Running into frustration: Title.displayFormat

[Alhifi]

Hi Simon,

first a big thank you for your detailed answer, wow, thank you very much!

(15-01-2020 16:42)simoncn Wrote:  For MP3, 3/16 is the correct (standard) way to tag tracknumber/totaltracks. VirtualDJ should be able to handle this correctly and its failure to do this is a bug in VirtualDJ.

I have just tested it again, it's a little bit curious. If I open the tag editor of VirtualDJ the value of track is "3", below the field there is a string like "tag" and "3/19", so VirtualDJ could handle this, but then the user has to push this little button below to take over the value from the file instead of the one in the editor field. After that I decided NOT to use VirtualDJ to edit the tags, I think it's the easiest way.

Quote:When MinimServer reads this information from an MP3 file, it reads the value before the / as TRACKNUMBER and the value after the / (if present) as TOTALTRACKS. This is simple and ensures that what is tagged in the files matches what MinimServer displays.

Ok, now I understand. Sometimes the documentation is a little bit difficult to realize, but than I use "learning by doing". I did not notice that MinimServer split the values in tracknumber if there is a separator like /.

Actually I'm testing by applying the value for totaltracks with MP3Tag, is very simple, because every album is in a separate folder, I use the structure like iTunes, therefor I have a string to move the file and rename it.

But now i have a new problem with TOTALTRACKS

Title.displayFormat={$tracknumber$totaltracks^[^]^/$title^ $subtitle^ (^)$originaldate^ [^]}

This works, but not for the last track!
The tag TRACKNUMBER is as an example "19/19", but the Title is shown as "[19] Title [Year]", not "[19/19] Title [Year]", all tracks before are correct. Why?

If you think about the "originaldate", I want to use this in the future too, it's my first try and it seems to work.

Example:
Artist ABBA
Album Gold
CD Released 1992
Tracks are from 1974 etc.

So I use DATE for the CD and ORIGINALDATE for the track, but that's here the wrong place to discuss ...

Bye
Alhifi