(27-05-2016 23:39)Servatius Wrote: Except for the album art, a solution could be to improve how the DISCSUBTITLE and GROUP tags work together.
Currently, when DISCSUBTITLE is set to the same value for multiple discs of an album, each disc is shown separately under its own heading, and groups must not span multiple discs (which they can if disc information is not displayed).
Couldn't this be extended by combining multiple consecutive discs of an album with the same value in the DISCSUBTITLE tag under the same disc information heading? And by allowing a group to span multiple consecutive discs having the same DISCSUBTITLE value? Track renumbering could be done separately within each of those disc sets.
As an example, if the box set consists of two albums A (with disc 1 and 2) and B (with disc 3 and 4), the same ALBUM tag could be used for the complete box set, a value of DISCSUBTITLE=A could be used for album A and DISCSUBTITLE=B for album B, and the GROUP tag could be used for grouping works across discs but not across albums. For me this looks like a good combination of existing concepts (that cannot be used together with a satisfying result at the moment).
A second useful extension would be to allow for suppressing the tracks/groups beneath the >> disc subtitle headings, e.g. when the value in DISCSUBTITLE starts with ">>". So instead of scrolling through a long list only the headings for each album in the box set would be shown and could be selected.
Thanks foir these suggestions. These are interesting ideas and I will consider them. At present, I am more inclined to do something with "box set" or "album set" to handle the OP's situation.
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