Re: LMS album definition from filename? Really.

RonM wrote: 
> I have a series of DVDs from the Scottish/American co-produced series
> The Transatlantic Sessions, from the 90s through 2013. These feature
> musicians from the celtic tradition (Scottish/Irish mainly) and American
> roots musicians; they share common musical roots. The series were also
> released as CDs but these are mostly out of stock and no longer in
> production, and I've never found an online source for downloading. So
> I've ripped the music tracks from the DVDs. Sound quality is excellent,
> and I've left in some of the commentary for variety.
> 
> My objective has been to have all of the tracks for each season listed
> as one album, e.g. Transatlantic Sessions 2, with some 45 tracks, and so
> on. 
> 
> 38813
> 
> In doing this I've discovered what seems to me to be an oddity. I edit
> tags/details using MP3Tag, and identify all the tracks in a season (all
> in the same folder) in sequence, with track number specified, and all
> with the same single album name for the season identified. For several
> of the seasons I'd ripped so that the filenames included a reference to
> the episode in which the track was included. For example, the filename
> could be preceded by "TS6-6 - ", for Transatlantic Sessions season 6
> episode 6. I had originally been renaming the files to be preceded by
> the track number, allowing a sort through which I could then specify
> track number in the tags. See below for examples of filenames done in
> the two different ways:
> 
> 38814  38815
> 
> As you can see, both had track number specified. I then had the
> brainwave that I didn't need to edit each filename, I could just amend
> the track number directly, which was annoying but marginally faster than
> editing the filename. I thought it wouldn't make a difference.
> 
> Weirdly, from my point of view, this resulted in two different ways that
> LMS displayed the tracks by album. If there was no season/episode
> specified at the start of the track name a single album was identified
> with all the tracks listed in track order, as in the image above at the
> top. If there WAS a season/episode specified in the form "TS6-6 - ", LMS
> sorts them into separate "albums" according to this taxonomy. All the
> TS6-1 tracks are in one album, the TS6-2 in another, and so on.  I can
> fix the problem by taking out the season/episode info at the start of
> the filename, which I have done, leaving only Season 6 with the
> season/episode info. You can see the result below, with Season 6 divided
> into 6 albums, but only one album showing for each of the other
> seasons:
> 
> 38816
> 
> I wonder if LMS is set up to sort by album based on a value at the start
> of a filename, perhaps with a hyphen after the "album" value and before
> other information? 
> 
> This is not a real problem for me, as I will fix Season 6 when I get
> around to it by renaming all the filenames, but it is a bit tedious. 
> 
> RonIs there a difference in the tags for the different behaviours? You
mentioned tags in the post but didn't show any. Can you show a
screenshot of the tags?

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