Music library duplicates

[flymetothemoon]

Hey there! I've been trying to fix my music library and I have been running everything through musicbrainz picard, so far so good, but after multiple deletions of the library and nfo files and metadata files this problem won't go away. I am noticing some artists from the "artists" tab appearing in the "album artists" tab. Which makes no sense because I am tagging everything manually to prevent that, for example I have a folder with artist A so I tag all of his albums with album artist A regardless of what artists are in the album so that all those albums appear under this album artist in jellyfin. But the problem keeps coming back, I even removed the musicbrainz tag for album artists but jellyfin doesn't care and keeps showing those weird duplcates. Any idea what to do?

[TheDreadPirate]

If I'm reading the code correctly, Jellyfin will use all of the Artists on the album as album artists when no album artist is provided.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/blo...mArtist.cs

[flymetothemoon]

Oh strange because I manually add album artist to everything to make sure that each song has it. I'm starting to think there are hidden tags or I need to reset the whole database and start fresh.

[TheDreadPirate]

If I'm reading the code correctly, it will add the Artists together with any defined album artist. So it uses both regardless?

Not sure if this an oversight, or if this is a design choice, or done to solve a particular problem?

[flymetothemoon]

I don't know I'm not tech savvy that much

[Exceptions]

I’m having similar troubles, but I think I’m working through it okay.

I essentially pointed my Music library to the big music folder and let it scan. The only problems I’ve had are (1) my artist folders having a dumb name “Beatles, The” and (2) the duplicate artist thing.

I removed the Music (or pointed the library nowhere) and corrected the names in the artist folders. The duplicates or near-duplicate artists were largely due to songs having multiple artists. There were manually homogenized with Picard.

Imagine I have David Bowie, and then David Bowie & Stevie Ray Vaughan. To me the artist is Bowie and I tag it accordingly. It may not match the artist ID in MusicBrainz.com, but do I really care? This is a tedious process, but I think it’s required for many albums & artists.

I also have “Never” selected for the library update, because my data has been edited for me and the online databases will kill those edits. In addition, when a release is not found on MusicBrainz it needs to be edited manually.

You may also make some headway with the artist folders in the metadata directory. Once the right artist is fixed, you can trash the unnecessary ones.  Alternatively you can delete all the artist metadata and start fresh.

Is my logic correct here?

[flymetothemoon]

I've done basically all this but these kinds of duplicates keep appearing even when they are no longer there when I check with Picard, I even unchecked discogs and musicbrainz as metadata providers so it only gets metadata through the files