2024-12-04, 11:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-12-04, 11:39 AM by EliteAlien. Edited 1 time in total.)
Jellyfin and music can be a massive pain sometimes. Though, there really isn't a good way to split your stuff up like you're describing. It leads to a mess and Jellyfin doesn't have a merge option for music like it does TV & Movies. Which also leaves your home screen with a absolute mess. You only option is basically make one music folder then sub-folder things.
What I do is something like this.
Artist -> Compilations -> Compilation Album (Year) -> Music Files
Artist -> Album (Year) -> Music Files
Artist -> Singles Name (Year) -> Music Files
(I have not tried this but I believe Artist -> Singles -> Music can be used now)
Also, it seems like you're over complicating things with genre folders. Because you can apply that to the metadata of the files themselves. MusicBrainz Picard is great for that, and it even has a function to listen to the music and match it to a potential song using a scan option. It's pretty good at finding matches, but there are sometimes it fails. Yet, that is one thing I would heavily suggest doing on these "Unknown" music files. If it doesn't seem right you don't have to save the metadata to the file or you just don't like something, you can modify the metadata to your liking.
Settings to use with Picard. I suggest going to Options -> Options -> ID3 -> 2.4 -> UTF8. I've had to recently convert my tags over to 2.4 on a lot of my music as something that changed in Jellyfin 10.10.3 has made a lot of my musics metadata change into "Artist;Artist" or "Artist/Artist" instead of properly selecting them. Possibly a regression, but this is the nature of using Jellyfin for music currently. One day it will hopefully be much better.
Anyway, there isn't much else to be done other than enter your own metadata in the files, load the provided ones with say Picard, and not over complicate your folder structure.
What I do is something like this.
Artist -> Compilations -> Compilation Album (Year) -> Music Files
Artist -> Album (Year) -> Music Files
Artist -> Singles Name (Year) -> Music Files
(I have not tried this but I believe Artist -> Singles -> Music can be used now)
Also, it seems like you're over complicating things with genre folders. Because you can apply that to the metadata of the files themselves. MusicBrainz Picard is great for that, and it even has a function to listen to the music and match it to a potential song using a scan option. It's pretty good at finding matches, but there are sometimes it fails. Yet, that is one thing I would heavily suggest doing on these "Unknown" music files. If it doesn't seem right you don't have to save the metadata to the file or you just don't like something, you can modify the metadata to your liking.
Settings to use with Picard. I suggest going to Options -> Options -> ID3 -> 2.4 -> UTF8. I've had to recently convert my tags over to 2.4 on a lot of my music as something that changed in Jellyfin 10.10.3 has made a lot of my musics metadata change into "Artist;Artist" or "Artist/Artist" instead of properly selecting them. Possibly a regression, but this is the nature of using Jellyfin for music currently. One day it will hopefully be much better.
Anyway, there isn't much else to be done other than enter your own metadata in the files, load the provided ones with say Picard, and not over complicate your folder structure.