Feature Request: Song Name Handling

[santacruzskim]

All of my songs start with the track number followed by the track name (eg "04 Stairway to Heaven") but in the file list I only see the track name (eg. "Stairway to Heaven"). I also prefix all of my track name tags with the track number so if its generating the song name from the filename or the track name tag, it should still have the number prefix.

It seems that Subsonic is doing some sort of magic with this in an attempt at being helpful: if the first few characters of a track name are the same as the track number, it automatically removes them from what is displayed. But I often need to reference track numbers quickly for many reasons and some of my albums have 20+ tracks which makes simply counting down the list pretty difficult.

Is it possible to have subsonic simply look at the file name or song tag as-is w/o doing its own interpretation of what it thinks I want to see? Maybe just add a small option on what info to display at the track level?

Thanks,

-eric

In case there's any confusion, here's a link to a file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mtvx7pg5nj6zw ... %20Act.mp3
-file name: 11 Final Act.mp3
-track name (tag): 11 Final Act
-as displayed in dSub: Final Act

[binrawbissun]

Was curious if you ever figured out how to achieve this. I too want to be able to maintain the filename as I title all my songs with ARTIST - SONGNAME and currently it is altering that or just going off of the ID3 tag info.

[daneren2005]

Was curious if you ever figured out how to achieve this. I too want to be able to maintain the filename as I title all my songs with ARTIST - SONGNAME and currently it is altering that or just going off of the ID3 tag info.

When you have it be Artist - Songname, what are you seing displayed in the client?

[cnliberal]

Wouldn't it be more correct to have DSub display the appropriate tags?

TrkNum - Title
Artist (or AlbumArtist if that hasn't been fixed in SS 4.

It would be sweet if we could customize how many fields to display. There's plenty of room on my Nexus 7 for this.

[daneren2005]

I am probably going to add an option to display the track # in front of the song name in the next version. As for the rest of that yah I will add it to the todo list to have a more customizable list of fields shown.

[santacruzskim]

Thanks daneren, that's great news!

-eric