Beets also records the “original” release date for each release group (original_year, etc.). If you’d like to use this for the main date tag, you can also do that: http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.2/reference/config.html?#original-date
Adrian > On Jan 5, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Pierre Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > lately I've been doing some retagging / cleanup on old albums and I just > realized that many of them where getting tagged with very recent dates. > For example, when tagging "Let It Bleed" from The Stones (initially released > in 1968), it get a date in 2002 ! > When looking at the musicbrainz release (automatically) selected during > import, it make some sense : > http://musicbrainz.org/release/b2ca3b22-f3cc-40c0-b2d3-f4e1d6602106 > 2002 is the date for this specific release, so it's not completely wrong, yet > it's definitively not what I'm looking for nor the info I want to be > displayed in my library. > > I've experimented reimporting with the timid option and selecting manually > the id of the original release on imdb : it works but is quite tedious (the > orginial release is not even in the list of the proposed candidates) and it > requires to first identify all mis-dated albums (as there where imported > automatically with -q, I did not realize immediately that the previously > correct date were being overwritten ...) > > I don't remember seeing this behavior before (and I've been using beets for > some years now), is that something new, voluntary or bug ? Is there any way > to get the date for the original release instead ? > > thanks ! > > Pierre > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
