thelinuxcast Sep 11, 2025

Spent the day fighting with metadata in my music library. Now I remember why I pay for Deezer.

I cannot get Jellyfin to actually do what I want it to do. I edit the metadata to what I want, and the damn artist just disappears! I find the music just fine, do their "Identify" thing, which I don't trust, and artist is still gone. I rescan the library, and the music is there, but the artist isn't listed in the artist list.

I want to self host my music so badly, but this is a pain in my ass, and I'm not sure it is actually worth the savings.

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@thelinuxcast I passed my library through MusicBrainz and never had an issue*. Moved to Spotify for a while then came back to my own library. That’s when I organised in MB, to ensure consistency before adding to JF

Then I signed up for Apple One. So I have Apple Music and life is easier. But I have things not available on streaming so I use both

Navidrome is another music specific alternative worth trying too

* partly a lie, I have way too much music to actually check it all

Sep 11, 2025 at 8:49amWeb