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[Dutch Peter]

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

[jiistme]

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

[jleerigby]

I use the following methods in this order:

1.  King Sparta's Chart Finder Plug In
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.

[KingSparta]

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.

[Dutch Peter]

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

[jleerigby]

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.

[Dutch Peter]

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

[jleerigby]

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.

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...

[Dutch Peter]

We will see.

Thanks again.

I will close the thread (if I can).

Next time,

Peter