A LittleHelp With Folders Please

[Bojjer01 0]

Intro - I have been and continue to search all of the fora here for answers to my issue. Apologies if I have missed what I am looking  for (please flag up, thank you) but would reaslly appreciate some help here.

The Problem - I have set up my music folders using the structure ..Top Level Folderr( Music Files Store)>>>>Next Level Folder (Country & Western)>>>>Next Level Folder (Dolly Parton)>>>>Music File (Name of Song/Track). Emby seems to have issues dealing with this kind of structure as in some instances, it works fine and in other instances, it creates a messy list of all of the artists in the various folders right at the top of the Emby viewing page in bold then lists all of the tracks for multiple artists below that from say, track 1 to track 500 without respecting the folder structure.

I have tried multiple ways of fixing this and while I have managed to do so for some of the folders by literally creating a folder with one file then adding other files in batches of 2 or 3 to make the folder structure work in Emby (pretty tedious if you have thousands of files or tracks to tidy up), there are a couple of folders that I am unable to fix.

Can anyone adivse as to how I fix this problem please (only happens for my music folders and files, Video and Photos are fine).

Appreciate the help and, again, I apologise if I have missed the fix to this whiile I have been searching around.

 

[Neminem 1518]

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

This work well for me.

Music folder / {Album Title} [{Release Year}] / {track:00} {Artist Name} - CD-{medium:00} - {Track Title}

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Emby is going embedded metadata based for music.  So folder structure becomes less relevant in 4.6.

[CharleyVarrick 283]

I might add my 2 cents, that I consider valid as much for both music library genres (rock, jazz, etc), and even for movie or tv show genres (comedy, dram and such)

 

While you are entitled to add genre mid level folder, you could also consider going without.

ie: Main music folder / artist folders /album folder

Main movie folder / specific movie folder (same for tv shows)

The advantages to this approach are:

Did I put this album in country or pop ? Did I put this movies in my drama or comedy folder (less searching around)

Then there's the mixed genre problem Jazz-rock, drama-comedy and so on. (If its jazz rock, do you put in in the former or later, and when browsing jazz genre folder, you wont see it if its been put in rock genre folder.

Out of the box, Emby pulls genres for all media.

So even if all your media are thrown into a main media type folder, regardless of genre, Emby does offer Genre browsing for all media type.

Edited February 28, 2021 by jlr19

[Neminem 1518]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

Emby is going embedded metadata based for music.  So folder structure becomes less relevant in 4.6.

Nice

[Happy2Play 9780]

You can read more here, for the next release.

4.6.0.7 - Music scanning rewrite - Emby Server - Emby Community

Edited February 28, 2021 by Happy2Play

[Bojjer01 0]

17 hours ago, jaycedk said:

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

This work well for me.

Music folder / {Album Title} [{Release Year}] / {track:00} {Artist Name} - CD-{medium:00} - {Track Title}

Many thanks to all for your inputs, appreciate it.

@jaycedk, I already use the first recommended structure in the help notes and that works ie

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

This is very similar to the structure I have been using for quite some time now, prior to building a media server, as it mirrors the physical CDs and Vinyl albums that I have and I much prefer this structure to anything else.

Where I have used the following below, as an example, this is where the issue in Emby has arisen:-

\Music
    \Artist Name A
       1- Song.mp3
     \Artist Name B       
       1- Song.mp3
      \Artist Name C
       1-Song.mp3
          
This is a shame as it makes it more difficult to handle single stand-alone tracks; 
however I will persevere and see if I can make an adaptation of the recommended folder structure work.

I hope the Emby developers strengthen the ability to run with folders because if, like me, you prefer to mirror the physical musical entity be that CD , Vinyl or whatever, then that acts as a good base to work from (at least for me).

Thanks again for the help; very much appreciate it.

 

[Luke 42077]

Support for that should be improved with the next release. Thanks.