[Abcde-users] Including DISCNUMBER into the filename

[Sam Hawkens]

Ideally abcde should retrieve that sort of information from the 
database. But...

freedb
normally contains the disc number as part of the album name (e.g. 
"Greatest Hits (CD 1)". The total number of discs is not available at 
all in this case.
With the album name as part of the path you would automatically end up 
with separate folders for each CD.

musicbrainz
is much smarter and provides tags "discnumber" and "totaldiscs"(e.g. 
"Greatest Hits", discnumber=1, totaldisc=3). Great so far. But the 
musicbrainz tool that comes with abcde does not fetch these tags, so 
abcde does not know about them. With musicbrainz as CDDBMETHOD you 
really end up with all tracks from a multidisc release in the same 
folder which is not really what I want.

Personally I prefer musicbrainz over freedb because the information 
seems more reliable. And it works much better for getting album art, too.

Anybody volunteering to patch the musicbrainz tool is highly welcome :-)

Sam


Am 30.11.2017 um 22:39 schrieb Geoff Sweet:
> It must derive that from the CDDB information right? I have had a lot of 
> challenges getting multi-disk sets to number correctly. To the point 
> that I have just manually been altering the directory names to keep it 
> all separate.  Maybe I will fiddle around with the DISCNUMBER variable 
> and see what is really coming across.
> 
> -Geoff
> 
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:23 AM, John Straw <jestraw at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jestraw at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Matthias Heukäufer wrote:
>     > Could somebody give me a hint on how the discnumber could automatically
>     > become part of the filename?
> 
>     For OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT, the TRACKNUM value carries the
>     disc number -- disc 2 track 3 becomes "203" and so on.
> 
>     But that doesn't work for the one-track modes. Here's what I use for
>     those:
> 
>     ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${DISCNUMBER:+$DISCNUMBER-}${ALBUMFILE}'
>     VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='various/${ALBUMFILE}/${DISCNUMBER:+$DISCNUMBER-}${ALBUMFILE}'
> 
>     --
>     John Straw jestraw at gmail.com <mailto:jestraw at gmail.com>
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