Album Artist not identifying correctly

[Epricesc 0]

So after the the 4.0 update last month about 20 albums in my music collection had their artist name changed to an incorrect artist "AFI". I've tried updating and refreshing the metadata but nothing will correct itself. I initially tagged the albums with musicbrainz and they are organized in a /artist/album/song folder system. When inspecting the metadata the musicbrainz ID is correct and links to the correct album info and the folder path is correct. The album art, album name, and music files are all correct. It's only the artist name. It's killing my perfect metadata OCDness, please help!

[Luke 42078]

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

[Epricesc 0]

I was playing around with this again and loaded another copy of my music into the emby file folders. It got worse. It appears only one band name, "AFI" in my case, is showing up as the album artist for a random amount of albums. What's odd that the two identical copies have this issue for different albums.  Some new, some very old. The issue for some of them seems to be the musicbrainz link is getting cropped/edited to something like this "usicBrainz Release Group Id". 

[Luke 42078]

Hi @@Epricesc, this will be improved with the upcoming Emby Server 4.1 release. Thanks !

[Epricesc 0]

Hi @@Epricesc, this will be improved with the upcoming Emby Server 4.1 release. Thanks !

Thank you! would you recommend a fresh copy of the music folder after the update? 

[Luke 42078]

That wouldn't be a bad idea, yes.

[Epricesc 0]

after the update and multiple fresh music folder installs I'm still getting a decent portion of "usicBrainz Release Group Id" metadata tags. Any tips or ideas of how to solve or work around this? All my music loads fine in other players and has embedded metadata via musicbrainz

[Luke 42078]

 

 

The issue for some of them seems to be the musicbrainz link is getting cropped/edited to something like this "usicBrainz Release Group Id". 

 

Where exactly is this happening?

[Epricesc 0]

the impacted ones have issues under the External Ids:

"usicBrainz Album Id" for MusicBrainz Album Id:

"usicBrainz Album Artist Id" for MusicBrainz Album Artist Id:

"usicBrainz Release Group Id" for MusicBrainz Release Group Id:

theAudioDb lines are blank but other sections like title and date added are populated correctly.

 

The odd thing is that it's different albums when I reload the music directory. This last time it synced all the problem metadata to another band  that started with an "A"

 

I tried re-uploading with and without the metadata scans checked and saw no difference. 

[Luke 42078]

How are you determining that? can you show a screenshot? thanks.

[Epricesc 0]

[Epricesc 0]

Notice the amount of "A Wilhelm Scream" artists. Those albums are not correct

[Luke 42078]

Well I don't know how those values got there, but those should be music brainz id's, not that text. Do you have album nfo files? 

[Epricesc 0]

Yes, for every album

[Luke 42078]

Where did they come from? Can you provide one as an example? Thanks.

[Epricesc 0]

They first appeared after I did a clean install of emby after the big 4.0 update. I never had this issue before. When I reload/recreate the music  folder they show up right after the initial sync, usually some if not all are different albums that are having the problem. 

[Luke 42078]

Can you try deleting one of the album nfo files, and then refreshing metadata on it? Thanks.