Matching Artist/Album Genres to embedded tags a.k.a removing genres no longer present in embedded tags

[ginjaninja 605]

I understand that Emby add embedded genres to objects during scanning but doesnt remove existing genres.

I want Emby to always match the embedded genres (i never add genres on purpose manually to my music, i always defer to embedded tags on my music library)

my library has lots of spurious genres due to an issue so i would like to clear the genres out without wiping the database, so emby can revert back to the 'true' picture.

 

 

would there be a better way than

• Getting genres of all albums, artists and tracks
• http://localhost:8096/emby/Items?Recursive=true&Fields=Genres&IncludeItemTypes=MusicAlbum%2CMusicArtist%2CAudio
• and posting back each "genre zeroed" id

does it matter which order object genres are zeroed in, (tracks>albums>artists?)

 

 

 

 

 

[PenkethBoy 2068]

without a great amount of thought but....

to get emby to re read them - first i would zero out all the genres - as emby will add but not remove genres on a refresh

so by using the api you can zero them all out first

then do a refresh once you have corrected / removed the spurious ones from the song tags etc

and should get what you want

[ginjaninja 605]

just refreshing an artist removes the spurious genres,....was looking forward to writing that script..oh well doesnt look like it wont be necessary 

before refresh

after refresh

Edited June 17, 2021 by ginjaninja

[PenkethBoy 2068]

it was changed in .3 see release notes

[Luke 42077]

Do you consider this resolved now?

[ginjaninja 605]

9 minutes ago, Luke said:

Do you consider this resolved now?

Hi luke, yes its all good thanks for asking

We were both under the impression/expectation (i believe)  that scanning added genres but didnt remove genres (thats what precipitated this topic)...so i was surprised that a library refresh post 7.0.3 cleaned everything up. Is there anything you can clarify here about the way genres work during refreshes for future reference?

[Luke 42077]

Yea I can see why this would happen on a regular scan but bot a metadata refresh, so it's something that needs to be looked at.