[Abcde-users] Including DISCNUMBER into the filename

[Geoff Sweet]

I'm happy to work on that!

-G

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Sam Hawkens <sam.hawkens at freenet.de> wrote:

> 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}/${DISCNUMBE
>> R:+$DISCNUMBER-}${ALBUMFILE}'
>>     VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='various/${ALBUMFILE}/${DISCNUMBER:+$
>> DISCNUMBER-}${ALBUMFILE}'
>>
>>     --
>>     John Straw jestraw at gmail.com <mailto:jestraw at gmail.com>
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