Discsubtitle groupings

[simoncn]

Thanks for this suggestion. I understand what you want and why you want it.

When deciding whether to add a new feature, there is always a trade-off between added functionality and added complexity.

Currently an album is either fully split into discs or fully merged. Your suggestion adds a third case of partially merged. It also adds a new concept of "disc group" which is a combination of multiple discs (where each disc is identified by a DISCNUMBER value).

These new cases and concepts would need to be explained in the documentation. This adds complexity for a new user trying to understand how MinimServer handles multidisc albums. This area is already fairly complex for users to understand.

The implementation code would also become significantly more complex. At present, the disc number is used to identify a disc grouping. If tracks belonging to disc 2 are grouped with tracks belong to disc 1, either some other disc grouping internal structure would be needed or all tracks from disc 2 would need to be reclassified as being from disc 1.

As I understand your use case, you want to always treat all tracks from disc 1 and disc 2 as belonging to a single disc. This suggests a simple solution of tagging all these tracks as being part of disc 1.

For these reasons, I don't think the added functionality justifies the added complexity.