This was put in the actual files by the encoder. Check the “Description” field in your library of music files. I’ve also found weird tags in the comment field as well. I had to do this to my entire collection, I ended up just writing an opus script to just clear that field out.

You will need to refresh your collection to reflect the changes and those “ads” should be gone.

I use Tempus with Navidrome. Transcoding should be transcoding down to a format more appropriate for your bandwidth, so flac should be getting to your device as an mp4 or vorbis stream.

17GB seems high unless something else is going on, like your Tempus client trying to download all your tracks to your device.

I have run into this, more or less because the default metadata source was last.FM for a while and someone completely highjacked one of the artist bio pages with an ai garbage artist of the same name, and there was no way in last.FM to fix it. I believe navidrome ended up using Deezer as a default now.

Anyhow, long story long, I had to use a local photo for the artist page and I ran into something similar. Leg me go back to see what I did there.

Spotify would kick up errors for artwork fetching half the time anyway. The default was changed some time ago to Deezer, who don’t fuck about with the api.