multidisc albums, DISCSUBTITLE and GROUP tags: conflictual ?

[Andre Gosselin]

(20-10-2013 21:27)simoncn Wrote:  Thanks for reporting this crash. From the crash log file, I see that the crash is caused by having a group that contains no tracks, which should not be possible. Some questions:

1) When you have GROUP / DISCSUBTITLE / DISCNUMBER enabled, are there any error messages or warning messages in the MinimServer log about problems with groups?

2) Are you attempting to create a group that spans multiple discs? This isn't supported, but it should produce a warning message instead of a crash.

If neither of these applies, please post a complete list of all the discs, tracks and groups. Many thanks!

Simon,
The album does have a "Symphony No. 4" group which spans muliple discs (disc 1, tracks 5-6, and disc 2, tracks 1-2). The log file indicates :
"Sun Oct 20 13:24:15 Error: group spans multiple discs: Symphony No. 4"

Reading in your post that a group spanning multiple discs is not supported makes me feel sad, since the need for such groups is not a rare occurence at all. The 6-disc album in question shows 3 cases where a group needs to span multiple discs. Such a prohibition would, if fully enforced, somewhat hampers the usefullness of the group concept, and I would hesitate spending the time needed to do the tagging if some groups cannot be defined. However, as I mentioned in my original post, groups appear to work OK if DISCSUBTITLES tags are removed, irrespective of the fact that they span multiple discs or not (track numbers are changed because of merging, but at least groups are functional). So it appears that this prohibition can be lifted under some circumstances.

I hope that this problem can be solved.

Regards