Organisation and file naming question

[PrettyPixel]

I am new to MusicBrainz Picard, and would like to know how to have the original year for a track in the file name, instead of the date of the album the track is from.

For example, currently, I get: Abba - 1992-09-21 - Gold_Greatest Hits - Abba - Voulez Vous.mp3

Ideally, I would like my files to be organised as follows:
Abba - 1979 - Gold_Greatest Hits - Abba - Voulez Vous.mp3

Thank you in advance.

[tigerman325]

I’ve wanted this forever as well, but unfortunately I don’t believe it’s possible with the current schema. There are ways to do the original date on a release for a release group, but not each individual track. I hope I’m wrong, because I’d love that as well.

[PrettyPixel]

Many thanks for the reply. Such a shame it is not possible.

[kellnerd]

There was a plugin to achieve this, but unfortunately it does not work anymore:

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

As I would like to use this myself, I plan to rewrite the plugin for Picard 2.x. Currently this has low priority for me, so it might take some time before I’m going to work on it.