Feature suggestion: customise abum, title inside groups

[simoncn]

(28-04-2013 00:18)Oliviander Wrote:  I don't see Discsubtitling in this case being helpful,
but I do see great potential in using Discsubtitle in many more
ways if the seperation it makes wouldn't actually be limited to the physical discs.
Especially I would see very good use in my Pop Collection
if this could be used to separate the Original Album Titles
from the bonus titles of an Album.
It is not very helpful to make 2 groups for that
as you won't select tracks that way but, as a reminder
to see where the bonus titles begin
Discsubtitle could be a great feature for this if it could be used
independently from the discnumbers.

You need to have DISCNUMBER tags to use DISCSUBTITLE. It should be fine to create these DISCNUMBER tags by aliasing some other tag.

Quote:I just tried to alias such a seperation to the DISCNUMBER TAG
to get this result but with no luck even when making it 1,2,3,4
like real discnumbers and using discsubtitles accordingly.

This should work, assuming you don't have "real" DISCNUMBER tags as well as aliased DISCNUMBER tags.

Have you checked the log for warning messages?

Quote:Obviously I don't fully understand how this disc seperation
actually works. (Maybe I should begin with the Tracknumbers
each time at 1 to get any effect.)

This isn't necessary.

Quote:From the explanations of your handbook I would have suspected that
the renumbering of multidiscalbums would work here
to renumber each album created from a Work this way
with number 1 and not indicating multiple discs.

Merging and renumbering will work if you follow the rules described in the second paragraph of this section. You won't get merging and renumbering if there are DISCSUBTITLE tags or if the Album tags have a [disc n] or (disc n) suffix.

Quote:Am I right with the following:
an items list of an Album is always sorted

1.discnumber
2.tracknumber
3.title

Yes, that's right.

Quote:it always begins with
tracknumber of the first title in the list
[//quote]

Yes.

[quote]
the discnumber is shown as a DiscSeperator when the
first discnumber is 2 or greater.

You should get an initial separator for a discnumber of 1 if your album is tagged to show multiple discs (see above). Are you sure you have a disc with a DISCNUMBER=1 tag?

Quote:Renumbering only kicks in when there is a change
of discnumber from 1 to 2 in the list.
(and it doesn't kick in from 2 to 3 if there wasn't a 1 to 2 change)

Renumbering only kicks in when your album is not tagged to show multiple discs (see above). In this case, it is done for all discs except the first.

Quote:If that is so would it be possible
(without much effort - and as an option)
to force the renumbering
at the beginning of the item list in any case ?

If this is not possible I will have think of an easy way to
tag an alternate tracknumber for the works.

This sounds like a problem with how this album is tagged. (It's also possible that there might be a bug in MinimServer.) It would help if you could attach some screenshots showing the incorrect numbering you are getting.