Audiobooks - Populate Emby metadata from ID3v2 tags - COPYRIGHT for STUDIO, DESCRIPTION for OVERVIEW

[unisoft 352]

Audiobooks continue to be challenging to use in Emby.

A separate request for reinstatement of Fast Forward by chapter ">>" has been created so that audio books often one track with many hours can be navigated easily.

This "feature" request is around reading some ID3v2 tags and populating the metadata in Emby's database so they can be shown on the screen.

• ID3v2 Tag: COPYRIGHT to be mapped to Emby's STUDIO
• ID3v2 Tag: DESCRIPTION to be mapped to Emby's OVERVIEW

At the moment, these do not get populated in Emby's database, despite being there. DESCRIPTION is also used for Podcasts too and is a brief summary of the what the chapter/track is about. This should be populated on screen under each chapter/track or a way to easily see the info.

Commercial Audiobooks often use "Lyrics" with a much bigger description field too, but this one might get messy as music tracks actually have lyrics in them, hence suggestion of using Podcast DESCRIPTION Id3v2 tag.

Edited June 18, 2021 by unisoft

[Luke 42078]

Hi, looks like we're already doing this.

[unisoft 352]

38 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, looks like we're already doing this.

Not on my scan for Audiobooks. I look in Emby Metadata manager and the Overview and Studios bits are not populated despite them being populated in the ID3v2 tags?

Also Year and Genres is not populated in Emby Metadata Manager.

In my music library they are, and they are tagged all the same (combination of Softpointer Tag and Rename and then MP3Tag to polish off and remove Compilation tag).

[Luke 42078]

Can you provide a sample file for testing? ffprobe must not be picking the values up.

[unisoft 352]

14 minutes ago, Luke said:

Can you provide a sample file for testing? ffprobe must not be picking the values up.

Yep, if you tell me where I need to place it?

GENRE AND STUDIOS AND YEAR are working BUT STUDIOS doesn't seem to lie ANYTHING that has the Copyright character in it e.g.  © 2021 BBC

I was trying to keep the original COPYRIGHT statement from the publisher, but I'm thinking Emby just likes BBC in this exampel rather than their default of © 2021 British Broadcasting Corporation?

Overview is not working for any tracks.

 

Edited June 18, 2021 by unisoft

[Luke 42078]

You can just attach it to a posting here or to a PM to me.

[unisoft 352]

On 21/06/2021 at 17:25, Luke said:

You can just attach it to a posting here or to a PM to me.

Sent by PM with reference to this topic so you know (as you get lots of messages).

Thanks...

[Luke 42078]

Great, thanks.

[Luke 42078]

OK this is being added, thanks.