Bugzilla – Bug 7652
Group Discs option should recognise ALBUM tags ending with (disc n)
Last modified: 2012-02-27 17:33:07 UTC
The 'Group Discs' option currently relies on DISC tag being set, however this misses albums whose DISC tag is correctly set but whose ALBUM tag contains the appendage (disc n), eg ALBUM=Hello World (disc 1) ALBUM=Hello World (disc 2) ALBUM=Hello World (disc 3) These are clearly the same album but are currently treated as separate albums by 'Group Discs' The Squeezecenter wiki and documentation regularly recommends Musicbrainz as a source of "possibly the most accurate tags". Squeezecenter should therefore recognise the Musicbrainz guideline recommendations for multi-disc albums which is to append (disc n) to the album title and group them under the same album if Group Discs is checked... Mark
I would have loved that option some years back. But imho it's impossible to do reliably. Keep in mind that "disc" is English. What about the other languages? A language dependant logic will complicate scanning even more, slowing things down and making it error prone. I went the hard way and fixed my tags. You should consider doing the same ;-).
I hear what you are saying, re: complexity, particularly in regard to language localization. However, there is a fundamental question here of whether or not the Musicbrainz project is seen to be a good thing, and if it is, it should be supported by users and other applications, including Squeezecenter... There are hundreds of thousands (as far as I can tell; probably more) Musicbrainz users who are following their style guidelines and whose collection is, as far as Group Discs go, incompatible with Squeezecenter... If strings parsing, localisation, etc seems like to much work, perhaps a different approach could be to add a new optional tag (eg ALBUMGROUPED) so that users could have: ALBUM=Hello World (disc 1) ALBUMGROUPED=Hello World DISC=1 ALBUM=Hello World (disc 2) ALBUMGROUPED=Hello World DISC=2 ALBUM=Hello World (disc 3) ALBUMGROUPED=Hello World DISC=3 And the ALBUMGROUPED would be used in place of ALBUM if present... Where there's a will, there's a way... Mark
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