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Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #25 –
Quote from: sketching on
I'm confused with what state your music files are in right now. How do you have your tracks stored on your hard drive and are they properly tagged to any degree?

They are fine, each album in separate directory, soundtrack inside its own subfolder - all thanks to foobar. The problem is only with multi disc albums - plese refer to my 1st post - dont you see any contradiction there?

Quote from: randal1013 on
you don't need to have the track numbers exactly right for freedb to figure what album it is and apply track titles.

I guess you dont need tracknumber at all.  Well, I need it and reasons are above (problem is correcting mistakes from freedb - this can be accomplished by comparing track name from few sources, the easiest way is to find it by tracknumber - clear enough now?).

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #26 –
I honestly don't know what your first post is talking about. None of your files currently have any metadata filled out? They are only organized on your hard drive by folders down to each disk?

If so, why not:
1. Run a tagging program on each folder and get the proper track numbers from a database.
2. Make sure the discnumber is properly filled.
3. Place all album files in a single folder (so that only a single album art image is used)
4. Use foobar2000 to properly name each file by a scheme that will properly organize each file within each folder, something like:
%album%\%disk number%.%track number% %title%
?

Once everything is properly tagged, foobar2000 already properly sorts multi-disc albums in the correct order, by disc then by track.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #27 –
I have all tags properly set, my first post is about that when you tag files this way (without subfolders for each disc) "Auto track number" doesnt work as it should because it scans by dirs not tags.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #28 –
Okay then.
1. Put all of the files for a single disc in a temporary playlist.
2. Re-order them the way you want, in the order that they should be in.
3. Select all the tracks and go the Properties dialog.
4. Apply Auto Track Number to each disc's files individually.
5. Repeat for each disk.

That will give you the proper track numbers as you want, for each disc. Then, fill out the discnumber fields. Once you have the files properly tagged with the tracknumber and discnumber info, you can place all the album's files in a single folder.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #29 –
You think I dont know that?  The point it this could be automatic.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #30 –
Why not use a tagging program, or the Freedb tagging function? I assume that they properly fill in the track numbers for each disc and disc number, unless I'm wrong in that assumption.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #31 –
Exactly - even freedb tagger tags every disc with tracknumber beggining from 01 - and why "Auto track number" destroys it by design?

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #32 –
If you have the tracks tagged from the freedb tagger, why do you want to re-tag them with Auto Track Number?

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #33 –
I dont, but not everything is in freedb and than "Auto track number" is used - and IMHO it should behave the same as other components.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #34 –
Ah, okay.
Then, what more do you want from Auto Track Number? It doesn't look up any info, it simply tags tracks in the order that you place them in, that's all that it is supposed to do.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #35 –
No, it actually doeas a little more, scans discs by dirs - treats every album in every dir as separate disc. I mentioned it already in first post.
Possible solution would be scanning also by tags, such a solutions is already in "album grouping pattern" in RG scan advanced options.
That way you could auto track number all your library with one click. You can do this now if you have each disc in separate dir, but than you loose artowrk viewing. Ehh, looks like some dont get the idea

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #36 –
I think the best solution would be to not use auto track number at all, according to the wiki:

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Auto track number
This gives the track number according to the order of the files in the selection.


Unless you are going to put all the files in the correct order it would be far easier for you to just use the discogs plugin or the freedb2 plugin. There's no reason to change auto track number when there's plenty of ways to do what you need without changing how auto track number works.

Inconsistency with multi disc albums and default interface

Reply #37 –
To answer your original question, I use the first option and just manually copy / paste the album art into each of the other folders.  Yes, it is extremely annoying to have to do that, and if i find better looking album art, I have to go and update each folder.  For now, I would tell you to just be patient; other people have already asked in the Album art support thread about being able to change the searching pattern for album art (I refer you to this post in particular for a developer's response).