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Amarok 2.8

The way I've organized my multi disc albums is as follows:-

ACDC (1992) - Live (2 CD)
101 - Thunderstruck.flac
102 - Shoot To Thrill.flac
103 - Back In Black.flac
104 - Sin City.flac
105 - Who Made Who.flac
106 - Heatseeker.flac
107 - Fire Your Guns.flac
108 - Jailbreak.flac
109 - The Jack.flac
110 - The Razors Edge.flac
111 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.flac
112 - Moneytalks.flac
201 - Hells Bells.flac
202 - Are You Ready.flac
203 - That's The Way I Wanna Rock 'N' Roll.flac
204 - High Voltage.flac
205 - You Shook Me All Night Long.flac
206 - Whole Lotta Rosie.flac
207 - Let There Be Rock.flac
208 - Bonny.flac
209 - Highway To Hell.flac
210 - T.N.T..flac
211 - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You).flac

(The album tag for each file will be "ACDC (1992) - Live (Disc 1)" or "ACDC (1992) - Live (Disc 2)")

Within that folder I will also have a file called cover.jpg (or png etc) which will be the album cover art.

When I scan my collection with Amorak however for these multi disc albums it doesn't pick up the album art. (Works OK with clementine)

I've tried using the discnumber tag but this makes no differance.

Any ideas/help?

Instead of using different Album names you should use the disc numbers. With a different album name it expects a different album art.

Mind you, you can just set the album art manually as well, but keeping one album name and just numbering the discs should be sufficient.

Mamarok wrote:Instead of using different Album names you should use the disc numbers. With a different album name it expects a different album art.

Mind you, you can just set the album art manually as well, but keeping one album name and just numbering the discs should be sufficient.

So bearing in mind that my collection currently consists of 3,796 Albums of which 808 are multi disc albums I'll have to re tag all these albums or manually add cover art!!

What about box sets where the album name actually is different for instance the 10cc Boxset Tenology:

Tenology (Disc 1 - The Singles And More)
Tenology (Disc 4 - B-Sides And Rarities)

Where does this info. get captured if not in the album name.

There is a cover manager that can help you with selecting covers for albums that don't have any, no need to do everything by hand, it should pick up the cover.jpg files in the folder by default, provided those are in the same folder as the album (e.g. if the album is in a subfolder it will not see the cover).

Ditto for retagging, almost all mass-taggers out there have automated procedures, I suggest using the MusicBrainz one, Picard, as it will probably be the fastest to do the work as it can rely on the MusicBrainz database.

I have several box-sets, one of them has over 40 albums and about 10 different covers, as long as the covers are in the correct folder those are picked up.

FWIW: I use Amarok from current git which is ahead by about 364 commits to Amarok 2.8