# Track Numbering To Merge 2 disks into 1

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbering-to-merge-2-disks-into-1/16365>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 27, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbering-to-merge-2-disks-into-1/16365 "2014-11-27T19:45:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![bass\_player](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@bass\_player](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bass_player)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbering-to-merge-2-disks-into-1/16365/1 "2014-11-27T19:45:00Z")

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I am having a bit of a problem with merging a 2 disk album to a single album.

Part of the problem is that I don't understand how various players interpret the TRACK field that I can  
see in MP3TAG.

So, the first disk has 12 songs and the second has 11 songs. I selected the second disk and modified  
the track numbers using the following: $add(12+%track%). It worked, but it lost the total number of  
tracks. That is the track numbers went from 1/11 ------ 11/11 and became 13 -------23. Basically, the  
"/" and the track total were removed.

The question is how to get back the total so that the TRACK field would show 13/23 ------23/23.

Once I know how to do this, I will fix disk 1 to have tracks 1/23 ----- 12/23 and then, I think I can  
merge the two files into a single album with the disk numbers removed.

I am supposing that I might add text "/23" to the already correct track numbers, but I don't know  
whether or not the TRACK field is textual or really numerical. (I also do not know yet how to work  
with text in MP3TAG).

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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:** [November 27, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbering-to-merge-2-disks-into-1/16365/2 "2014-11-27T19:49:45Z")

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Wouldn't it be easiest to use the numbering wizard?  
That stores the total number of selected files.  
So, sort the files in such a way that they appear in the correct sequence.  
Then select all files of both discs, apply the Track Numbering Wizard with option ticked to store the total number of tracks.

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**Author:** ![bass\_player](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@bass\_player](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bass_player)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbering-to-merge-2-disks-into-1/16365/3 "2014-11-27T20:49:55Z")

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Thank you for the reply. I did as you suggested which did get the track number field fixed up correctly.  
Then, I changed the title field to reflect the new track numbers. Finally I did a "$cutRight on the  
album name to get rid of the disk numbers.

Seems to work just fine.

Thanks again --

Richard

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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:** [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbering-to-merge-2-disks-into-1/16365/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:23Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC