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Music (Songs) not added / parsed correctly into Albums #3312
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Originally created by @hasezoey on GitHub (Oct 12, 2021).
Describe the bug
Songs not correctly parsed into correct Albums
System (please complete the following information):
jellyfin/jellyfin:unstable@sha256:a2a350f5bce7a5530f33fd65ff1774027d1692f0d804d01bf74a4cc51ba60aaf)To Reproduce
Have folder structure:
Expected behavior
That each song (that has at the required tags, like
Album) to be sorted in its own / correct Album (inside jellyfin's library, not touching the actual file on the filesystem)Server Logs
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Additional context
some songs have the required metadata, some dont (like
TitleorAlbum)the songs that have
Albumset (either with file or directly in jellyfin), do not get sorted over to their own album, but stay in theUnsorted Songs"Album"i already tried:
album.nfofrom the folderReplace all metadata&Scan for new & updated files) (both on theUnsorted Songs"Album" and on a library level)Note: the metadata is added with Musicbrainz Picard and ffmpeg
also, i expected this to work because of Folder Structure for Music Documentation stating that it should work:
@hasezoey commented on GitHub (Oct 12, 2021):
also #5172 may be related, but it didnt match my case so i opened a new issue
@hasezoey commented on GitHub (Oct 12, 2021):
i now also have found #2879 and #4968 which are kinda related, but are a slightly different problem
@hasezoey commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2021):
as a seperate issue: when having too many artists for a "ablum" (or in this case, folder), they obstruct other stuff, see:
Please ignore the names, some of them are screwed up because of the mentioned main issue
@michael9dk commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2021):
I had issues when the AlbumArtist tag was present. I removed it with Picard, and kept only the single Album tag.
For Compilations I added AlbumArtist as "Various artists", and removed Artists (notice the s).
For folders with a bunch of mixed files, eg Dance, I added AlbumArtist tag as "Dance music", to make it appear as a huge compilation.
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@hasezoey commented on GitHub (Feb 27, 2022):
this is still a issue from what i can tell in jellyfin version
jellyfin/jellyfin:unstable@sha256:e3f042c449a8dcfb0cde999d7bb2e164cf9f4532f277d4f97fbdd8089ec5d3c8@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Apr 16, 2022):
I also have this issue with the following folder structure:
All songs in
/Root/get sorted into the album of/Root/SingletonSong.flacalthough the albums are tagged correctly.@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Apr 16, 2022):
Apart from #4968, I also found #3169, which may be related.
@exaveal commented on GitHub (May 15, 2022):
My problem is that all Songs without Album Tag directly in the folder of the artist are not listed on the artist info page. albums are listed. singles without an album not.
@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Jul 25, 2022):
Has there been any progress on this? I wonder why not more people are hit by this issue. I do not think the mentioned folder structure is a very peculiar one.
@ghost commented on GitHub (Dec 9, 2022):
Im having the same issue except it also freezes my page for some seconds (similar on android client) I must have around 600 songs in the folder most from different artists.
I think after a certain number of artists it should just show up as ...
@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (Oct 6, 2023):
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@darkuranium commented on GitHub (Oct 6, 2023):
Not much to update, it's the exact same problem / behaviour.
@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2024):
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@darkuranium commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2024):
This is getting silly. The problem still exists, and it's been years. Any updates?
@felix920506 commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2024):
Tagging as confirmed since this is actual behavior confirmed with devs.
@ItMeCorban commented on GitHub (Mar 28, 2024):
I am so confused as to how this is still an issue, ya'll really can't just add a tracks section to an artists page? How was that missed in the first place?
@wacko37 commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):
!!!BUMP on this!!! - I've only just realised this to be case, so bloody annoying. I listen to a lot of DJ mixes and this means I have to go through every Artist folder and add individual mixes into there own folder. All my metadata is correct too, this make no sense at all.
@philipp2310 commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2024):
Half way to becoming closed again as stale - giving another bump.
Issue still persists, Music without an album is currently not visible anywhere but in playlists. It IS playable by clicking play on the "empty" artists page. as ItMeCorban mentioned, a "track section" in the artists page, either with all songs, including album, or just the albumless songs is highly required.
Thank you for the awesome software! Wouldn't have added to the issue, but with the current digital "one song at a time releases", creating hundreds of 1 song almbums is a nightmare.
@medallyon commented on GitHub (Dec 1, 2024):
Indeed, would love to be able to display "singles" not as part of albums (which also pollutes the "Albums" page) but as singles on Artist pages, and perhaps simply sorted under the "Songs" page.
@tibe-31 commented on GitHub (Dec 5, 2024):
It is much surprising that such an ultra basic feature is missing in a music browser :
to access all the music files in a directory (however the folder structure is)
I have never seen this before on any other products dedicated to play music files, all the more when all meta tags are religiously set on all files.
Hope JF devs mind that they probably cut JF definitely from many potential users just because of this little thing.
Would it be so complicated, in the algo, when there is no album defined, to just consider there is a virtual one like 'Various" and link all "non album" songs to it:
./Root
./Root/Artist1/Album1/...
./Root/Artist1/Album2/...
./Root/Artist1/AlbumX/...
./Root/Artist1/Various/...
The same for artists :
./Root
./Root/Artist1/...
./Root/Artist2/...
./Root/Artist3/...
./Root/Various/...
Many other solutions exist of course.
I am a bit shocked.
@ItMeCorban commented on GitHub (Dec 5, 2024):
This. I have tried jellyamp/other jellyfin music players and they work great, but they're unusable because half my library is missing. This is the main reason I still use plexamp and cannot recommend anyone use jellyfin if their primary use is music. A plexpass is worth the price for access to plexamp because my media is actually visible there.
@tibe-31 commented on GitHub (Dec 5, 2024):
If it can help someone, here is a non perfect (sad) workaround :
It's a bit work but then you can browse & read all your music files from the JF client (go to the "Various" album item under each artist item)
But it is sad definitely.
@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Dec 6, 2024):
Actually, I did the same. You can configure beets to do this automatically for you. Something like
@Delivator commented on GitHub (Dec 9, 2024):
Trying to migrate my playlists from Spotify to Jellyfin and this is breaking my neck at the moment.
@darkuranium commented on GitHub (Dec 9, 2024):
I've honestly given up on Jellyfin for music, mostly because of this issue. And kind of just about given up on using it for video too, since syncplay doesn't seem to be working correctly, at least for me (and this was more or less the main reason as to why I wanted to try Jellyfin).
@doobes commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2024):
Geeze,
This is surprising. I was wondering why my album-less stuff wasn't appearing.
The "Various" thing seems to work, but what a 9 line cluge.
Any comment from the dev's on this cluster?
@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2024):
I begin to suspect that this thread is just going unnoticed. Should we become active and inform somebody specific?
@felix920506 commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2024):
This is a low priority item for Jellyfin right now, that's why it is not getting much attention.
We already tagged this issue confirmed. Additional comments won't make things go faster.
If this really bothers you that much then I suggest you go ahead and send a PR to fix this issue.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/
@Delivator commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2024):
"low priority" and "comments won't make things go faster". So if a lot of people have an issue, you wouldn't consider changing the priority?
Of course it would be nice if someone here could just fix it, but then it would probably be... fixed.
@maru801 commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2024):
There doesn't exist a definite list of issues sorted by priority. What was meant by "low-priority" was that out of those working on PRs for Jellyfin, their focus is currently on other things due to their personal interests.
If for example you or anyone else took up the mantle and attempted to create this functionality, it would be your or their priority to fix.
Also if it wasn't said before and to add to this issue thread, this behavior originates from Emby since Jellyfin forked from it before. You need to sort your music under album folders as described in the Jellyfin music docs.
@gnattu commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
I hate this way as much as any other people in this issue complaining because the Emby way makes no sense to me at all. Why each music track has to have an album and why having an enforcement on folder structure when the music files has almost all metadata tagged in the file? I wanted to change that but it was not that easy. This means we need to complete rewrite the audio scanning logic to “fix” this issue and is ultimately blocked by the database refactor we are having now: #12798.
The old Emby design in the database enforces everything must have a physical folder and music tracks has to have an album as their parents. A lot has to be changed from the database schema perspective to support folder structure and album free music tracks as well.
To sum it up, there are a lot to be worked on and essentially means to discard all Emby era code to write the Music library from scratch. I know current design is bad, but unfortunately we cannot work on this as high priority due to the amount of the work required and actual blockers we are having.
@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
If the database structure enforces a connection from songs to albums, I am pretty sure this has a reason (maybe in the frontend for display purposes?). One could just collect all singleton tracks in a folder to a fake album unique to this folder.
@ItMeCorban commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
So whoever initially designed this functionality just ignore that not every song belongs to an album? Talk about oversights...
By the sounds of it, Jellyfin needs a roadmap or some kind of central prioritisation for who's working on what because having devs prioritise things based on what they feel like working on doesn't seem particularly scalable or efficient.
@maru801 commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
Correct me if I'm wrong, but albums don't always need to be actual albums. Like for my music albums, I add singles into their own album folder.
I think that's what Emby was going for with the structure of having it be sorted as folders of artists each with subfolders of their albums.
The issue here is that Emby used the folders to determine what album each song belongs to.
As previously stated, there's already desire to change this to use the embedded tags, but that will require large changes to the fundamental code that currently makes Jellyfin. The main devs already have their free time dedicated to rewriting the Jellyfin database structure which in itself is another huge workload.
There already are roadmaps on GitHub. For example, this one for v10.0.
You can find other similar roadmaps here.
It's just that there isn't a main "todo" board that gets selectively sorted by some arbitrary priority ranking to tell all potential devs to work on something.
Also, people that work on Jellyfin have their own area of interests and knowledge. It's kind of a hard thing to tell all devs to focus on a thing when some might not be familiar with that side of things. And Jellyfin isn't a big organization. People come and go all the time providing PRs in their free time while having to also work another job.
@hasezoey commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2024):
As a update from my side (the OP of this issue):
and XX other artists.)TL;DR: the main issue persists, but it is not listed as "supported" in the docs anymore.
(re this comment)
As a note for anyone that might be doing the same, i am using Musicbrainz-Picard (
Preset 3: [album artist]/[album]/[disc and track #] [artist] - [title]), and this works greatly with jellyfin's folder structure.For context, my folder structure now basically is:
Jellyfin
10.10.3(docker)Picard
2.12.3@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Dec 3, 2025):
I don't know why nobody is picking this up either. I think it is an important feature. There must be some internal hurdles that we can not see.
@hyperdotbat commented on GitHub (Jan 19, 2026):
Slightly unrelated, but lets say we do sort singles into folders, I personally dont like there is no separation between Album and Single simply based on it being a single song, an option to allow this would be great
EDIT: I have found the feature request on Fider
@dschrempf commented on GitHub (Jan 19, 2026):
(I don't like it when a comment with a genuine question gets hidden as off topic).
I rephrase the question:
Are there hurdles/problems/issues that keep us from implementing this request? Is there a particular reason why we have not implemented this request yet? The issue is 5 years old.
@maru801 commented on GitHub (Jan 21, 2026):
Album views in music player apps or servers "abuse" albums to have it be a catch-all place for all music collection types. Singles don't always come with a literal single audio track. Singles can come with multiple audio tracks. Singles are the same as albums. It's just that they have different thresholds for what is considered one or the other.
As for an option to allow that behavior, maybe a toggle to make anything with a single audio track not have an "album" view could be made. It would also mean that if someone uploads an incomplete release to their server, incomplete releases with a single track would not get an album view when possibly the user wanted it to still get an album view (as they probably don't consider a single song from an album to also be a single). I guess you could also add more metadata info to the server to have users mark those tracks to be ignored by this toggle feature I'm made up, but that would no longer be automatic and rely on user input from then on. I believe this would work better as a client feature that just skips showing you albums with a single audio track instead of changing how the server stores media in its database.
Your original post that got hidden for being off-topic doesn't state any question.
To answer the question, there just hasn't been any desire from the main devs to "hurry up" progress on this. That is not to say they don't care about this. They just have been focusing on other things. From my understanding, they want to redo most of the way music is handled before having new additions to it be worked on.
@hyperdotbat commented on GitHub (Jan 21, 2026):
With Vorbis tags there is a field called Total Tracks, which is self explanatory, and this could be used to decipher if its a song from an incomplete album.
And Im sorry to bring an unrelated issue, please point me if there is one already for this as I couldnt find one myself; why is Date not parsed fully, meaning
2025-06-10becomes January 1st 2025 for the release date in clients such as Feishin