Phil Leigh;569216 Wrote: 
> This is basically correct. It works like this so that the "Group
> multi-disc Albums" option can function correctly. I see you don't use
> that option (which I guess for classical music makes sense? - although
> I do use it myself for the handful of multi-disc classical sets in my
> library).

Very interesting. I was wondering what's the point of these tags, since
multi-disc albums can be easily handled without them by having different
subdirectories for the different discs. But of course tags give you
better control, for example enabling you to order the discs as 1 versus
2.

I'm afraid I'm (until now) completely innocent of multi-disc albums
with SBS, because I always either break them up into separate albums
(for example, a set of Beethoven symphonies becomes one album per
symphony) or combine them into one (for example, Chopin's Nocturnes on
two discs becomes one big "disc"). In the latter case, I put all the
tracks from both discs into a single subdirectory, give them all the
same album name, number the tracks sequentially, and remove tags like
DISCNUMBER. MP3Tag makes this easy. I do the same with pop: Bruce
Springsteen's "Tracks" album, on four discs, is just one big virtual
disc for me.

I like the seamlessness this provides. It seems needless to remain
yoked to the CD format with its space limits, which are arbitrary when
the music consists of files on an enormous hard drive.

Anyway, let that be that my excuse for not knowing that the DISCNUMBER
and TOTALDISCS tags would cause files in different locations to be
grouped into a single album.

Another happy consequence of learning this is that it explains why my
WMA files appeared to be being treated differently. Those files don't
contain the DISCNUMBER or TOTALDISCS tags, since my WMA ripper doesn't
add those tags when there's only one disc, the way dbPoweramp does. So,
SBS treats the different file types consistently after all.


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