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Collaboration albums don't show individual artists but a merged one #7121
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Originally created by @neobrain on GitHub (Jun 26, 2025).
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Describe the bug
Many collaboration albums in my library are associated with a singular artist name
A & Binstead of having multiple (individually clickable) artist fieldsAandB. The albums also won't show up in the album list of the individual artist pages.Example (note how the album artist is a single link; for the tracks the artists are shown individually):
At least in principle, the
MusicBrainz Release Artist Idtag contains all information to unambiguously identify each artist (click to expand):Details
Reproduction Steps
Expected/Actual behaviour
Two individual artists should show up as separate links (
Miami WeiszandEdgar Wasser). Currently, a singular artist namedMiami Weisz & Edgar Wasseris created).Furthermore, the album
Es rappelt in der Kisteshould probably be listed as an album in the artist pages of bothMiami WeiszandEdgar Wasser. Currently, it is only listed under "Appears On".Logs
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Server version
10.10.6
Web version
10.10.6
Build version
10.10.6
Platform
Linux
Browser
Firefox 140
Additional information
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@viown commented on GitHub (Jun 26, 2025):
This is likely an issue with your files tags where both artists are placed as a single artist which you can either fix manually using a tag editor or you can tell Jellyfin to use '&' as a delimiter by going to Dashboard -> Libraries -> Choose your music library -> Scroll down to 'Custom Tag Delimiter' and add '&' to the field.
Note that this would also split regular artist names that use an ampersand.
@neobrain commented on GitHub (Jun 26, 2025):
Sadly that won't work here due to the reason you mentioned. It's a fairly large library, and EDM artists like to have weird names :)
Even that doesn't seem to work. I tried replacing
&with;or,but that still yields a merged artist name (just with a different character at center).Both approaches aren't ideal due to inconvenience it adds over taking Picard's output, which generally is very reliable. Could Jellyfin instead use the embedded
MusicBrainztags (see second screenshot) to extract the artists automatically without such issues (given that these tags are unambiguous and don't require any separator heuristics)?@Sioeen commented on GitHub (Sep 10, 2025):
A bit of a late reply but I just had to deal with this
You have to make sure you've enabled "Use custom tag delimiter" (Which you may have done, but I did not and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working).
Also, after changing the metadata you have to scan your library with "Replace all metadata" mode. There's also another way in case you don't want to replace the metadata of unrelated media. For this you have to change the metadata, move the folder containing the media you're dealing with, do a quick scan (which should delete unused artists profiles such as the one merging two artists), move back the folder to it's original place and then scan again.
@Sioeen commented on GitHub (Sep 10, 2025):
One last thing, it's better to use ";" instead of "," as artists are more likely to use the latter. I decided to use comma as delimiter and in some edge cases ("Tyler, the Creator", "Earth, Wind & Fire", etc.) that caused problems that I had to manually fix by simply removing the "," (which is not ideal but oh well)
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@neobrain commented on GitHub (Jan 9, 2026):
Haven't noticed any improvements in artist name handling.
To elaborate, the suggested workarounds are impractical if you already have a setup that automatically tags imported audio files (like beets or Picard). As-is, any import requires a manual do-over pass to ensure specific (hard to remember) rules are followed.