year vs. releasetime

[simoncn]

(21-03-2013 00:04)winxi Wrote:  I tagged the flac files using Musicbrainz Picard and converted it to mp3 using ffmpeg. The MusicBrainz database distinguishes between the original release time and the release time. This makes sense especially for reissues or remastered albums.

The output mp3 files have the TDRL and the TXXX/ORIGINALDATE frame containing the correct values according to the descriptions release time and original release time. The TDRC frame was added by myself. In the MinimServer indexTags property I use 'Date' to index the TDRC frame and 'originaldate' to index the TXXX/ORIGINALDATE frame separately.
However, considering the descriptions, the standard practice to use TDRC (recording time) in this context seems to me to be the least appropriate option.

I have some sympathy with this, so I will add a mapping from TDRL to RELEASEDATE in the next release of MinimServer. If you want MinimServer to interpret RELEASEDATE as DATE for indexing and display purposes, you'll be able to use the new aliasTags property to do this.

There's a useful list of mappings here, starting around line 331. These names happen to match the names I'm using for MinimServer, although MinimServer doesn't (yet) support everything in this list.