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RoderickGI:
Not bad recollection. Three years ago!


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4. NEW: Added a 'Total Tracks' field to the library. Currently updated from MP3 files, MP4 files, FLAC files, and during CD ripping.
5. NEW: Added a 'Total Discs' field to the library, which is updated from MP3, MP4, and FLAC files.
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Not a mention since, so I assume that the functionality hasn't changed.

I was going to ask if you had the "Save in file tags" setting in Manage Library Fields for those tags when you tried to "Update tags from library", but it looks like this is a one-way feature.

I did check the Tag Dump and found the album that worked for me had several related tags;
TOTALTRACKS
TRACKTOTAL
TOTALDISCS
DISCTOTAL

In addition to the data for the actual track;
DISCNUMBER
TRACKNUMBER

Also, the album had been updated from Musicbrainz, so that may have been where the additional tags came from.

I still keep using the Disc number concept because tools like Musicbrainz use it. Basically, I use the method used by the data source I use. JRiver's Album database on YADB is quite good, but its Track Database leaves a lot to be desired. As I have inherited a lot of unsorted or managed digital music from my brother, I need to be able to do reliable track Metadata lookups. I couldn't convert to using your "Full Album Sequence" methodology because it would confuse me too much. But that has merit for plain sorting, and using the [Episode] tag makes sense, as it won't affect MC functionality.

I haven't bothered to solve the Episode sequence and including Specials in sequence completely. I tend to use the standard functionality and View, but use the [date] field which comes from the "Originally Aired" data on TheTVDB if I want to sort in the correct sequence. That is usually pretty accurate. But your method certainly sounds like a good one, particularly as I also always use the data from TheTVDB as presented. Doing anything else just leads to problems. I don't really like TheTVDB's method of putting Specials in Season 00, but I would rather live with that than using decimal Season and Episode numbers, which is another option and probably my second choice.

Anyway, now that I am more aware I will probably have to start populating the [Total Discs] and [Total Tracks] tags in my library, if Musicbrainz hasn't done it for me.

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