Windows 10: Groove Music Artist Metadata

I'm trying to fix the artist metadata on Groove Music (i.e. Profile Picture and Description), but I can't find the folder on where it's at. Can somebody help?

Build number: 18362.1139

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Show artists image in when browsing artists in Groove Music

My understanding is the images shown on the "Artist" page were downloaded BEFORE 2018.

The Groove Music app was designed to get artist images from Groove's online Image Service. As you know, artist images never look the same as album covers because they don't come from the audio file metadata.

Microsoft shut access to the image service on 31st Dec 2017. I suspect it was a side affect of shutting the Groove Music Pass streaming service. Access to their "API features" has been disabled, and that also included Artist Bio info (.the latest Groove
Music app update has even removed the "Artist Bio" feature).

The images used for the "Album" page come from the metadata embedded in your audio file and is unaffected by the shutdown of Groove online services / API. So albums show OK.

That's my interpretation. It would be nice for Microsoft to keep the image service for Groove Music apps even though Groove Music Pass has ended.

As evidence, I have a Lumia 1520 and noticed none of the new audio files I added to Groove Music app today received an Artist image (and I was online). Music added months ago retain artist images.

A network capture shows the Groove Music app is still communicating to musicimage.xboxlive.com when a new track is played. It seems to still attempt to fetch the image. There is some data exchanged but never any successful load of an artist image. I suspect
the online image service is rejecting the request and the Groove Music app is still coded to fetch. Again, I hope I am wrong and If it is meant to be still working and we can only hope Microsoft fixes it.

See Overview of the Groove Music API

*UPDATE* - Installed Groove Music on Android phone and 17 out of 24 artists received an artist image. On my W10 PC and Lumia devices I get zero artist images! All music from each device is sourced from OneDrive only.

• Success - Android. Groove Music v11.1121.1630 (2017).
• Fail - Lumia 930 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.18011.1341.0 (2017).

• Fail - Lumia 1520 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.17085.2231.0 (2017).

• Fail - Desktop PC W10 with Groove Music v10.18011.1271.0 (2018).
  

So the image fetching service is still working for Android but broken on Windows.

**UPDATE #2 3-Mar-18 **

Artist image fetching is working again on Groove Music for Windows 10 PC and the Lumia 1520. Still broke on the Lumia 930 which is running a newer version (latest) of Groove Music.

• Success - Android. Groove Music v11.1121.1630 (2017).
• Fail - Lumia 930 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.18011.1341.0 (2017).

• Success - Lumia 1520 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.17085.2231.0 (2017).

• Success - Desktop PC W10 with Groove Music v10.18011.1271.0 (2018).

 

Groove Music - alphabetical sorting by artist

Each and every step was followed. Groove Music still shows that artist beginning with J under C. Other suggestions?

 

Groove Music metadata

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We would suggest you to follow methods mentioned below to edit metadata in Groove music app.



Method 1: Edit metadata using Groove.

1. Open Groove and click on
   My Music.
   
2. Under My Music, use the filter menu and select
   only on this device.
   
3. Right click the album with the tracks and select
   Edit info.
   
4. In the Edit Album Info, you can edit the metadata information.
   
5. You can even click on
   pencil button to update album thumbnail image.
   
6. By turning on the switch under
   Show advanced options, you can change song soft title.
   
7. Click on Save.
   

Method 2: Edit metadata using File explorer.

1. Open File Explorer and browse to the location of the songs.
   
2. Right click on music file and select
   Properties.
   
3. Go to Details tab and click the
   Value field next to the Property.
   
4. You can edit the metadata accordingly.
   
5. Then click on Apply >
   OK.
   

Hope it helps.

If you find the answer useful, kindly tick your response.