One day, I tossed some MAXIMUM THE HORMONE, all caps because it's... how it is, into my Music folder, which just happened to have the Japanese text identifying the band.

Well Jellyfin took it in and labeled it as it does with the Japanese text. I changed it to MTH, thinking the albums would follow suit and... Albums gone.

I head back to the home screen, the albums are there, attributed to the Japanese name. I check the band name, listed under the japanese name, and there's no albums.

Then I moved everything, deleted all of the content from Jellyfin, changed the names to the English names BEFORE importing, imported it again, aaaaaaand, Japanese text.

throws NES controller

Do I have to dive into the metadata directly?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Use Picard to correct missing metadata, album art, and file name / structure.

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

I've had zero issues scrapping my music library since doing this.

Just make sure to review the settings in Picard to set up file naming conventions how you want it before you start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I use beets but for japanese bands, it tends to pick Japanese characters, I guess I'll have to be more specific with my importing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can try setting the language option in your config to translate/transliterate the fields to your preferred language

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Because of course someone already needed a solution to this very problem. I'll give it a shot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

yeah, I haven't done much with music that's not in English. You can also look up the album in the musicbrainz database as well to see how it's listed there before you stick Picard on it.

Also another helpful resource when I was learning how to arrange my libraries....

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

Also note that the music library in Jellyfin has a preferred language option that might apply here.