Emby for Kodi - Music Videos import - possible issues and fixes

[obitwentywan 2]

Hi.

I've been trying out Emby for Kodi (Emby server v3.2.40 on Linux Mint, OSMC Kodi 17.6 on RPi3) for the past couple of weeks and am very happy with it. I found three possible small issues with the import of Music Videos:

1. Music Videos with multiple artists do not result in separate artist listings. For example, a music video whose artist is "Joe Bloggs / John Smith" results in a single artist listing of "Joe Bloggs / John Smith" rather than two separate artists. Kodi natively (i.e. without the Emby for Kodi plugin) does display these as separate artists.

2. The Year shows up as 1969 (or 1601 depending on the system) for all imported music videos.

3. Sorting by track number is not possible (most relevant for concert videos where each track is a separate video file).

I have coded potential fixes/workarounds for these (just some minor tweaks to the python code in plugin.video.emby/resources/lib/objects/musicvideos.py and plugin.video.emby/resources/lib/objects/_kodi_musicvideos.py). Assuming these really are issues and not user-error on my part, I would be happy to share these with the plugin devs if that would be helpful. (Even though I'm a programmer by trade I'm a Python novice, so won't be offended if I'm not taken up on this offer :-) )

 

Thanks

[Angelblue05 4132]

Pull requests are always welcomed: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/plugin.video.emby

[obitwentywan 2]

Cool. I should have some time to do this over the weekend. Thanks.

[obitwentywan 2]

I created a pull request to address items 2 and 3 from my original post.

 

I omitted item 1 because it was really an issue with the way I had my metadata set up in Emby. I had imported from nfo files that used forward slashes to delimit multiple artists instead of semi-colons. Once I edited the meta data in the Emby web UI to use semi-colons, the import correctly identified the artists.

 

Thanks.