USB Drive. sort by disc number

[lundylove]

Is there anyway to implement the usb drive to sort via disc number then track number.

The way it sorts now it puts all track 1s together.

Multi disc albums could benefit from this.

When I connect to home server it has a setting for default the does the trick. Not sure that’s the server doing that or the WiiM

 

[slipthru]

Yes. This would be a great addition as it's a complete pain. I end renaming the albums discs so they are different and seen as separate.

 

[harkpabst]

I prefer to just count up the track number in a continuous manner, independent of the disc number. It's one album in the end. The disc number just refers to how the tracks of the album were distributed on a specific medium in a specific edition. I don't see much value in it since I'm not trying to archive a physical collection. I just want to listen to music in the right order.

 

[Mr Ee]

When you rip vinyl does one tag the songs as side A / B and start from 1 each time?
Although you could argue that a cd is just a single sided record...
I can see the appeal of both, and unfortunately compromises often need to be made to get things to work in a specific ecosystem.

 

[d6jg]

Most Music Servers will correctly order a multi disc album using discnumber and tracknumber. Issues occur when you try to play by accessing a folder if you haven’t named files quite correctly because file systems sort alphanumerically.
The best method is to use discno-trackno-title as your file name with trackno having leading zeros ie 01,02 etc
This is because a 12 track album using only track number will order as
1, 11, 12, 2, 3 etc
Leading zeros will order correctly

 

[harkpabst]

I hope that most music servers will not rely on file names but on ID3 tags ...

Either way, adding a discnumber but not starting the track number at 1 again for each discs works correctly, no matter if the music server respects the tag or even relies on file names. That's why I prefer this scheme.

 

[slipthru]

I hope that most music servers will not rely on file names but on ID3 tags ...

Either way, adding a discnumber but not starting the track number at 1 again for each discs works correctly, no matter if the music server respects the tag or even relies on file names. That's why I prefer this scheme.

My id tags are set up as you suggest with a disc number it just groups the two albums together.

 

[slartibartfast]

My id tags are set up as you suggest with a disc number it just groups the two albums together.

Did you number the tracks on each disk starting from 1 though? The post you quoted said to not do that.

 

[slipthru]

Did you number the tracks on each disk starting from 1 though? The post you quoted said to not do that.

Both discs start with 01 and the discs are numbered disc 1 of 2 and 2 of 2. Is that correct?

 

[slartibartfast]

Both discs start with 01 and the discs are numbered disc 1 of 2 and 2 of 2. Is that correct?

That isn't what the post said though. It suggested continuous numbering so if the last track on disc 1 is 10 make the first track on disc 2 11.
Or just use LMS and all these problems disappear

 

[slipthru]

That isn't what the post said though. It suggested continuous numbering so if the last track on disc 1 is 10 make the first track on disc 2 11.
Or just use LMS and all these problems disappear

Ok thanks. It wasn't clear to me.

I always had these issues with LMS to.

 

[slartibartfast]

I always had these issues with LMS to.

Was that using the Music Folder view or the normal library view?

 

[slipthru]

Was that using the Music Folder view or the normal library view?

Library view I think.

 

[slartibartfast]

Library view I think.

That shouldn't happen. Did you ask in the slimdevices (now Lyrion) forum?

 

[slipthru]

That shouldn't happen. Did you ask in the slimdevices (now Lyrion) forum?

No I didn't. I might plug my pi back in and see if that works.

 

[harkpabst]

Ok thanks. It wasn't clear to me.

I always had these issues with LMS to.

Yes, the other post meant to say:
Disc 1:
1-01 TrackA.flac
1-02 TrackB.flac
1-03 TrackC.flac
Disc 2:
2-04 TrackD.flac
2-05 TrackE.flac
2-06 TrackF.flac
2-07 TrackG.flac
Disc 3:
3-08 TrackH.flac
3-09 TrackI.flac

 

[d6jg]

I hope that most music servers will not rely on file names but on ID3 tags ...

Either way, adding a discnumber but not starting the track number at 1 again for each discs works correctly, no matter if the music server respects the tag or even relies on file names. That's why I prefer this scheme.

Some lesser music servers clearly do use the file name and that’s why it’s best to use a naming convention that will work in such cases just in case.

 

[harkpabst]

I still hope that most music servers will not rely on file names but on ID3 tags (and still have to get to know those lesser ones that don't) ...

I also didn't advice against filenames following ID3 tags. See my example above.

 

[d6jg]

I still hope that most music servers will not rely on file names but on ID3 tags (and still have to get to know those lesser ones that don't) ...

I also didn't advice against filenames following ID3 tags. See my example above.

Actually the one built into my car uses file names

I didn’t say you didn’t

 

[harkpabst]

Actually the one built into my car uses file names

I didn’t say you didn’t

I wouldn't even call it a media server then but just local file playback.

My car makes it even worse, trying to overwrite my perfectly well maintained ID3 tags with faulty content from an always outdated local Gracenote DB. Luckily it's possible to update this Gracenote DB and interrupting the update process by pulling the thumbdrive while the update is still running effectively kills it.