Albums with several CDs

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Thank you for this great piece of software. We really need a list with disc numbers for albums with several CDs. Thank you.

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@sdfsdlkfjsj Thanks for posting this. I agree. In addition, the software needs to use the disc number metadata to SORT the tracks properly. Recently I loaded a multi-disc CD set of Beethoven Piano Trios. Each disc had its own set of track numbers. So Disc 1 had tracks 1-9, Disc 2 had tracks 1-9, etc. When Volumio loaded the play queue, it put all the tracks 1’s together, all the track 2’s, together, etc. So the Piano Trio movements were all out of order and the only way to listen to the music by Trio composition was to manually create playlists from the CD set. Utilizing the disc number in the sort algorithm would avoid this problem.

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For multi-cd albums, I rename all the tracks adding the disk number before the track number

for example:

1.01. Give Life Back to Music.flac
…
1.13. Contact.flac
2.01. Horizon Ouverture.flac
…
2.09. Touch (2021 Epilogue).flac

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Done something similar, but it’s very time consuming with big libraries > 60000. While the info can be accessible via MPD (%disc% Disc file tag)

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if the files are tagged properly, it’s one-click action with foobar2000

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MyMPD lists CDs with disc numbers for albums with several CDs.
CD1, CD2. etc. Maybe Volumio could incorporate MyMPD?

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I’ve just manually altered the file numbering to cope with this situation (in MP3Tag).
First disc 101, 102, 103 etc
Second disc 201, 202, 203 etc

Or just number sequentially the whole thing and ignore the fact that the tracks came from separate discs.

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Yes, I’ve come up with my own system, but when all the information to avoid this is available in the metadata, why not add this to the Volumio software enhancement list? As @Wheaten pointed out, this could be extremely time consuming with a large number of cd’s involved.

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The time is not in clicking a button, is the time that is being consumed to rename 66000 tracks over the network, rescanning them in all Volumio devices.
This doesn’t only involve my Volumio devices but also Audirvana, JRiver and LMS who just use the tags.
In my opinion, this should not be a manual action, but a standard thing for a player. (same goes for release year, this should also not be a part of the folder name :wink: )

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OK, got it

@Marco_Melziade @DED @volumio could you please take not of this improvement?

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@Darmur Thank you for doing that! I didn’t realize this could be forwarded so easily using @ tags.