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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: GreggP on October 17, 2013, 04:21:47 pm

Title: release date vs. recording date for audio CDs/tracks
Post by: GreggP on October 17, 2013, 04:21:47 pm

I've created a custom tag named 'Year Recorded' to provide the date a track was recorded. The 'DATE' field is used to show the date the CD was released. For example, I may have a compilation album (like those from Rhino) that was released in 2010, but all the tracks are recordings of an artist from 1972-1978. When I rip a CD and use metadata from AMG, the DATE field is usually tagged with the CD release date, not the recording date. I'm not sure what other services like YADB or Gracenote use, because I don't use them. However I just tested a ripper that uses Gracenote and noticed that it tagged the date as 'Date Recorded'.

If I create playlists based on the date, I'd prefer these songs were included in a 1970s playlist, not a 2010s playlist.

Is anyone else using a custom tag, or is there already a standard tag for recording date? How do you differentiate between release date and recording date?

Title: Re: release date vs. recording date for audio CDs/tracks
Post by: MrC on October 17, 2013, 05:53:44 pm

You should use Date for recording date, because stock views, etc. use this field.

Create your own Released field if you want to track a released date.  See:

   http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=72458.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=72458.0)

Title: Re: release date vs. recording date for audio CDs/tracks
Post by: GreggP on October 17, 2013, 07:12:14 pm

So I'd need to create a new metadata field named something like 'DATE RELEASED' and then move the data from 'DATE' to 'DATE RELEASED'. This shouldn't be a problem as long as my new field has the same data type (in this case DATE).

Then I need to copy/move the data from my current 'YEAR RECORDED' field to the 'DATE' field. However, when I created the 'YEAR RECORDED' field many, many years ago, it used the data type INTEGER.

Any ideas how I can convert from INTEGER to DATE, so something like 1959 converts to 1/1/1959? I think the integer 1959 will be something very different if I move it to the DATE field.

Thanks for your help!

Title: Re: release date vs. recording date for audio CDs/tracks
Post by: MrC on October 17, 2013, 07:15:30 pm

Yes, that's right.  Create a custom field of Type Date.

You can use Move & Copy Fields to copy the date (or direct assignment using the raw date value =[Date,0] ).

You can use:

   =ConvertDate([your integer field])

to convert [your integer field] into a date value.

Title: Re: release date vs. recording date for audio CDs/tracks
Post by: GreggP on October 18, 2013, 12:38:12 pm

That worked. Thanks for the advice.

Title: Re: release date vs. recording date for audio CDs/tracks
Post by: stanzani on November 26, 2018, 08:52:23 am

How people handle the 'date of composition' this is especially interesting for classical music where three dates are relevant
- release date
- recording date (Date field)
- date of composition (custom field?)