How does emby detect music files?

[gberg 6]

Does Emby scan the music files ID3-tags, or is it very picky with the folder structures?

For me Emby picks up only a fraction of all my music. 

[BAlGaInTl 288]

I'm pretty sure that the file naming is the primary method for identifying music.

You may want to check out the Knowledge Base article on music naming:

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159113

[gberg 6]

ok, I see.

I use the following naming:

\Music
    \Artist Name
       \Artist Name - Album Title
          1 - Song Title.mp3
          2 - Song Title.mp3

 

Is it because I use "\Artist Name - Album Title" it won't work?

[PenkethBoy 2068]

i would reduce the album folder name to just the album name - as IIRC emby uses this in the lookup and you have it in the folder above so its redundant

[Luke 42079]

Hi there, why do you feel Emby doesn't pick up your music? How are you determining that?

[gberg 6]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi there, why do you feel Emby doesn't pick up your music? How are you determining that?

Well, for insance I have artists with over 100 albums, but Emby only picks up two or three albums, one example is Bob Dylan where I have 90 albums, but Emby  picks up only a few one of them.

 

This it what the folder for Bob Dylan looks like:

 

But this is what I get when I search for Bob Dylan in Emby:

[Happy2Play 9781]

The screenshot shows it all.  Single tracks in a Artist folder makes the Artist folder a Album.  So all other albums do not get recognized properly.  Since Emby is currently not 100% embedded metadata based you can not have single tracks in a Artist folder.

Edited September 2, 2020 by Happy2Play

[gberg 6]

6 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

The screenshot shows it all.  Single tracks in a Artist folder makes the Artist folder a Album.  So all other albums do not get recognized properly.  Since Emby is currently not 100% embedded metadata based you can not have single tracks in a Artist folder.

Ok, I see. That should be easy to fix. Thanks!

[Luke 42079]

We plan to be able to accommodate this in future updates, we're just not there yet. Thanks for the feedback.