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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: haggis999 on April 08, 2013, 12:51:25 pm
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So far, I have ripped just over 60 albums (using dBpoweramp). Several of these were multi-disc albums, where dBpoweramp displays the disc number in a format like 1/3, as provided by all four of their online metadata providers. I have only just noticed that this n/n format is not preserved by either MC18 or MP3Tag, both of which simply quote the individual disc number for the tag they call 'Disc #' and 'Disc Number', respectively.
While you could argue that the number of discs in the original album has less relevance once all the tracks have been ripped, I would still like to preserve a link to the original media by having a disc number tag in the format n/n, a custom tag I will call OrigDisc (there is probably a better name for such a tag, but I can't think of one right now). I guess I could start by creating another custom tag in MC18 called DiscTotal and use this as the basis for calculating the value of my OrigDisc tag as an assembly of Disc# + '/' + DiscTotal.
Does anyone have a better idea for creating a disc numbering tag in a n/n format?
Incidentally, MP3Tag already has a tag called 'DiscTotal', though where this data comes from I don't know. It does not appear in either dBpoweramp or MC18 and I assume it is not saved in my FLAC files.
As a related question, I would also like to know if there is a neat way of displaying the total number of discs in a view (and I do mean the disc total, not the album total).
David
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I agree, I prefer to use the 1/3 format for discs if it's a multi-disc album as well.
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You can use a technique as described in the Statistics thread (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=77826.0), which evaluates the dumber of discs that comprise an album to populate a field (or expression pane or file list column).
In this example, we'll just use the largest disc # to determine the number of discs (this method will ignore holes in the sequence).
First, create a panes view, and set rules for file display to :
[=save(0,v_discs_[album artist (auto)]_[album])1]=1 [=save(math(max(max(0[disc #],1),load(v_discs_[album artist (auto)]_[album]))), v_discs_[album artist (auto)]_[album])1]=1
Next, create a Number of Discs expression column in the view:
load(v_discs_[album artist (auto)]_[album])
See the attached screenshots.
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Wow. That's a much more sophisticated response than I was expecting. It comes as some relief that I appear not to have missed some blindingly obvious solution.
I am in awe of your MC technical skills, MrC - and very grateful, as always, for your kind assistance.
David