Problem display album or track on jellyfin

Stephane_Caire · July 15, 2021, 7:15pm

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Issue description:
Hello,
Sorry for my bad english, i’m french.

i use yatse for jellyfin
For some time now, some artists have found this without songs or albums.
Logs:
debug-20210715_211014.zip (4.8 MB)

Screenshots:

Additional information:

Tolriq · July 15, 2021, 7:35pm

There’s a bug in their API that return non matching IDs and no way to get the missing data.

github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin

Problematic API issue with artists / albums

opened 09:18AM - 15 May 21 UTC

closed 04:03PM - 30 Dec 21 UTC

Tolriq

bug

**Describe the bug** API returns non matching data for artists causing proble…ms for API consumers. **System (please complete the following information):** Any OS, reported mostly with 10.7.X but maybe present before. **To Reproduce** Query the artists : ``` http://xxxxx:8096/Artists?Recursive=true&ParentId=xxxx&Fields=Genres,SortName,ProviderIds,DateCreated&startIndex=0&limit=1000&UserId=xxxxx ``` You will get for example ``` {"Name":"Adele","ServerId":"xxxxxxx","Id":"935931fba2250076087b1dcfe0d9d39c","DateCreated":"2020-06-21T18:39:28.2497865Z","SortName":"adele","ChannelId":null,"Genres":["Pop","Pop Soul","Folk"],"RunTimeTicks":105382797312,"ProviderIds":{},"Type":"MusicArtist","GenreItems":[{"Name":"Pop","Id":"f1f202f389018ad2c0766af4b0fcb155"},{"Name":"Pop Soul","Id":"2ca505ceb89ddb4b3def5271883f7cf9"},{"Name":"Folk","Id":"9a542eba8ecf66ca66dc99ecf3452477"}],"UserData":{"PlaybackPositionTicks":0,"PlayCount":0,"IsFavorite":false,"Played":false,"Key":"Artist-Adele"},"ImageTags":{},"BackdropImageTags":[],"ImageBlurHashes":{},"LocationType":"FileSystem"} ``` Notice the ID: **935931fba2250076087b1dcfe0d9d39c** Then request the albums: ``` http://xxxx:8096/Users/xxx/Items?Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=MusicAlbum&ParentId=7e64e319657a9516ec78490da03edccb&ExcludeLocationTypes=Virtual&Fields=Genres,SortName,Path,DateCreated,ProductionYear,CommunityRating&startIndex=0&limit=1000&UserId=xxxx ``` And the albums will have: ``` "ArtistItems":[{"Name":"Adele","Id":"fe0ce443bd0a8c005e05e62c4b47b45b"}],"AlbumArtist":"Adele","AlbumArtists":[{"Name":"Adele","Id":"fe0ce443bd0a8c005e05e62c4b47b45b"}] ``` Another ID for the artist making it impossible to match both from the API. **Expected behavior** The same ID or both IDS should be returned by both end points when Jellyfin have multiple IDs internally.

They do not seem interested in fixing any time soon.

Stephane_Caire · July 15, 2021, 7:47pm

Okay
Not possible to bypass

Tolriq · July 15, 2021, 7:56pm

Save your database and rescan your music.

For a few users this fix the issue by only having 1 ID. For others it’s more about artist with and without musicbrainz ID.

But yes on my side from the API I have access to there’s nothing I can use to workaround.

Stephane_Caire · July 16, 2021, 5:18pm

It’s Ok with Rescan library

Tolriq · July 16, 2021, 5:38pm

Good to know, I really hope they one day fix this it hits more and more people

SBado · July 21, 2021, 7:21am

Hello! I’m facing the same problem, so I thought to give Finamp a try and it’s working correctly for me. @Tolriq maybe you can ask the author how he got around this API limitation?

Tolriq · July 21, 2021, 8:18am

They don’t use any cache at all, and query everything each time a complete different way than Yatse.

So it works thanks to the internals of Jellyfin that knows about the multiple IDs and returns the albums whatever IDs is used. But this can’t work for Yatse that works 100% offline.

They really need to fix the API if they care about having advanced clients.