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

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-picard-writing-the-original-release-date-year-of-a-recording/355388
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Created:** [January 29, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-picard-writing-the-original-release-date-year-of-a-recording/355388 "2018-01-29T12:10:00Z")
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### Author: ![Dreamer8](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dreamer8](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Dreamer8)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-picard-writing-the-original-release-date-year-of-a-recording/355388/34 "2020-07-29T19:02:40Z")

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I requested something similar here:

[Prefer lowest year option - MusicBrainz Picard - MetaBrainz Community Discourse](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/prefer-lowest-year-option/488064)

> [@outsidecontext](#):
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> In theory it would be possible to write a plugin to query MusicBrainz for all releases containing a specific recording (or maybe work, depending on what you want) and that way find out the earliest release known to MB. But his would be really slow, since it would take multiple requests per track to get that data.

It’s not a problem if it would be slow, I need to do it just once for few hundreds of files, even hours would be OK.

BTW from the other topic, if I search for “Artist - Title” in google, it will (almost) always finds the video and release year and it’s the first release, correct - which database is google using?

Try it with any song. The only problem is, if the title has the same name as album, in this case the album is found, but the year is correct here too.

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