Albums with no date/year

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Rob

• June 05, 2019 06:12

I prefer to sort albums by release year, but in BluOS any albums without a date effectively get treated as 0000 and appear at the top of the chronology. This is frustrating as they are typically off-cuts or unofficial live releases that would be better listed at the end of the library rather than the beginning.

Is it possible to do anything about this? (I realise I could fudge all my tags to a release date of 9999 but that is a LOT of fudged tags.) Perhaps just an option to sort in reverse date order so that the most recent releases show up first? I believe this is the default for many streaming services (definitely Spotify) so perhaps BluOS could even just reverse the existing order rather than add an option?

Thanks

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • June 05, 2019 12:43
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  Hi Rob

  As one with a few too many E-Street live albums (if that's even possible), I understand. Use a metadata editor and add a date tag.

  https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/articles/200271906

  Then reindex...
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  Rob

  • June 05, 2019 21:23

  Thanks Tony, I guess this is the fudge-a-tag option...

  If I used a non-numeric value like n/a or [none], would BluOS handle that OK and sort at the bottom of a chronological list? Trying to figure out an option that won't mess things up in any other applications using the same files.

  Cheers

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