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?
yeah, I haven’t done much with music that’s not in English. You can also look up the album in the musicbrainz database as well to see how it’s listed there before you stick Picard on it.
Also another helpful resource when I was learning how to arrange my libraries…
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/music
Also note that the music library in Jellyfin has a preferred language option that might apply here.