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Better music management
(lemmy.fish)
I've started using beets to manage my music library, but it doesn't work well with jellyfin. As you can see, it creates about a million artists off of features, and this makes it hard to use. I can't find a way to fix this in beets, so I'm considering switching, but haven't found any proper alternatives. Do you guys solve this in any way, or use a different management software that is more standard? Thank you!
This is a Jellyfin problem; not a beets problem. You can easily solve it with beets config if you’d like to, though.
The distinction between what you want vs. what you’re getting is that Jellyfin is grouping by the “Artist” tag instead of the “Album Artist” tag. I haven’t touched Jellyfin in years, but look for a builtin setting or alternative view to group by album artist - you’ll almost certainly find it.
If you want to solve it in beets, you can do that through a custom script, the FtInTitle plugin, or a combo of the inline + advancedrewrite plugins. Remember to run a re-import on the Jellyfin side after making your tweaks to the beets pipeline to make your changes show up without duplication.