Author Topic: Sorting CD Numbers  (Read 1660 times)

Kire

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Hello,
When I got a CD box ripped in Music bee there seems to be a problem with sorting numbers above 10 or 20 or... I got a 22 cd box . Eacht cd is named : "Album name - cd 1, Album name - cd 2 " Etc.
But when I come  to "Album name - cd 11, 12 ...or 21,21,22.."  the albums are sorted : "Album name - cd 1, cd 10, cd 11..cd 19, cd -cd 2, cd 21 ..."
instead of "Album name -CD 1, CD 2...cd 9, cd 10,cd 11...cd 20.."
Can this be solved ?
Kire

vincent kars

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This is inherent to alphabetic sorting
Possible solutions

Smart sorting
Some media players support this.
Text with numbers in it are sorted right by design
Maybe MB will do it one day

Use a leading zero
Album name - cd 01
..
Album name - cd 09
Album name - cd 10


Use the disk# tag
Populate it with the number of the CD
As it is a numerical field, it will sort correctly 1,2..9,10
Give all the albums exactly the same title

Pingaware

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The <Disc #> tag would be the best way to resolve this and the most universally compatible.
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