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Music Artist Duplicate - treyzer - 2025-04-02
I recently made a Music library in Jellyfin and it works great outside of one issue. Say I add an album from the Artist 070 Shake and in that album, the artist falls under a secondary title/name as well - jellyfin shows both. It is able to identify the primary artist on a song and does apply a picture to them. See image.
Is there anyway to delete these blank artists? If I delete the folder for it then on the next scan it just remakes it and if I identify all variants of 070 Shake, it just lists them separately anyway.
Installation is Windows baremetal.
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - treyzer - 2025-04-02
I did figure out a way to do so. If you identify all the dupes as the same artist, then scan library, then delete the dupe folders (while making sure one is the correct artist), then scan libraries again - they seem to go away. The first scan may not be needed also.
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-02
Are your music files properly tagged? Embedded tags are very important for Jellyfin to consistently group and organize music. More so than file naming and folder structure.
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - treyzer - 2025-04-02
I will check, fairly newer to this so just grabbed a few random albums I had to see how to the functionality worked
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - treyzer - 2025-04-02
ah I see, it lists the direct song artists and album artists. will edit tags and update this thread if that works
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-02
Musicbrainz has an app called "Picard" that will auto-magically tag your music in a Jellyfin friendly way. Does audio fingerprint analysis and everything to match the file to the metadata.
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - treyzer - 2025-04-02
I used Mp3tag to edit the artist labels and rescanned the library but it did not remove the old ones. Will try that application and see if it does after that.
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - treyzer - 2025-04-02
Picard shows them as corrected so looks like I just need to get rid of the "old" artists. Any way to easily get rid of these? They do not show up in the metadata > artist folder
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-02
You can rescan the entire library and from the drop down select "Replace all metadata". Also check "replace all images".
RE: Music Artist Duplicate - treyzer - 2025-04-02
This resolved it - thank you !