Prefer lowest year option

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Please see the following discussion:

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

Short answer is you can’t since there is no easy way to query that information from MusicBrainz. 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.