Open Year of Release visibility

[Stephen Healy]

The release year of an album is only shown on the single album screen but not on the album overview screen, queue screen or 'now playing' screen.

The suggestion would be to have the release year more visible preferably in all screen modes.

 

[thebiglebowski]

Think this was my request from the old site so

bump

 

[Stephen Healy]

I believe this feature is planned for the next major update

 

[Fitman-NJ]

I believe this feature is planned for the next major update

May I ask -- by "release year," is this referring to the year a CD/HighRes recording was released, or is it when the originally-recorded material was released? I'm not too fond of Beatles/other classic rock recordings having release years of 2014...

 

[Malc.]

May I ask -- by "release year," is this referring to the year a CD/HighRes recording was released, or is it when the originally-recorded material was released? I'm not too fond of Beatles/other classic rock recordings having release years of 2014...

I think this issue is not really all that straightforward, a release by say the Beatles will have the original year of release, the year that alternative formats, CD/hi res, became available, the various remasters dates, then the re imagined/restructured releases. With somebody like the Beatles this could be quite a list with potential for error. To me these dates are of interest because some masters/remasters are more desirable than others and it may not be the most recent that's best. Also interpreting available metadata is a bit of a minefield.

 

[Stephen Healy]

May I ask -- by "release year," is this referring to the year a CD/HighRes recording was released, or is it when the originally-recorded material was released? I'm not too fond of Beatles/other classic rock recordings having release years of 2014...

In the case of local files, this will be down to the metadata on the music files themselves. The good news is that you can edit this to how you please.
As for streaming service, i checked with an artist on Qobuz. The year of release was faithful to the original year, so even 10th/20th anniversary/re-releases of albums were still assigned the original year.
Remasters, anniversaries and so on, are better off signposted in the album title.

 

[Malc.]

In the case of local files, this will be down to the metadata on the music files themselves. The good news is that you can edit this to how you please.
As for streaming service, i checked with an artist on Qobuz. The year of release was faithful to the original year, so even 10th/20th anniversary/re-releases of albums were still assigned the original year.
Remasters, anniversaries and so on, are better off signposted in the album title.

I think you will find Qobuz are inconsistent in terms of assigning the original year of release and remasters/anniversaries are not always sign posted in the album title. For example if you look at Chicago's self titled first album Qobuz has three versions, 1) 16/44 version assigned correct release year of 1969, also signposted as a 2002 remaster in title, 2) 24/192 version assigned release date of 2013, nothing signposted in title, 3) 24/192 version assigned release date of 2019, 50th anniversary remix signposted in title.
The last version should be avoided at all costs, a dreadful remaster. I could give you other examples from my saved Qobuz albums, it really isn't as easy as it seems.