Music videos not showing up as folders and only showing 1 music video in library

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share the output of this command on your music video library?

Code:

tree -ugp /path/to/musicvideo/library/

The an example output.

Code:

chris@rat-trap:/media/storage2$ tree -ugp segmentTesting/
[drwxrwxr-x chris    chris  ]  segmentTesting/
└── [drwxrws--- chris    jellyfin]  Shakugan no Shana
    └── [drwxrws--- chris    jellyfin]  Season 01
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e01.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw-r-- chris    jellyfin]  s01e02.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e03.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e04.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e05.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e06.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e07.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e08.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e09.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e10.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e11.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e12.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e13.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e14.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e15.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e16.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e17.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e18.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e19.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e20.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e21.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e22.mkv
        ├── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e23.mkv
        └── [-rw-rw---- chris    jellyfin]  s01e24.mkv

[Danoulli]

Hello!

I have the same problem in the music video library (fresh installation in a container, with version 10.10.3, from lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest).

Typically, my music videos are .mp4 files and follow the naming scheme: <Artist>\<Artist> - <Song> - <Additional Info>

Some folders show up as desired, as a list of files, with the artist as folder name. Some folders get apparently recognized as a single song with multiple "versions", where each "version" is a different file.


Now i played around a bit with the file names and here are the results:
In a folder, where all files follow the naming scheme <Artist>\<Artist> - <Some Text>, the issue occurs.
But if there is at least one file in that folder that differs from that, e.g. <Artist>\<Song> - <Some Text>, the whole folder shows up as desired.


Now i am wondering if it is somehow possible to configure the behaviour.

[TheDreadPirate]

What is probably happening is you're trigger the "merge versions" function in Jellyfin.

In your example, "<Arist>\<Song> - <Some Text>", if you removed the dash in between "song" and "some text" that should avoid "merging" the videos in that folder.

[Danoulli]

In the example <Artist>\<Song> - <Some Text> it is already working without the merging.

Previously the artist name was also part of the file name, like this: <Artist>\<Artist> - <Song>. In this case the merging will happen.

So my solution is to remove the artist name from the filename.