v15 - Issue with Albums having more than one CD

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Issue with Albums having more than one CD - sundance.kid - 2015-08-25

Sorry if this has been addressed already - although searching here, I didn't find what I am looking for.

To begin with, I'm new to Kodi.
I tried to import my music library (all FLAC, well tagged) but I have a problem with albums with more than one CD.
All the files here are tagged with a DISCNUMBER and TRACK, but Kodi doesn't seem to care for DISCNUMBER since it sorts all files based on tracks numbers only - resulting in a mixed display of both tracks 1, followed by both tracks 2 (on a 2 disc album).

Is there a way to configure the display?
(of course w/o retagging all my files with e.g. ascending track numbers across discs)

I would prefer a listing like:

Disc 1:
1. Track 1
2. Track 2
...

Disc 2:
1. Track 1
2. Track 2

Thanks in advance
-sundance.kid-

RE: Issue with Albums having more than one CD - Prof Yaffle - 2015-08-25

What's your sort order in the side-blade menu (Confluence skin, anyway)? If it's 'file name' then you'll get 1-1, 2-1, 1-2, 2-2...; if it's 'track number' then it should be 1-1, 1-2, 1-3...

RE: Issue with Albums having more than one CD - Martijn - 2015-08-25

i have all my FLAC / MP3 with discnumber and that has been working since Gotham builds.

Have you scanned in your entire music folder?

RE: Issue with Albums having more than one CD - Prof Yaffle - 2015-08-25

<checks>

Yes - 'Name' is default sort, and gives the mixed-CD results - change to 'Track'.

RE: Issue with Albums having more than one CD - sundance.kid - 2015-08-27

yep, changing the sort order to Track did the trick.
But now I'm curious (and hungry for more...): Could the track listing be further modified?

Example:
My 2-disc compliation album (ABBA - The Definitive Collection) reads like this:

Code:
ABBA - People Need Love

ABBA - He's Your Brother

ABBA - Ring Ring

.

This is OK for an album with various artists, but for a one-artist-compilation like this I'd simply prefer:

Code:
People Need Love

He's Your Brother

Ring Ring

.

Also browsing the library in "album" mode, the listing for e.g. Billy Joel is:

Code:
52nd Street            Billy Joel

Piano Man              Billy Joel

River of Dreams        Billy Joel

while I would like to have it sorted chronologically (done that with sort order) and additionally showing the year of release (no need for artist either since that is the headline...):

Code:
[1973] Piano Man

[1978] 52nd Street

[1993] River of Dreams

I've got no clue if such deep modifications can be done; maybe by modifiying the skin files (I'm still with default Confluence)?
Any help/link/pointer is highly appreciated.

-sundance.kid-

RE: Issue with Albums having more than one CD - Martijn - 2015-08-27

http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#musiclibrary
<albumssortbyartistthenyear>true</albumssortbyartistthenyear>

^^ will sort your albums. This has been added art sort method in the interface for v16

RE: Issue with Albums having more than one CD - sundance.kid - 2015-08-27

@Martijn,

some progress here.
I've created an advancedsettings.xlm now:

Code:
<advancedsettings>

<musiclibrary>

  <hideallitems>true</hideallitems>

  <albumformat>(%Y) %B</albumformat>

  <albumformatright></albumformatright>

</musiclibrary>

</advancedsettings>

Looks something better now.
But:
a) I didn't get rid of the artist display in the right column. An empty setting of <albumformatright> doesn't change that.
b) Is there a special function with [] square brackets? [%Y] didn't work as expected (and showed 1978 instead of [1978].
c) Couldn't find any settings for track listings...
d) <hideallitems> didn't remove the ALL item (where's the GUI option hidden?)

-sundance.kid-

RE: Issue with Albums having more than one CD - Martijn - 2015-08-27

d) appearance, file list, hide parent (or something)