staresy wrote: > I asked a similar question a while back. I think the answer is for > compilation albums the album year date comes from the track date of the > last track on the CD. > > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?115837-Album-Track-Date-Tag&highlight= > > That's indeed how it seems to work on my system. > > FYI I generally add the album release date in square brackets to the > album title on compilation albums. > > Tracks on compilation albums are then displayed in following format > Track Title, Artist, Album, [album date] (track date), for example this > is how it displays: > > Born Blind > Sonny Boy Williamson > 100 Blues Greats [2005] (1958) > > 2005 being the album release date, 1958 the track date. This isn't > perfect but serves a number of purposes: > > - it captured the date info until I could determine a better way to tag > it (I never have) > - it displays the date info > - you can search on the date info from the advanced search Album Title > field (so putting 2005 will find my compilation albums released in 2005 > (a search I never do!) > - it was easy to do as I don't have 100's of compilation albumsI only have > one album with date tags for each track and the album takes the date from the first track rather than the last track [emoji2]
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