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Music: artist with multiple albums of the same work - philby - 2025-04-16
Switching from Plex to Jellyfin, I just noticed that JF mixes up albums when they're similar.
E.g. 2 recodings of Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the same Album artist, one recording from 1987, one from 2024: JF keeps making one album out of this, with each song double.
The recordings release date is set in the AAC metadata, the directory hierarchy is
Music
├── Some Artist
│ ├── Album A 1987
│ │ ├── Song 1.flac
│ │ ├── Song 2.flac
│ │ └── Song 3.flac
│ └── Album A 2024
│ ├── Track 1.m4a
│ ├── Track 2.m4a
│ └── Track 3.m4a
Is there a way to get JF to make two albums out of this, preferably without having to go and identify each song through Musicbrainz separately?
Thanks!
RE: Music: artist with multiple albums of the same work - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-16
File naming and folder structure matters much less than metadata tags.
Are your files properly tagged? I'm assuming you have two Albums with the same name, but one is a remaster?
If they have the same album name in the metadata tags, Jellyfin would mix them together as you've described. Does not matter if the release date is different.
RE: Music: artist with multiple albums of the same work - philby - 2025-04-16
Nevermind – found the error. Synology DSM must have merged the folders, all the files were in 1 directory.
Separated those, and for good measure added the date to the album name in tags.
They are separate recordings, not remasters – that's quite common for classical music, e.g. Herbert von Karajan recorded the Beethoven Symphonies multiple times in his career.