening for acts like Taylor Swift, Sugarland and Phil Vassar. "That's  something that not a lot of artists get to do," she says. "I was able to actually make a career out of that. I  didn't have to have a day job, and I could be a songwriter on the side. I was lucky that way." But make no  mistake about it, Gwen Sebastian made her own luck. "There's a lot of talented people out there, but you've  gotta work too," she notes. "Sometimes you don't realize that until you get into it."  Sebastian's debut release from Open Road Records is an EP that offers a compact but comprehensive  introduction to the many facets of Gwen Sebastian's talents. She co-wrote four of the six tracks, including  the single and title cut "V.I.P (Barefoot Girl)." "It's something I wrote with Dean Miller and Brian Eckert,"  she says of the song. "It's about how different my life was growing up in North Dakota versus if I had  grown up somewhere like L.A. It's about how you remember your roots, and you always go back to them."  The other tracks also reflect Sebastian's personality and sensibilities. The breakup ballad "Nothing," she  says, is really about "getting off the couch. There's things in life you're going to go through, and you can't  just sit around doing nothing. You've got to keep on going." The driving "Feel Your Love" is about taking a  chance on romance, but its themes are far larger. "It's about not being afraid to take the big plunge and give  in to love," she says. "But for me it's also about going out on the road and pursuing my dreams, while  realizing there might be something back home that's worth having as well."  Sebastian has worked hard in pursuit of her dreams, and now that they're in sight she has no intention of  stopping. She hopes to one day earn the level of respect afforded her heroes, artists like Dolly Parton, Linda  Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow. "So far, it's pretty darn cool what's happened in my life," she  says. "But I definitely have some big goals." She won't settle for less.</biography>
  <outline>"My motto is, 'Don't settle,'" Gwen Sebastian declares. "Don't give in. If  you're not liking what you're doing in your life, you're not going to be the  person you want to be."  That's the guiding principle that led Sebastian to leave her tiny rural  hometown to go for broke in the topsy-turvy Nashville music world. It's what  led her to spend the last several years paying her dues entertaining crowds all over the country, earning one  fan at a time the old-fashioned way. And it's what shaped the full, rich musical personality heard on her  new six song EP from Open Road Records titled V.I.P.   It's a lesson she learned as a kid, growing up on a farm about 15 miles down a dirt road in the southwestern  North Dakota town of Hebron (population: 800). Her house was filled with music--her father played guitar  and fiddle, her mother played bass, and both were singers; her younger brother played drums. She took  piano lessons as a child, and by 11 replaced her cousin as the organist at her little country church. The  impulse toward entertaining came early and easily. "Ever since I was little I put on shows in the living  room and tried to perform," recalls Sebastian, whose early favorites were harmony-centric acts like the  Everly Brothers, Alabama and the Eagles.  She dreamed of making music her life, but wasn't sure how to make that happen. "I always wanted to do  something like this," she says. "When you're a kid you think it's definitely going to happen, but when you  get into high school you think, 'Maybe I should go to college.' I'm a planner. I always have to have a  backup plan." She went to college, then lasted a semester at a nursing school in Bismarck, N.D., before the  lure of her musical dream became simply too strong to resist.  Once she made the move to Nashville, Sebastian found work as a property manager ("helping people get  their toilets fixed and collecting rent," she says). She began learning her way around the business, writing  with some of country music's greatest tunesmiths and earning her stripes on the stage. Rather than play  local showcases and writers' nights like most aspiring artists in Music City, Sebastian took to the road. She  played her own shows, as well as opening for acts like Taylor Swift, Sugarland and Phil Vassar. "That's  something that not a lot of artists get to do," she says. "I was able to actually make a career out of that. I  didn't have to have a day job, and I could be a songwriter on the side. I was lucky that way." But make no  mistake about it, Gwen Sebastian made her own luck. "There's a lot of talented people out there, but you've  gotta work too," she notes. "Sometimes you don't realize that until you get into it."  Sebastian's debut release from Open Road Records is an EP that offers a compact but comprehensive  introduction to the many facets of Gwen Sebastian's talents. She co-wrote four of the six tracks, including  the single and title cut "V.I.P (Barefoot Girl)." "It's something I wrote with Dean Miller and Brian Eckert,"  she says of the song. "It's about how different my life was growing up in North Dakota versus if I had  grown up somewhere like L.A. It's about how you remember your roots, and you always go back to them."  The other tracks also reflect Sebastian's personality and sensibilities. The breakup ballad "Nothing," she  says, is really about "getting off the couch. There's things in life you're going to go through, and you can't  just sit around doing nothing. You've got to keep on going." The driving "Feel Your Love" is about taking a  chance on romance, but its themes are far larger. "It's about not being afraid to take the big plunge and give  in to love," she says. "But for me it's also about going out on the road and pursuing my dreams, while  realizing there might be something back home that's worth having as well."  Sebastian has worked hard in pursuit of her dreams, and now that they're in sight she has no intention of  stopping. She hopes to one day earn the level of respect afforded her heroes, artists like Dolly Parton, Linda  Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow. "So far, it's pretty darn cool what's happened in my life," she  says. "But I definitely have some big goals." She won't settle for less.</outline>
  <lockdata>false</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2017-01-13 12:57:15</dateadded>
  <title>Gwen Sebastian</title>
  <runtime>0</runtime>
  <genre>Country</genre>
  <audiodbartistid>143050</audiodbartistid>
  <musicbrainzartistid>b39f941e-cfc7-401c-b210-82c403b29184</musicbrainzartistid>
  <art>
    <poster>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\folder.jpg</poster>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\library\1e\1e90815433fc816751510f87f11c4377\backdrop.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>C:\Users\Media-Test\Desktop\Portable Stable\metadata\artists\Gwen Sebastian\fanart.jpg</fanart>
  </art>
</artist>

I Like the way this "code written in the 2 boxes" appears, it's neat, clear and surgically to the point!

Where did you look in the system to find this, and how did you get it to display like that?

It must be in class 201 (or above) of https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/790-how-to-report-a-problem/

[Happy2Play 9781]

I Like the way this "code written in the 2 boxes" appears, it's neat, clear and surgically to the point!

Where did you look in the system to find this, and how did you get it to display like that?

It must be in class 201 (or above) of https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/790-how-to-report-a-problem/

Information came from the Artist.nfo (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\metadata\artists) and in the toolbar for the post click the <> icon to create a "code" box.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

As of today, even the "refresh one artist at a time" workaround is not pulling artist bio.

[Happy2Play 9781]

As of today, even the "refresh one artist at a time" workaround is not pulling artist bio.

Welcome to TheAudioDB.com!

 IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately we've reached the limit our bandwidth this month after unprecedented demand on our API
 We're busy making improvements behind the scenes and hope to be back as soon as possible.
 The site will return on Feb 1st or earlier if possible. Feel free to donate, however small to keep us going in the mean time... 

[CharleyVarrick 283]

Thanks for the heads up Happy2Play,

Earlier today, theTVdb was also recently down for me, I kept getting "...too many connections..." message on their page

 

If I were those site's mgr, here's what I'd humbly try:

 

When the enduser sends them a data refresh request, their servers should send exclusively updated or new metadata.

Anything else that checks out to be the same on both sides stay's put. Especially the heavier stuff like fanart...

 

For the enduser: No more wasted download,

 

For the data servers: no more wasted upload, they avoid sending (repeatedly) the same metadata package to the same ip that just made the same request 15 seconds ago.

 

Its also better for George and Gracie .

[Happy2Play 9781]

Thanks for the heads up Happy2Play,

Earlier today, theTVdb was also recently down for me, I kept getting "...too many connections..." message on their page

That should be a different issue then their API.  Unless you were seeing that in the server log.

 

 

When the enduser sends them a data refresh request, their servers should send exclusively updated or new metadata.

 

How would you compare the data to ensure it was updated?

[CharleyVarrick 283]

How would you compare the data to ensure it was updated?

I have no idea as I'm not a programmer or coder.

I'm just ballpark guessing 80% of the data is the same one being sent over and over again to 20% of users with "itchy fingers".

Edited January 26, 2017 by jlr19

[CharleyVarrick 283]

Welcome to TheAudioDB.com!

 IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately we've reached the limit our bandwidth this month after unprecedented demand on our API
 We're busy making improvements behind the scenes and hope to be back as soon as possible.
 The site will return on Feb 1st or earlier if possible. Feel free to donate, however small to keep us going in the mean time... 

 

AudioDB are back in business, and bios can now be downloaded one item at a time, but with 2300 artists or so in my library, I wish there would be a better/quicker way.

 

If this issue is widespread if not general, I am surprised its not talked about more.  

Edited February 3, 2017 by jlr19

[Luke 42080]

I saw it was working today as well, thanks.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

Indeed good news about audiodb.

 

My question was also about Emby not picking up artists bios (and logo's) unless refreshed individually,

[Luke 42080]

That's on our list for review, thanks.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

nevermind

Edited April 26, 2017 by jlr19

[Luke 42080]

There were changes added to the last server release related to that. Thanks.