How to set directories and name files for vinyl albums (and technically cassettes too) to include the album sides and correct vinyl numbering?

MusicBrainz Picard
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Thank you! That put me on the right track (no pun intended!)

In case this helps anyone else, I first created a variable to check whether something is vinyl and then to set the variable to “Side” (as in Side A or Side B, etc.,) or to “Disc” for everything else.

$noop(
# Change disc text depending on whether something is a Disc or
# Vinyl album.
)
$if($find(%media%,Vinyl),$set(_MediumText,Side),
    $set(_MediumText,Disc)
    )

You don’t have to call it “_MediumText” - call it whatever you want. I just wanted vinyl albums to have a “Side X” directory and CD’s to have a “Disc X” directory.

I then changed this

$set(_nDNum,$if($gt(%_nTotalDiscs%,1),%_PaddedDiscNum%,))

to

$if($in(%media%,Vinyl),$set(_nDNum,$left(%_musicbrainz_tracknumber%,1)),
$set(_nDNum,$if($gt(%_nTotalDiscs%,1),%_PaddedDiscNum%,))
    )

And changed this

$set(_nTNum,$if(%_nDNum%,%_nDNum%-)$if(%_PaddedTrackNum%,%_PaddedTrackNum%. ))

to

$if($in(%media%,Vinyl),$set(_nTNum,%_musicbrainz_tracknumber%. ),
    $set(_nTNum,$if(%_nDNum%,%_nDNum%-)$if(%_PaddedTrackNum%,%_PaddedTrackNum%. ))
    )

The path (in my modified script) looks like this:

$set(_nFilePath,%_cArtistAlbums%/$if(%_aNoArtistSort%,%_vAllAlbumArtists%,%_vAllAlbumArtistsPrimarySort%)/%_nYear% • %_vAlbumTitleAddInfo%$if(%_nDNum%,/%_MediumText% %_nDNum%))

And the file name is like this:

$if($eq(%_isAlbumType%,Standard),$set(_nFileName,%_vPrimaryAlbumArtist% - %_vAlbumTitle% %_nYear% - %_nTNum%%_vTrackTitleAddInfo%%_nFeat%))

Hopefully using the original script linked in my first post gives folks enough to go on if they want to use this sorting for themselves. I’m only a few days new at this so I would imagine there are better/more efficient ways of doing this but this is what I have that works lol :slight_smile:

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