1. Almost all of my artists have more albums than they're supposed to (meaning there are duplicates) or it lists albums from other artists.
   
2. Many of the albums are named the same, with the same cover art or cover art from a different artist.
   
3. Inside the albums there is often just one song repeated over and over again or the same few songs over and over again.
   
4. For some albums, instead of just one artist it has several artists who are not part of the album whatsoever; they are instead different artists in my Music folder.
   
5. In line with the above problem, some albums have songs from completely different artists.
   

(2023-07-06, 07:18 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: I don't have access to my JF right now, but in the library dashboard I think there is an option (not checked by default) that says to prefer the files metadata over the file/folder names?

(2023-07-07, 03:39 AM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: So I was going through my music library trying to retrace some of the troubleshooting steps I took when I experienced something along the lines of what you are describing.

Inspect the metadata of the songs (Edit metadata) or albums and look up that ID on the Musicbrainz's website.  Sometimes there are multiple "releases" of an album in different parts of the world and Musicbrainz has separate IDs for each.

I have a couple of the 2 disc special editions of Florence and the Machine's Ceremonials and Lungs albums.  It labeled the songs on disc 2 with disc 1 titles because the "release" it had chosen from Musicbrainz was the single disc edition.  Turns out there were like 20 "releases" of Ceremonials.  My entire library was also run through Picard so the metadata was correct and my folder/file naming scheme conformed to Jellyfin's spec.  This is just one of my examples.  I had to go through my entire library as I listened to it over the course of several months to keep an eye for misidentified songs/albums/artists.  Remixes, special edition discs, lesser known artists were the most common tracks that were misidentified.

I think there are additional folder naming parameters to help JF pick the right release from Musicbrainz.  Either way, there will be additional work to get things in order....I know this first hand.

As to why it worked fine before and not now?  *shrugs*  10.8.0 was my first version of JF.  Different metadata sources?

(2023-07-07, 06:17 PM)HingaDergen Wrote: Do you let musicbrainz whipe the tags first?

because my guess (and that was right so many times already when I asked the same question in reddit to users with issues in their music library) is that the extended tags of your files have wrong metadata in them.

What I do to make sure it's correct is to set musicbrainz to whipe all metadata first, and then tag it.

This ensures that there is no wrong data and everything is in order. With this approach I have not had issues so far with a rather large library of also many obscure artists and songs.