Four digit tracknumber disables group tag functionality?

[simoncn]

(05-10-2013 19:54)hvaleton Wrote:  My reason for these 'extravagant' Tracknumbers was to be able to keep seeing the original tracknumber (on the original disc) so I could easlily compare tag data with the tracklist in the cd booklet, while also complying with the rule that, within a multi-disc album, all tracknumbers should be unique and consecutive. And so I created this monstrosity.

There is no such rule with MinimServer. The recommended approach is to tag each track with the original track and disc numbers, as I suggested in my previous post.

Quote:Apart from getting tracknumbers greater than the maximum allowed track number of 1023 (which I wasn't aware of but seems a fair maximum), I also broke up some track sequences that should be regarded as a group, such as these two consecutive (parts of) movements in Mahler's eighth symphony, this symphony being spread out over discs 8 an 9:

0809 Nr.8: II: 'Alles Vergängliche' (Chorus mysticus)
0901 Nr.8: II: Poco adagio - 'Waldung, sie schwankt heran' (Chor und Echo)

Now I'm not exactly sure why this didn't work. It might also have been because MinimServer was already taken off track (no pun intended) by other tracks in the same directory having Tracknumbers greater than 1023. Or is it because 0901 is not regarded to be the proper next track after 0809?

This didn't work because the track numbers are not consecutive. In a group, track 809 would need to be followed by track 810 (assuming these are both from the same disc).

This should not be a problem if you tag the first track as disc 8/track 9 and the second track as disc 9/track 1 and let MinimServer merge the discs in the album display. In this case, MinimServer will automatically renumber all tracks from the album with consecutive numbers starting at 1, and you will be able to create groups that span disc boundaries.

Quote:Well, anyway, I've rewritten part of my numbering script (in VBS) so that it now creates proper consecutive series of tracknumbers within each directory. (My file names still begin with 101, 102 ... 201, 202 etc for sets with less than ten cd's and 0101, 0102 ... 0201, 0202 for sets containing 10 cd's or more). Now everything works fine as before.

This works, but you could achieve the same result without a script by using disc m/track n tagging and letting MinimServer merge the discs and renumber the tracks, as described above.

Quote:Sorry for bothering you with all this!

Regards,

Hans Valeton

No problem! I hope the above suggestions are useful.