Wow, the number of votes for this feature makes me sad 
I think it’s being overcomplicated though. Skip all the complex situations, skip collections, and make it a metadata only feature so you don’t have to touch file name processing.
If track1 has disctitle then display. That’s all the logic that’s needed to support huge box sets and make plex a lot more usable for box sets. I believe disctitle(TSST) is an official part of id3v2.4
Yes, please implement this simple fix. i have a lot of multi-disc box sets that are segregated into categories, so to speak. For example, discs 1 and 2 are rarities, disc 3 and 4 are a live show, disc 5 is a remaster of a previously released album, etc… It is ridiculous to either have to lose the disc names, and have them all appear under the box set title, or to lose the cohesiveness of the box set to have them appear as multiple new albums. This is complicated by the fact that if you use disc# and track# for the entire box set, then despite using differently named albums, the tracks seem to be randomly glommed together in some albums.
It should also support bringing in the data from MusicBrainz (Medium Title) upon being matched
Just keeping this feature request alive with my vote. I’d love to be able to name the individual discs in a multi-disc album. Just got the Complete Columbia Record Collection of Johnny Cash albums, and would love to keep them together as a single ‘album’ but name the discs with the name of the original album.
This. or implement the other feature request for inline collections for audio.
Right – I mean to vote for something more like this than non-numeric disk numbers. I’m experiencing the “collection” thing myself.
I picked up a couple of Multi-Disc Compilations/Collections at a thrift store. We’ll look at one.
When you tag this release properly from Musicbrainz point of view and apply the Plex Naming Convention, you get one big directory “The Studio Albums 1979-2008” and the tracks have Disc Ids 1 - 10, so you get
root@svr2:~# ls -la '/plex/PlexMusicLibrary/MainLibrary/Chicago/The Studio Albums 1979-2008'/
total 4030820
drwxrwsr-t+ 2 plex mediamanagers 12288 Oct 15 12:28 .
drwxrwsr-t+ 4 root mediamanagers 4096 Oct 15 12:28 ..
-rwxrw-r--+ 1 plex mediamanagers 67874622 Oct 15 10:23 '01-01 - Street Player.flac'
-rwxrw-r--+ 1 plex mediamanagers 30924267 Oct 15 10:23 '01-02 - Mama Take.flac'
-rwxrw-r--+ 1 plex mediamanagers 24023709 Oct 15 10:23 '01-03 - Must Have Been Crazy.flac'
...
-rwxrw-r--+ 1 plex mediamanagers 28308942 Oct 15 10:23 '02-01 - Manipulation.flac'
-rwxrw-r--+ 1 plex mediamanagers 25325326 Oct 15 10:23 '02-02 - Upon Arrival.flac'
-rwxrw-r--+ 1 plex mediamanagers 22653656 Oct 15 10:23 '02-03 - Song for You.flac'
...
-rwxrw-r--+ 1 plex mediamanagers 34735522 Oct 15 11:17 '10-15 - Stone of Sisyphus (no rhythm loop).flac'
If you look at it in the Plex player, it’s one big album, 131 tracks, and is broken up DISC 1 DISC 2 … DISC10. I get this. It’s fine as far as it goes.
Still, every track has embedded album art specific to the album it came from (they’re all the 2003 “expanded and remastered” releases if you’re wondering, repackaged into this collection).
If you look at the metadata tags, the individual tracks have a “Disc Subtitle” field filled-in.
I’d like a way to make this look in the player like ten separate albums with their correct titles and album art.
When I say “a way” here I mean “a straightforward way that doesn’t require tagging the release wrongly and rearranging the directory structure”. It would be fine to click into the album in the desktop/web UI and set switches – I get we can’t expect Plex to deal with everything entirely automagically.
As thing are, a Plex Release and a Musicbrainz Release aren’t quite the same thing, we can call it something else. A Musicbrainz Release might be a Compilation – maybe Plex adds a level above its current idea of a Release to deal with that. I don’t quite know how on-disk directory structures should look. But it’d sure be great to be able to map tags into a logical structure like this, even if I have to go into whatever Plex thinks is a multi-disc Release and tell it “No, this is a Compilation, get the disc titles from this tag and get the artwork like so”. It could still be in one big directory. I’d have to review artwork naming – we’d want something like"Disc Title - Cover [Large].jpg" so it could all live in one folder.
FWIW.
Tuning in kind of late, but yes! Many box sets have individual names for discs, so I’m kind of surprised that this hadn’t been considered necessary from the start.
Just put in an 18 disc Emerson Lake & Palmer box set and I would LOVE this feature.
This is a much needed feature for music as many new hi-res remasters are included in box sets only. Reviving this with hopes it gets added to the list!
This has been a request for seven years now. What are the chances of it being implemented? I voted for this years ago. Do we need to spread the word and get the voting numbers higher?
id3v2.4 added support for the TSST frame defined as
TSST
The ‘Set subtitle’ frame is intended for the subtitle of the part of a set this track belongs to.
This works with the TPOS frame:
TPOS
The ‘Part of a set’ frame is a numeric string that describes which part of a set the audio came from. This frame is used if the source described in the “TALB” frame is divided into several mediums, e.g. a double CD. The value MAY be extended with a “/” character and a numeric string containing the total number of parts in the set. E.g. “1/2”.
A good example of why this is needed is MODE collection from Depeche Mode, which is 14 studio albums and four discs exclusive to the box set. As a user I don’t want to play “Disc 7” - I want to play Violator.
Hello. Many multiple disc items have a description for the single disks.
For example, 2018 reissue of Pink Floyd’s Animals is like this:
CD 1 - New mix 2018
CD 2 - Old mix 1977
It would be great if we could ad least add manually these data, so they are viewed when looking at the item in Plex. So, instead of this:
We may see “Disc 1 - New Mix 2018” and “Disc 2 - Old Mix 1977”.
It would be great weather we could add this as comment metadata or, even better, it could take it from the folder name (like the following):
But even being allowed to enter manually would be appreciated.
Thank you and have a great day!
Found my way to this thread when I had a few minutes to see if I could figure out how to get Pink Floyd’s Shine On box set to show Album names in In Plexamp (rather than Disc 1, Disk 2, etc)
I see a lot of good ideas - I use mp3tag, which uses “SETSUBTITLE” for the disk name.
It would be nice if Plex could either read this field - or as others have suggested, allow for customizing each Disk name in the library.
Anyway - thanks, I love Plex but this feature would help me love it a little more.
Throwing another voice on the pile here. A particular use case I have that really bugs me: the 10-disc release of Hawkwind’s Space Ritual. The original album was cobbled together from two live sets into a single album. Discs 1-2 of the super deluxe are the original album remastered, Discs 3-4 are the complete set of one of the two live shows, Discs 5-6 are another live set , Discs 7-8 are the other complete set used on the original album (no idea why they did it in that order instead of keeping the two shows together), and Discs 9-10 are the new remix of the album. There’s also a bluray with even more but I didn’t rip that one to my library.
Each pair of discs has an extremely similar track list, considering that it’s two versions of the same album plus three complete concerts. As such, remembering exactly what each disc is supposed to be when every other disc looks nearly identical is no easy task. Not being able to have a subtitle per disc or being able to pull in MusicBrainz’s medium title makes for a pretty terrible UX on that album, even more so than other box sets. With something like Bruce Springsteens The Album Collection Vol.s 1 and 2 you can at least look at the track list to discern what the disc is supposed to be.
Even if we have to edit the disc subtitles ourselves, that would still be a huge improvement in usability.
