Date and Focus: it can be more featured and better

Roon Software Discussion
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Hi,

when I filter music by date, I’m primarily interested in the first release date. I want to find music from the 1930s, between 1967 and 1973 or from 2008. Roon sorts by release date, which often differs from the first release date for normal albums and no longer works at all for samplers. With normal albums, I can change the release date myself. This is tedious and unattractive because it is not the right field for it, but it works. With samplers it doesn’t work, because only the album date is used, not a date in the song. In songs there are then fields for recording date, which in most cases doesn’t interest me, it’s nice to have, but not very relevant in daily use. Besides, maintaining the data in thousands of songs is hardly possible with the editing features of Roon. It definitely lacks an editing view comparable to other players or MP3 tag editors. These cannot be used with streaming data, there is also no Excel import or similar for another solution.

What is your opinion on this? Would it be important to use the releases date (maybe with a switch in the settings) in the focus and sorting? Is a fast tag editor missing or would this be more a feature for specialists?

Best regards
Harald

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I don’t know if this helps you, but you can choose a setting whether it should sort by release date or by original release date.

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And the album data also has these two dates, which you can edit.

I get the desire for per track release dates.

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Yes, thank you for the hint - it’s allready set. I was confused cause so many albums are tagged wrong. The old date in release date and the later one in first release date.

But this does not solve the problem with samplers. Nearly every album from early 1950s and before are samplers, and it would be great if they appear in every year of any song release. I think I solve it by average year, but that’s a lot of work.

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Yes, I get the sampler / per-track issue. I just wanted to make sure that the behavior with the two dates options is understood :slight_smile: