So i just stood up my jellyfin and went poking around and huge sections of my library where missing,… Or so I thought. Turns out they where just combine with other things. For example I am a huge fan of the Canadian band The Birthday Massacre, I have all their albums (Even the original Imagica tapes, anyhow), well I searched for them and its just a jumble of all their tracks. It jumps from Violet to Imagica to Nothing and Nowhere, then back to Imagica… you get the point. If I search for the album specifically it can de-tangle it. But if I just search through tracks or artist, all the songs are mixed. Another example The Protomen from Nashville. They have a whole thing about naming their albums Act 1, Act 2, ect… save a few one off shows. Well Jellyfin is acting like it has never heard the word Act before, and so my page for them is also utter chaos. Jellyfin shows me one album The Protomen… ok Track 1 Hope rides alone, Track 1 Hope Rides Stallone… (technically that’s makeup and Vanity Set, but eeh…) Track 1 Intro, Track 1 The Calm… soo many issues. Am I just daft or is there someway to fix this? Cuz the tags on each of these files on my system are correctly labeled but Jellyfin is acting like a fool about these tags.
yeah jellyfin is bad with this stuff. your directory structure has to be completely pristine otherwise he freaks out and starts thinking everything is from some random 1950s tv show. I have a jellyfin just for movies and tv and even for something simple like that it’s bad. like for example ANY Japanese show or movie that isn’t correctly structured and named exactly Jellyfin thinks its some kind of Pokemon series.
The tv show ‘Smiling Friends’? it thinks it’s something from the 60s.
For music just use Navidrome. works a lot better. you’ll get minor issues every now and again of it cutting up albums but it’s very easy to fix.
I’d say it’s specific rather than bad. I’ve named my media the same way for decades using the old XBMC naming standard. And things have been picked up by Kodi, Plex, Emby and now Jellyfin.
The instructions are clear - https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/. Apps like Beets, Music Brainz Picard, Tiny Media Manager do all the hard work making things pristine.
No issues with Smiling Friends: