Year tag

[paulr]

Thank you for the replies and pointers.....a bit of a learning curve for me as I'm moving from one way of doing things to another. I was in the Logitech Media server world and over years done what works for me in terms of tagging etc. I have deliberately kept things simple in terms of tags and got things set up as best I can - see albums in date sequence, see disc1 before disc2 etc, various artist albums in one place.
Now I have moved to a Naim streamer and using Minimserver on the NAS.
I use MP3tag for 99% of tagging duties (occasionally Jriver) - this is where the 'year/date' question has come from as MP3tag shows the tag as 'year'. I also use MP3tag to extract tags into text/excel files so I can identify oddities, over the years I spent a bit of effort doing this.
I'm going to go step by step to get the Naim app playing nicely with Minimserver before trying anything outside what needs to be done.
I've discovered 'Exiftool' which looks like it may be of some use.
Many thanks again for the info and pointers.