Classical Albums - how do you deal with "movements"?

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AudioBabble
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Classical Albums - how do you deal with "movements"?

Post by AudioBabble »

Just wanted to ask what methods people use for sorting/displaying classical works?

The usual format for CD if for a number of "pieces" to be featured, each having a number of movements - each movement is usually an individual track.

Adding the title of the piece to each filename, plus the movement gives a ridiculously long unreadable filename.

At the moment, I have each piece as a separate album, allowing me to name the movements within that "album", but this leaves me with multiple "albums" which are really the same album, if you see what I mean.

The most ideal way I can think of would be to classify each piece within the album as an individual disc. This would give the right layout visually - the only problem is it will just say Disc 1, disc 2, etc without giving the name of the piece...

I don't suppose there's any way of adding a sub-title to discs within an album?

Does anyone have any clever workarounds for this problem?
AudioBabble
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Re: Classical Albums - how do you deal with "movements"?

Post by AudioBabble »

Well... that was easier than I thought...

It seems you can put any text in the Disc # field, not just numbers....

https://i.imgur.com/BuSkNNJ.jpg

Works for me, happy enough :)
Friedrich
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Re: Classical Albums - how do you deal with "movements"?

Post by Friedrich »

I use to store tracks in a hierarchical folder pattern like the following "auto-organize" mask:
\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Track #:2> - <Title> *
and write movement numbers into the titles:
https://imgur.com/a/PPaoRSd

The path length might be still pretty long, but is manageable.

* "A slash following a mask element causes a directory to be created."
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