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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[–] loganb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 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.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] cfi@lemmy.world 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

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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

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