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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Media Scanning & Identification Music: artist with multiple albums of the same work

     
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    Music: artist with multiple albums of the same work

    how to tell Jellyfin to separate albums
    philby
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    2025-04-16, 04:26 PM
    Switching from Plex to Jellyfin, I just noticed that JF mixes up albums when they're similar.
    E.g. 2 recodings of Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the same Album artist, one recording from 1987, one from 2024: JF keeps making one album out of this, with each song double.
    The recordings release date is set in the AAC metadata, the directory hierarchy is
    Music
    ├── Some Artist
    │  ├── Album A 1987
    │  │  ├── Song 1.flac
    │  │  ├── Song 2.flac
    │  │  └── Song 3.flac
    │  └── Album A 2024
    │      ├── Track 1.m4a
    │      ├── Track 2.m4a
    │      └── Track 3.m4a

    Is there a way to get JF to make two albums out of this, preferably without having to go and identify each song through Musicbrainz separately?

    Thanks!
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    2025-04-16, 04:41 PM
    File naming and folder structure matters much less than metadata tags.

    Are your files properly tagged? I'm assuming you have two Albums with the same name, but one is a remaster?

    If they have the same album name in the metadata tags, Jellyfin would mix them together as you've described. Does not matter if the release date is different.
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    2025-04-16, 04:55 PM (This post was last modified: 2025-04-16, 04:57 PM by philby. Edited 1 time in total.)
    Nevermind – found the error. Synology DSM must have merged the folders, all the files were in 1 directory.
    Separated those, and for good measure added the date to the album name in tags.

    They are separate recordings, not remasters – that's quite common for classical music, e.g. Herbert von Karajan recorded the Beethoven Symphonies multiple times in his career.
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