Ok, I feel a bit lame because I'm sure this has been answered before. A run through the forum search didn't quite land here though, so off I go.
I get an album with several CDs. I flac them, I tag 'em, and they sit in the directory. Sometimes the directory structure is dirname/*.flac sometimes it's dirname/N/*.flac where N is the disc number as a single digit. Since I assume that slimserver doesn't care about where the files reside, but only about the tags as they are applied to each individual track, I don't bother to distinguish between the above scenarios. After careful scrutiny of the tags used, I am rather certain that I have the same album name for a collection of tracks, and each track has a track number and a disc number. This is a monomorphism--i.e. each track has a distinct pair of track and disc numbers. You know, exactly the sensible thing to do. Alas, slimserver... well, when I go to "Browse Albums" and click on one of these multidisc babies, and then I get the track listing, I get one of three things: 1. Exactly what I want: Tracks in the order 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, ..., 2.1, 2.2, ... where the leading digit is the disc number. So it sorts first by disc, then by track; 2. The other numerical order you might imagine: 3.1, 2.1, 1.1, 3.2, 2.2, 1.2, ... 3. A bizarre one, an example of which is displayed in the graphic below: random sort by disc, then sort by track; http://forums.slimdevices.com/images/attach/jpg.gif In that example for the third way, the files are stored in the dirname/*.flac manner, with several tracks sharing the same "0n" start in their filename. When I look at their flac tags, however, the track number is the same but the disc number is as it should be--and slimserver uses that information but uses it in an excessively interesting manner. Try as I might, I don't see where in the preferences or server settings one can select the order in which tracks are displayed. This seems rather strange, actually; I would expect that setting to be somewhere but I can't find it and I've looked. If it's there, please embarrass me a little bit and tell me where it is; I'll get over it. Cheers, Ariel +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: multidiscbug.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=512| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- trebejo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ trebejo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18645 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
