Multi CD disks

[adhawkins]

Hi,

I've noticed that multi-album CDs don't appear to be played in the correct order. I've got a 2 CD album, ripped as MP3s. Each track has TPOS (part of set) set to either 1 or 2 (for disc 1 or 2) and an appropriate track number.

However, when I tried to play the album by browsing using the database, the playlist appeared to be playing

CD1 track 1
CD2 track 1
CD1 track 2
CD2 track 2

...

etc.

Is this a known limitation, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Andy

[adhawkins]

Ah, just found this.

This is a couple of months old, so I guess it's not a 'simple' fix?

Andy

[Mikerman]

I guess I inadvertently avoided this issue originally, when naming my multi-disc sets,

Dreamgirls (1)
Dreamgirls (2)

etc.

This also is helpful for me in identifying which of the discs in the set is playing, or which one I should select at a glance.

[adhawkins]

Yes, but I don't particularly want to have to 'seperate' two discs of a multi-disc set. Ideally they should both have the same title, so that I can play the whole set in one operation.

I might have a delve through the code and see how difficult it would be to add this.

Andy

[RotAtoR]

One way to get around this would be to prepend the disc number to the track numbers in the tags.

disc 1 track 01 -> track 101
disc 1 track 02 -> track 102
disc 2 track 01 -> track 201
...

It may not be the best way, but it should work.

[adhawkins]

Yes, I realise that. However, I'd prefer my music were tagged correctly personally.

I'll start looking at the code and see how difficult it is to put in.

Andy

[danhibiki]

I made a patch for this already, it is on the patch tracker, but I need to send the updated version, because the one on the tracker it's not compatible with current SVN I think

I'll send it tomorrow because it's too late here

[Falco98]

It seems to me that fully-correct tagging would include the disc #.  After making that assumption, maybe it would require only simple software modification to account for disc # also?

or does ID3v2 not use disc #? i forget.  that's why i use FLAC and Vorbis exclusively -- non-idiotic tagging capabilities  

[adhawkins]

It seems to me that fully-correct tagging would include the disc #.  After making that assumption, maybe it would require only simple software modification to account for disc # also?

My tags do include the disc number. However, it appears the Rockbox currently doesn't read it (until the patch is updated)

Andy

[danhibiki]

The patch is now updated, check it at
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/4961