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[EnglishTiger]

I've been ripping some Boxsets of works by Classical Composers using the Name of the Boxset as the Album Name and the Disc #'s to the order the disc is in that boxset.

When I ran the "Incomplete Albums" smartlist against my 33cd Claude Debussy Boxset MC told me it was an Incomplete Album even though I could not see anything that could have caused MC to arrive at that WRONG conclussion.

Thankfully the boxset was organised in a way that would allow me to break it down into a series of "Pseudo Albums"

So I changed the Album Name from "Debussy: The Complete Works" as follows:-
Disc#s 1-11 became "Debussy: Piano Works"
Disc#s 12-13 became "Debussy: Chamber Music"
Disc#s 14-18 became "Debussy: Orchestral Works"
Disc#s 19-23 became "Debussy: Works for Voice"
Disc#s 24-25 became "Debussy: Choral Works"
Disc#s 26-32 became "Debussy: Works for Opera & Stage"
Disc# 33 became "Debussy: Debussy Plays Debussy"

Then before making any more changes I reran the "Incomplete Albums" smartlist and surprise, surprise not one of the "Renamed Albums" appeared on the list of incomplete albums.

I would love for somebody to explain to me how/why MC decided that Albums whose first disc # is not 1 are "Complete", but when all the Discs & Tracks had the same Album Name decided the Album was "Incomplete"

I repeated the exercise with my 65 CD "Handel Edition" Boxset and found that any "Album" where the first/last disc # was 28 or less were consider "Complete" but those where the first/last disc # was 29 or higher were reported as "Incomplete".

N.B Classical Composer Boxsets can contain over 150 Discs, one of mine has 170 in it.

[wer]

That does seem like odd behavior. But in all my years of using MC, I have never once cared nor even checked if MC thought one of my albums was "complete". 

[EnglishTiger]

Wer - Once I became aware of that "weird behaviour" I modified my way of working and started breaking my Boxsets down into "pseudo albums" and assigning disc#'s that reflected the discs position in that "pseudo album" when ripping them. Unfortunately being human I do occasionally make mistakes and so became dependent on that "Smartlist" to make sure I'd not missed out a disc number, allocated the same number to more than one disc in an "album", or accidently used a disc# that was higher than MC was prepared to accept.

[wer]

Unfortunately being human

Ah, well there's your problem!   

[EnglishTiger]

Bump!

[Mr. Odd]

What is the logic for determining if an album is 'incomplete'? I find this playlist very useful for finding albums that are missing a track or have incorrect track numbers, but my list also includes what appear to me to be perfectly fine albums.