How to scrobble Music Videos in Jellyfin?

[kevjs1982]

Jellyfin music videos aren't getting scrobbled - the error message is "TITLE is being dropped because media detected as Video (MediaType) is not allowed".

I've included the full log below, and as you can see in my example config I believe I have explicitly allowed the Music Videos library and added to the additionalAllowedLibraryTypes Video and MusicVideo which are shown in the full log info JSON.

Am I missing something or is this a bug?

Documentation

The sample config includes musicvideos as an example which suggests that they should be supported (see additionalAllowedLibraryTypes) :-

[
  {
    "name": "MyJellyfin",
    "enable": true,
    "clients": [],
    "data": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8096",
      "user": "FoxxMD",
      "apiKey": "c9fae8756fbf481ebd9c5bb56bd6540c",

      // everything below is optional
      "usersAllow": ["FoxxMD","SomeOtherUser"],
      "usersBlock": ["AnotherUser"],
      "devicesAllow": ["firefox"],
      "devicesBlock": ["google-home"],
      "librariesAllow": ["GoodMusic"],
      "librariesBlock": ["BadMusic"],
      "additionalAllowedLibraryTypes": ["musicvideos"],
      "allowUnknown": false,
    },
    "options": {
      "logPayload": true,
      "logFilterFailure": "debug"
    }
  }
]

however this is kinda contradicted by the important defaults bit which suggests that by default

multi-scrobbler will only scrobble media Jellyfin detects as Audio.
To force multi-scrobbler to scrobble when media is detected as Unknown use "allowUnknown": true in file/aio configuration.

However the notes do suggest that simply adding a library means that this shouldn't be relevant:-

multi-scrobbler will only scrobble media found in Jellyfin libraries that were labelled as Music.
librariesAllow or JELLYFIN_LIBRARIES_ALLOW will override this
OR use additionalAllowedLibraryTypes to allow more types (like mixed or book for audiobooks)

without any suggestion of how to allow anything other than Audio or Unknown.

My Config file

[
  {
    "name": "MyJellyfin",
    "enable": true,
    "clients": [],
    "data": {
      "url": "http://192.168.6.103:8096/",
      "user": "kev",
      "apiKey": "ACTUAL_APIKEY_REDACTED",
      "usersAllow": ["kev"],
      "usersBlock": ["baduser"],
      "devicesAllow": [],
      "devicesBlock": [],
      "librariesAllow": ["Music","Audio Books","Music Videos"],
      "librariesBlock": ["BadMusic"],
      "additionalAllowedLibraryTypes": ["musicvideos","videos","Video","MusicVideo"],
      "allowUnknown": true,
    },
    "options": {
      "logPayload": true,
      "logFilterFailure": "debug"
    }
  }
]

Full log

[2026-01-17 11:18:07.706 +0000] DEBUG  : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] Player State for  -> cbc279adca-Kev's Bedroom Chromecast-Jellyfin Android TV-Kev Hurts - Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us (Live <-- is being dropped because media detected as Video (MediaType) is not allowed
[2026-01-17 11:18:07.705 +0000] DEBUG  : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] Player State for  -> cbc279adca-Kev's Bedroom Chromecast-Jellyfin Android TV-Kev Hurts - Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us (Live <-- is being dropped because media detected as Video (MediaType) is not allowed
[2026-01-17 11:18:07.703 +0000] DEBUG  : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] First time seeing media 648e904a70e9e76b53a3eee35e8ca0f8 on cbc279adca-Kev's Bedroom Chromecast-Jellyfin Android TV (play position 16.95) => {"Name":"Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us (Live","ServerId":"8d27e16972f9424b9be611546e8db025","Id":"648e904a70e9e76b53a3eee35e8ca0f8","DateCreated":"2017-03-26T15:19:58.0000000Z","Container":"mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2","ExternalUrls":[],"Path":"/media/PVR63/Videos/Music Videos/Hurts/Surrender/Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us (Live/Hurts - Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us (Live - Surrender Tour 2016).mp4","EnableMediaSourceDisplay":true,"ChannelId":null,"Overview":"Hurts - Northin Will Be Bigger Than Us\nSURRENDER is out now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/HurtsSurrenderDlx?IQid=YT \nBuy signed CDs and Vinyl: http://informationhurts.com or stream: http://smarturl.it/HurtsStrm?IQid=YT  \n\n--------------------\n\nSubscribe to Hurts: http://smarturl.it/HurtsYT\n\nTickets for The Surrender Tour 2016 are on sale now: www.informationhurts.com/live\n--------------------\n\nFollow Hurts:\nOfficial Website: http://www.informationhurts.com\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/hurts\nStream: http://smarturl.it/HurtsStrm?IQid=YT\n\n--------------------\nFollow Theo:\nhttps://twitter.com/theohurts\nhttps://instagram.com/theohurts/\n--------------------\n\nFollow Adam:\nhttps://twitter.com/AdamHurts\nhttps://instagram.com/adamhurts/","Taglines":[],"Genres":[],"RunTimeTicks":3108229930,"ProductionYear":2016,"ProviderIds":{},"IsHD":true,"IsFolder":false,"ParentId":"9e3dfba52d7d21da72adff446508c77d","Type":"MusicVideo","Studios":[{"Name":"Major Label","Id":"6545811b1ae778a6bbbab46d5afa2bed"}],"GenreItems":[],"LocalTrailerCount":0,"SpecialFeatureCount":0,"PrimaryImageAspectRatio":1.7777777777777777,"Artists":["Hurts"],"ArtistItems":[{"Name":"Hurts","Id":"3cb5356a8d7d7cd11f89fda351e5eb64"}],"Album":"Surrender","MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"h264","CodecTag":"avc1","Language":"und","ColorSpace":"bt709","ColorTransfer":"bt709","ColorPrimaries":"bt709","TimeBase":"1/90000","VideoRange":"SDR","VideoRangeType":"SDR","AudioSpatialFormat":"None","DisplayTitle":"1080p H264 SDR","NalLengthSize":"4","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":true,"BitRate":2264421,"BitDepth":8,"RefFrames":1,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"IsHearingImpaired":false,"Height":1080,"Width":1920,"AverageFrameRate":25,"RealFrameRate":25,"ReferenceFrameRate":25,"Profile":"High","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"16:9","Index":0,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuv420p","Level":40,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"aac","CodecTag":"mp4a","Language":"eng","TimeBase":"1/44100","VideoRange":"Unknown","VideoRangeType":"Unknown","AudioSpatialFormat":"None","LocalizedDefault":"Default","LocalizedExternal":"External","DisplayTitle":"English - AAC - Stereo - Default","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":false,"ChannelLayout":"stereo","BitRate":125588,"Channels":2,"SampleRate":44100,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"IsHearingImpaired":false,"Profile":"LC","Type":"Audio","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0}],"VideoType":"VideoFile","ImageTags":{"Primary":"e124c5056ca6141a0b331fcc7b5f29cc"},"BackdropImageTags":["8f2ef51b4b706bade0b732382136ff7f","8f2ef51b4b706bade0b732382136ff7f"],"ImageBlurHashes":{"Backdrop":{"8f2ef51b4b706bade0b732382136ff7f":"W78|^l-;-;t7-;_3M{j[IUM{RjWB00xu%M-;WBM{ofD%t7RjM{M{"},"Primary":{"e124c5056ca6141a0b331fcc7b5f29cc":"W78|^l-;-;t7-;_3M{j[IUM{RjWB00xu%M-;WBM{ofD%t7RjM{M{"}},"Chapters":[],"Trickplay":{"648e904a70e9e76b53a3eee35e8ca0f8":{"320":{"Width":320,"Height":180,"TileWidth":10,"TileHeight":10,"ThumbnailCount":31,"Interval":10000,"Bandwidth":1878}}},"LocationType":"FileSystem","MediaType":"Video","Width":1920,"Height":1080}

[FoxxMD]

@kevjs1982 sorry for the delay on getting to your issue.

additionalAllowedLibraryTypes

This is relevant only for the library type which is a label you apply when first creating a library, and shown under the library name for existing libraries.

I'm fairly certain Jellyfin only uses this as a superficial label, but it is an easier way to filter media to scrobble when a user has many libraries with many names. Instead of needing to specify 10 library names in librariesAllow, you can specify "additionalAllowedLibraryTypes": ["musicvideos", "music"] so that all 10 libraries using either of those labels are allowed.

However the notes do suggest that simply adding a library means that this shouldn't be relevant

This is not true. Libraries can have mixed media types in them. A user may want to specify that only Dylan's Cool Library is scrobbled to Dylan's Lastfm client in multi-scrobbler by using librariesAllow, but they may not want every media type in that library to be scrobbled, like movies or tv.

allowUnknown

cbc279adca-Kev's Bedroom Chromecast-Jellyfin Android TV-Kev Hurts - Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us (Live <-- is being dropped because media detected as Video (MediaType) is not allowed

I do the see the problem here, though. Jellyfin literally has a media type named Unknown that it uses when it can't determine the type of media based on codec/container (I think). allowUnknown was meant to make that specific scenario scrobbable but I understand that your scenario of scrobbling music videos is not captured by that.

In PR #467 I have made the additionalAllowedLibraryTypes wording clearer and also added a new jellyfin config, allowMediaTypes, which will allow you to explicitly set which media types MS should scrobble for.

Please try docker image foxxmd/multi-scrobbler:pr-467 and use the updated docs at https://deploy-preview-467--multi-scrobbler.netlify.app/configuration/sources/jellyfin/ to configure allowMediaTypes (see the new info in Important Defaults section). This new config is configurable via ENV or config.

[FoxxMD]

Hey @kevjs1982 have you had a chance to check this out?

[kevjs1982]

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work

[2026-02-10 17:25:40.488 +0000] DEBUG : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] Player State for -> 73129d96ab-Kev's Bedroom Google TV-Jellyfin Android TV-Kev Alizée - Moi... Lolita <-- is being dropped because media detected as a MusicVideo (Type) is not allowed

[2026-02-10 17:25:40.484 +0000] DEBUG : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] First time seeing media c413e199b6ba35049317c3c3bc492fe8 on 73129d96ab-Kev's Bedroom Google TV-Jellyfin Android TV (play position 5.783) => {"Name":"Moi... Lolita","ServerId":"8d27e16972f9424b9be611546e8db025","Id":"c413e199b6ba35049317c3c3bc492fe8","DateCreated":"2017-03-26T12:08:46.0000000Z","Container":"mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2","ExternalUrls":[],"Path":"/media/PVR63/Videos/Music Videos/Alizée/Moi... Lolita/Alizée - Moi...Lolita.mp4","EnableMediaSourceDisplay":true,"ChannelId":null,"Overview":"","Taglines":[],"Genres":["French pop"],"RunTimeTicks":3213790000,"ProductionYear":2000,"ProviderIds":{},"IsHD":true,"IsFolder":false,"ParentId":"ae8866126b3a87a106c2124230fdee3b","Type":"MusicVideo","Studios":[],"GenreItems":[{"Name":"French pop","Id":"15368594c9ceeba966fd33f0eabc2a7a"}],"LocalTrailerCount":0,"SpecialFeatureCount":0,"PrimaryImageAspectRatio":1,"Artists":["Alizée"],"ArtistItems":[{"Name":"Alizée","Id":"d69b0f36ee1324d66d48f45b50e0eec6"}],"Album":"Gourmandises","MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"h264","CodecTag":"avc1","Language":"und","TimeBase":"1/16000","VideoRange":"SDR","VideoRangeType":"SDR","AudioSpatialFormat":"None","DisplayTitle":"720p H264 SDR","NalLengthSize":"4","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":true,"BitRate":1554567,"BitDepth":8,"RefFrames":1,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"IsHearingImpaired":false,"Height":720,"Width":1280,"AverageFrameRate":29.998848,"RealFrameRate":29.97003,"ReferenceFrameRate":29.998848,"Profile":"High","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"16:9","Index":0,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuv420p","Level":31,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"aac","CodecTag":"mp4a","Language":"fra","TimeBase":"1/44100","VideoRange":"Unknown","VideoRangeType":"Unknown","AudioSpatialFormat":"None","LocalizedDefault":"Default","LocalizedExternal":"External","DisplayTitle":"French - AAC - Stereo - Default","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":false,"ChannelLayout":"stereo","BitRate":127929,"Channels":2,"SampleRate":44100,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"IsHearingImpaired":false,"Profile":"LC","Type":"Audio","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0}],"VideoType":"VideoFile","ImageTags":{"Primary":"8cfe981df8c26f49328dc9b9a84ac32c","Thumb":"2a36c19f414667056358512584176cdd"},"BackdropImageTags":["de0df5c11f9af911b293fd85d8f86471","de0df5c11f9af911b293fd85d8f86471"],"ImageBlurHashes":{"Backdrop":{"de0df5c11f9af911b293fd85d8f86471":"WcN]B,%0j[-nae%1={oLa|jZj[of={j@ayj[j[j[~AoeayoLayoK"},"Primary":{"8cfe981df8c26f49328dc9b9a84ac32c":"ezP~NL#-n4#mrrJSNGn%ofoLHYR*o#bIj[ads:oLe.jFq]tRbHV@kC"},"Thumb":{"2a36c19f414667056358512584176cdd":"N98X,NtjMMH]g2x@*EyAMgR7oLo{MztitQoeVuRR"}},"Chapters":[],"Trickplay":{"c413e199b6ba35049317c3c3bc492fe8":{"320":{"Width":320,"Height":180,"TileWidth":10,"TileHeight":10,"ThumbnailCount":1,"Interval":10000,"Bandwidth":2060}}},"LocationType":"FileSystem","MediaType":"Video","Width":1280,"Height":720}

Full config

[
  {
    "name": "MyJellyfin",
    "enable": true,
    "clients": [],
    "data": {
      "url": "REDACTED",
      "user": "kev",
      "apiKey": "REDACTED",
      "usersAllow": ["kev"],
      "usersBlock": ["stoffel"],
      "devicesAllow": [],
      "devicesBlock": [],
      "librariesAllow": ["Music","Audio Books","Music Videos"],
      "librariesBlock": ["BadMusic"],
	  "allowMediaTypes": ["audio","Video"],
      "additionalAllowedLibraryTypes": ["musicvideos"],
      "allowUnknown": true,
    },
    "options": {
      "logPayload": true,
      "logFilterFailure": "debug",
	   "playTransform": {
        "preCompare": [
          {
            "type": "musicbrainz",
            "name": "MyMB",
			"meta": true
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
]

If you try and add MusicVideo to "allowMediaTypes" then it fails to initalise and you get this error:-

[2026-02-10 17:23:08.802 +0000] ERROR  : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] Cannot start polling because Source is not ready
Error: Cannot start polling because Source is not ready
    at JellyfinApiSource.poll (CWD/src/backend/sources/AbstractSource.ts:328:35)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
caused by: Error: Initialization failed
    at JellyfinApiSource.initialize (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:70:19)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async JellyfinApiSource.tryInitialize (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:90:20)
    at async JellyfinApiSource.poll (CWD/src/backend/sources/AbstractSource.ts:326:17)
caused by: Init Build Data: Building required data for initialization failed
    at JellyfinApiSource.buildInitData (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:161:19)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async JellyfinApiSource.initialize (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:46:13)
    at async JellyfinApiSource.tryInitialize (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:90:20)
    at async JellyfinApiSource.poll (CWD/src/backend/sources/AbstractSource.ts:326:17)
caused by: Error: Not a valid MediaType: MusicVideo
    at stringToMediaType (CWD/src/backend/sources/JellyfinApiSource.ts:619:19)
    at JellyfinApiSource.doBuildInitData (CWD/src/backend/sources/JellyfinApiSource.ts:171:49)
    at JellyfinApiSource.buildInitData (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:147:36)
    at JellyfinApiSource.initialize (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:46:24)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async JellyfinApiSource.tryInitialize (CWD/src/backend/common/AbstractInitializable.ts:90:20)
    at async JellyfinApiSource.poll (CWD/src/backend/sources/AbstractSource.ts:326:17)

[FoxxMD]

Please try pulling the latest foxxmd/multi-scrobbler:pr-467 image and see if that works for you. In all the refactoring I did I neglected to check if the official MediaType list had musicvideo...just assumed it did since there is actual data that uses it. But nope! So I've added it in manually.

You should be good to use this in your config, after updating:

"allowMediaTypes": ["audio","MusicVideo"],

[kevjs1982]

Perfect

[2026-02-11 08:48:08.093 +0000] DEBUG  : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] [Player 73129d96ab-Kev's Bedroom Google TV-Jellyfin Android TV-Kev] Started new Player listen range.
[2026-02-11 08:48:08.092 +0000] VERBOSE: [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] [Player 73129d96ab-Kev's Bedroom Google TV-Jellyfin Android TV-Kev] New Play: (119e7f2c83622279a34c897c5e02c3b4) Bløf - Aan De Kust
[2026-02-11 08:48:08.090 +0000] DEBUG  : [App] [Sources] [Jellyfin - MyJellyfin] First time seeing media 119e7f2c83622279a34c897c5e02c3b4 on 73129d96ab-Kev's Bedroom Google TV-Jellyfin Android TV (play position 12.779) => {"Name":"Aan De Kust","ServerId":"8d27e16972f9424b9be611546e8db025","Id":"119e7f2c83622279a34c897c5e02c3b4","DateCreated":"2017-03-26T12:29:05.0000000Z","Container":"mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2","ExternalUrls":[],"Path":"/media/PVR63/Videos/Music Videos/Bløf/Aan De Kust/Bløf - Aan De Kust.mp4","EnableMediaSourceDisplay":true,"ChannelId":null,"Taglines":[],"Genres":["Rock"],"RunTimeTicks":2175709750,"ProductionYear":1998,"ProviderIds":{},"IsFolder":false,"ParentId":"1466bd35825dd2beeca0e054bbdf2b81","Type":"MusicVideo","Studios":[],"GenreItems":[{"Name":"Rock","Id":"56fb6975193af0b35d4dc8edf77a419d"}],"LocalTrailerCount":0,"SpecialFeatureCount":0,"PrimaryImageAspectRatio":1,"Artists":["Bløf"],"ArtistItems":[],"Album":"Naakt Onder De Hemel","MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"aac","CodecTag":"mp4a","Language":"nld","TimeBase":"1/44100","VideoRange":"Unknown","VideoRangeType":"Unknown","AudioSpatialFormat":"None","LocalizedDefault":"Default","LocalizedExternal":"External","DisplayTitle":"Dutch - AAC - Stereo - Default","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":false,"ChannelLayout":"stereo","BitRate":125586,"Channels":2,"SampleRate":44100,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"IsHearingImpaired":false,"Profile":"LC","Type":"Audio","Index":0,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0},{"Codec":"h264","CodecTag":"avc1","Language":"und","TimeBase":"1/24995","VideoRange":"SDR","VideoRangeType":"SDR","AudioSpatialFormat":"None","DisplayTitle":"360p H264 SDR","NalLengthSize":"2","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":true,"BitRate":500184,"BitDepth":8,"RefFrames":1,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"IsHearingImpaired":false,"Height":270,"Width":480,"AverageFrameRate":24.995,"RealFrameRate":24.995,"ReferenceFrameRate":24.995,"Profile":"Baseline","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"16:9","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuv420p","Level":21,"IsAnamorphic":false}],"VideoType":"VideoFile","ImageTags":{"Primary":"9160b9fee3a9f359656a1334dfd847d0","Thumb":"c30dff1a706be4d837226b431a682570"},"BackdropImageTags":["84e8f546ff93e9a129450a403a02070d","84e8f546ff93e9a129450a403a02070d"],"ImageBlurHashes":{"Backdrop":{"84e8f546ff93e9a129450a403a02070d":"WOH__ZXSj]s;aKsX6;jIaej]kCkVxws-WWjZa|ju~9S2ofj[e.e:"},"Primary":{"9160b9fee3a9f359656a1334dfd847d0":"eWHLMS%20KNGM{QS%1ODR*t6={RjXToKjb4.SgjEnis:X-I:o2xaR*"},"Thumb":{"c30dff1a706be4d837226b431a682570":"erMHW2t6afoej]~qxvaeoLR*j[RiWBofRjRixtogaxjsogt7WBj[t6"}},"Chapters":[],"Trickplay":{"119e7f2c83622279a34c897c5e02c3b4":{"320":{"Width":320,"Height":180,"TileWidth":10,"TileHeight":10,"ThumbnailCount":1,"Interval":10000,"Bandwidth":2152}}},"LocationType":"FileSystem","MediaType":"Video","Width":480,"Height":270}

MusicVideo support is a bit sketchy in JellyFin - their own Apple TV app shows it as unsupported content!

[FoxxMD]

Fixes are available in v0.11.3