Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Sorting and multi-disc albums



On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:01:23AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Once upon a time Ernst Persson said...
> > I usually write "Some Album CD1" and "Some Album CD2".
> > It solves the problem, and I think it's like that in cddb.
> 
> I ignore disc number altogether. As far as I'm concerned, multiple discs
> are an artefact of the storage technology. If CDs held twice as much,
> you'd only have one disc. When I rip, I'm changing the storage
> technology, I see no reason to keep the artificial split.
> 
> So I just treat both discs as the same album and continue numbering the
> track numbers of the second disc after the first.

I pretty much agree.  Notionally, the disc number is really just a part
of the track number, and together they specify the song's position
within the album.  Appending the disc number to the album name is just
an ugly hack for music players that don't understand disc numbers.

I do stop short of renumbering a multidisc album's songs outright,
though.  There's no need to break the association with the physical
album's numbering, especially when the music player can handle disc
numbers properly.

It could be worse, though.  Take a look at an SPC file's metadata
sometime.  You have a disc number, track number, *and* a subtrack
number!

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