Sort albums by year

[Koda59]

Hello Tim,
exactly, I am talking about the tag "date: the song's release date. This is usually a 4-digit year".
For me this date represents the year the CD/album was released. Of course on compilations it could be reffered to the individual release year of every single track, but I doubt that it is common to do that for an album?

Since I am trying to have a maximum of compatibility of my mp3 files (over as many players as possible, especially car radio systems) I am only using the most common tags (artist, album, title, track, name, date, composer, genre, comment), so no AlbumSort.

So is this something that you think would make sense to implement this switch for sorting according to 4digit years in date field?
Of course it would be very nice if album title is then also display including the date like "1975 - A Night at the Opera", to make clear why the sorting is not alphabetically anymore (but that would only be an addon).
Or is it only me who gets confused in an artist's discography if it is not sorted by release date?

Mario

Hi Mario,

but date on each song could be a problem for Best Of, anthology, VA or even soundtrack ... except if you retag yourself all your songs

Why not, i've done that for AlbumSort tag (which is an standard ID3) to avoid that ... and my library looks like that :

I used Mp3tag to retag in mass ... you could create your own Action for automation on directory including subdirs

-Eric