I have a series of DVDs from the Scottish/American co-produced series The Transatlantic Sessions, from the 90s through 2013. These feature musicians from the celtic tradition (Scottish/Irish mainly) and American roots musicians; they share common musical roots. The series were also released as CDs but these are mostly out of stock and no longer in production, and I've never found an online source for downloading. So I've ripped the music tracks from the DVDs. Sound quality is excellent, and I've left in some of the commentary for variety.
My objective has been to have all of the tracks for each season listed as one album, e.g. Transatlantic Sessions 2, with some 45 tracks, and so on. 38813 In doing this I've discovered what seems to me to be an oddity. I edit tags/details using MP3Tag, and identify all the tracks in a season (all in the same folder) in sequence, with track number specified, and all with the same single album name for the season identified. For several of the seasons I'd ripped so that the filenames included a reference to the episode in which the track was included. For example, the filename could be preceded by "TS6-6 - ", for Transatlantic Sessions season 6 episode 6. I had originally been renaming the files to be preceded by the track number, allowing a sort through which I could then specify track number in the tags. See below for examples of filenames done in the two different ways: 38814 38815 As you can see, both had track number specified. I then had the brainwave that I didn't need to edit each filename, I could just amend the track number directly, which was annoying but marginally faster than editing the filename. I thought it wouldn't make a difference. Weirdly, from my point of view, this resulted in two different ways that LMS displayed the tracks by album. If there was no season/episode specified at the start of the track name a single album was identified with all the tracks listed in track order, as in the image above at the top. If there WAS a season/episode specified in the form "TS6-6 - ", LMS sorts them into separate "albums" according to this taxonomy. All the TS6-1 tracks are in one album, the TS6-2 in another, and so on. I can fix the problem by taking out the season/episode info at the start of the filename, which I have done, leaving only Season 6 with the season/episode info. You can see the result below, with Season 6 divided into 6 albums, but only one album showing for each of the other seasons: 38816 I wonder if LMS is set up to sort by album based on a value at the start of a filename, perhaps with a hyphen after the "album" value and before other information? This is not a real problem for me, as I will fix Season 6 when I get around to it by renaming all the filenames, but it is a bit tedious. Ron +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: TS album listings.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38816| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ LMS on a dedicated server (PiCorePlayer) Transporter (Ethernet) - main listen ining, Onkyo receiver, Paradigm speakers Touch (WiFi) - home theater 5.1, Sony receiver, Energy speakers Boom 1 (WiFi) - work-space Boom 2 (WiFi) - various (deck, garage, etc.) Radio (WiFi) - home office Control - Squeeze Control (Android mobile), 2 Controllers (seldom used), Squeeze Remote (on Surface Pro 4) Touch x 1 - spare UE Radio x 1 - spare Boom x 1 - spare Controller x 1 - Spare ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
