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Music - Jellyfin treats main folder name as album name for all songs - jeffgauff - 2025-10-24
Hi All,
I'm a new Jellyfin user and deployed it on Synology (version 10.10.7 on DSM 7.2).
I created a library named "Music" that contains 1 big folder named "5 stars static owned" (old songs which I had rated 5 stars
).Surprisingly, when I open the library and see the initial view ("albums"), only 1 album is shown and is named "5 stars static owned".
When I edit metadata of any song in the folder, I see the correct album name for all songs, so the metadata is clearly OK.
I already tried removing the folder, rescan the whole (empty) library, add my songs again, rescan the whole library: same result.
Can you please help me get the "albums" section to properly display albums, and not the root folder they are in?
Thank you!
Update: I also created another folder and named it "5stars". I moved a dozen of songs from "5 stars static owned" to "5stars" to see how it would react.
I expected the same (wrong) behaviour, that is,have those 12 songs displayed behing an album named "5stars".
Even more surprising behaviour now: the album name for that dozen of songs is not "5stars" but well the correct album name... of the first song of the list - for the 12 songs!
Did I do something wrong with my files structure?