It’s a CD, released in 1991, Picard (2.6.3) is showing Original Release Date and Year as 1991
Heartbreak Hotel is track 12, and is listed as 'recording of Heartbreak Hotel on 1956-01-10.
Picard does not list the original recording date. How can I get access to it? - and set the recording date?
Quite a read.
Can’t see how to display all the tags in Picard though. I have a lot of metadata turned on, but the variables / tags mentioned dont appear when i click on the track.
Not automatically, but you can of course load the single and tag the file against it. If you always prefer singles you can also try to set “single” higher in Options > Metadata > Preferred Releases, and lower your preference for other types. Only makes sense of course if you don’t have all files for an album and cluster and lookup those.
Alternatively you can tag files as non-album tracks, that’s quite simple using the “Load as non-album track” plugin, which provides a context menu action. Won’t set you the release type to single, though.
Is there a way of pulling out any other ‘groupings’ ? by groupings I mean that Heartbreak Hotel is part of Rolling Stone’s Top 500 songs? (might make a nice playlist etc)
A question. Is there a specific field in database that holds the recording date? I’m assuming that there is and in the example of Heartbreak Hotel above, that is where the value of date displayed is stored?
If so, adding it to Picard who would be relatively simple?
There are multiple ways to store the recording date. Essentially it is stored with relationships to work, place, event and/or area. Pease see the ticket I linked above.
The open question is which dates to use in case of multiple different dates or for date ranges. What is the reocording date if it says “Recorded between August and September 2013 at Studio A, vocals recorded in Studio X between September and November 2013, drums recorded January 2014 in Studio Y”?
So far there hasn’t been much feedback on that question.
I guess there are two key dates to extract. The first available date, presumably when recording started. And the last available date, presumably when recording finished.
I would use the second date but if both were provided then users could use them as they please, including using scripting to have a field that displays the range?
@aerozol I would also add the “mixed” date as that is really the first time the completed recording comes together as a whole.
Another confusion is sometimes the date range is caused by an album being “recorded in Winter 1988” and no way of knowing which track was on which day, just a date for the album as a whole.
I would just supply the album date for the tracks and not lose sleep over it. I think inevitably this field is going to be very variable in quality - both because the data won’t always be in mb, and because many artists don’t supply it - and if they do it’s inconsistent. Yy, or yy-mm, or yy-mm-dd + time and moonphase…
P.s. I don’t have any skin in this game but the thread posed an interesting question