'various artists' albums

[gizmomelb]

Hi all,

I've searched but did not find a resolution.

I have a few various artist compilation albums and I cannot get them identified properly in Jellyfin.   I've tried appending the discogs album ID to the folder name, I've also tried the 'identify' function from within jellyfin and enter the album name, year and discogs album ID but it still doesn't find anything.

eg:
folder path:  \media\music\Various Artists\1992 - Million Sellers The Eighties 5 [r9422433]
album name:   Million Sellers The Eighties 5
year released: 1992
discogs album ID: r9422433

example of songs:
01 - B. Stewart & C. Dulfer - Lily Was Here.flac
02 - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up.flac

Is there any way with jellyfin to have it properly scan the album id and show the normal album and track info it does for (solo artist) albums?

thank you.

Million Sellers The Eighties 5null


Million Sellers The Eighties 5

[kandykarter]

I tag my compilations with "Various Artists" as the "albumartist", and individual tracks use the "artist" tag. As a result, all my compilations show up under Various Artists in my library.

I've never tried using Discogs for metadata, but Musicbrainz IDs tend to work well for me.

[jimmyjammy]

It's been a while since I've used JFin for music but I believe that, it uses both Musicbrainz & Discogs (if plugin is installed) to identify media. As "kandykarter" mentioned, it's very important that your files are tagged properly or compilation albums will not be identified correctly. Apps like "Mp3tag" are great for correctly tagging these albums & have correct matching using either Musicbrainz or Discogs. As mentioned, Album Artist should be tagged as "Various Artists" & "check" the "Compilation" option helps also

[gizmomelb]

the artists and tracks are tagged correctly



sigh.. images not displaying so direct links -  https://imgur.com/a/epmuNWZ

and they display in jellyfin like this:


and -  https://imgur.com/a/KRBaY0L


but the album cover (and info?) is not scraped from discogs  -  https://www.discogs.com/release/9422433-...Eighties-5

[jimmyjammy]

Well, I can see that you're files are not tagged correctly. As per my previous post, you need to tag the "Album Artist" field with "Various Artists". I can see, from your photo that that info is blank. Everything else looks good but you have to tag the "Album Artist" field. "Various Artists" for each track.

[gizmomelb]

I tagged as instructed, have ran a new media scan on the music but no album cover or info comes up - even with the specific discogs album id in the metadata.

https://imgur.com/a/aGq04P1

https://imgur.com/a/QC4DcCS

or is it that the album info for various artists is never displayed (because none of the 'various artists' albums (with discog IDs, so they're not MY compilation.. they are legit commercial CD compilations with ids and info on discogs) in jellyfin?

ie: my 'Various Artists' folder in my music library
https://imgur.com/a/Rw1cXRQ