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Handling disc numbers in album name

#1

Still iterating and becoming familiar with metadata changes that SongKong seeks to make. I have what looks to be an unrecognised 2cd album where the album is currently tagged as The Australian Revolution (Disc 1) and The Australian Revolution (Disc 2). All files are in a single folder and named 1-01, 2-01 etc. and there are no discnumber tags present.

SongKong hasn’t recognised the album (there are no MBID’s for MB Release Id and MB Release Group Id when viewing as a Spreadsheet). All to be expected, however, could I suggest an enhancement:

Where all tracks are in a single folder, and album names are appended with (Disc 1), (Disc 2) etc. why not assign discnumber accordingly (if not already present) and drop the (Disc x) from the album name, effectively cleaning things up a little even though the album was not identified?

Edit: I found the album on MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/release/003bee34-99c1-4c68-aabd-09fa00eb42b0, Last updated: 2025-02-01 21:52 UTC so unsure why SK didn’t identify it.

#2

Check the Activity Log tab of your previous run because we have added some informational messages when we find a potential release but ultimately decide to reject it, not all cases are covered but it might be there.

Regarding original suggestion I would say in general it is a bit dangerous to try and modify existing metadata based on interpreting what existing data means but without an online match to verify against. We do this for unmatched albums that have value for artist but not album artist and albumartist to albumartists but that is about it and sometimes that doesn’t go right - Inconsistent formatting of tag metadata?

Also, it’s quite common to have Disc no in the album field and although not really right some media players (such as MinimServer) can parse that extra info and recognize both discs are same album.

#3

There’s unfortunately nothing in the Activity Log regarding that album.

#4

If you run Create Support Files I can look into logs.

#5

Done and sent earlier this AM.

#6

For some reasons there are no log files, all I can think is that they were in memory buffer and not written to file yet, could you simply rerun Create Support Files again.