multidisc issues

[Andre Gosselin]

Quote:I think it would be nice if a property was added to allow/disallow list merges. When disallowed, albums where tracks are tagged with disc number values would be listed as :
>> Disc 1
...
>> Disc 2
...
In fact, this is what happens now except that you cannot use value 1 as disc number, and resort to the "no value" hack shown above.

(12-10-2013 08:53)simoncn Wrote:  You can do this already by adding the suffix [Disc n] or (Disc n) to the ALBUM tag for each disc. This will give you a single album containing unmerged discs with '>> Disc n' separators. If you don't want to change the ALBUM tag, you can add the 'Disc n' information in a separate DISCSUBTITLE tag instead.

Thanks for this prompt reply. I now understand better how minimserver handles list merges.

Regarding your suggested use of the DISCSUBTITLE tag to get ">> Disc n" groupings avoiding the list merge feature, I would like to report the following. If I set DISCSUBTITLE=Disc n (for n=1,2,...), I do get ">> Disc n" groups when browsing to the album, with the original track numbers left untouched. But when I browse any specific ">> Disc n" heading, I get empty sets displaying no tracks at all. If I set DISCSUBTITLE to someting other than "Disc" (for ex. "DISCSUBTITLE=CD n"), the above issue disppears. I get ">> CD n" groupings which, when browsed into, display the correct list of tracks inside the group. It seems that "Disc" is a reserved word which cannot be used for the DISCSUBTITLE tag.

I admit this is a really mute point, but nevertheless worth mentionning.

Thanks again for this great piece of software.