Music Metadata High Disk Usage ?

[TheDreadPirate]

If you provide posters and album covers directly in the folder with the music, Jellyfin would not write data to the metadata directory. That has the side effect that when a client requests images it would pull them from the disk that contains your media. If your server is similar to most setups, Jellyfin's data directory is on a SSD and your media is on a HDD. Meaning that there would be extra disk I/O and the UI would be less responsive.

So there's a trade off.

I don't have access to my server at the moment. I'll need to check if this is the same situation on my server.

And your music is organized so that all songs in an album are in the same folder? And they're tagged properly and uniformly within the album?