Genres are overwritten even when locked

[ShepherdOfFire 0]

Hi,

Some of my music gets genres assigned like 2, 13, 15, 17 etc. Which are not genres in my opinion. In the embedded tags everything looks good, there it just says "rock", "country", "folk". Yesterday I assigned all the music which was in the genre 2, 13 etc to the correct genre, removing the number as well. So there were no more genres like 2, 13 etc in my list.

I locked the genre as well for each item, this morning my computer rebooted and now all my changes are completely gone and all the number genres are back.

Has this happened to anyone else before? Or any ideas on how to fix this issue?

 

Preferably I'd like Emby to use the embedded tags and only fill whatever is missing instead of looking up most information online.

 

PS. Also, a library called "recordings" keeps coming back no matter how often I remove it.

Edited July 1, 2021 by ShepherdOfFire

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[Luke 42086]

Hi, did you do this on songs or albums?

[ShepherdOfFire 0]

Hi Luke,

I changed the metadata on the albums. I estimate it would be about a 100 songs to manually change then

[Luke 42086]

Are your genres tagged as numbers within your audio files? We do see that every once in a while with some users.

[Happy2Play 9785]

Yes programs that do genre by numbers but Emby is looking for a true genre.

We would need to see what is shown on the tracks metadata for Genre, preferably in ffprobe but other programs will work.

Emby currently does not write embedded music tags, only reads.  So if they have changed then you have another program changing your media.

[ShepherdOfFire 0]

Looks like it is not written in the tags, I've used ffprobe (ffprobe -loglevel 0 -print_format json -show_format -show_streams <input-file>

{
    "streams": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "codec_name": "mp3",
            "codec_long_name": "MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)",
            "codec_type": "audio",
            "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
            "codec_tag": "0x0000",
            "sample_fmt": "fltp",
            "sample_rate": "44100",
            "channels": 2,
            "channel_layout": "stereo",
            "bits_per_sample": 0,
            "r_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "time_base": "1/14112000",
            "start_pts": 0,
            "start_time": "0.000000",
            "duration_ts": 3387480466,
            "duration": "240.042550",
            "bit_rate": "320000",
            "disposition": {
                "default": 0,
                "dub": 0,
                "original": 0,
                "comment": 0,
                "lyrics": 0,
                "karaoke": 0,
                "forced": 0,
                "hearing_impaired": 0,
                "visual_impaired": 0,
                "clean_effects": 0,
                "attached_pic": 0,
                "timed_thumbnails": 0
            }
        },
        {
            "index": 1,
            "codec_name": "mjpeg",
            "codec_long_name": "Motion JPEG",
            "profile": "Baseline",
            "codec_type": "video",
            "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
            "codec_tag": "0x0000",
            "width": 630,
            "height": 630,
            "coded_width": 630,
            "coded_height": 630,
            "closed_captions": 0,
            "has_b_frames": 0,
            "sample_aspect_ratio": "1:1",
            "display_aspect_ratio": "1:1",
            "pix_fmt": "yuvj444p",
            "level": -99,
            "color_range": "pc",
            "color_space": "bt470bg",
            "chroma_location": "center",
            "refs": 1,
            "r_frame_rate": "90000/1",
            "avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "time_base": "1/90000",
            "duration_ts": 21603830,
            "duration": "240.042556",
            "bits_per_raw_sample": "8",
            "disposition": {
                "default": 0,
                "dub": 0,
                "original": 0,
                "comment": 0,
                "lyrics": 0,
                "karaoke": 0,
                "forced": 0,
                "hearing_impaired": 0,
                "visual_impaired": 0,
                "clean_effects": 0,
                "attached_pic": 1,
                "timed_thumbnails": 0
            },
            "tags": {
                "comment": "Cover (front)"
            }
        }
    ],
    "format": {
        "filename": "/path/to/01-04 Freak On A Leash.mp3",
        "nb_streams": 2,
        "nb_programs": 0,
        "format_name": "mp3",
        "format_long_name": "MP2/3 (MPEG audio layer 2/3)",
        "start_time": "0.000000",
        "duration": "240.042556",
        "size": "9710709",
        "bit_rate": "323632",
        "probe_score": 50,
        "tags": {
            "publisher": "",
            "Upload": "",
            "title": "Freak On A Leash",
            "artist": "Prep School",
            "album": "American Satan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)",
            "track": "4/20",
            "disc": "1/1",
            "date": "2018",
            "genre": "Soundtrack",
            "album_artist": "American Satan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"
        }
    }
}

 

I've also attached a screen of the data in Emby

Edited July 6, 2021 by ShepherdOfFire

[Luke 42086]

@ShepherdOfFire what version of Emby Server do you have? What operating system are you running the server on?