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10.11.1 - MKA issue - 34626 - 2025-11-02
Im currently working thru my entire music library, so the music is converted from .WAV to .flac, and then stored in a .MKA container.
This seems to work just fine and save about 33% space and bandwidth.
The issue i belive to experience is somewhat the same as this topic:
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-mka-tags-recognized-by-jellyfin
I have a bash script that should add some user defined metadata + track number.
Example:
Bon Jovi/Crush (2000)/01 - It’s My Life.mka
When adding to Jellyfin it will look loke this:
Bon Jovi/Crush (2000)/It’s My Life
And the order of the songs is then messed up. Why dont i just add the 01. to the name of the songs metadata?
When i create a playlist, i really like just the title of each song, i dont need their track numbers there, besides of the order of the songs in the playlist
Below is the bash script i run to add Artist, Album, Year and track numbers:
Quote:#!/bin/bash
# sudo apt install mkvtoolnix-gui jq
ARTIST="Bon Jovi"
ALBUM="Crush"
YEAR="2000"
for f in *.mka; do
echo "Processing '$f' ..."
TRACK_UID=$(mkvmerge -J "$f" | jq -r '.tracks[0].properties.uid')
BASENAME="${f%.mka}"
if [[ "$BASENAME" =~ ^([0-9]{1,2})[[:space:]]*[-\.][[:space:]]*(.*)$ ]]; then
TRACKNUMBER="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
TITLE="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
CONTAINER_TITLE="${TRACKNUMBER} - ${TITLE}"
else
TRACKNUMBER=""
TITLE="$BASENAME"
CONTAINER_TITLE="$TITLE"
fi
XMLFILE=$(mktemp)
cat > "$XMLFILE" <<EOL
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Tags>
<Tag>
<Targets>
<TrackUID>$TRACK_UID</TrackUID>
</Targets>
<Simple><Name>ARTIST</Name><String>$ARTIST</String></Simple>
<Simple><Name>ALBUM</Name><String>$ALBUM</String></Simple>
<Simple><Name>YEAR</Name><String>$YEAR</String></Simple>
<Simple><Name>TITLE</Name><String>$TITLE</String></Simple>
</Tag>
</Tags>
EOL
mkvpropedit "$f" --tags all:"$XMLFILE"
mkvpropedit "$f" --edit info --set "title=$CONTAINER_TITLE"
rm "$XMLFILE"
done
echo "Done!"