Jellyfin Album Naming Help (not sure why some include the artist name)

[planedrop]

Trying to figure out the best way to explain this, but I'm experiencing and odd issue that I haven't found a solid solution to yet. 

Most of my albums are stored in a single folder, each album is a subfolder within the overall Music folder, and they are named "Artist name - album name"

For the vast vast majority of my albums, this works fine and Jellyfin pics out the fact that the artist name should not be included in the album title within the Jellyfin album page (i.e. it excludes the artist name portion of the folder). 

But for some reason a small subset of albums which are laid out this way include the artist name portion as part of the album name in Jellyfin's album view. 

The only semi-consistent thing I have found is that this happens most often with "albums" that are actually just a single release. But I have some that are like that and still listed as a proper album without the artist name. 

Is this related to how it's fetching metadata and if the song is a "single" and not an "album" then Jellyfin doesn't know what to do with it and assumes the folder name is the full album name? 

I guess really I just want to know the best way to re-do my naming, if needed, to prevent this going forward. I know a more proper way may be to do Music > Artist > Album > files but I prefer having them all in a single directory for various reasons.

[T-10]

I would take a look at the actual metadata on the file, and/or use a metadata ripper like theMusicdb

[jellykrabbypatty]

Trying to figure out the best way to explain this, but I'm experiencing and odd issue that I haven't found a solid solution to yet. 

Most of my albums are stored in a single folder, each album is a subfolder within the overall Music folder, and they are named "Artist name - album name"

For the vast vast majority of my albums, this works fine and Jellyfin pics out the fact that the artist name should not be included in the album title within the Jellyfin album page (i.e. it excludes the artist name portion of the folder). 

But for some reason a small subset of albums which are laid out this way include the artist name portion as part of the album name in Jellyfin's album view. 

The only semi-consistent thing I have found is that this happens most often with "albums" that are actually just a single release. But I have some that are like that and still listed as a proper album without the artist name. 

Is this related to how it's fetching metadata and if the song is a "single" and not an "album" then Jellyfin doesn't know what to do with it and assumes the folder name is the full album name? 

I guess really I just want to know the best way to re-do my naming, if needed, to prevent this going forward. I know a more proper way may be to do Music > Artist > Album > files but I prefer having them all in a single directory for various reasons.

I ended up turning on .NFO files, and then naming the album to whatever I wanted, and locking the album so no more changes could be made. This usually works so if I have to "replace all metadata", the .NFO files will take precedence and I won't have to mess with renaming everything again. Locking it can be overridden with "replace all metadata" but I find it holds the name in place while JF builds a .NFO file so it doesn't rename it to something I don't want again.