Below are the extended tags for the first track of each of the six CDs in my copy of the six CD set of "The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60". The entire set is stored within a single folder and is recognized by SBS as only one "CD" (I much prefer to use the terms "item" or "recording").
Here's what I've been doing to get SBS to recognize all my multi-disc sets as singe items. I use dbPoweramp for all my CD ripping. 1) I rip the CDs using dbPoweramp with the following settings: A) Under "Meta Data & ID Tag Options" 1) "Disc Number" is unchecked 2) "Track number without track count" is checked 3) "Disc number without disc count" is unchecked 4) Pad disc number to 2 digits" is unchecked B) I always make sure that the "Disc" number shows the correct number, i.e. 1/2 or 2/6 etc. C) I always make sure that the "Artist", "Album Artist", "Album" and "Year" are the same for each disc. 2) Once the discs have been ripped I use the mp3tag program to change the "Track" tag from "01" (which is how dbPoweramp tags the track number) to "101" by using the "Filename - Tag" button (located along the top row of icons) with the format string set to "%track% - %dummy%" 3) I do not use replaygain since most of my collection is jazz and the loundness wars have not (yet) affected many, if any, jazz recordings that I know of. Tags: ALBUM: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60 ALBUM ARTIST: Lou Donaldson ALBUMARTIST: Lou Donaldson ARTIST: Lou Donaldson DATE: 2002 GENRE: Jazz TITLE: Sputnik TRACKNUMBER: 101 ALBUM: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60 ALBUM ARTIST: Lou Donaldson ALBUMARTIST: Lou Donaldson ARTIST: Lou Donaldson DATE: 2002 GENRE: Jazz TITLE: Dorothy TRACKNUMBER: 201 ALBUM: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60 ALBUM ARTIST: Lou Donaldson ALBUMARTIST: Lou Donaldson ARTIST: Lou Donaldson DATE: 2002 GENRE: Jazz TITLE: Light Foot TRACKNUMBER: 301 ALBUM: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60 ALBUM ARTIST: Lou Donaldson ALBUMARTIST: Lou Donaldson ARTIST: Lou Donaldson DATE: 2002 GENRE: Jazz TITLE: The Squirrel TRACKNUMBER: 401 ALBUM: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60 ALBUM ARTIST: Lou Donaldson ALBUMARTIST: Lou Donaldson ARTIST: Lou Donaldson DATE: 2002 GENRE: Jazz TITLE: Caravan TRACKNUMBER: 501 ALBUM: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60 ALBUM ARTIST: Lou Donaldson ALBUMARTIST: Lou Donaldson ARTIST: Lou Donaldson DATE: 2002 GENRE: Jazz TITLE: Mack The Knife TRACKNUMBER: 601 As you can see no "Disc Number" or "Track Total" in any of the tags. Sorry for the lack of indenting but the forum software just seems to ignore whatever indenting I try to insert. Anyway this procedure works like a charm. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85925 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
