ID3 tag / MusicBrainz issue

[Steven 158]

Hi,

First off, all of my music is stored in the correct folder structure of Artist/Album and everything is perfectly tagged.

I have discovered I have 258 albums that have all been grouped under the same artist and when checking the metadata in Emby I found they all have the same strange MusicBrainz entries:

If I delete this and refresh the metadata it just adds it back again, and does not appear to even look at their ID3 tags.

The only way I have been able to resolve is to go to MusicBrainz and manually enter the correct Id's for them - which is very laborious!

nfo files are stored within the folders so would it be possible to remove the folders from the Emby library, delete all nfo files and re-add the folder - or is the metadata retained within Emby on the server?

Thanks

 

Edit: I should mention this is not still happening, it looks like it happened a few years ago and I never noticed..

Edited August 6, 2020 by Steven

[Steven 158]

Ok I think I've sussed this. First I deleted all artist/album nfo files, removed the music library, deleted all the audiodb-album and audiodb-artist cache, and then re-added the music library but disabling the options to not use any metadata download options - this doesn't appear to work as Emby still searches MusicBrainz instead of just looking at the ID3 tags - seen by the audiodb-album and audiodb-artist cache folders filling back up.

However, I ran MusicBrainz Picard against my library and it was returning many albums as non-album-tracks and had the same strange Id's. It compares the Original Value in the file to the one it looks up and these entries are in the originals - not sure where these are stored as it's not something that displays in a normal tag editor (Tag&Rename).

So if Emby doesn't actually allow pure simple scanning of files for the metadata I will have to resolve within Picard - Groan