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Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - sr_guy - 2025-02-14

Greetings,

I am somewhat new to Jellyfin. I have setup a Jellyfin server on my Proxmox host. All is working just fine, however, I have many many concerts I've recorded (Jazz Artists). I use Ubuntu primarliy on my desktop. I've used multiple MP3 tagging programs like EasyTAG and id3tool to try to add MP3 info like Artist, Concert dates, and song titles on these manually mp3's, they do mot show up in my Jellyfin list at all. Even if I drop them all into one specific folder, the MP3's do not show up at all in Jellyfin. I can see those MP3's in varios other players, however. 

Is there something I am missing with manual MP3's that data is not pulled from a CDDB server?

RE: Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-14

Does Jellyfin have permission to read the files?

RE: Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - sr_guy - 2025-02-14

Yes, the directories are read/write non-root access as far as I can tell.

root@jellyfinConfused-facemnt/8TB-WD/music/Maynard Ferguson# ls -l
total 20
drwxrwxrwx 76 1000 1000 4096 Jan 29 15:42 Albums
drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 1000 4096 Oct 10 2018 covers
drwxrwxrwx 37 1000 1000 4096 Feb 9 21:54 Live <--------------------------------------------------------------- This one
drwxrwxrwx 13 1000 1000 4096 Oct 27 2020 'Maynard Ferguson - The Complete Roulette Recordings'
drwxrwxrwx 9 1000 1000 4096 Oct 10 2018 Radio

RE: Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-14

So all the other folders are working as expected? Just not the Live folder? Can you show us the output of ffprobe on one of these live concert recordings?

RE: Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - gnattu - 2025-02-14

I don't think it is tagging related but pure file structure related. The Live folder is a reserved keyword which will not be resolved if that folder contains no subfolders but only bare music files iirc, and if that is your case you can try rename Live to something else or put each live file into its own subfolder. Would please post the folder structure of albums and live? because both are reserved folder name but apparently one of them are working for you.

RE: Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - sr_guy - 2025-02-14

(2025-02-14, 08:22 PM)gnattu Wrote: I don't think it is tagging related but pure file structure related. The Live folder is a reserved keyword which will not be resolved if that folder contains no subfolders but only bare music files iirc, and if that is your case you can try rename Live to something else or put each live file into its own subfolder. Would please post the folder structure of albums and live? because both are reserved folder name but apparently one of them are working for you.

Actually, they are broken down into sub-folders by concert date:

Code:
root@jellyfin:/mnt/8TB-WD/music/Maynard Ferguson/Live# ls
1976                                                      'march 25 1974'
AlbumArt_{B5020207-474E-4720-3C05-072E123ADA00}_Large.jpg  'Maynard Ferguson 1981-03-24 Rolling Meadows, IL Rolling Meadows High School'
AlbumArt_{B5020207-474E-4720-3C05-072E123ADA00}_Small.jpg  'Maynard Ferguson 1982-02-26 Joliet, IL Rialto Square Theater'
AlbumArtSmall.jpg                                          'Maynard Ferguson 1982-02-27 Elkhart, IN Concord Performing Arts Center'
'australia 2-22-2002'                                      'Maynard Ferguson 1982-07-18 Chicago, IL Warren Park'
BALTIMORE_10_17_1971                                      'Maynard Ferguson 1983-04-27 Houston, TX Rockefeller_s (2nd show)'
baltimore_71                                              'Maynard Ferguson 1985-10-20 Carmel, IN Carmel High School'
'belgium 1991'                                              'Maynard Ferguson 1986-03-04 Batesville, IN Batesville High School'
'camden 2002 audio'                                        'Maynard Ferguson 1988-10-26 Anaheim, CA Celebrity Theatre'
CLOSE_THE_DEAL__LIVE_.mp3                                  MAYNARD_FERGUSON___BODY___S.mp3
'disneyland 78'                                              Maynard_Ferguson_Denver_August_1973_Audio-0JesZoklcn0.mp4
'elkhart central high, in 2-82'                            'Maynard Ferguson Live In Italy Vol 1'
'festival du montreal'                                      'Maynard Ferguson Live In Italy Vol 2'
Folder.jpg                                                'mills high school 5-18-79'
'glendale, in 2-25-84'                                      Music_Hall_#2
'indiana univ 10-14-84'                                    'North High School-1990'
'japan 81'                                                  'philly 11-5-90'
'japan 83'                                                  'rochester, ny 1978'
"live at johhny yee's 2-16-75 vol 1"                        'tempe 6-28-2002'
"live at johhny yee's 2-16-75 vol 2"                        'unknown date'
"live at johnny yee's 2-16-75 vol 1"                        'west aurora high school, in - 11-82'


RE: Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - sr_guy - 2025-02-14

This is a brief video of what I am seeing in Jellyfin

https://imgur.com/a/UqZKTC4

RE: Manually recorded MP3's not showing up - gnattu - 2025-02-15

Ohhhh, so you are adding a library with its folder being part of another library? That won't work. This is not a supported use case. The libraries should not have cross-referenced folders and must on their own to behave properly.