# Displaying Disc Numbers in Multi-Disk Boxsets..?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143 "2025-01-14T17:10:31Z")
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### Author: ![Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sesquicunnus/32/18656_2.png) [@Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sesquicunnus)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/1 "2025-01-14T17:10:31Z")

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Hi, don’t know if this a problem with the WiiM Home app, MinimServer or even mp3Tag, but disc numbers for box sets display weirdly… as you can see, sometimes there’s no disc numbers at all, sometimes there’s a disc title and sometimes I actually get disc numbers (whether they’re tagged in mp3Tag as ‘Disc Number:’ ‘1’ or ‘1/8’ makes no difference)… any idea what I should be looking at..? TIA

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-14 at 14.01.12](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/7/5/75fc50745a80b4ea7575e7ec7ff9325e5a530035.jpeg)

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-14 at 14.02.46](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/c/a/cab5b008592d09a733313bc4b316de36a04bbd7b.jpeg)

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-14 at 14.03.38](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/3/8/387e7b3152b422e7b5646ab72de9c5f486b0ae18.jpeg)

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/2 "2025-01-14T17:33:59Z")

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Check the extended tags dialogue Alt-T for the files that display OK and those that don't and find out the differences.  
If you do not see them, show us the screenshots of those dialogues.

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### Author: ![Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sesquicunnus/32/18656_2.png) [@Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sesquicunnus)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/3 "2025-01-14T17:58:37Z")

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Thanks, I'll give that a try...

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### Author: ![Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sesquicunnus/32/18656_2.png) [@Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sesquicunnus)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/4 "2025-01-14T18:15:15Z")

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So, Displaying as normal:

 ![mp3Tag.ExTags.1](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/7/2/729f5beceef323cbaeacbca317b891a1ca96f4a2.jpeg)

Displaying without disc numbers:

 ![mp3Tag.ExTags.2](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/9/b/9b8eb3f9648ceb4592653b1add25423d53448262.jpeg)

Presumably those 'DISC', 'DISC#'' and 'DISCNUMBER' Ttags are creating a conflict..?

Displaying Disc Titles:

 ![mp3Tag.ExTags.3](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/2/0/200f841d5adf1853fb698db905b4cb05790ace1c.jpeg)

Whole heap o' crazy... I'm assuming that editing these extended tags so that they correspond exactly to what I have in my Tag Panel would be the way to go..?

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/5 "2025-01-14T18:18:00Z")

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> [@Sesquicunnus](#):
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> Presumably those 'DISC', 'DISC#'' and 'DISCNUMBER' Ttags are creating a conflict..?

That is what I would have assumed - it should be easy for you to test if that is the root cause.

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/6 "2025-01-14T18:20:46Z")

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> [@Sesquicunnus](#):
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> Presumably those 'DISC', 'DISC#'' and 'DISCNUMBER' Ttags are creating a conflict..?

The official field is called [DISCNUMBER](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping/#discnumber) and will be written into your files according to your music format (FLAC? mp3?)

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### Author: ![Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sesquicunnus/32/18656_2.png) [@Sesquicunnus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sesquicunnus)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/7 "2025-01-14T18:38:17Z")

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Damn. Didn't work... these are my tags, now...

 ![mp3Tag.ExTags.4](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/7/3/73187e1dda0552a58cb7a8971e50154b111d6909.jpeg)

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/8 "2025-01-14T18:50:55Z")

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Are you sure that the player now shows the updated information?  
Perhaps as a test: add an underscore or something similar to the ALBUM data and see whether the player picks it up.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/displaying-disc-numbers-in-multi-disk-boxsets/67143/9 "2025-03-08T14:32:40Z")

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