Non-numerical labels for discs

[beckfield]

@Lincoln_and_Romaine

I have a pretty big library, and for some items, there are multi-part albums, such as Whitney Houston’s “The Thrown Down & the Cool Down” or Foo Fighter’s “In Your Honor” or Jars Of Clay’s “Furthermore”, as well as audiobook collections, such as Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga, or George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire sage (or The Expanse, or Mistborn, or various others).

For these, I’d like to keep the collections together. The ID3 tags don’t have standard Collection support, but they do give the ability to put alphanumeric characters into the discnumber field.

If Plex were to start supporting that, it would allow me to use discnumber for the book titles, and the Series name as the album, such as:
album = A Song of Ice and Fire
discnumber Book 1: A Game of Thrones
discnumber Book 2: A Clash of Kings
etc
or
album = Whitney Houston Greatest Hits
discnumber Disc One: The Throwdown
discnumber Disc Two: The Cooldown

All I ask is that you enable that in the discnumber field.

Cheers!

Actually, looking at the ID3 specification, there is a frame intended for a subtitle for a disc within a set. The tag is ‘Set Subtitle’ (TSST).

So your set might look like this:

album (TALB) = A Song of Ice and Fire
discnumber (TPOS) = 1
SetSubtitle (TSST) = Book 1: A Game of Thrones
discnumber (TPOS) = 2
SetSubtitle (TSST) = Book 2: A Clash of Kings

Plex would have to implement support for TSST, so there is still a feature request here. Or maybe I should add it to the request for better ID3 support.