# TOTALDISCS / DISCNUMBER differences Foobar2000 and MP3tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/totaldiscs-discnumber-differences-foobar2000-and-mp3tag/64964
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 5, 2024, 11:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/totaldiscs-discnumber-differences-foobar2000-and-mp3tag/64964 "2024-06-05T11:22:16Z")
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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: [June 5, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/totaldiscs-discnumber-differences-foobar2000-and-mp3tag/64964/4 "2024-06-05T12:54:48Z")

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See also this thread:

> [@TOTALDISCS tag not working](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/totaldiscs-tag-not-working/47263/5):
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> I'm not sure if I really grasp the question from the posts above. However, there is a difference in the storage of TOTALTRACKS and TOTALDISCS between MP3 with ID3v2 and MP4. When tagged via iTunes, an MP3 file has a track number TRACK in the form of TRACKNUMBER/TOTALTRACKS and a disc number DISCNUMBER in the form DISCNUMBER/TOTALDISCS. This is how the information is actually stored in the tag frames (the internal tag data). There is no automatic splitting of the totals to their respective field…

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