Custom Track # Format

[chileboy]

I thought I remembered a thread about this but I can't seem to locate anything.

Is it possible to override the default "Track" tag? I'm sure this is a common problem, both my player and my UPnP server sort multi-disc tracks incorrectly, i.e.

Disc 1 - Track 1
Disc 2 - Track 1
Disc 1 - Track 2

instead of

Disc 1 - Track 1
Disc 1 - Track 2
Disc 2 - Track 1

To fix the sort order, I want to change the Track tag to something like

01.01/09 (disc 1, track 1 of 9)
etc.

I tried entering a custom tag in the Ripper for "Track":

[disc].[track]/[trackcount]

but it appears to ignore it (note that I don't know if "trackcount" even exists...)

Is there any way to accomplish this?

For awhile, with the Track Naming I was appending disc number to the "Album" tag (i.e., <album title> Disc x), but that gets a bit tedious to actually browse when you have sets with a lot of discs.

Thanks,

- Mark

[chileboy]

Re: Custom Track # Format

Never mind my previous (lengthy) post, I did some tags manually and discovered neither my player nor my server is smart enough to deal with tags that complex.

What I really need, I guess, is a way to have the track numbers reflect the count for the entire set, not just the disc - so that if there's 2 discs, 5 tracks each, the 1st track on disc 1 would be 01/10, the first on disc 2 would be 05/10, etc.

I'm guessing this isn't possible.

- Mark

[LtData]

Re: Custom Track # Format

What you are wanting, then, is a track offset. There is a way to set this in the CD Ripper but I cannot remember offhand and cannot test it at the moment. As for both CDs having the same total tracks, I am unsure of how, or even if, this would be done.

[Spoon]

Re: Custom Track # Format

Right click on one of the tracks to set an offset.

[chileboy]

Re: Custom Track # Format

Right click on one of the tracks to set an offset.

Ahh! That's exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks!

- Mark

[chileboy]

Re: Custom Track # Format

This is working great for new rips - but is there any way of incrementing the track numbers for existing rips (i.e., as a whole set of tracks for a disc) using Batch Converter?

[Spoon]

Re: Custom Track # Format

No

[chileboy]

Re: Custom Track # Format

No

If I haven't said it before, you're a man of few words, Spoon!

Thanks for the response.

- Mark