EAC - how to stop double digit track numbers

MarcLister · 23 Jun 2010 at 20:53

I use EAC with LAME to rip my CDs and it works a treat. Unfortunately the last few builds of EAC have started to make the track numbers double digits, so tracks 1-9 are 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 and 09. I don't want them like this as they then show up like that in Media Monkey and it winds me up. I've searched through EAC and I've found nothing to stop EAC from double digiting the track numbers.

I previously had a problem where EAC was making the track numbers xx/yy where xx is 01, 02, 03 etc and yy was the total number of tracks on the album so a 10 track album would be 01/10. With bledd's help I was able to fix that but I can't find any setting to prevent EAC using double digit track numbers.

I've got a script installed into Media Monkey which will look at tracks I've selected and renumber them into single digits from the first track upwards. So 01 becomes 1 etc and the first track to have double digits is 10. I can carry on doing this but all I'm doing is fixing something that I want to prevent from happening in the first place.

So any ideas?

SiriusB · 23 Jun 2010 at 21:05

This is a wild guess, as I haven't used EAC for some time, but I am assuming you can setup a filename using parameterisation?

i.e. something along the lines of %nn-%title-%artist or similar?

If it does use that, perhaps try looking to see if there is a different default tag for single digit track numbers?

MarcLister · 23 Jun 2010 at 22:07

You can indeed.

I use

Code:

%A\%C\%N - %T

where %A is CD or track artist. %C is CD title. %N is track number and %T is track title. So as far as I understand EAC I've not done anything there to cause the double digits, say by specifying

Code:

%N%N

which might not even do the double digits.

On that menu in EAC there's nothing about double digits and in all of the EAC options and nothing in the Compression options menus hints at anything.

I think this could be a feature introduced into EAC because it isn't just the ID tags with the double digits but the filenames of the MP3s themselves have double digits in them so I'm leaning towards it being something that should be in the EAC menus and not the Compression menu.

Ratbag · 24 Jun 2010 at 10:12

These things are sometimes case sensitive - does %n give a different result?

MarcLister · 24 Jun 2010 at 17:13

I like that idea Ratbag. I'll give it a try now.

MarcLister · 24 Jun 2010 at 21:53

Had a look and I think its hard coded into EAC. I did think it could be the FreeDB but I looked up an album on there and its single digits only for tracks 1-9. Think I'm off to post on the EAC forums and try and get an official answer.

I'll reply with any news I get.

bledd · 25 Jun 2010 at 09:50

Personally, I always use double track numbers, some older mp3 players and Windows 98 etc will display tracks 10, 11 and 12 right after track 1 otherwise.. (or is it before..)

SiriusB · 25 Jun 2010 at 09:57

It is a little odd Media Monkey displays it as double digits. When trying to create a tag with double digits Windows Explorer, WMP and iTunes all displayed it as a single digit.

MarcLister · 25 Jun 2010 at 17:07

SiriusB said:
It is a little odd Media Monkey displays it as double digits. When trying to create a tag with double digits Windows Explorer, WMP and iTunes all displayed it as a single digit.

Yeah I got your email Spainy. No idea what's going on then. In EAC it it definitely using double digits for all tracks but maybe there's something I can do about that in Media Monkey.