Poll: What best explains your use (or lack thereof) for track-based years in your music collection?

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In the “Feature Suggestions” area this morning, I was reflecting on Please add Year to track listings (for both albums and playlists), which made me curious: What best describes your feelings about Roon providing features that employ the “Year” field at a track level?

  • A) I tag all of my tracks with accurate release dates, and want to be able to use that information to create year-based playlists of the tracks in my collection.
  • B) I don’t tag all of my tracks with accurate release dates, but if Roon had features available to take advantage of them, I would.
  • C) I make significant use of streaming services, and don’t have the ability to override their track-based year information to correct it and make it useful.
  • D) I don’t care about the track dates in compilations; year-based track listening isn’t for me.
  • E) I make a habit of only collecting albums that are not compilations, so this capability isn’t useful to me.
  • F) I never thought about any of this before.
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Voted D). I might use them occasionally but for me there are way bigger issues / missing features

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My case is a bit different: I tag all of my tracks with accurate release dates, but I don’t care to search for that (and I almost never use playlists).

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What’s a playlist? ( :wink: )

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I love that my, most classical, collection includes recording dates and locations on a per track level basis, when available.

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This is pretty interesting so far. Thanks to all who have been voting. It is illuminating!

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I used to add track years to my metadata for the exact reason in A but stopped when I got Roon (2016) as Roon couldn’t/ didn’t use this data.

But yes I’d like Roon to be able to add all my compilation tracks to a “year” playlist.

.sjb

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Life didn’t start with Roon and it won’t end with it. Technology works for us, not the other way around. Tag your tracks the way you see fit.

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This is a sound philosophy. While Roon can’t currently use track year metadata, plenty of other software can, and you can make good use of it in the meantime.

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Don’t use playlists much as I listen to albums not tracks and don’t care for sorting by dates other than date added last played. So D for me.

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This is very interesting so far…as of 40 votes, only 32% of people seem to care about track-date-based playback (i.e., answering A or B). That is surprisingly low, but the numbers don’t lie.

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Don’t forget that 100% of people self-selected the poll…

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As far as I am concerned, I wouldn’t be against it and I am sure there will be some compilation albums where it’s helpful. Arguably it’s a necessary feature for being “complete”. So, I wouldn’t say I don’t care. It’s just that I miss other things more.