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squeedle:
Just wanted to request that MC work for "album year" the way it works for "album artist":
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Album_Artist_and_Album_Artist_(Auto)

If there is an "album year" specified, it should be used. Otherwise, it "falls back" to taking an average of the "date" field, which is what it does now.

I realize there have been previous posts about this, and the recommendation seems to be to create a new field to store the individual track years but to keep the "date" year as the year of the album. But I think this is backwards. The "date" field is the primary field used for playlists, etc. And as such, it should pertain to the individual tracks (on compilations, etc.).

I'm sure there are good reasons for it behaving the way it does, but I'd like to see more options supported natively like you've done for "album artist", rather than adding new custom fields, etc.

adamt:
Thanks for the suggestions.  It seems it would make since if there is a date field attached to each track that it should be the date of that track individually.  Perhaps like you said, it could be "album date".  Although it does seem like a rather obscure problem.

squeedle:
I just think that for compilations, there's obviously the year the compilation was released, and then the year the included tracks were released. And both pieces of data seem fairly important. I'm sure users would appreciate this.

ThomasB:

--- Quote from: adamt on November 03, 2013, 03:33:10 pm ---  Although it does seem like a rather obscure problem.

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Could you please specify what you mean exactly? >:(

ThomasB:

--- Quote from: squeedle on November 03, 2013, 03:47:15 pm ---I just think that for compilations, there's obviously the year the compilation was released, and then the year the included tracks were released. And both pieces of data seem fairly important. I'm sure users would appreciate this.

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I am in 100% agreement with squeedles request.

It's driving me nuts that MC is still not able to handle audio compilations as it should although this feature is rather basic and not difficult to implement --> see album vs. track artist.

Thomas

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