Hello!
In maximized mode (currently playing), we can see the artist name, track title, album title, a playing visualization, the codec, the rating and the average bitrate of a track.
I think it would be interesting to also display the year of a song, as other players generally do since the dawn of times.
In addition to this, what would make Plexamp an extraordinary player is to support the “original year” metadata tag. That would be really interesting for compilations, or reissues, where the “date” or “year” of a track may be different than the original release year (ex. Beatles’ 1 was released in 2000, but its tracks release year range from 1962 to 1970).
Supporting the “original year” would open the door to display the different track years or original years in the Album view. Concerning this, Plexamp currently seems to display the last or highest year for an album year of tracks having different years. For example, I tagged each track of my Fela Kuti album The Best of the Black President with their original year for both their “year” and “original year” tags and Plexamp says that this album was released in 1989, which is the year of the last song on the album, and also the latest year of its track.
The “original year” or “original date” is part of the basic tags supported by the great music tagger tool MusicBrainz Picard.
Please note that I use the Plex Music Scanner with the agent Personal Media Artists.
Thanks in advance for considering this request! This is one of two features that keep me from completely migrating to Plexamp.
We’d like to store year per track, for multiple reasons including improved Time Travel radio!
You can enable year display in Settings > Appearance > Player > Show Album Year, but of course that’s for the album.
I use the Plex Music Scanner with the agent Personal Media Artists
That’s not really a recommended setup, is there any reason for that? Generally if you enable the “Prefer embedded tags” or whatever you get most of the benefits of the personal media agent and much more metadata.
Thanks! Concerning the metadata agent and the scanner, the combination of the Plex Music Scanner with the Personal Media Artists agent was a recommendation I found on the web to maximize the recognition my collection’s metadata that I carefully tag for several years, with MusicBrainz Picard and ReplayGain scanning with Foobar2000 (running on Wine on Ubuntu). I enabled the “Prefer embedded tags” option. If you have a better configuration to suggest for my needs, I am listening!
Concerning the track years, that is great news that you are interested in implementing it! A Time Travel radio is indeed one the interesting applications that could derive from this data! Indexing and showing the track year is probably relatively simple to implement first, then I could get back to you later concerning the “original year” one (or it get already planned for later by you ). I know that this is more a niche need, but I keep thinking that it would make a great differentiator for Plexamp since I know no other player that valorize this data. For compilations and reissues, to my sense the original year/date has more (informative) value than the release year/date, and I think I Time Travel radio would look first at the original year tag. From a UI/UX standpoint, I think a track (original) year is more important to show than the bitrate.
Anyways, thanks for replying so quickly and giving attention to the suggestions. It is the first time I make suggestions for Plexamp. It seemed like the place to submit a feature request. Do you have a tool to follow and interact on issues (such has GitLab/Github issues) between users and Plexamp team, or this forum is the place to “handle” that? I am asking to know how to know when an idea is selected for development by Plexamp and its place in the roadmap. Thanks a lot!
Major upvote for capturing track year. This would help immensely with greatest hits albums that came out in 2020 but all the songs are from the 70s etc. They show up in the 2020 decade radio which is silly obviously.
Second upvote for track level style and mood info. Arena Rock radio has some decidedly non Album Rock tracks due to albums marked as Arena Rock where not every song fits that style.
). I know that this is more a niche need, but I keep thinking that it would make a great differentiator for Plexamp since I know no other player that valorize this data. For compilations and reissues, to my sense the original year/date has more (informative) value than the release year/date, and I think I Time Travel radio would look first at the original year tag. From a UI/UX standpoint, I think a track (original) year is more important to show than the bitrate.