[Music] Use metadata from Musicbrainz or NFO instead of music files

[vodafo8366]

Hi !

I am trying to correct some of my albums' metadata (mostly artists wrongly named, or "&" signs instead of multiple artist entries). I saw a lot of comments about beets and musicbrainz picard but I'm not sure if it's the way to go for me.
Is there a way to write the data to nfo files instead of editing the file tags themselves (as this would screw up with the {activity we don't talk about- TDP}, most of my music is also {activity we don't talk about- TDP}) ?
Also, maybe there's an extension to edit metadata in batch directly in jellyfin, but that would create some kind of vendor lock-in, which isn't optimal.

Creating a copy of the {activity we don't talk about- TDP}, to edit the tags is not an option for me as it would double up the space taken, and my music library is huge.

So my question would be : for jellyfin use, what would be the best approach for editing artist tags ? generating nfo ? jellyfin plugin to edit metadata within jellyfin ? something else ?

I know that metadata can be manually edited, but this is a very long process. There is an option to "identify" albums with musicbrainz for example, but apart from images, nothing is updated, is there a way to update tags as well ?

Thanks in advance !

[TheDreadPirate]

If you can't modify files because you have other stuff going on, that we don't talk about here, that isn't really something we can help with.

Tags are super important for Jellyfin for automatic organization and metadata. Musicbrainz Picard is one of the best tools for mass modification.

[vodafo8366]

If you can't modify files because you have other stuff going on, that we don't talk about here, that isn't really something we can help with.

Tags are super important for Jellyfin for automatic organization and metadata.  Musicbrainz Picard is one of the best tools for mass modification.

So there's no way to use musicbrainz's metadata that jellyfin scrapes, instead of the in-file tags ?

[TheDreadPirate]

I don't think there is a way to force using Musicbrainz exclusively when tags are present.