# Tagging with original album, year

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tagging-with-original-album-year/401287
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Created:** [October 11, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tagging-with-original-album-year/401287 "2018-10-11T17:59:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![djs78](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@djs78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/djs78)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tagging-with-original-album-year/401287/1 "2018-10-11T17:59:54Z")

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Hi! I’m a new one here & and new user of MBPickard. Trying to tag some my files with original data, with no result. CeCe Peniston is tagging with some shit from 1998 & Disco Shit Annual… How to get first data to music file?

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### Author: ![hiccup](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/hiccup/32/5512_2.png) [@hiccup](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/hiccup)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tagging-with-original-album-year/401287/2 "2018-10-11T18:08:46Z")

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This might be an informative thread and related to what you are wishing for? :

> [@How to get Picard writing the original release date / year of a recording?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-picard-writing-the-original-release-date-year-of-a-recording/355388):
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> Just to keep this short and precise, I’m gonna skip describing what I have already tried and read about this matter. How can you get Picard to write a tag for the original release date of an album or a single? Let’s take this Michael Jackson compilation album for an example: It contains the song ‘Ben’, which was released as a single in 1972. It seems obvious and logical to me that you want to be able to have this reflected in your tagging scheme. Ditto for box-sets. This is a box-set t…

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### Author: ![djs78](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@djs78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/djs78)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tagging-with-original-album-year/401287/3 "2018-10-11T21:04:51Z")

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Ok. I try to search another labels, but there is no save options avaiable.

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### Author: ![Alfg](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Alfg](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Alfg)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tagging-with-original-album-year/401287/4 "2018-10-11T21:35:20Z")

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Or try using Jaikoz with the option enabled:  
Preferred release date: Earliest release date  
And you get the earliest release date, if its in MusicBrainz or Discogs available.

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### Author: ![djs78](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@djs78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/djs78)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tagging-with-original-album-year/401287/5 "2018-10-14T16:15:18Z")

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Thanks! Jaikoz is almost what I need. One thing is not refined… necessity of payment 😉 Really, MBP can not do what Jaikoz can?
