SOLVED: multiple artists seperator ";" must be manually saved in JF?

[Eden]

I've came across a possible bug, where the (ID3) file metadata containting multiple artists in the artist field like "Artist1;Artist2" reads back exactly that in Jellyfin, only after manually clicking "Edit Metadata" on the individual song and just saving it without any changes makes JF recognize the seperator.
This BTW gets overwritten again upon rescanning files and selecting "replace metadata" unless you uncheck "people" on the bottom from the exclusion setting. (1)

I suppose this is (/should be) not normal behavior?
It's very time consuming to fix this by hand, and could be for nothing if you forget to uncheck the "people" box.

Can this be changed so that it automatically reads in the seperator and applies it as well?

Also, when clicking on one of the multiple artists, the WebUI does not show the tracks which the secondary artist (who has no albums) appears on (2).

Any directions welcome


~E

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Read through the comments on this github issue: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11871
It might help you understand what's going on with your issue.

[Eden]

Read through the comments on this github issue: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11871
It might help you understand what's going on with your issue.

And here was me hoping for an easy fix.
This is a bigger thing than i thought, thanks for pointing it out. I guess i will do it manually for the time being.

[Eden]

Well one question remains to me.

Even if the multiple artist issue is fixed within Jellyfins database, why is the secondary artist's page not displaying any songs? They do play if i click shuffle play and the queue shows correctly only the ones where he is present (two in my case).
Is this known?