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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Dutch Peter on November 11, 2003, 07:03:50 am
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Is there any easy (automatic) way to find the year that a song was released for the first time.
I would like to have at least a good indication, so that I can group my songs into Decades.
Peter
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If there is an easy/automatic way, that would be cool...what I ended up doing was adding a custom field call Song Year to the tags (and had it store this tag in the MP3 file) and then, for all my various artist and collection CDs, I had to look in the CD cases for the years to put in there. Once I had all those updated, I just did a search for all songs that had an empty song year and copied the Date (Year) field to the Song Year, now I can search for songs by year.
Anyway, that is an idea...not quite automatic, but it works.
Jiistme
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I use the following methods in this order:
1. King Sparta's Chart Finder Plug In (http://www.spartasoft.com/)
2. The year off the CD Case
3. The 2002 edition of the Guiness Book of British Hit Singles.
4. Search google for the artist discography
I use the Date (Year) field for the year and a custom field for the decade.
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Is there any easy (automatic) way to find the year that a song was released for the first time.
I would like to have at least a good indication, so that I can group my songs into Decades.
Peter
as someone said chart finder will fix the date, it will date it for when it charted however.
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Thnx,
I will try the plug-in.
One remark for JLee:
Why do you use a separate field for decade.
Making a new Medialibrary-scheme you can group by the Date(Year) field. If you ad a grouping-level up to 10 it gives you decades to choose from.
Peter
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Thnx,
I will try the plug-in.
One remark for JLee:
Why do you use a separate field for decade.
Making a new Medialibrary-scheme you can group by the Date(Year) field. If you ad a grouping-level up to 10 it gives you decades to choose from.
Peter
I'm glad you asked that Peter. I used to do it this way but the problem is that it's dependent on you knowing (or guessing) the actual year. There are quite a few tracks where I don't know the year but wish to categorise them as 60's or 80's etc. E.g. If I have an album, say greatest hits of the 80's I can set them all as 80's without necessarily knowing the year they charted.
Doing it this way I've made sure that ALL my tracks are tagged with a decade - either the correct decade or my judgement.
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I solve this by putting 1980 in Date (Year). I do not care to much whether it is 1983 or 1985. It is nice to know, but the decade is the highest priority.
Thanx
Peter
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That's not a solution that's a fudge!
One day Sparta will release a plug in that correctly assigns the year to all tracks ever released anywhere, so I will fill those blanks.
You on the other hand will never know whether a song was really released in 1980 or whether it's a 'fudge it to get the decade right' 1980. ;D
And another thing - my way I select a nice meaningful '80s' narrative under decade rather than '1980-1989'. When was the last time someone asked you to play some '1980-1989 music' ?
Am I bringing you round... ;D
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We will see.
Thanks again.
I will close the thread (if I can).
Next time,
Peter