Folder images

[Dragon777 2]

Hi everybody,

I am new to emby and still finding my way round. Coming from Twonky.

When browsing my music library, I very much prefer doing so in the folder view as everything has been sorted to my liking for years. Mostly the stucture is like this:

\Artist\Album
or
\Classics\Composer\Album

In folder view, twonky was automatically displaying images from subfolders, if the parent folder has no image in it. It would use the folder.jpg files as a priority, but if they are not available, it would use the cover art tagged inside the audio files:
So e.g. if the folders look like this:

\Artist A\Album AA
\Artist A\Album AB
\Artist A\Album AC
\Artist B\Album BA
\Artist B\Album BB

Then the folder view would look like this:

\Artist A  (showing cover of album AA)
\Artist B  (showing cover of album BA)

This way the whole folder view is automatically populated with pictures.
My music library is huge and there is no way that I manually asign a new picture to each folder.

Is there a way to configure embly like that?
That´s really a show stopper for me.

Thanks
D

 

Edited August 20, 2020 by Dragon777

[Carlo 4561]

Hi Dragon777,

Have you checked out the following KB article?

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159113-music-naming

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Artist images are not pulled from the Artist folder any more they come from online metadata providers - this used to be supported but was removed over a years ago

Album covers are pulled from folders is they exist.

[Happy2Play 9785]

Folder view is just that and will inherit a image from a item within the folder if no folder image is provided.  This will apply to any nested folder structure.  As mentioned Emby no longer uses Artist folder images except for Folder view and they have to be manually applied.