multidisc albums, DISCSUBTITLE and GROUP tags: conflictual ?

[DavidHB]

(21-10-2013 07:32)simoncn Wrote:  A group can't span unmerged discs because a group is a containment structure and an unmerged disc is also a containment structure ... one option is to merge the album discs, as you have discovered. Another option is to create another tag such as Composition or Work ...

I came across this issue (the error message, not the crash) a couple of days ago. After initially sharing the frustration expressed by André, I looked at the corrected structure in a Control Point and saw the point that Simon is making.

It is perhaps misleading to describe Groups spanning multiple discs as 'not supported'; 'just not possible' is nearer the mark, as Simon has now explained. In neither the real nor the virtual world can you place a container in more than one other container simultaneously and still retain its containment function. It might be worth mentioning in the User Guide that Groups cannot span multiple discs within the same album.

A third workaround (which in the end is the one I decided to use) is to split the offending Group(s) at the disc boundary/boundaries. That way, I can still access the individual discs of the album in the Control Point, which I sometimes like to do, while keeping the Groups as containers within each disc.

David