Adding only the year from Original Release Year to Date

[denis_syla]

I’m pretty new to MB Picard, but it’s already made re-organizing my music collection very convenient. However, I just noticed that whenever Picard pulls metadata from MB, the Date tag changes to the release year of the specific version of the release, but I want it to be the same year as the original release date of the album.

I already have a script running that avoids librarian sorting for artists that I found from this post:

Problem with Autotagging "Album Artist Sort Order" "Artist Sort Order"

Hello, when i have an Album with Artists like DJ, or Artistname are 2 Words, why the fuck Musicbrainz make out of the great and 100% correct meta data Artists George Morel in the Field Artist Sort Order Morel, George Same for Album Artist Sort Order. How i can say Picard for every Album, stop this shit, and let the Datafield “Album Sort Order” and “Artist Sort Order” just blank. I manually changed that for every album i imported in the past, (when i realize that). But i first see this lit…

I was wondering if there was any sort of similar script I can run to achieve this? I tried making one myself but I don’t know anything about scripting so I gave up.

[outsidecontext]

I’m confused, because you already have the script that should make this happen:

$set(date,%originaldate%)

Or do you want just the year part? In this case do:

$set(date,$left(%originaldate%,4))

And the safer way is to fallback to date if originaldate is not available:

$set(date,$left($if2(%originaldate%,%date%),4))

[denis_syla]

The 3rd command seems to be exactly what I’m looking for, except I get this message whenever I put it in the script:

[kellnerd]

@outsidecontext

$set(date,$left(%originaldate%))

I believe @outsidecontext has missed the second parameter num of $left

$set(date,$left(%originaldate%,4))

$set(date,$left($if2(%originaldate%,%date%),4))

[denis_syla]

These work perfectly, thank you!

[outsidecontext]

Thanks for fixing this. I updated my post above to show the correct scripts