That’s not currently possible, alas—the `original_date` option overwrites the actual release date.
That might be a good use case for this old feature proposal: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/488 > On Jan 5, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Michael MacLeod <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it possible to keep both release_year and original_year, but make $year > default to one or the other? Ie, I want the tags and paths to use > original_year, because that's how I generally think about my music, but I > want to keep release_year info in the DB in case I want to query for it. > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Adrian Sampson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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 > <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] > > <mailto:[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 > > <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] > > <mailto:beets-users%[email protected]>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > > <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] > <mailto:beets-users%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
