RonM wrote: > I have a series of DVDs from the Scottish/American co-produced series > The Transatlantic Sessions, from the 90s through 2013. These feature > musicians from the celtic tradition (Scottish/Irish mainly) and American > roots musicians; they share common musical roots. The series were also > released as CDs but these are mostly out of stock and no longer in > production, and I've never found an online source for downloading. So > I've ripped the music tracks from the DVDs. Sound quality is excellent, > and I've left in some of the commentary for variety. > > My objective has been to have all of the tracks for each season listed > as one album, e.g. Transatlantic Sessions 2, with some 45 tracks, and so > on. > > 38813 > > In doing this I've discovered what seems to me to be an oddity. I edit > tags/details using MP3Tag, and identify all the tracks in a season (all > in the same folder) in sequence, with track number specified, and all > with the same single album name for the season identified. For several > of the seasons I'd ripped so that the filenames included a reference to > the episode in which the track was included. For example, the filename > could be preceded by "TS6-6 - ", for Transatlantic Sessions season 6 > episode 6. I had originally been renaming the files to be preceded by > the track number, allowing a sort through which I could then specify > track number in the tags. See below for examples of filenames done in > the two different ways: > > 38814 38815 > > As you can see, both had track number specified. I then had the > brainwave that I didn't need to edit each filename, I could just amend > the track number directly, which was annoying but marginally faster than > editing the filename. I thought it wouldn't make a difference. > > Weirdly, from my point of view, this resulted in two different ways that > LMS displayed the tracks by album. If there was no season/episode > specified at the start of the track name a single album was identified > with all the tracks listed in track order, as in the image above at the > top. If there WAS a season/episode specified in the form "TS6-6 - ", LMS > sorts them into separate "albums" according to this taxonomy. All the > TS6-1 tracks are in one album, the TS6-2 in another, and so on. I can > fix the problem by taking out the season/episode info at the start of > the filename, which I have done, leaving only Season 6 with the > season/episode info. You can see the result below, with Season 6 divided > into 6 albums, but only one album showing for each of the other > seasons: > > 38816 > > I wonder if LMS is set up to sort by album based on a value at the start > of a filename, perhaps with a hyphen after the "album" value and before > other information? > > This is not a real problem for me, as I will fix Season 6 when I get > around to it by renaming all the filenames, but it is a bit tedious. > > RonIs there a difference in the tags for the different behaviours? You mentioned tags in the post but didn't show any. Can you show a screenshot of the tags?
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