Problem with multidisc album with disc subtitle

[paultaylor]

(05-03-2018 16:08)simoncn Wrote:  Any user can put anything they want into any field. MinimServer doesn't have any view on whether the value that the user has specified is "correct" for the field. The standard purpose of the DISCSUBTITLE field is to provide a string that is shown in the control point to identify the disc, and MinimServer is using it for this purpose. MinimServer does not infer any special meaning if this field happens to contain "Disc 1" or "Disc 2", etc.

From a tagging perspective the point of the DISCSUBTITLE field is to display the disc subtitle, from ID3 spec The 'Set subtitle' frame is intended for the subtitle of the part of a set this track belongs to. Minimserver uses it to provide a string that is shown in the control point to identify the disc but the point Im trying to make is that whilst storing 'Disc 1' aids your requirement that is not a disc subtitle. I would say the difference is in one case the artist has actually given a name to the set of files on a disc, or in the case of a boxset they represent an album, but in the case of Disc 1/Disc 2 there simply is not enough space to physically store all the tracks on one disc. Now if you only want to show multiple discs when the artist has named the set then the existing SongKong usage of the field works well with MinimServer, but if you always want to display the physical discs without adding discno to the subtitle field then it does not.

(05-03-2018 16:08)simoncn Wrote:  I think we have a different opinion on the "requirement of the MinimServer GROUP field" (see above). I will start a discussion thread about adding a showDiscs property or option.

I'm not aware that we do, MinimServer GROUP is similar to a WORK field but the restrictions about having contiguous tracks within a group and not having a GROUP span multiple discs mean its not the same as WORK hence why a separate field is usually needed for the GROUP compared to the field that van be used for browsing by WORK.