Integrate booklets for Music

[jsc1205 51]

Would be great if Emby integrated bookets (PDF files, etc) for Music.  For example, CD's usually might contain a booklet with liner notes etc that come with the CD, just like albums might have back the days of vinyl.  I have most of these in PDF and the ONLY place I have ever seen it integrated into a music server type platform is Roon Labs.  Roon is great, but can be expensive.  Here is a link on what Roon does to see what I mean:  https://kb.roonlabs.com/Gallery

 

Hope this can be added to Emby!

[Luke 42077]

HI, yes that's neat. It's possible for the future.

[Vicpa 611]

Hi @@Luke

 

This is on my wish list (although not quite sure where) as well. 

 

As FYI if you buy music from Amazon (mp3s or auto-rip cds) they sometimes will include the booklet (liner notes for those old school folks) as part of the download. I think iTunes does the same, but can't say for sure. I have attached an example of an amazon digital booklet. 

 

12 - Digital Booklet Crack-Up.pdf

 

 

There are higher things on "my list" but it sure is a cool nice to have

 

 

Thanks

-vicpa

[jarome 1]

I want this too. Roon does it. 

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, jarome said:

I want this too. Roon does it. 

Can you show a screenshot of what they do? Thanks.

[jakeg1235 5]

On 11/29/2021 at 12:36 PM, Luke said:

Can you show a screenshot of what they do? Thanks.

Hi Luke, found this thread because I was hoping for a feature such as this myself; it looks like this is an example of how Roon does it, similar to booklet scans on discogs:

This would be a fantastic feature for Emby to add, would really heighten the experience!

[Luke 42077]

22 minutes ago, jakeg1235 said:

Hi Luke, found this thread because I was hoping for a feature such as this myself; it looks like this is an example of how Roon does it, similar to booklet scans on discogs:

This would be a fantastic feature for Emby to add, would really heighten the experience!

Which image is the booklet?

[jakeg1235 5]

50 minutes ago, Luke said:

Which image is the booklet?

It doesn't look like it's a literal booklet per se, but image by image of the booklet pdf; I'm not able to use Roon on my current setup so I'm not totally sure how they lay it out in the app

[crusher11 1100]

This isn't just a music concern, many boutique Blu-ray labels include booklets with their movie releases. 

[nospotify 184]

Five years in, bumping this request: Many users have PDF or txt 'liner notes' files in music album directories. Please implement ability to open those files in the Emby interface, the same way users can view cover and other image files from a track or album's right-click menu.

[cyruspy 5]

What about JPEG of the booklet pages?, should that be set as backdrop#.ext?, booklet#.ext?. What about the back of a DVD box scan?

[Luke 42077]

7 minutes ago, cyruspy said:

What about JPEG of the booklet pages?, should that be set as backdrop#.ext?, booklet#.ext?. What about the back of a DVD box scan?

It’s a good idea but at this time you’d have to rename the file to follow backdrop conventions.

[cyruspy 5]

Everything should be a backdrop?. This my archive structure before importing:

 

./Scan
./Scan/Booklet_1.jpg
./Scan/Booklet_2.jpg
./Scan/Booklet_3.jpg
./Scan/Booklet_4.jpg
./Scan/Booklet_5.jpg
./Scan/Booklet_6.jpg
./Scan/CDCase_F.jpg
./Scan/CDCase_R.jpg
./Scan/CaseInsert_F.jpg
./Scan/CaseInsert_R.jpg
./Scan/Folder.jpg
./Scan/SACD.jpg
./Scan/Thumb.jpg

 

[nospotify 184]

On 8/28/2025 at 7:49 PM, Luke said:

It’s a good idea but at this time you’d have to rename the file to follow backdrop conventions.

So @Lukedon't be so coy - what are the backdrop naming conventions, since my search of these forums hasn't found them?

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 hour ago, nospotify said:

So @Lukedon't be so coy - what are the backdrop naming conventions, since my search of these forums hasn't found them?

Somewhat the same across all content types.

Music Naming | Emby Documentation (music-images)

[Luke 42077]

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[nospotify 184]

Thanks - so it works to rename liner note images to fanart1.jpg, fanart2.jpg, but the underlying problem remains: there is no way to see any image other than fanart1.jpg, and even that is as a greyed image, blown up, behind everything else - unreadable. So can we refresh the long-ago request (my bad for forgetting, and not including it here) and beg Emby devs to include some way that liner notes can be comfortably viewed in-app?

[Luke 42077]

Right so we would need to build a dedicated way of supplying this. Until then he was just providing the best available options of choosing the most appropriate image type.

[nospotify 184]

Yes. Just making clear that using backdrops isn't really a stopgap - it's a nifty concept (smart out of the box thinking, @cyruspy !), but you can't actually read any liner notes image you load as a backdrop. So the feature request remains as necessary as before.