Make a backup of the artists folder

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Make a backup of the artists folder - HanaO00 - 2024-12-16

Hello,

I asked the question on github but I will close the topic if I have an answer here it will be easier

I made a backup of the artists folder in my old bare metal installation of Jellyfin, to move it to docker, by modifying the .nfos with the path

Code:
<poster>/config/metadata/artists/xxx/folder.jpg</poster>

<fanart>/config/metadata/artists/xxx/backdrop.jpg</fanart>

But it doesn't seem to work, after some searching in my folders, Jellyfin seems to save the metadata in /config/metatadata/library/xxx instead of /config/metatadata/artists

In the media library settings, I have disabled the "Save artwork to media folders" option, and the "nfo" box is unchecked

I would like to have, like on bare metal, a folder per artist with the artist.nfo and the images next to the .nfo

Thanks

RE: Make a backup of the artists folder - TheDreadPirate - 2024-12-16

IIRC, I don't believe that Jellyfin uses image paths in NFOs in Jellyfin clients. I believe image paths are only used for Kodi clients.

RE: Make a backup of the artists folder - HanaO00 - 2024-12-16

Thanks for your answer, on the bare metal installation there was a folder

Code:
/var/lib/jellyfin/metadata/artists/xxx

with this type of content, when I replaced for example the backdrop in the folder, jellyfin updated it

But in docker I can't reproduce this, it only writes images in /config/metadata/library/xx/xxx, and if I use the NFO option it puts it in the artist folder

An example of content, I modified the paths in the NFO

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

<artist>

  <biography />

  <outline />

  <lockdata>false</lockdata>

  <dateadded>2024-04-18 16:26:29</dateadded>

  <title>Ace of Base</title>

  <runtime>50</runtime>

  <genre>Pop</genre>

  <musicbrainzartistid>d4a1404d-e00c-4bac-b3ba-e3557f6468d6</musicbrainzartistid>

  <art>

    <poster>/config/metadata/artists/Ace of Base/folder.jpg</poster>

    <fanart>/config/metadata/artists/Ace of Base/backdrop.jpg</fanart>

  </art>

</artist>

Now I don't know why, for new artists it works, but for artists I had already scraped it doesn't work, there is the path to the flacs folder if I right click "edit metadata" but no info/image in the music folders
Even when trying in another container I have this problem