Support multiple years per albums

[byhill]

Feature description:

First mentioned here on what I thought was a bug.

Incorrect year data when browsing library

Issue description: If I have an album with songs spanning multiple years, Symfonium will correctly identify the year of each song (in the details page). However, when browsing by year, Symfonium will incorrectly group all songs in the album into one year. For example, I have a boxset of 3 albums whose releases span 3 different years. The entire album has the same “DATE” tag (2012), but different “ORIGINALDATE” tags (2007, 2008, 2009). Looking at each song’s detail, it correctly identifies ye…

I understand that it is low priority, but thought I’d post a separate feature request in case other user are also wanting this.

Problem solved:

For me, albums all have the same “DATE”, but for a few albums that are compilations of many albums, the “ORIGINALDATE” varies on a song-by-song basis. The current behaviour is to pick one song’s original date tag as representative of the entire album. This leads to songs in boxsets or compilations to be displayed under the wrong year in the library.

Brought benefits:

In boxsets or compilations where songs are from a span of many years, it allows people to browse / search their library by year more fine-grained than on a per-album basis. It is also a little confusing when Symfonium chooses one year as representative of an entire album that spans over many years.

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[Tolriq]

As I said in the other thread I won’t do it that way, if I do something is supporting multiple year per albums.

Not all providers expose years for both songs and albums, showing an album that says year = 1990 but was found via 2010 is not clear for users too.