Prefer lowest year option

MusicBrainz Picard
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I’d like to add just the year tag to multiple files, it works, but sometime incorrect year is added.

Is it possible to always add lowest year from a database?

I found the “Preferred release types” options, but year is missing there.

Perhaps I’m searching something like option “Prefer lowest year”, no matter, if it’s a single, album, EP and so on.

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There is the originaldate tag, which is always the oldest date in the release group. I think this is what you are looking for. If you want you can set it as the date with a script like

$set(date,$if2(%originaldate%,%date%))
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Thanks.

I tested few songs, “Original Release Date” and “Original Year” and it’s the release date of the album, VA album or soundtrack, even if the song if from that album, I want to add the year from the first release.

For example, the song A was released in these albums:

  • artist album - 2000
  • VA album - 2005
  • Soundtrack - 2010
    VA album 2 - 2015

I want to use the year from the first album, the lowest year.

I don’t need it to be 100% correct, but if it would be just 50%, it’s not good, because it could be 2015 instead of 2000, or 2019 instead of 1989.

These songs I want to process are just random songs, not albums, in albums I have the correct year, I just want to add the year to these random songs.

Correct year is also if I google the song, almost every time the youtube song is found and release year is below - it’s always the correct year.

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Please see the following discussion:

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