Music metadata refresh

[admcguinness]

I'm looking for advice on the best way to approach this:

I have a moderately large collection of digital music, mostly converted from CDs, some of it as much as 25-30 years ago, and with a range of different ripping software over the years. It's a mix of ogg format and mp3 format.

It has all imported fine into Jellyfin, but the metadata is a mess -- largely because the tags are a mess in the original files.

What I'd really like is to manually identify the album in MusicBrainz (or something), manually make sure track numbers are correct (which they generally are), and then automatically have the album title, track title, artist info replaced in Jellyfin with the external data.

I could do this with other tools, updating the tags music files themselves, but I'd prefer not to. Those files are what they are, they are backed up in various places, I'd like to leave them alone but get fresh accurate metadata in Jellyfin.

Is there a way of going about this?

I could write some code if necessary. Is the data model of the library database documented anywhere? I poked around with sqlite3.

[TheDreadPirate]

You could probably write a script to manually update everything. As long as the file isn't updated, it shouldn't trigger Jellyfin to update the song with the original tags in the file.

Our API docs are here.

https://api.jellyfin.org/

Your other option is to use NFOs. Disable all metadata providers and Jellyfin will exclusively use the NFOs.