Is it possible to keep both release_year and original_year, but make $year default to one or the other? Ie, I want the tags and paths to use original_year, because that's how I generally think about my music, but I want to keep release_year info in the DB in case I want to query for it.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Adrian Sampson <[email protected]> wrote: > Beets also records the “original” release date for each release group > (original_year, etc.). If you’d like to use this for the main date tag, you > can also do that: > http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.2/reference/config.html?#original-date > > Adrian > > > On Jan 5, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Pierre Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > lately I've been doing some retagging / cleanup on old albums and I just > realized that many of them where getting tagged with very recent dates. > > For example, when tagging "Let It Bleed" from The Stones (initially > released in 1968), it get a date in 2002 ! > > When looking at the musicbrainz release (automatically) selected during > import, it make some sense : http://musicbrainz.org/ > release/b2ca3b22-f3cc-40c0-b2d3-f4e1d6602106 > > 2002 is the date for this specific release, so it's not completely > wrong, yet it's definitively not what I'm looking for nor the info I want > to be displayed in my library. > > > > I've experimented reimporting with the timid option and selecting > manually the id of the original release on imdb : it works but is quite > tedious (the orginial release is not even in the list of the proposed > candidates) and it requires to first identify all mis-dated albums (as > there where imported automatically with -q, I did not realize immediately > that the previously correct date were being overwritten ...) > > > > I don't remember seeing this behavior before (and I've been using beets > for some years now), is that something new, voluntary or bug ? Is there > any way to get the date for the original release instead ? > > > > thanks ! > > > > Pierre > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "beets" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
