Running into frustration: Title.displayFormat

[simoncn]

The problem with [19] instead of [19/19] is caused by the way the tag format string is defined. I did it this way to handle the following combinations:

1) Neither tracknumber nor tracktotal is present -omit [ / ]
2) tracknumber is present but not tracktotal - include [ ] and omit /

If tracknumber and tracktotal are always present together, you can change

$tracknumber$totaltracks^[^]^/

to

$tracknumber^[$totaltracks^/^]

and this will make 19/19 display correctly. The problem with the first format string is that duplicate values are eliminated automatically when tags are grouped in a sequence like $tracknumber$totaltracks, so if both of these have the value 19, this is a duplicate value and it is eliminated. The second format string does not group tags in this way, so any duplicate values won't be eliminated.

The problem with the second format string is that a file that has tracknumber without tracktotal will format as [19 with no ] because the / and ] are added as part of the formatting of tracktotal.

The problem could be solved by extending the format language to include formats within formats but this would be very complex and I am concerned about adding this extra complexity. I will give this some more thought.