when you do want to actually sort the albums alphabetically) and isn't supported by all players, either.Ĭuriously enough, I've found that files bought from the iTunes store often come with a full timestamp in their tags, even though iTunes itself only supports years, i.e. To some extent you can override it by setting a custom sort order album name, but that can cause other issues elsewhere (i.e. Next problem is that support for timestamps more fine-grained than a year is equally spotty, so if an artist has released multiple albums in one year that don't happen to sort alphabetically, you also run into problems. I'm sure some software exists out there that simply uses the date of the first/last track, as well). (and the same issue also applies to your "remastered album" scenario), and if I tag the original release years of the individual songs, then the positioning of the album will be a bit wonky (and I've found that some software uses the earliest date found for the whole album, whereas other software uses the perhaps somewhat more sensible latest date. If I tag the release year of the compilation album, then the individual songs won't be filtered correctly if I want to do something like "play 60s music" or "play 70s music" etc. I found that MusicBee supports it, but yeah, generally support for that tag seems to remain pretty exotic, and I've got no idea either whether any Android music players support it.Ĭompilation albums pose similar issues, by the way. It's somewhat gratifying to see that streaming platforms have the same problem, though, as I can see on Spotify/Tidal/Youtube Music that they regularly disagree on the release date of an album if their source is the remaster or re-release pressing. My solution thus far has been to tag the album with the original release year, but then change the Album Name to "Album III (Remastered, 2001)". Now when I'm navigating through the band chronologically (as I usually do), the order looks like this:įamous Band - 2001 - Album III (Remastered) Specifically, if I have an album that was originally released in 1970, but my copy in question is a Remaster from 2001, what do I use for the year? 1970, or 2001? You might initially think to pick the Remaster year, but let's assume that this is Album II of Famous Band, and I don't happen to have a rip of the original release. One of the most frequent problems is how to organize various pressings of an album. I still run into challenges with ID3v2 tags on a regular basis trying to manage my offline music collection.
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