Multi Disc import getting confused

Hi,

I’m trying to import a 4 CD album, but Beets is mixing up the tracks when importing. The tracks are named “Track 1” … “Track n”, but they have the correct track number, cd number and total number of cd tags set. How can I get the discs to import with tracks in the right order?

I’ve included the full output below, but the problem is lines line Track08 (#3-8) -> VHF 855V (#2-8) (title) - where track 8 from disc 3 is being imported as track 8 on disc 2.

Correcting tags from:
    Lost Alternatives Disc 2
To:
    Lost Alternatives
URL:
    https://musicbrainz.org/release/88e4e92f-255e-452f-be7b-8ba9e1effe49
(Similarity: 45.9%) (tracks, album) (4xCD, 2019, GB, Edsel Records, LAMACQBOX01)
CD 1: CD1
 * Track01         -> Chelsea Girl (title)
 * Track02         -> Indian Rope (title)
 * Track03         -> Shall We Take A Trip? (title)
 * Track04         -> It's On (title)
 * Track05         -> Big (title)
 * Track06         -> Catch The Breeze (title)
 * Track07         -> Ten Little Girls (title)
 * Track08         -> Prize (title)
 * Track09         -> Throwing Back The Apple (title)
 * Track10         -> Place With A Name (title)
 * Track11         -> Is It Too Late? (title)
 * Track12         -> Words That Say (title)
 * Track13         -> Everything Flows (title)
 * Track14         -> Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal (title)
 * Track15         -> Love Your Money (title)
 * Track16         -> Supermodel Superficial (title)
 * Track17         -> Waterlogged (title)
CD 2: CD2
 * Track01         -> Real Surreal (title)
 * Track02         -> Speeed King (title)
 * Track03         -> Rat (title)
 * Track04 (#3-4)  -> The Drowners (#2-4) (title)
 * Track05         -> Showgirl (title)
 * Track06         -> Stutter (title)
 * Track07         -> Alice In Vain (title)
 * Track08 (#3-8)  -> VHF 855V (#2-8) (title)
 * Track09         -> Starrclub (title)
 * Track10 (#3-10) -> Wuthering Heights (#2-10) (title)
 * Track11         -> Caught In Session (title)
 * Track12 (#3-12) -> Happy Shopper (#2-12) (title)
 * Track13 (#3-13) -> Drink The Elixir (#2-13) (title)
 * Track14 (#3-14) -> Solitary Party Groover (#2-14) (title)
 * Track15         -> Uncle Pat (title)
 * Track16         -> Rollercoaster (title)
 * Track17         -> Lover (title)
 * Track18         -> Take It Easy Chicken (title)
 * Track19         -> Are You Blue Or Are You Blind? (title)
CD 3: CD3
 * Track01         -> School Disco (title)
 * Track02         -> All I Want To Do Is Rock (title)
 * Track03         -> Sweet Catatonia (title)
 * Track04 (#2-4)  -> Violent Men (#3-4) (title)
 * Track05         -> Sleeper (title)
 * Track06 (3:53)  -> Monday Morning (5:19) (title, length)
 * Track07         -> Race (title)
 * Track08 (#2-8)  -> Greatest Show On Earth (#3-8) (title)
 * Track09 (#4-9)  -> Pink Carnations (#3-9) (title)
 * Track10 (#2-10) -> Dissent (#3-10) (title)
 * Track11         -> Alkaline (title)
 * Track12 (#2-12) -> Come Out 2nite (#3-12) (title)
 * Track13 (#2-13) -> Does Your Heart Go Boom (#3-13) (title)
 * Track14 (#2-14) -> Go (#3-14) (title)
 * Track15         -> Good Intentions (title)
 * Track16         -> No-One Speaks (title)
 * Track17         -> When Were Young (title)
 * Track18         -> Life's Too Long (title)
CD 4: CD4
 * Track01         -> The First Big Weekend (title)
 * Track02         -> New Paths To Helicon Part 1 (title)
 * Track03         -> Satan Polaroid (title)
 * Track04         -> This Is My Hollywood (title)
 * Track05         -> Pull The Wires From The Wall (title)
 * Track06         -> Dry The Rain (title)
 * Track07         -> Strachan (title)
 * Track08         -> Bit Like You (title)
 * Track09 (#3-9)  -> The Claw (#4-9) (title)
 * Track10         -> I.P.C. Subeditors Dictate Our Youth (title)
 * Track11         -> Better Than Myself (title)
 * Track12         -> Freeze The Atlantic (title)
 * Track13         -> This Is Not An Exit (title)
 * Track14         -> Paper Eyes (title)
 * Track15         -> Stay Young (title)
 * Track16         -> Drencom (Velocet Synthemesc) (title)
 * Track17         -> Miss Parker (The Dust Brothers Mix) (title)

Many thanks,
Andrew

Hi! As it stands, beets is doing its best based on the lengths of tracks. This might be a good case for acoustic fingerprinting via the chroma plugin:
https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/chroma.html

We don’t currently have a way to read track index numbers from the titles.

Thank you for the hints. I set the track lengths in Musicbrainz using the discid, and that helped - but there were still two pairs of tracks that were being swapped. I manually set the title tag in those and after that the tracks were imported in the correct order.

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