Discsubtitle groupings

[simbun]

(09-01-2022 18:43)simoncn Wrote:  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.

Modifying the tags creates bigger problems on the back end though, as now systems (such as taggers and verifiers) can't identify what it is (as it's now a single disc with 43 tracks who's TOC doesn't match any in the database). The reason I like MinimServer so much is that it enables a model, viewer relationship; I can have the data stored in a highly structured, consistent way (ALBUM, RELEASE, DISCSUBTITLE, GROUP, TITLE, SUBTITLE, e.t.c.) yet I'm able to bring it all together and present it in a way that works for the control point.

I've just re-read the multidisc albums section. Whilst striving for the most "correct", flexible tagging scheme, I forget that not everyone has the same desire; having disc numbers or subtitles embedded in the album field horrifies me, yet it's the ability of MinimServer to mop all this up and make sense of it, that probably makes it as popular/valued as it is.
I had thought that having the one rule of "simply" grouping by disc subtitles may have made things easier for you, but I hadn't taken into account that some people actually want to see the physical separation of discs (hence the implementation of showAllDiscs I assume) - which doesn't really make sense to me as it's purely a limitation of the medium on which the album was distributed - so I completely understand that adding yet another grouping into the mix makes things unnecessarily complicated, especially when it appears it's for a relatively small set of albums.

tagUpdate to the rescue again, although it's a bit of a messy one as it has to renumber tracks.

Thanks Simon.