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[sgomes]

[Moved from MC18 forum, where it was incorrectly posted before]


Hey everyone,

This is a bit of a silly question, but here goes

Some albums have a hidden first track, which can only be accessed by jumping back from the first track, in a CD player. Some ripping tools allow you to rip this track. So far, so good.

Now, here comes the silly part. I'd like to tag the hidden track as track 0, but MC doesn't seem to like that Does anyone have any suggestion that preserves ordering, other than incrementing the number of all other tracks?

[MrC]

Create a new user field of type String.  Call it Hidden Track #.  For any given hidden track, set the value you want as a decimal, such as 0, or 1.5, so that the hidden tracks would sort numerically in the correct location.

Now, replace your Track # columns with an expression column, such as :

  if(!isempty([Hidden Track #]), [Hidden Track #], [Track #])&datatype=[number]

This will use Hidden Track # if it exists, otherwise the normal Track #, and treats the entire expression as a number for proper sorting.  Set up your view to Sort on Hidden Track # instead of Track #.

[vagskal]

Or you could first check in Options => Tree & View => Sorting if you have "Sort empty strings last" checked...

MC treats zero values as empty/null.

[sgomes]

Thanks, guys! I think I'll go with vagskal's approach as it's simpler, and there's likely not going to be a case where there's more than one hidden track.