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File Organization in Rhythmbox: Disc Number in front of Track Number

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I recently installed the File Organizer Plugin for Rhythmbox music player and organizer for GNOME.

Now when I try to setup the organization of my music under Preferences > Music > Library Structure I get the following settings for File name and Folder hierarchy

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which is precisely what I would like except that if I have albums made up by more than one disc I would like the File Organizer to prepend the disc number to the name, like

../Help!/01-07 - Ticket To Ride.m4a

Weirdly I can insert the disc number to the music file metadata

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But I can't set it as a parameter in Library Structure

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I don't like the solution someone proposd to change the Album name so that it includes the disc number, since it is a meta information one should be able to use it as file name formatter. If there is a workaround by editing python codes or some guides that could help me anything is welcome. Thanks for your time.

More infos:

$ rhythmbox --version
rhythmbox 3.4.4
$ lsb_release -a
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Codename:   focal
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opisthofulax

I found a "so-so" solution (meaning it is not completely satisfying). Using the dconf-editor tool, inspired by this discussion I managed to find the layout-filename setting (under /org/gnome/rhythmbox/library/layout-filename) and changed from the default value

%tN - %tt

to

%aN-%tN - %tt

which gives somehow what I wanted, since the format specifier %aN stands for the

%aN -- album disc number, zero padded

key, sadly this prepends to albums with no disc number the awful looking "00" disc number

Ok behavior

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Non ok behavior

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I think at this point the only needed feature is to conditionally prepend the %aN formatte only if the number is not 00.

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That would make for a valid issue request to the developpers. An alternative workaround - which actually makes sense in the digital world where there is no CD 1 and CD 2, would be to number your tracks incrementally for subsequent disk.
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BeastOfCaerbannog
After renaming the files in your library using the File Organizer Plugin, you could perhaps run a script to remove `00-` from the files in your library that use it. You could use for example something like this with `find` and Perl `rename` from within your library: `find . -type f -name "00-*" -exec rename -n 's/00-//' {} \;` (`-n` is used to preview the changes; remove it to apply them).
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