2025-09-29, 04:44 PM
It's about Music and the artist info, especially the <biography> part of it.
As I was not so happy with the <biography> of the official scrapers, I created a script that takes much more exhaustive information from Wikidata and packs it into a artist.nfo file that follows the layout of Jellyfin's artist.nfo stored in C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\metadata\artists
My script also downloads backdrop and folder images from musicbrainz and stores them in the respective C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\metadata\artists folder, which then immediately appear in the Jellyfin Media Player.
Now there is one thing I struggle with. The new artist.nfo isn't detected by Jellyfin and either the biography stays empty or uses what was found from a previous scan. It seems to be cached somehow. How can I force Jellyfin to use the newly created artist.nfo.
I tried deleting caches via Gui, manually on disk, restarting, and make new refreshes, but it only worked once, that the new .nfo was used. The artist.nfo is in the folder, but not used by Jellyfin. Attached a case where it worked.
Does anyone know how this artist.nfo is handled?
As I was not so happy with the <biography> of the official scrapers, I created a script that takes much more exhaustive information from Wikidata and packs it into a artist.nfo file that follows the layout of Jellyfin's artist.nfo stored in C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\metadata\artists
My script also downloads backdrop and folder images from musicbrainz and stores them in the respective C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\metadata\artists folder, which then immediately appear in the Jellyfin Media Player.
Now there is one thing I struggle with. The new artist.nfo isn't detected by Jellyfin and either the biography stays empty or uses what was found from a previous scan. It seems to be cached somehow. How can I force Jellyfin to use the newly created artist.nfo.
I tried deleting caches via Gui, manually on disk, restarting, and make new refreshes, but it only worked once, that the new .nfo was used. The artist.nfo is in the folder, but not used by Jellyfin. Attached a case where it worked.
Does anyone know how this artist.nfo is handled?