Well ..
Here's my work of today :
http://frederic.klieber.free.fr/utils/CatalogNumber.zipBasically, it' a plugin that number's your files with an increment for each album starting from the oldest imported to the more recent .
Be sure, before using it, that you have correct informations in your Album tags, unless it may not work properly
What does it do ? It creates a field "Catalog_Nbr" and attributes a number to it .
Once the tag is written, the app. will never rewrite it ! So please do not delete the tag manually ..
If you have deleted some albums from your collection, there's also a checking feature who enables you to see what Catalog_Nbr is missing, but in no way it will be re-adressed to an already existing album !
Later, as you're adding files to your collection, reran theapp., it detects the greates Catalog_Nbr attributed and continues the numbering from there ..
As I said,
once attributed, the number CANNOT change, (... OR YOU deleted the tag manually ..)
You can try it out, no harm will be done to your files,
in no way data can be lost.
-If you decide to not use it after a test, you can manually delete the field "Catalog_Nbr" created by my app. ,
-If you decide to use it, let me now by PM or here so we could discuss for futher details- customisation, or what else ?
Please, consider this as an "non finished" but fully functionnal "plug-in".
Thanks !