Limit of 65000 folders

[DavidHB]

(19-04-2020 10:03)9dIe2Hd0VGy3Pw0zYPYs Wrote:  The problem is, I didn't tagged the discnumber when I started ripping.

If you have any Windows devices, MP3Tag (free, but with a donation requested) can add DiscNumbers to your flies relatively quickly, provided that the Album tags of the individual CDs identify the individual CDs as [Disc 1], [Disc 2] or whatever, to conform to MinimServer conventions for multi-disc albums.

In such a case, with MP3Tag, you can select as much of your folder structure as your computer can comfortably handle at one go (say all the folders related to a particular composer), and all the flies from subfolders of that branch of the system will then be accessible via the MP3Tag editing grid. You can then filter the display; for instance, in my example, filtering by "1]" (or "Album HAS 1]" in Mp3Tag speak) will (hopefully) limit the display to those files having "[Disc 1]" in their Album tags. At that point, you can select all the files in the grid, set the DiscNumber to 1, save, and then do the same thing for all the other [Disc n] files in the selection. Finally, if you need to, you can filter by and then select all files which have blank disc numbers, set their DiscNumber tags to 1, and save. In a few minutes, you can have tagged hundreds or perhaps even thousands of files with their correct DiscNumbers

Another trick is to use MP3Tag to batch rename your files from disc and track numbers and Title tags. I do this for all my multi-disc albums (typically CD rips rather than downloads) where I separately identify the individual discs. In this scheme, file names will be of the form:

104 Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 4. Menuetto - Trio I - Polacca - Trio II

where 1 is the Disc number, 04 is the track number and the rest of the file name is formed from the Title tag. This allows all the files in a multi-disc album to be moved into single, combined folders and still retain their proper order and disc number identity. Whenever you find yourself breaching the 65,000 folder limit, you can combine perhaps 20 or 50 folders in this way to give yourself some headroom. That approach could keep things workable until Simon gets around to lifting or increasing the folder limit.

David