Music

[Daniele Trentin]

Good evening, I am a new user. I setup Jellyfin in a container running on OMV 6 on my Raspberry Pi4. I have my music, shows and movies stored un a USB hard disk. Jellyfin handles correctly shows and movies, but I can't get it sort correctly my music library.
I have a main folder Music/ with 4 subfolders for different albums (that are shown correctly) and another folder Various/ which stores about 500 loose mp3s. Jellyfin puts all those files in a single album, and can't download any image/album cover for those files. I tried to rescan libraries several times but to no avail.
All files have their tags, I manually added them. Also, updating metadata didn't solve anything.
Where's the issue?

[TheDreadPirate]

When you say it these files are tagged, how well tagged are we talking.

1) Ensure your files follow our guides. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/music/
2) Run your music through MusicBrainz Picard to ensure that as many of the tags are populated.

[Daniele Trentin]

Thanks for the response. Well, did some more experimentation, I think there's something weird going on. Here's my actual situation:

- I have a folder, as per last time, where my music is, which is [NAS]/Music. Jellyfin's library is pointed here.
- Inside I have 4 subfolders, organized in this way:
-Gundam Unicorn OST
-Gundam Unicorn
- Files.mp3
-Pink Floyd - The Wall
- CD1
- Files.mp3
- CD 2
- Files.mp3
- TES5 - Skyrim OST
- CD 1
- Files.mp3
- CD 2
- Files.mp3
- CD 3
- Files.mp3
- CD4
- Files.mp3
- Miscellaneous
- Folder 1
- Files (processed by Picard).mp3

The files under Miscellaneous are various ACDC songs, tagged with Picard and displaying and playing correctly in my PC (using a media player).
The folder structure seems ok to me, according to Jellyfin documentation.

In Jellyfin, under "Albums", I have the first three albums display correctly (and playing coorectly). Then, ACDC songs are frouped into a single album with a wrong name (actually, it is from another song in my librari but which is not into Jellyfin music folder). If I enter the album, I have all tracks from ACDC, all with the same artwork (whereas the same files in my PC library have the correct pics). If I click on ACDC under "Artists" it points me on this album.

I was expecting a behaviour similar to a medla player, where I can click on an artist name and see only the songs/albums made by that artist...I thought Jellyfin could sort my music according to tags rather than folders...or am I missing something?

[TheDreadPirate]

We've recently updated our Music documentation (a month ago?). Prior to the update it indicated that tags were the only thing that mattered. But after a lot of user reports one of our devs some testing and updated our docs to reflect that folder structure does matter, though tagging is still the most important.

[Daniele Trentin]

I read the documentation the day I last posted...as far as I have seen my setup should be ok...?

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you rescan your library? If you're willing to risk changing a lot of things, select replace all metadata?

[Daniele Trentin]

Rescan the whoele library - nothing changed.
Rescan only the music library, allowing for replace images and metadata - it says that the update is programmed, nothing else...
Nothing changed...

[TheDreadPirate]

Yeah. Not sure that will work without reorganizing the files. Another user here having similar issues with "loose" music files.

[Daniele Trentin]

do you have a link to the other thread, so I can give a read, please?

Any advice on how to solve the thing? I think now it's everything about managing "loose" files...I don't see much sense in making dozens of folders and sub-folders for a single song

[TheDreadPirate]

This one. But the answer is the same. Follow our music documentation. Which includes proper folder organization.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-find-music-...subfolders

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/music/