A friend of mine who is testing AS following my recommendations experienced a strange behaviour when he synced a directory with SACD ISO.
He has a top folder that contains several sub-folders (Named disk1, disk2, …), each subfolder contains a SACD ISO.
After the Sync, he ended up with a list of tracks:
1- track1 of disk 20
1- track 1 of disk 18
1- track1 of disk 7
…..
2- track 2 of disk 20
2- track 2 of disk18
2- track 2 of disk7
That’s pretty weird…. First, the order of the disk #, and second I thought that AS was not able to extract the tracks of a SACD ISO.
Just to mention that in the subfolders of each disk, there is no cue sheet but just some txt files with detailed description of the content of the ISO.
So, main questions are:
What is the simplest and fastest method to have all disks in the right order together with their tracks?
Could we simply update the metadata of each track with Disk# (All tracks are tagged Disk#1 out of 1)? But the process will be long…
Thanks for any advice. My friend is a bit annoyed with this….
I have found that .DSF files that were ripped from the .ISO file and the .CUE file is in the folder, the tracks display can be skewed… If there is a weird track showing in the display, check the track metadata sorting and type information to make sure there is no corollary or unnecessary information in the metadata.. (I have album folders with multiple discs in separate sub-folders that display properly.) … I remove the cue sheet file from the folder.
If the track display is still skewed in Audirvāna, trash the synchronized Library folder pathway and resynchronize the folder.
! Back-up the settings/preference files before trashing and resychronizing the library folder pathway..
I have no problem with AS playing SACD ISO but I did not know that AS was able to separate tracks from an ISO and treat them as if they were identified as separate files.
I can perfectly understand that AS can play an ISO SACD and identifies the tracks from the ISO catalog but I do not understand how it can process each track separately.
What is strange in this is:
AS identifies and separates each track
BUT AS gives the very same path pointing to the entire SACD ISO for ALL tracks belonging to the same disk.
It’s hard to figure out how AS can identify the track within the ISO without a marker or a start time.
So, I think that the best solution at this stage is to:
Select all tracks belonging to the same disk number,
Modify the metadata by replacing “1” by the real disk number
Update the total number of disks
And AS should then be able to group all tracks and allocate them to the appropriate disk number.
What could be interesting to add in AS is a kind of graphical tool able to:
show a collection of albums and tracks
allow the user to select a list of albums and group them into a “collection” with a dedicated name,
allow the user to select tracks and group them into an album
Of course, all actions performed using the GUI should then be translated into an automatic update of the medatata.
Ok, at this stage my solution does not work: I cannot change the tracks metadata in AS. I think they have been extracted from the SACD ISO and I need to use a dedicated tool to update them first…
Ok, done with SACD Tag Editor, nice tool. I will donate something for the good work.
Anyway, after having updated ALL SACD ISO with the correct disk number, two of them were not properly updated in AS (Sync process did not start after ISO were updated). I was forced to perform a fake update of a text file in the same folder to see AS starting the Sync…
