I tend to vary my system depending on the multi-disc album itself.  Live
recordings that span multiple discs I tend to label as one album and
number the tracks using 101, 102,... and 201, 202,...; no disc number,
and I can easily figure out the disc number again if I ever need it
(haven't yet).

Albums that I feel should be kept to separate discs, I use one album
title and then the disc number.  I have LMS set to browse them as
independent albums.  If I want to play both I can queue them one one
after the other.  They still tend to go in the same folder, although
that depends more one when I did the ripping.  Occasionally, I'll split
a multi-disc set into completely independent albums.  This has been
rare, but occurs if there is a multi-concert box set, multi-album box
set, etc.  I also do it when artist rerelease an album with a b-sides
disc, etc.  Ultimately, it is a matter of how you envision listening to
your music.

I used to pad zeroes on tracks, but I don't anymore.  It was an
artifact of earlier days with windows and players that fussed over
whether 1 should go before 10, etc.  Believe it or not, Winamp and its
derivative players (MediaMonkey, etc) used to treat the track number
field as a string not an integer.  Not sure why they did that except
that I seem to recall a time when the online dbs used to tag track
numbers as "Track 01, Track 02, etc."  I suppose it was to account for
that.  I think people sometimes would number tracks as d1t1, d1t2, etc.
I think a lot of those methods are a thing of the past.

I still think the players have the option to read the track number tag
as a string rather than an integer.  I have no need to ever test that
out, but it is something to be vaguely aware of.


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