'Box Set'-field in Details-tab

[RTRBook]

I have a box with 7 cd’s in it, which isn’t found in the core, nor in Discogs.

The 7 cd’s however are found as individual discs. So I added every album and merged them into the first. After that, I renamed the first to the name of the box. Just as you demonstrated in you explaining video, which I found via the manual.

But then I remembered the ‘Box’-field in the ‘Details’-tab of the ‘Edit’-page (or the ‘Add Album’-page, it’s the same field in both pages). What would that field mean? I searched the manual on ‘box’, but it talks only about ‘checkbox’ or ‘search box’ (the latter should be ‘searchbox’, but who cares about spelling?).

So I just tried to fill it in.

In the ‘Details’-tab of the ‘Add Album’-screen you can find the Box Set-field, which is really a sub-screen with three tabs in the ‘Add’- or ‘Edit’-screen ‘Details’-tab.

I can fill in the details about a New Box Set. It seems pretty straight forward: you fill in the name and can generate the sort name (not automaticcaly right). You can fill in a barcode and release date and save it. So far so good.

I presumed the second tab (‘Albums’) was meant to add the albums in this boxset. Maybe I’m wrong - as usual - and is something else meant by the term ‘Album’: I translated this into ‘Disc’. For as far as I know a ‘boxset’ (or: ‘Box Set’, but who cares about spelling?) is an album consisting of more than one disc.

However it is meant to be, I couldn’t add anything. No doubt there is something else I have to do (or set, but I learned that’s kept to a minimum), I only just can’t find it.

NB. This is the same with ‘Add’ as with ‘Edit’.

And why can I not delete a boxset although the count in the right column is ‘0’? In Manage Box Set I clicked the ‘X’ and chose ‘Remove’. But nothing was removed.

I had added a name for another boxset and that one ( with the count to ‘1’) could be deleted, but now the screen froze on “Remove - Processing changes – finishing…” until I quitted the program.

I had to login again. This wasn’t a one-time experience: I did extensive testing…

Btw: I had to import this boxset from Discogs because it wasn’t found. After the import all 21-discs were there with all tracktitles and corresponding times. It is clearly a boxset, but I cannot call it that in CLZ Connect.

So, what is this field ‘Box Set’ meant for and how are album added to it? As said before: the manual doesn’t tell anything about the field ‘Box Set’ or underlying tabs.

Please shine some light here.

[CLZ_AJ]

@RTRBook

For as far as I know a ‘boxset’ (or: ‘Box Set’, but who cares about spelling?) is an album consisting of more than one disc.

An album can contain multiple discs.
A box set contains multiple albums.

An album with multiple disc is just an album. You can go to an album and edit it, and on the Tracks tab you can add more discs. You can also checkbox multiple albums and merge them into 1 album, with multiple discs.

Already have the loose albums: If you added single disc albums and want them to be a single album with multiple discs do this:

1. Checkbox the albums that should be 1 album
2. Click the 3 dotted icon
3. Click “Merge Albums”

The Albums tab on the box set “add” or “edit” screen:
The “Albums” tab on the box set edit screen is just to show you which albums are already in here. The “Create new box set” is not meant to be a screen where you add multiple albums to a box set.

If you wish to add multiple albums into a box set, here’s how:

1. Find the albums in your collection
2. Checkbox the albums you want to put in the box set
3. Click on Edit on the blue action bar to edit the entire selection
4. Then ONLY select the box set field (NO other fields)
5. Then enter the box set name. Done.

Or you can edit each album individually and set the box set field for each album.

If you find the Album containing multiple disc on box sets, you might be able to copy the Catalog Number, and just search that in the Add Albums screen in CLZ Music Web, and then click the Cat. No. tab, and search the catalog number there! It might find the Discogs version containing all 21 discs, and you can add it in one go.

[RTRBook]

OK, thanks for your answer.
It’s clear to me now how your definition of ‘Box Set’ works.