I use Jellyfin for my music collection, and sometimes the album artist and artist fields for the same artist will be populated slightly differently. For instance, I have one case where there are three different ways using &, ‘and’ and +. I have removed these from my library, updating them with manually with MusicBrainz Picard to use the same spelling, and reuploaded them to my server. However, it uses the old metadata still.

Is there a way to efficiently reset metadata for only certain albums so that these three instances are merged and I can access all three albums from the same album artist?

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I had a similar issue (different media types but) where Jellyfin would not, for any bleeping reason, update the metadata to reflect changes in the media.

    After an annoying amount of fiddling I just yanked the library in it’s entirety (as in, it was deleted) and then re-added it and on the new-library-scan everything updated.

    Annoying, and maybe not entirely viable depending on how your library is structured - I have ~6 libraries for different things, so it wasn’t that big of an issue - but it did resolve it.

  • dueuwuje@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I had this exact same issue and many other odd things. The best advice I can give that worked for me was to one by one take each album off my server pass it through music brains (this looks for and edits metadata) and then place it back into Jellyfin.

    It was well worth it in the end. I couldn’t get Jellyfins metadata to work reliably for me, but this was the only issue I have had and the good Jellyfin provides once you have it ‘cleaned’ up is fantastic.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It is what I have tried, but Jellyfin still does not want to recognize the new metadata. :/

  • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The server certainly should have picked up the change in metadata but I can’t help you with why it didn’t.
    I can suggest that you edit the metadata in Jellyfin rather than using external tools and moving items in and out of the library. Just click the three-dot menu for a track or album and choose “Edit metadata”. If it doesn’t pick up changes made from Jellyfin then something is very wrong.