Not merging "track number" tag and "total tracks" tag in "track number" tag column

Hey.

There's a behavior that I absolute despise that I'd like to get rid of. I do not know what is this obsession with tagging software, music player and DOpus for that matter to merge the "track number" and "total tracks" tags of audio file and showing them as "01/15" instead of just "01" or "1". My tags have both values but the column is called "Track", not "Track/Total Tracks".

This behavior only applies for MP3s and AAC (m4a) files as far as I could tell. FLAC, OGG, Opus... they don't have this behavior.

Example of what I don't want:

Example of behavior I expect:

Is there currently a way to have the column only show the tag "Track number" and not "Track number/Total Tracks" and that does not involve creating a custom column? AFAIK, foobar2000 is able to just show the tags separately.

Thanks.

Opus displays what's in the tag, more or less.

If you fix the tags to remove everything after the / then it won't appear in Opus either. Should be possible in bulk with a tool like Mp3Tag. (Could also be done in bulk using Opus but would require scripting.)

(Formats like FLAC and Ogg store the values as actual numbers instead of text strings, so they're always just a single number.)

Alternatives an evaluator column could easily strip out the / and everything following it.

The tags are not in the ## / ## format. See for yourself:

Or in MP3tag

So, that's why I don't understand why they show up like that. The tags are not in that format.

Please attach or link to an example file with the problem.

Of course. Here you go. Please note that you might want to delete the file off the server as I'm pretty sure it's protected by copyrights once you are done with it.

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Thanks, and confirmed with that file. We'll take a look.

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