Jellyfin and multiple Artists ( semicolon? )

[Emporea]

I have tagged my music with the spotify plugin using --group-album option.
If an album or song has multiple artists the artist folder name and the artist tag use a comma ',' for seperation.
AFAIK jellyfin uses semicolons to recognize multiple artists.

Now I have multiple artists of the same artist, cause jellyfin thinks an artist with a comma and a second artist is another artist.

Does somebody know if I can change something in jellyfin?
Or is there a beets command that will write all tags with ";" instead of ","?
Will this help, since the folders would still contain "," as i think that its not allowed for a semicolon to be in a filepath?

[JOJ0]

You could try the ftintitle plugin. For example it translates artist1, artist2 - tracktitle1 to artist1 - tracktitle1 (feat. artist2)

I know it works with MusicBrainz-tagged files as well as Discogs tagged ones. Not sure if spotify-tagged will work. Just give it a try or ask @arsaboo whether they know by heart if it works :-)

All the best and HTH

[Emporea]

hogwards meme: why is it that if i ask a question its always you.

[JOJ0]

Did the ftintitle plugin help?

[Emporea]

I haven't tried this yet. For the beginning I am searching for a way to sperate artists via a semicolon inside the tags. Is there a way?

[Emporea]

I already have imported all my music.

I dont know if I failed to explain it or If I was unable to understand how ftintitle could help me.

If a song has multilpe artists they are seperated by a comma

Album                           : Delirium
Album Artist                    : Fatoni, Edgar Wasser
Albumartist                     : Fatoni, Edgar Wasser
Albumartist Credit              : 
Albumartistsort                 : 
Musicbrainz Albumcomment        : 
Releasestatus                   : official
Musicbrainz Albumstatus         : official
Releasetype                     : album
Musicbrainz Albumtype           : album
Arranger                        : 
Artist                          : Fatoni, Edgar Wasser

Jellyfin has problems recognizing comma in artist fields. ASAIK it need semicolons. Is there a beets configuration that lets me choose the artist seperator?

[JOJ0]

Separation of Artists is done by the metadata source plugin you are using. Some can do strings instead of simply comma as separaters, something like "feat" or "&" or "and".

This would result in artist tags like "artist1 feat artist2" for example.

And those can be translated by the ftintitle plugin to "artist1" in artist tag and "title feat artist2" in title tag.

Thus you'd get artist tags without comma

Unfortunately my first suggestion a couple of posts above #4620 (comment) was missing a piece: You dont have strings like "feat" as a separator because you used Spotify plugin which doesnt support that. It always uses comma afaik (assumption alert! you'd need to check the spotify code)

This function provides the words used by ftintitle as separators

beets/beets/plugins.py

Lines 494 to 505 in 6c06a18

	def feat_tokens(for_artist=True):
	"""Return a regular expression that matches phrases like "featuring"
	that separate a main artist or a song title from secondary artists.
	The `for_artist` option determines whether the regex should be
	suitable for matching artist fields (the default) or title fields.
	"""
	feat_words = ['ft', 'featuring', 'feat', 'feat.', 'ft.']
	if for_artist:
	feat_words += ['with', 'vs', 'and', 'con', '&']
	return r'(?<=\s)(?:{})(?=\s)'.format(
	'|'.join(re.escape(x) for x in feat_words)
	)

My assumption that a simple comma is a feat token as well was wrong. I didnt check the code before I suggested it to you. Sorry.

[arsaboo]

I would also look at the import-replace plugin. It allows regex substitution at the time of import.

[TheRedCyclops]

For anyone looking at this in the future now jellyfin supports custom delimiters in the library settings, so for this use case there's no need to change the commas to semicolons