# \[Discussion\] Best way to handle Year tag for movie scores/soundtracks? **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discussion-best-way-to-handle-year-tag-for-movie-scores-soundtracks/40902 **Category:** General Discussion **Created:** [February 23, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discussion-best-way-to-handle-year-tag-for-movie-scores-soundtracks/40902 "2018-02-23T03:00:12Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow) #### Post date: [February 24, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discussion-best-way-to-handle-year-tag-for-movie-scores-soundtracks/40902/4 "2018-02-24T13:16:48Z")
> [@Andrew](#): > > So I'm wondering the best way to handle the Year tag for scores/soundtracks. > When I'm browsing, I really prefer to use the year tag for the release year of the movie - but that doesn't always coincide with when the soundtrack is released. > Do you guys use year for movie year, and origyear for soundtrack? Other way around? Add movie's release year to the album title so that it's " ()"? > > Sorry if this is the wrong place by the way, wanted to post in the off-topic section, but can't create threads there yet. I am a score buff and most of my music is what you can call a score music. And your question is something I was struggling for years, changing the rules governing my info storage system; and this is what I have settled on and believe it cannot be done better: **YEAR:** the year of first release of the album; not some re-release and not of the premier of the movie or of the recording session **ALBUM:** if this is some later re-release [`"special edition"` or `"complete recording session"` and such] then I add the year of that release in here [as well as description of it] **YEAR+ / ORIGYEAR** [or however you wanna call it or whatever you want to or can utilize]: the year of the movie premiere or recording session- if you happen to that they happened earlier than the release of the movie **PUBLISHER:** this is where I put the name of the parties involved with publication of the album **ALBUM ID / DISCNUMBER:** this is where I put the number [code] of the release - if I combine this with the PUBLISHER info then I know for sure what release I am listening too **TITLE:** here I can store information about the year of the mix or version That YEAR+ I most often leave empty. As it is often a case when a movie was from 2000, while the recording took place in 1999, thus I always think such when I see `"2000"` and `"score"` [I suspect 1999]. It is also not so seldom that the score is released a year later than the movie- but one year And if it had taken place in 1999 and 2000, then I would place `"1999-2000"` [if I would take time to check it out]. But if the movie was a remake and the piece is some theme from the original from 1975, then I would use that field for denoting that info by putting `"1975"`. And if there was a combination of "earlier years", I can put `"1975; 1999-2000"`. Or I could just create yet another field to distinct between these two but that kind of situation is rare and I prefer to just use that YEAR+ for years of the first know recording [e.g. 1975] of a song that was later on covered [e.g. in 1999] or remixed [e.g. 2000]. And if that is not enough I can always use the TITLE do be very precise. Theoretically every piece of music from some `"special edition"` should have such mix info put in the TITLE [along with the year info], but that can be read by me from the ALBUM- to simply put: if the situation does not require it, I do not put year in the TITLE, as it would lead to abundance of very long titles, thus creating overall obscure of the readability Of course I say "movie" but mean also series, videogame, stageplays and others. And rules for OSTs are the same- but even easier, as there is rather no cases of remastered OSTs or theirs special edition- and if there is more than one I can always put a number to it, counting them onward from the very first one [although in the world of anime that could be unfortunately a higher level math] And of course there is the issue of a given player abilities to display less popular or made up fields and / or of signs like `;`. I for sure had to start using COMMENT instead of the legit ORIGYEAR or made up YEAR-ORIGINAL, because Advanced Title Formatting in Winamp would not see them or display them wrongly for some or all of the audio file formats that I use. You can read rather thoroughly about it here: > [@Mapping of tag fields - is it really needed at all?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mapping-of-tag-fields-is-it-really-needed-at-all/19791): > > From the online help available at [https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/options/tags/mapping](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/options/tags/mapping): The problem is this: Winamp 5.666 is not able to read [or at last display] content from made up tag fields- apparently it has imprinted a limited list of processed fields. [They are listed and described under the "ATF Help" which clearly names their sources: "Provided by Winamp", "Provided by ML", "Provided by ML or input plugin", "Provided by input plugin"; and so apparently no provided-by-user fought… But all in all I always viewed such issues in such way: there is precise managing of at in Mp3tag and there is the display of that data outside of it [that may suffer from various restrictions] --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discussion-best-way-to-handle-year-tag-for-movie-scores-soundtracks/40902)._