tagging isn't working right in Emby

[TheExterminator 1]

I wanted to start a new post that's sorta related to another post where I asked how emby organizes music and I was told that it's by tag.

 

I still have a few issues that don't make any sense with the way that Emby is organizing my music.

 

I have artists whose name appears multiple times even though the tags for these artists are correct and the same for all tracks by the artist which I verified in mp3tag. The artists displayed multiple times in the music library only shown up once in metadata manager.

 

I have a bunch of albums that show up under the artist name various artists but they shouldn't be there. Again, I checked the media folder for the artists who show up under various artists with mp3tag and all of the tags are correct and I can't fix it in Emby so they don't appear under various artists which should only be for compilations and soundtracks made up of different artists.

 

Metadata only shows 4 albums under Various artists which is the same as the 4 albums that are actually in this media folder

Edited January 28, 2019 by TheExterminator

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, can you please go over an example? Thanks.

[TheExterminator 1]

Sure

 

I ran my entire Eminem folder through mp3tag and all of the songs have Eminem as the artist

 

Emby is showing a bunch of Eminem albums under various artists even though they shouldn't be there.

 

Same with the artist Buckethead. Tracks are tagged correctly in mp3tag but showing some albums under various artists.

 

As far as duplicate artists, it's the same deal. Everything is tagged correctly in mp3tag but Emby shows some artists multiple times.

 

I should also mention that I used to use Plex before I used emby and never had this issue with Plex even though I'm using the same music library which leads me to believe that theres something going on with Emby.

 

I forgot to mention that whenever I find something that isn't tagged correctly, I use mp3tag to fix it instead of just fixing it in Emby

Edited January 28, 2019 by TheExterminator

[Luke 42078]

@@TheExterminator can you attach a sample audio file for testing? I will run it through ffprobe and see what it comes up with. Chances are we'll see Various Artists in there. Thanks.

[ryandavidg 30]

It's worth checking your settings in Mp3tag to ensure you are saving over all versions of id3 tags, not just the version in the current screen view. You can also change the display in the settings if you want to see what else is in there (eg you may be reviewing id3v2.3 and there could be id3v1 in there with incorrect info) - the column header will have id3v1 in brackets if this is the case)

[Luke 42078]

It's worth checking your settings in Mp3tag to ensure you are saving over all versions of id3 tags, not just the version in the current screen view. You can also change the display in the settings if you want to see what else is in there (eg you may be reviewing id3v2.3 and there could be id3v1 in there with incorrect info) - the column header will have id3v1 in brackets if this is the case)

 

Exactly. This is the most likely explanation.

[JXL2112 7]

Had this same problem with Emby and it was additional tags that I overlooked...mp3tag has extended tags which are easy to change:

 

 

 

[TheExterminator 1]

That doesn't explain why I have certain artists who show up multiple times in Emby. When I check the tags with mp3tag, they all show the same artist.

 

I recently installed Plex and it did not have this problem so I don't think that it's related to the id3 tags.

 

Double checked and both id3v1 and id3v2 are checked under read

Edited February 5, 2019 by TheExterminator

[Luke 42078]

That doesn't explain why I have certain artists who show up multiple times in Emby. When I check the tags with mp3tag, they all show the same artist.

 

It does explain it if mp3tag is only writing certain versions of id3 and emby is reading a different version. We use ffprobe to get this information.

Please take a look  using the advice from others in this thread.

 

@@cayars is working on a wiki article that may also help you with this. Thanks.

[TheExterminator 1]

In mp3tag,both id3v1 and 2 are checked for read and write

 

I also ran one of the dupe artists through mp3 tag tools which has a tab for id3v1 and 2 and everything is tagged correctly

Edited February 5, 2019 by TheExterminator

[Luke 42078]

i would try running one through ffprobe and see what it comes up with.

[TheExterminator 1]

Do you mean 1 specific track ? What would I be looking for and what command do I need to run ?

[TheExterminator 1]

One of the duplicated artists is Aerosmith which appears twice. The first Aerosmith has almost all of the albums. The other has 4 (some of which also appear in the first Aerosmith). I ran ffprobe on one of the tracks in the 2nd Aerosmith and this is the output:

 

https://pastebin.com/kpidhdvW

[TheExterminator 1]

I manually removed the extended tags that said Aerosmith besides the artist tag for the above mentioned track that I ran ffprobe on and initiated a scan for new and refresh library. I now have the following showing up in Emby: Aerosmith 9h 22m (Shows all albums) and another Aerosmith entry (8h 1m) which doesn't show any tracks any more for this duplicated artist.

[TheExterminator 1]

Apparently even if I move Aerosmith  out of my music library and rescan, the ghost entry still remiand while the other one disappears. The ghost entry doesn't show any albums/tracks

[ryandavidg 30]

Back when I first setup my library I had this issue, due to slightly different artist naming in some of the tags. To get it fixed I had to move all the related albums out of the library and rescan, at this point all the variations of the artist disappeared (including a couple of 'ghost' ones from when I had tried to fix it manually), then add back the corrected albums, rescan, and then I only had the single correct artist. This was a few versions of Emby ago, but it's strange that it seems this didn't work for you.

Edited February 5, 2019 by ryandavidg

[TheExterminator 1]

I guess that I have to just accept ghost entries.

 

I dont see anything wrong with the tags and I'm sure that they are correct in the case of the duplicated artists because every tagging app that I've run my music through looks fine. I'll just have to live with it

[TheExterminator 1]

After readding the music and scanning my library, I still have a ghost entry. After poking around the library with an SQLite front end, it's obvious that theres a bug in Emby. When I remove an artist and rescan there should be no traces of that artist but there still was when I move the artist folder out of my music library.

[JXL2112 7]

After readding the music and scanning my library, I still have a ghost entry. After poking around the library with an SQLite front end, it's obvious that theres a bug in Emby. When I remove an artist and rescan there should be no traces of that artist but there still was when I move the artist folder out of my music library.

 

Be sure to use "Replace all metadata", it will remove the Ghost entry.

[TheExterminator 1]

I tried that but it didn't seem to make any difference. The phantom artist is still there

[TheExterminator 1]

I have gone through my entire library and made a list of all the artists that appear as duplicates (35 in all).

 

I still have a phantom artist appear with no tracks and no way to get rid of it. I don't think that there's anything that I can do to get rid of it so I changed the artist name to ZZZ so it appears at the very end, removed the musicbrainz id and removed the artist image so it's just there but doesn't show up as any artist.

 

 

I'm going to try remove and re-add the duplicated artists to see if it fixes the duplicate problem

Edited February 7, 2019 by TheExterminator

[TheExterminator 1]

I noticed something with one of the duplicated artists which is Beck.

 

All of my music is sorted by artist then album then tracks. I also have a compilations folder with compilation albums which contain multiple artists for each compilation album. One of these compilation albums contains a single track by Beck. This is causing a duplicate artist to appear for him with just this one track because Emby doesnt seem to get that this one track is also the same artist that has all of Becks studio albums. Everything is tagged correctly with no hidden tags. Emby doesn't know how to correctly identify that this is the same artist

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Does do that for me

 

As an example i have Aerosmith with an album and they appear in a compilation CD and Emby only has them once

 

the "additional" track is shown like this - see "appears on"

[TheExterminator 1]

It doesn't look like that for me because in my phantom artist issue, it doesnt show any albums by the artist. Yours does

[PenkethBoy 2068]

What version of emby server are you using?

 

Duplicate artists/people was an issue a long time ago but that was sorted as i had a few

Edited February 7, 2019 by PenkethBoy