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Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
Huh? Why in the world would you NOT use the "disk number" fields for this? Mark the first disk "1 of 2" and the second "2 of 2."
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
Like I said, I chose to ignore those fields. Mainly because I use my iPod for music, and don't burn many audio cds. For me, the divider between discs is as arbitrary as the 80 minute limit for CD-Rs. Thanks for your input though. Perhaps if I have time I will update the script to your liking.
william
What does the iPod have to do with it?
An iPod treats a properly tagged two-disc album as one album.
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
As the latest version of the ID3 tag specification becomes more widely adopted, more and more multi-disk CD's will be tagged automatically by GraceNote/FreeDB *properly,* (that is, with the "Album name" being the same for both disks, and the "Disk x of xx" being used to differentiate between them.) With tagging, consistency is key, and when you stick with it, wonderful, organizational things can happen.
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
I think what others are trying to say is that this can be done without your script. Just identifying each cd in a multi-cd set as cd x of x within iTunes will accomplish the same thing, either in iTunes or on an iPod. No need to update your script to handle this, since iTunes has this capability built in.
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
In other words, you are willfully misusing the data fields that the ID3 tags provide, so you've come up with an AppleScript hack to make iTunes behave as if the track database is kind-of / sort-of not-willfully-broken, and you're offering to extend this AppleScript hack to redundantly reinforce the working behavior you get when you don't willfully ignore the data fields ...and this is somehow a good thing worth sharing with others?
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
I'll chime in to agree with the posters above. The vast majority of my CDs consist of live music. These shows can be anywhere 1 to 10 disks in length. I name everything by date in a xxxx/xx/xx format so shows are in chronological order. The whole thing would be a mess without tagging the disk fields. With the disk fields properly tagged, the whole show plays through on my iPod under a single album name and without the use of playlists. It's absolutely indispensable for my use.
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
You're a PHISH phan, aren't you?
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
That's great except it didn't work for me. One of my albums with 2 discs showed up correctly by itself but another didn't and the first explanation for how to fix this using AppleScript is not written for a lay person. :o(
Easily combine multiple disc albums in iTunes
Oh. I see now I needed to select all albums for each CD and change album title to elminiate "(disk 1)" and "(disk 2)"! Hurray! |
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