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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: mesue on October 08, 2005, 10:00:10 pm
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How do you guys handle your multi-disc albums? In the past I have always used the same albums name for all discs, and I have a directory structure like this:
home folder\[artist]\[album]\[disc #][track #] [name].mp3
If I do this with the track # starting from 01 for each disk, though, it does not get marked as a complete album in MC when it should be. Is there any solution to this?
What I have been doing is resetting the track #'s in MC but leaving the 3-digit track # in the file name, but to me this is making the track numbers incorrect in MC.
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I use iTunes to import my CDs. As you may know, iTunes uses the following naming scheme for multi-disc albums:
1-01 Track Name.m4a
1-02 Track Name.m4a
1-03 Track Name.m4a
2-01 Track Name.m4a
2-02 Track Name.m4a
2-03 Track Name.m4a
I added the incomplete albums playlist and got the same results. MC11 simply does not support .m4a files very well. :(
The only workaround I have found is to select all the tracks, sort by filename, and then use the "fill track numbers from list order" command.
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MC11 has a [disc #] field.
After populating this, it can be used in any filenaming mask.
to prevent breaking MC's [complete album] logic you have two choices:
If you keep all the tracks in a single directory, then you must number all the tracks sequentially.
If you would rather keep the track numbers on a per-disc basis, and maintain the complete album logic, then you need to place each disc in its own folder.
Using mesue's example above, the mask would become:
home folder\[artist]\[album]\[disc #]\[track #] [name].mp3
When using the rename from properties tool, the following expression will cover both single and multi-disc albums, simply paste it into the directory rule field. If your home folder\ is not My Music, remember to edit the string accordingly.
if(isempty([disc #],1),My Music\[artist]\[Album],My Music\[artist]\[Album]\Disc [disc #])
-marko.
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My system:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=26024.msg192850#msg192850
Some threads:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=26024.0
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=28460.0
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Galley, were you aware that you could use the fill properties from filename tool to quickly populate the [disc #] field in MC?
from your example filenames above, your mask would be
[disc #]-[track #] [name]
if you would rather it skipped the [name] part of the filename, it would be like so..
[disc #]-[track #] []
Once you've done that, you could then use the rename from properties tool to complete the organisation of your files.
-marko.
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For a few reasons, I don't like to put each disc in its own folder. Mainly for compatibility with my MP3-CD boombox where it treats each folder as an album and has a limit on path length.
I think I shall continue the way I have been where the original CD track # is archived in the file name and the tracks are renumbered in MC11.
Ideally, MC should look at the disc # field when determining a complete album, so the renumbering would not be neccessary.
Here's my filename mask (I think this should work, but I haven't tested it yet):
If(IsEmpty[Disc #]), , [Disc #])[Track #] [Name]
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Here's my filename mask (I think this should work, but I haven't tested it yet):
If(IsEmpty[Disc #]), , [Disc #])[Track #] [Name]
If(IsEmpty([Disc #],1),[track #] [name],[Disc #][Track #] [Name])
is what you're after.
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Thank you!
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you're welcome.
the format reads like so:
if(isempty([disc #],1), ~ if the disc number field is empty,
[track #] [name], ~ use this,
[disc#][track #] [name]) ~ otherwise use this instead.
This is the link to the official MC11 database expressions page...
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/DevZone/DBExpressions.htm
It's useful, but I find it more help when coupled with some 'real world' examples.
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I do it quick and dirty: I put everything in view and renumber according to list order when I do tagging. So original track numbers aren't preserved, and I really have no use for them either. A double album is made because of the limits the CD medium has in length, not because the artist or company really wants two different albums. At least I don't know of any cases where that's likely.
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Thanks for info dudes.