• Registered: 2012-02-27

Topic: renumber multiple discs to 1 list of tracks with consecutive numbering

Hi,

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I've done a search before but come up with nothing.
When re-tagging my music collection I am wanting to remove all the references to disc numbers as none of my music collection will ever go on a CD.
I have found the 'disc numbers' plugin that removes the naming of multiple folders with (disc X) and puts them all in one folder but for multiple discs there will end up being two files as track 1, two files as  track 2 etc.
how can I renumber all tracks from disc 2 to start from the end of disc 1?

thanks in advance...

Degsy

2 Reply by jesus2099 (edited by jesus2099 2012-02-27 16:28:29)

  • From: here
  • Registered: 2006-12-19

Re: renumber multiple discs to 1 list of tracks with consecutive numbering

You should IMO use the name sceme of [%discnumber%][%tracknumber%] (I don’t know the exact syntax), thus you will get something like
101.
102.
103.
…
201.
202.
no dupes

edit: it’s actually Picard default. Go click Default button in File naming preferences panel.

…$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%-,)$num(%tracknumber%,2)…
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  • Registered: 2012-02-27

Re: renumber multiple discs to 1 list of tracks with consecutive numbering

Thanks for the response Jesus2099, I didn't think of doing it that way. Although I would prefer one list of track numbers starting at 01, the way you have suggested is far better than what I currently have.

Does anyone know of any plugins that would renumber starting at 1? I know I am probably clutching at straws here.

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: renumber multiple discs to 1 list of tracks with consecutive numbering

There's not really any way to renumber the tracks from 1 that I can think of off top of my head. Why do you find you need to though? Most player software I have dealt with understands the disc numbers inside tags so will order them correctly as a single release?

Jesus2099's suggestion only deals with file naming; if you want to do it inside the tags you could add a tagger script like

$set(tracknumber,%discnumber%$num(%tracknumber%,2))
$set(discnumber,1)
$set(totaldiscs,1)

But I really don't know why you'd want to do that when you could take advantage of proper disc number support :)

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