• Registered: 2007-04-03
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Topic: How do you include disc number in the mp3 filename?

I have a few thousand MP3 files that I am cleaning up.
I've got all the tags right (at last).
I want to get the folders/names right.

I'm very impressed with your program - talk about powerful and configurable.
Well done.

One thing - it seems to be missing the ID3 tag for CD number.
The reason this is useful is for albums with multiple CDs.
So if you have a 2 cd album in a folder, you want the files named:

    <disc number>-<track number> <title>

For example (from "Womad '99 Southern Hemisphere"):
    01-01 Lam Lam.mp3
    01-02 Ganapati.mp3
    ...
    01-12 Acco Malca.mp3
    02-01 02-01 Happiness Is.mp3
    ...

Am I missing something? Is this possible now?

Thanks
Paul.

2 Reply by Stefan (edited by Stefan 2007-04-22 01:25:54)

  • Registered: 2006-12-10
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Re: How do you include disc number in the mp3 filename?

Hi tuatara, welcome.

tuatara wrote:

One thing - it seems to be missing the ID3 tag for CD number.

Is there an tag for CD number?
I didn't know this. I know there could be a lot of tags in the ID3v2 tags but not all are supported right now.




Right now you could do an work around:
tag your CD number e.g. as comment %Ac or maybe as

   %Ak  : the track (text)
   %Ap  : the composer
   %Ao  : the original artist
   %AC  : the copyright
   %Au  : the URL
   %Ae  : encoded by
   %mc  : the id3v1 tag comment


Then you can rename your files with the expression:   %Ac-%AT %At

   %Ac  : the comment
   %AT  : the track number
   %At  : the title


would this help?

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  • Rémi
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Re: How do you include disc number in the mp3 filename?

Hello,

You're right, this ID3 tag is not taken into account.

It seems to be "Part of Set" (TPOS ID3V2 ref).
What is the software you used to add this info and the exact name of the field it is associated to ?

In fact the audio tag list I chose was the one used by Winamp at that time. 
This list surely needs to be enlarged. I'll think about this for a next version.

Thanks for the remark.

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4 Reply by RR

  • RR
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  • Registered: 2007-04-20
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Re: How do you include disc number in the mp3 filename?

foobar2000 audio player seems to do this work well.