In your Albums view, click on the little down arrow next to Albums in the tab.
Thumbnails -> Thumbnail text...
In the Expression Editor that opens, replace [Name] with:
[Album Artist (Auto)]
[Name]
[Disc #]
Mr. C ==> This will work ONLY for me if you have named your album distinctly by disc eg multi dick box set Beethoven: The Symphonies [Solti] CD1; Beethoven: The Symphonies [Solti] CD2 etc. If you name it simply Beethoven: The Symphonies [Solti] for all albums you will not get a break down -- the third line will read [Varies]. I tried a lot of workarounds and came up with this ...
Maybe there is a more
elegantt way of doing this
, but you could create a calculated field call it something like [BoxSet]. (see screen shot 1 I labelled this 1Erase because I'm removing it^^). The expression I used is
Clean([Album] - [Disc #])
This concatenates the two fields and allows the sort by Disc # and Album. The Clean removes the disc number when none is tagged.
Then you customize the view and add the new field (see screenshot 2).
Because Disc# is an
integer field it I can't get it to show up so for the multi line text the OP wants. get to the Thumbnail expression box as explained by Mr C (bravo again Mr C great post). I used this expression (see screenshot)
[Album Artist]
[1Erase, 0]
Again 1Erase would be your new field -- and the 0 [fieldname, 0] allows for it to show up on the screen. (screenshot 3)
Screen shot 4 is just a general view -- ok you are only getting two lines instead of three but seems to work.
So Mr. C what is the simple way ?! I even tried [Disc #, 0] and [Disc #, 1] with and without the spaces to see if that was the issue?
PS -
every track of a album has the same number
Why are you doing this? you mean if you have a boxed set with 20 cds every track is the same numeral (like "1") -- how do you get that to work ?