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If I'm doing it wrong after spending 15 minutes fine-tuning the Picard settings, installing plugins and googling "Picard use recording year" so that I don't get

If I'm doing it wrong after spending 15 minutes fine-tuning the Picard settings, installing plugins and googling "Picard use recording year" so that I don't get '60s re-releases on a '90s auto-playlist, and it is still producing garbage, then I don't know who this is aimed at.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago
How did you create the 90's auto playlist? I'm reasonably certain that Picard adds this information by default without you needing to do anything, so whatever created the playlist was probably just looking in the wrong place. https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/downloads/MusicBrainz_Picard_v2.7_[en].pdf https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/downloads/MusicBrainz_Pi... > Chapter 7.1 'basic tags' > The following tags are populated from MusicBrainz data for most releases, without any special Picard settings. > Note: Some of these tags are only supported for certain file types or tag formats. Please see the Picard Tag Mapping section for details. Are you using the 'originalyear' value? > The year of the original release date in the format YYYY. By default this is set to the earliest release in the Release Group. This can provide, for example, the release year of the vinyl version of what you have on CD. If you have compilations, like film soundtrack and want each track tagged with it's original release date, then you need to tweak things, as noted in the help for the slightly more precise 'originaldate' tag > This is the same information provided in the _releasegroup_firstreleasedate variable, and is consistent across all tracks in the release. If you prefer to have this tag populated with the date of the earliest recording of the track in the database, which will likely be different for each track in the release, this can be achieved by enabling a one-line tagging script as $set(originaldate,%_recording_firstreleasedate%). > Be aware that setting this can cause a release to be scattered across multiple directories if you use %originaldate% as part of the path portion of your file naming script. edit: worth mentioning that Musicbrainz also tracks when things were recorded (i.e. when were the artits in the studio making the music), which is different again from the original release date (when it was made available for sale), so your search term may have been ambigous.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago

How did you create the 90's auto playlist? I'm reasonably certain that Picard adds this information by default without you needing to do anything, so whatever created the playlist was probably just looking in the wrong place. https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/downloads/MusicBrainz_Picard_v2.7_[en].pdf https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/downloads/MusicBrainz_Pi... > Chapter 7.1 'basic tags' > The following tags are populated from MusicBrainz data for most releases, without any special Picard settings. > Note: Some of these tags are only supported for certain file types or tag formats. Please see the Picard Tag Mapping section for details. Are you using the 'originalyear' value? > The year of the original release date in the format YYYY. By default this is set to the earliest release in the Release Group. This can provide, for example, the release year of the vinyl version of what you have on CD. If you have compilations, like film soundtrack and want each track tagged with it's original release date, then you need to tweak things, as noted in the help for the slightly more precise 'originaldate' tag > This is the same information provided in the _releasegroup_firstreleasedate variable, and is consistent across all tracks in the release. If you prefer to have this tag populated with the date of the earliest recording of the track in the database, which will likely be different for each track in the release, this can be achieved by enabling a one-line tagging script as $set(originaldate,%_recording_firstreleasedate%). > Be aware that setting this can cause a release to be scattered across multiple directories if you use %originaldate% as part of the path portion of your file naming script. edit: worth mentioning that Musicbrainz also tracks when things were recorded (i.e. when were the artits in the studio making the music), which is different again from the original release date (when it was made available for sale), so your search term may have been ambigous.