# 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")
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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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