Merging artist objects by removing metadata?

[Dreakon13 143]

Hi, I'm relatively new here, keep jumping back and forth between Plex and Emby since both have some fantastic qualities about them.

I have a relatively obscure artist in my Music collection with a few albums under their name (Galleons).  What seems to be happening with Emby, is it's splitting it into two separate Galleons objects... one Galleons with the only album that MusicBrainz has on record (Metropolis), and another Galleons with the 3-4 other albums I have.

If possible, I'd like just one Galleons with all the albums underneath it.  Since the metadata sites are incomplete, I'm not sure what, if anything, I can do to achieve this.  I tried taking the Musicbrainz id out of one and trying to make the rest of the metadata identical, but no amount of scanning library items seems to be merging the two separate Galleons objects.  Refreshing metadata doesn't help since it plugs the incomplete Musicbrainz info back in.  The files themselves are in the structure of one Galleons folder with the album folders underneath.

Sorry if this is just kind of a little nothing-burger of a problem/question... I feel a bit lost in the process with Emby after so many months of Plex.  Appreciate any help!

Edited April 2, 2021 by Dreakon13

[Sammy 790]

Have you fiddled with the advanced library settings?

[Dreakon13 143]

14 minutes ago, Sammy said:

Have you fiddled with the advanced library settings?

Would I mess with the fetchers when it's working ok for most items besides this one?

[Sammy 790]

Maybe disable MusicBrainz and re-scan the specific folder under More (...)

[Sammy 790]

You can also manually edit the metadata but I think you tried that already and it over wrote it on the next nightly scan?

[Dreakon13 143]

Thanks for taking the time to run through this with me.

I tried turning off any fetchers including MusicBrainz, went to my Music library > Folders, and selected Scan Library Files for my one Galleons folder, and it didn't seem to merge the two Galleons artist entries.  I also tried Refreshing Metadata manually and oddly it still pulled in the MusicBrainz id, even though the fetchers were turned off.

I've tried manually clearing the metadata, yes.  Though doing so didn't seem to help, and does end up just refreshing its metadata with the incomplete info again.

[Luke 42087]

Most likely, either the songs are embedded with slightly different spellings of Galleons, or the songs are embedded with different musicbrainz artist id values, and this is the reason it becomes two artists in emby.

[Dreakon13 143]

EDIT: Nevermind... I guess I needed to Refresh Metadata on the album, not the artist, to get it lined up.  Once I did that and went into Galleons, both albums were there.  Of course I find the answer 2 minutes after posting this lol.

 

So there's this band I like... I have a folder named Galleons, with their two albums Dream Machines and Metropolis, and MP3 files in each folder.  The naming convention seems fine.  It was doing this thing a while back where it was splitting it to two separate Galleons artist entries in my library.  I made a post about it, but it didn't really go anywhere so figure I'll try again with some new info.

I found the split was likely happening because MusicBrainz database was incomplete for this band, it only had the album Metropolis.  So it makes sense one Galleons artist had Metropolis and the other had the rest.  Okay...

I decided to go a step further and learn how to add their additional album (and EP's) to MusicBrainz, in hopes it would fix it.  I removed my Galleons folder and rescanned the library in hopes that it would "forget" it, then I put it back, rescanned, and now I have one Galleons artist entry... but with only Metropolis.  The album Dream Machines is just kind of hanging out in limbo without an artist apparently.  I went in and added the correct MusicBrainz album, artist and release group id's.  I made everything line up with Metropolis, which is working correctly.

How the heck do I get the Dream Machines album under the Galleons artist?  Seems like once it decides it doesn't want to put it there, I have absolutely no say in the matter lol.  The id's are filled in correctly, all the information is filled in correctly at the artist and album levels.  Is there a magic switch somewhere to truly refresh these changes and make it look right?  Scanning doesn't do it, refreshing metadata doesn't do it...

Edited April 23, 2021 by Dreakon13

[Guest]

Could you post a screen shot of your tags for files in both albums?.. I have an idea but I could be wrong.. to be sure..

To give you an idea of the basic tags.. that should be filled in and present ( even with Musicbrainz info ).. This is an example of Coldplay.. I used in a previous post..

 

TAGSCANNER EXAMPLE

 

 

So as far as I can tell Musicbrainz can help in identifying music, artist and albums for additional metadata.. BUT other tags based information or standard supported tags must also be filled in and present.. as well as Written and notated the same way.

*Also make sure featuring is appended to the title..( not artist ) all information matches up.

Edited April 23, 2021 by Guest

[Luke 42087]

I've merged your topics so that we can keep relevant information in one place. Thanks for following up !