Bug 360866 - Alphabetic Characters are not allowed in track number field
Summary: Alphabetic Characters are not allowed in track number field
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 2.9
Assignee: Amarok Developers
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Reported: 2016-03-22 19:47 UTC by Marc
Modified: 2016-03-23 19:01 UTC (History)
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Description Marc 2016-03-22 19:47:22 UTC 
Alphabetic characters aren't allowed in the track number field.  There are billions of vinyl LPs still existing in the world and any song from an LP cannot be listed properly while this bug exists.
Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2016-03-23 11:43:03 UTC 
This is due to the ID3 specifications for the track number: it has to be a numeric string.

So unfortunately there is really not much we can do about. For more information, please see http://id3.org/Developer%20Information.

FWIW: you can work around this restriction by adding the track number to the title.
Comment 2 Marc 2016-03-23 15:26:58 UTC 
Thank you.

In a future release can another field be added that can be used for LP track numbers?
Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2016-03-23 19:01:59 UTC 
The ID3.org definition doesn't have such a field, but you can already use a user defined field (currently not read automatically by Amarok), or define a label.

The custom field support is already tracked as a wish in bug 141991