Feature description:
Allow Symfonium to read the Encoding Time id3 tag (TDEN) and use it as the add date information.
I think this tag represents more faithfully the add date of a file (than the modification date), since it is practically when the file was encoded (created).
And I think we can keep using the modification date as a fallback mechanism in case the TDEN tag doesn’t exist.
Problem solved:
My library is properly tagged, and the files also have a proper Add Date (when they were created/downloaded/encoded/etc) and Change Date (when they were modified).
I understand that Android doesn’t provide the Add Date, and from what I can tell Symphonium is using the Modification Date as the add date of the track/album/artist which I suppose is the only available date in the file.
My problem is that my library ends up with wrong add dates, so whenever I’m using playlists sorted by add date I always get wrong results.
Brought benefits:
Allow local file users to specify a proper add date through a standard id3 tag.
Other application solutions:
None that I know of.
Additional description and context:
Adding a couple of references to the TDEN tag:
ID3 tag version 2.4.0 - Native Frames — Mutagen Specs 1.0 documentation;
Screenshots / Mockup: