SOLVED: My music folder is not displaying files?

[ski007]

I am a beginner Jellyfin user. I have adapted the program to correctly play video files over the network. But I'm having trouble adding my mp3/flac etc music files to my music library. The folder is thoroughly added and scanned, but no music items appear on the list in: Music ? 
My system is Mint virginia (ubuntu 22.04) ...maybe it's some problem with permissions to the music folder but I can't figure out how to fix it?...all other video files are displayed correctly :-)
Maybe someone already had a similar problem and solved it?

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share your logs with us on sourcebin? And are your music files properly tagged and the folder structure follows our documentation?

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

[ski007]

I don't know if this audio folder structure is appropriate, but are there too many files to change it all?


If the logs from the program are in: /var/log/jellyfin
this one is 10MB in size!

I think I pasted the end of the entries in the jellyfin logs
https://sourceb.in/WfUy42sePs

[TheDreadPirate]

The minimum level of organization is that you have an album in a folder. Which it looks like you have

But can you confirm how well your music is tagged? Because Jellyfin is highly reliant on ID3 or other metadata tags for music.

If you don't have any tagging, you can use an app like Musicbrainz Picard to automagically tag your music. Including embedding album images.

[ski007]

Because Jellyfin is highly reliant on ID3 or other metadata tags for music

My collection is quite large and I don't believe that all the items were incorrectly tagged so that the programs could not identify it? And in my case it doesn't display exactly... NOTHING?


Or maybe my version is a bit newer, I hope there is no error?
Jellyfin.Server 10.9.0.0
I installed according to this tutorial ...probably a stable version?
in the file /sources.list.d/jellyfin.list
I have such an entry:

Code:

deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jellyfin.gpg] https://repo.jellyfin.org/ubuntu jammy main

https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-inst...inux-mint/
I installed another media server but I think it's the commercial version of Plex. Of course, I wanted to check if it would be the same. But it's a different program and it's not reliable even if everything is displayed correctly.
Surprisingly, it's OK
Yes, but it's a completely different program and it's probably not credible compared to Jellyfin. I keep searching.

Maybe I'll leave Plex just for music... but the problem remains why it doesn't display even some of my music.
Ps.
Unfortunately, there are probably more problems with this version of Jellyfin... I noticed that some video files are displayed twice. I didn't notice it before because I had mixed up movies and series and I thought they were consecutive episodes. Maybe I will remove this version and install the earlier one, but I don't know how to install it properly, e.g. the version: Jellyfin 10.8.13
I removed jellyfin from the system and installed it according to the script, it should probably be version: 10.8.13

Code:

curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

after installation I still have it:
jellyfin --version
Jellyfin.Server 10.9.0.0  ......... :-)

[TheDreadPirate]

There are people on the Jellyfin team that still use Plex just for music. So you are definitely not alone on that. Plex definitely handles music a lot better.

[ski007]

OK...Plex for this is suitable as.... free :-)
Over time, Jellyfin will also display music files as efficiently as Plex !

[ski007]

OK...I think I've figured out why Jellyfin isn't showing any music files in my music library. This means that Jellyfin has a problem if the media paths overlap, e.g. video (movies) / audio (music). For me, the paths were like this because it was easier for me to keep these files on the disk.
.............
video : /media/ssd1/filmy
audio: /media/ssd1/filmy/muzyka
.............
It can't be like this! : /media/ssd1/filmy/ ... (for all media)
I didn't want to move everything to another place to another SSD drive because I have two (i.e. a different path), so I made a workaround in Ubuntu. I copied the music folder to another SSD using the bind option
so you can now use a different path to the same folder :-)

Code:

sudo mount --bind /media/ssd1/filmy /media/ssd2/videoteka

Now the music path is like this and it's OK:
/media/ssd2/videoteka/muzyka
You can add this entry permanently as a script when starting the system or add the bind option to mount the folder to another drive in the fstab file.

Code:

/media/ssd1/filmy /media/ssd2/videoteka        none    bind    0      0

Greetings

[TheDreadPirate]

Ah. Yes. Did I miss that in a prior post? You definitely can't have the same folder in multiple libraries.

Glad you were able to get that worked out.

[metal4427]

OK...I think I've figured out why Jellyfin isn't showing any music files in my music library. This means that Jellyfin has a problem if the media paths overlap, e.g. video (movies) / audio (music). For me, the paths were like this because it was easier for me to keep these files on the disk.
.............
video : /media/ssd1/filmy
audio: /media/ssd1/filmy/muzyka
.............
It can't be like this! : /media/ssd1/filmy/ ... (for all media)
I didn't want to move everything to another place to another SSD drive because I have two (i.e. a different path), so I made a workaround in Ubuntu. I copied the music folder to another SSD using the bind option
so you can now use a different path to the same folder :-)

Code:

sudo mount --bind /media/ssd1/filmy /media/ssd2/videoteka

Now the music path is like this and it's OK:
/media/ssd2/videoteka/muzyka
You can add this entry permanently as a script when starting the system or add the bind option to mount the folder to another drive in the fstab file.

Code:

/media/ssd1/filmy /media/ssd2/videoteka        none    bind    0      0

Greetings

Ski, I am having the same issue with movies and music being in the same folder. I don't want to create a new folder...can you possibly go into step detail on how you did this workaround? Thank you