Anyway to make emby treat MP4 as music and not video?

[JXL2112 7]

I have a lot of music albums in the MP4 format but emby thinks they are videos and not music albums so I don't get the features that music albums would have when using Roku. The video files have a static image usually and the audio is AAC. They play fine one by one but I'd prefer to play the whole album. Can't even advance to the next song using the Roku remote, I have to use the back button and then choose the next numbered song.

 

I would hate to convert them all....

Edited February 16, 2018 by JXL2112

[ebr 16184]

If you put these items in a Music type library, they are still recognized as videos?

[JXL2112 7]

If you put these items in a Music type library, they are still recognized as videos?

The .MP4 format is ignored in a "Music" library. It seems to only recognize mp3, flac, etc.  

[ebr 16184]

What happens if you just change their extension to .mp3...?

[JXL2112 7]

What happens if you just change their extension to .mp3...?

 

I'm doubtful that would work well. I could try it but one is a video format and the other is an audio format. The real solution is how to get emby to treat the albums as music or what format to convert them to to make them work as music albums? 

[ryandavidg 30]

Think I did this in MP4box a while back, extracting the AAC without converting to a different format and so not losing quality (there are batch scripts to do a whole folder which are easy to find with a quick search)

mp4box -raw 2 video.mp4 -out audio.aac

Here are some batch scripts using ffmpeg (use mp4 instead of m4a in their versions as appropriate):

https://superuser.com/questions/1019289/loop-batch-file-for-extracting-all-aac-from-m4a-files-in-folder

 

FOR %%A IN ("C:\SourcePath\*.mp4") DO ffmpeg -i "%%~A" -vn -c:a copy "C:\OutputPath\%%~NA.aac"

 

Or from command line:

FOR %A IN ("C:\SourcePath\*.mp4") DO ffmpeg -i "%~A" -vn -c:a copy "C:\OutputPath\%~NA.aac"

(Obviously get rid of the paths if you want an implicit version you can paste to various directories, see link. These assume you set up a system path to ffmpeg when installing, or are working in the ffmpeg bin directory.)

Edited February 17, 2018 by ryandavidg

[JXL2112 7]

I tested out a few albums and it mostly works. The process is pretty fast and the sound quality is better then MP3. I should note that I used the m4a container format since the aac format is not official.

 

Sigh only 200 albums to go...