Release Date and Original Release Date

General Discussions
1

It would be nice if plex supported the release date and original release date fields that Musicbrainz writes to the ID3 tags.

 

For example, I have 2 versions of the ELO album Zoom in my library.  There is a 2001 release and a 2014 release.  Why do I have them both?  Because 2001 includes a bonus track not on the 2014 release and the 2014 release contains 2 bonus tracks not on the 2001 release.  Plex picked them both up, but marked them both with the year 2001.

 

Logic tells me I should just combine these two albums, but I can't.  Because almost all cataloging scanners simply barf and don't know what to do.

 

Older albums also have multiple different remasters.  I like to know which one I have.  Do I have the 1997 Rush remaster, or the 2011 release?

2

Yeah, I know what you mean. Personally, I mostly prefer to have the original release date listed, even for remasters, since it looks weird to me to see a 1972 album listed as 2012, even if it did add a bonus track and get remastered.

The good news is that you can edit the year if you want it changed inside Plex, and it'll be locked after that...

3

That's a LOT of manual editing.  What's the chance that we can get this on the feature request list, to show release date, original release date, and to sort by either?

4

We have fields for both of those release dates (original and actual) inside the database, so that's nice :)

There's only one year field, which is what we use to sort/display on.

I could see maybe having a preference somewhere to prefer one or the other, but doing _exactly_ what you're suggesting would be tricky.

5

Displaying by original release date is always preferred to me.  But I'd like both displayed in the UI, if possible.

6

I've filed an internal issue to discuss and track.

7

Thank you!

There really is no reason to sort by release date.  That would be seriously confusing.  You'd be staring at Plex going "Bohemian Rhapsody DID NOT come in 2013!"

8

Curious what is happening with this. What conclusion did the internal discussion come to?