Box set of original albums

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@RobinBettridge

If that means that “Anne Boleyn” is tagged and filed as a track within an album called “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” and the original release date of that work was 1973, not 2016 then I’d be very happy.

This is a common problem, not specific to box sets. (Also, I’m not sure you’re using “work” in the way that we understand works in MusicBrainz terminology, do you mean recordings maybe?)

You may want to look into solutions proposed in threads like these to get the desired behaviour (from Picard at least):

Recording Release date

Is there a relationship to add the original release date to a recording? Would be nice to be able to tag songs with the actual year of release not whenever the cd was released. A little annoying when Heartbreak Hotel plays and 2002 is displayed instead of 1956 or when searching for songs from an era.

How to get Picard writing the original release date / year of a recording?

Just to keep this short and precise, I’m gonna skip describing what I have already tried and read about this matter. How can you get Picard to write a tag for the original release date of an album or a single? Let’s take this Michael Jackson compilation album for an example: It contains the song ‘Ben’, which was released as a single in 1972. It seems obvious and logical to me that you want to be able to have this reflected in your tagging scheme. Ditto for box-sets. This is a box-set t…

Plugin - Tag first recorded date

Hi, I was wondering if anyone was interested in a plugin I’m currently working on to tag tracks with their earliest known recording dates. This is useful for compilation albums where originaldate might not be the date of the song. After files have been tagged, music players are then able to filter based on date. Regards, Craig

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@RobinBettridge

Final tongue-in-cheek example: If you buy 15 discs from Amazon and they arrive in the standard brown Amazon box, do you throw away the jewel cases and sleeves and store the discs in the brown box? Because that is the metadata equivalent of what Musicbrainz/Picard does for the case of a collected set of albums marketed together.

Those are not really equivalent at all. You can buy a single boxset containing 15 albums or you can buy those 15 albums individually, they’d still arrive in an (additional) brown Amazon box, but they’d be 1 single item vs. 15 separate items in Amazon’s storefront, which is the data we’re mirroring here: 1 single item (1 release in 1 release-group) vs. 15 separate items (15 releases in 15 different release-groups).